Man, I go to bed and all the cool stuff happens. Er, all the excitement, I'm sure it wasn't cool for vw and Emily.

Happy Anniversary, JZ and Hec!

Laura, you make me want to move to Florida just to have an outdoor shower. Sounds a heck of a lot nicer than being surrounded by plastic.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, ZMAYHEM!

Laura, how does one work the whole "Whoa -- naked where neighbours can see me!" thing of outdoor showers? I'm used to them near pools, where people aren't taking their clothes off, but we'd have been beseiged with teenaged boys at the very least if we'd implemented one like that in our yard.

Not quite naked for the world to see. It has a wood surround and a curtain. Only those above me in planes could see. She even has cute little palm tree shower curtain hooks.

I don't have an outdoor shower at this house but I did at the last one. It was just out in the open near the pool. I did have a fence around that side of the house though.

And yes, many Buffistas should move to Florida, or visit me, often.

You only get outdoor showers in Jamaica near the beach or pools, or if you don't have indoor plumbing. We're too uptight as a nation to be more nekkid without a roof over our head -- I think it'd be seen as an indication of poverty.

And yet Jamaica was the only place where I have lounged at a nude beach with lots of other nekkid folk. Of course, that was at one of the resorts which are rather like nations in and of themselves.

Thank you for the anniversary wishes. Plei, I think my dominant images of you at the wedding were you being all Flail! Woobie! over NW93, and actually joining us on the dance floor, looking Goddesslike and regal, smothering your little Tim Drake in the Bosom o' Doom.

Appropriately for a Buffista (and ignoring the paper tradition) I have gifted JZ with an action figure for the anniversary. Her woobie, Zoidberg. (Futurama)

Yeah, you weren't lounging with many Jamaicans, Laura. Nude beaches ... I do know Jamaicans who go to them, but we're a conservative culture. By and large, naked people (of whom you will see more than in many places) are poor and crazy and wandering the streets.

Happy Anniversary, Hec and JZ! So exciting!

Happy Anniversary, Jacqueline and David!!!

Plei, that was the cutest write-up of wedding weekend.

Ooof, vw. I was just calming down from my morning. I'm so glad you just have an inconsiderate, oddball neighbor with a poor sense of time.

Julia's eye is fine and per the ophthalmologist, already beginning to heal. He recommended we only apply the antibiotic ointment at bedtime, so that it doesn't hinder her vision. I got quite stressed mid-exam, because she clearly could only read the top half of the eye chart with her injured eye, but could read all of it with the other eye. The doctor said it was just the ointment blurring her vision. I was skeptical, but he said her eye looked great (and I could tell he thought it completely unnecessary for us to be there, which is what we wanted to hear).

For those wondering what I'm talking about, the last couple of entries in my lj explain. The short story is, Chris poked Julia in the eye yesterday, and then later, she poked herself. She seemed fine for most of the day, until 7pm. She & Scott went to the E.R. and were there until 1:30am. We followed up with an eye specialist today, and he said she's already beginning to heal. Little does he know, that's because she's a slayer.

And I'm nearly slain from the stress of her not being able to read the chart. Oog. Argh. Ack.

Trust me, Cindy, as someone who has scratched their cornea and had to use ooky eye ointments, the not reading the chart was quite normal. It takes a loooong time for the ointment to wash out of the eye through tears and blinking.