Plei I am not at all unsympathetic, but listening to your plight makes me feel even worse for my friend who was a 40G pre-pregnancy. Wh has just had a baby and had trouble getting the baby to nurse.

Oww! Her poor boobies must be gianormous!

(points to tag)

I just saw Anchorman last night and it was stupid funny. I cringed and I laughed, which what I expected, excpet in actuality there was less cringing and more laughing than anticipated.

The scene where my tag is from was so over the top hilarious I could not stop laughing to breathe.

I had this brilliant idea I'd name a daughter Evalyn Niniane and call her Nina. As I've gotten older, it came to me that naming her Nina and not saddling her with that mouthful would cut out the middleman nicely.

Speaking as someone who goes by a shortened version of the middle name, I wholeheartedly concur with your assessment. It's been a pain in my ass my entire life. Even switching the order of first and middle would have been good.

runs through thread coughing leaving behind a trail of used Kleenex

Catching up in Bitches, plus the snowstorm here, is making me want to take a long bubble bath, then write a book. Unfortunately, I live in a daylight basement on concrete, so the tub is a bear to warm up. I think I may need to get the pots of water boiling today though.

I love all the old-fashioned baby names coming new again. I've always loved old-fashioned names anyway, so it's nice that they're popular. I don't know about some though. Mabel? Phinneas? Hmm. Perhaps Hazel and Phinneas just sound bad together.

Hazel.

blah blah blah

Phinneas

I don't hate them nearly as much by themselves. Of course, I think I am spelling Phinneas incorrectly.

it's official. i will never ever stay caught up in Bitches and Natter. then i get discouraged by the number of posts and put it off and put it off until i have thousands of posts to catch up on.

This is so me. And yet, when I do catch up and have time to hang, it usually seems that everyone is gone and I keep checking in vain for another post. I think it's black magic.

chases ChiKat with zinc and echinacea

I'm tired of feeling like crap. It seems I've been sick since T'giving. I've been downing Airborne all weekend to no avail it would seem. And, I need to go buy more Kleenex and cough syrup.

Nora has a new tag!

Okay, I have to put this here, since it's not going to make it to print. I'm writing an article on the science behind COX-2 inhibitors, and the actual reason why they're dangerous. I needed a segue, so I asked the question, "Why would pain medication have any effect at all on the heart?"

I followed up with, "As Joss Whedon would say, it's about blood."

I thought it was brilliant and clever and everyone would get it, but it seems I was wrong. This is what my editor changed it to:

While the dangers of these drugs has caused many to use extreme caution when purchasing medication, the science behind their warning has a llot to do with blood, said Joss Whedon, title.

She thought he was some doctor I'd interviewed.

She thought he was some doctor I'd interviewed.

BWAH! Poor thing, sheltered, isn't she?

I like it, P-C.