Man, including mixer in that worksheet was patently unfair.

The first named storm of the season (Arlene) is coming our way. Yee-haw!

(((libkitty)))

I'm sorry, hon. No fair!

Hil, I was like that in grade school, but I was fortunate enough to have teachers who knew enough to just get out of my way and let me do my own thing. I couldn't even pretend to be following along when it came to phonics, since I was already reading Shakespeare in the 1st grade. (No, really.)

I taught myself to read at age 2 or 3, and it was totally just memorizing whole words.

Heh. I taught myself to read at 2 or 3, by phonics. My parents didn't even realize I was really reading rather than memorizing until my grandmother caught me at age 4, doggedly trying to sound out dinosaur names from her coffee table book on "Marvels and Mysteries of the World Around Us." Mom and Dad then made this big production of getting a book I'd never seen before from the church library that was somewhere around 3rd grade reading level and making me read it to them, and I was all, "What's the big deal? I've always been able to read." Which from my perspective, I have--I can't remember a time before I learned.

Hivemind: I'm 90% sure I didn't take my morning dose of painkillers, but the brain is a little foggy today. I'm taking 800 mg of ibuprofen at a time. Will anything terribly disastrous happen if I accidentally take 1600 just the once?

Oh, and sorry about the Serenity tix, libkitty. Maybe some will turn up, somehow.

That would be really rough on your tummy, Susan. I wouldn't do it, and I'm usually the ibuprofen pimp. I would not do it.

On the other hand, you could take two Tylenol (not the codeine kind). Are you still in pain, or are you just afraid you'll be in pain?

Susan, since you're not sure, my advice is to wait 2-3 hours, and then take 800 mg.

So, vw, can I toss his name and number?

I'm not in pain now, but I usually develop soreness over the course of the day, and last night I had some sharp twingey pains that brought back bad memories of the first days after the spasm. And today is going to be pretty strenuous.

If it's not going to kill me or make me too drugged to drive safely, I'm inclined to take them. After all, I really am pretty sure I haven't taken any yet today.

t x-posted with Teppy. I'll try it that way.

So, I was naughty and got the iPod Shuffle yesterday. I feel guilty, even though I got it on the condition to myself that I could only have it if I sold enough stuff to pay for it, which I did. But that little Mom voice in my head is still telling me I could have sold all of that stuff and just taken some cash for it.

Which is ironical, because my real Mom is e-mailing me to tell me about a huge sale at Bean's this weekend, and her plans to take me shopping for travelling clothes.