Kadiera's Playground Cute but Evil - it averages out

apparently I've been reduced to secretary, typing up minutes for meetings for my boss because he's so bad at it.

I get paid how much for this?

I think I've found this year's cards....

http://www.amaltheasattic.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=704

...there are other good ones on this site, but this is the one that led me to the site to begin with.

Alex is scheduled for surgery at 7:30 am tomorrow.

Updates at http://sprog.quicksilverdragon.com

Wish us luck

Apparently there's a study published this week that shows that women diagnosed with migraines have a 30% lower risk of breast cancer than those without.

The theory is that both have hormonal components, and migraines tend to follow points where the woman's estrogen is lowest, so combined with the fact that many breast cancers are worse with higher estrogen may suggest that these women naturally have a lower baseline for estrogen levels.

...although I think they might disturb his future occupational and/or physical therapists.

http://www.xylocopa.com/product/mad-science-alphabet-blocks

There's lots in my head right now that I'm not ready to share.

So instead, you're getting random observations.

*****

Insurance companies try to save money by suggesting that you try cheaper drugs first. When you know that a more expensive drug *works* and you're in a rather precarious position anyway, making someone try several other drugs first is money wasted.

When it's all said and done though, I will find a way to make them give me the drug that I know works for me and won't hurt Alex or make me have to give up breastfeeding.

Fuck them.

*****

Some people I know believe that the election results are the end of the world. Others believe that we have been given a messiah.

I really don't understand what it is you're trying to prove this year.

So, quit sitting on your hands and do what you should have been doing all along, or quit putting your nose in where it shouldn't be and leave us alone, and give me back my family.

All of them.

Whole, healthy, and happy.

No exceptions.

Because seriously, you're really getting on my nerves here, and we all know that making me really pissed off is a bad idea.

kthanxbye!

no love,

me

today's horoscope seems rather appropos given my thoughts this morning:

No one is perfect, and that includes you! So why are you holding yourself to such an impossibly high standard? You think that anything is possible if you just persevere, but that is simply not the case. Today you have to be smart enough to know what you don't know -- and get help with the things you can't do alone. There is no harm in asking for help. You are not doing yourself any favors by being so stubborn about this. Reach out and you will be greeted with warmth, support and understanding.

kwame kilpatric text messages as madlibs for the win.

*****

I was supposed to get a massage at 6 last night. I arrived at 5:45. It took them until almost 6:30 for all three people at the reception desk to figure out who I was, why I was there, and then decide that my massage therapist wasn't there and didn't know she had appointments today. In the meanwhile, I'd watched 45 minutes of chaos as they tried to figure out who was in the waiting room, and where the patients on their check-in list actually were (it's a physical therapy type office). They also ran out of treatment rooms, sent some patients to do their exercises *before* their treatments, and then those same patients came back to the waiting room, and still had to wait for rooms.

I highly recommend The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series books - we have "The Simpsons" and "Batman" - I just started reading Batman, and it's a very neat way of looking at things.

They've got a ton of other TV/movie/comic based philosophy titles in this series, including "House" and "Watchmen" - I think we'll have to track down a few more of these.