I poke my cat, just to be sure. She's 16 so I worry at times. Occasionally she doesn't repsond fast enough so I poke her again. I usually end with her looking at me with this "the hell? Sleeping here!" look on her face.

Bringing sick kids in is inappropriate, if they've got something that's can be passed along. It's also reckless and irresponsible.

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Yellow Jackets are a type of hornet. When they sting, they don't die so that they can sting and sting again. They tend to be testier than honey bees which can only sting once after which they die.

Does this help? Or have you already answered the bee question?

ION, Stella McCartney is designing a collection for H&M. Apparently, the last time H&M had a big-name designer do something for them women fought over the items like cartoon women from the 1950s.

We're spreading around the kid with my sisters and Christopher's parents. That way, nobody gets too sleep deprived or tired. I have a feeling all this upheaval will screw his sleeping through the night well after we return home. We should be back home next Thursday. We fly into Phoenix Sunday afternoon (yay erika visit!) and fly out Wednesday. Collect the kid and drive back home Thursday.

Are you nervous about leaving him?

Sure, it won't fit until 2006, but still!

Yeah, but it'll probably fit in January of 2006. I know she's wee, but I saw your lj entry about how quickly she's gained weight. After a while, the clothes sizes are meaningless. That is Adorable (!!!), but I think I wouldn't buy it, because it is so summer-y, and there's a distinct possibility, it's probably even a probability, that it won't fit next summer.

However, my supervisor is at home with pink eye. It doesn't look like anyone else has contracted it and we sprayed everything down again. If we don't have any symptoms by now does it mean we don't have it or could there be a chance it could show up later today.

You probably don't have it, but make sure you keep your hands away from your eyes, and wash them a lot today, and when you get home, tonight. I would think by Monday, you'd be safe, because the germs would/ought to die out over the weekend. I can't believe he brought in a kid with pinkeye. Is management at your place unreasonable to the extent that they wouldn't understand this person missing a meeting because of a sick child?

He called the meeting and I'm sure it would have been fine to cancel. I have no idea what his thinking was.

Gronklieszzzzzzzzzz. Huh, that Ambien put a whammy on my brain but I did sleep. And I only woke up too early by an hour and I dozed most of that away. Yay. Just popped in to praise actually having slept. Though the dreams? Of the edit. I think I figured out a cool trick in PhotoShop though.

And Deena, e at will. Remembering that I actually know these things and can explain them to others makes me feel all fuzzy. Like I do deserve this job and it deserves me.

I poke the *cats* to make sure they're alive.

Oh the early morning wakeup was also Puppycat pointing out a spider she couldn't reach. My eyes took so long to focus that she got annoyed. But after there was squishage, she was relaxed again and we all went back to sleep for a while.

Off to shower.

Happy Friday to all the Bitches where it is Friday still.

I've done plenty of check on the kids to make sure they are alive stuff in the middle of the night. Not so much now that they are preschool and toddler age.

I need to do sub plans and all the prep for that too.

And then the sub will have the kids doing something else. It seems the boys never do anything related to their studies when they have a sub. This is the best part of having a sub.

Yikes askye, I'm needing to wash my hands just thinking about it. If pinkeye is anywhere near me I'm toast.

I have too much work to do. Blah.

Not so much now that they are preschool and toddler age.

Now you're checking to see what they've dismantled in the middle of the night.

Going way back, askye, don't make me come down there and give you a safety lecture. I'm glad you're okay and I hope you aren't too sore this morning. In the south, having roaches is not the sign of being a bad housekeeper. My mother had roaches in South Georgia, and my mother was the kind of housekeeper who washes walls and says things like "I wish you hadn't gone through the living room. I haven't dusted in there yet." when there are maybe 12 individual dust motes in there.

I knew the answer to Deena's question was en dash, but I was asleep.

Hee. I knew you would know the answer Ginger.

Now you're checking to see what they've dismantled in the middle of the night.

I'm going to be checking that they haven't gone out the window to meet their friends to smoke pot in the park. Oh wait a minute, that would be my mother.

Nifty inadvertent sluttage