Your DVDs of LotR were very good friends for me this past week. So you were helping me, even without your knowledge! Are you all settled in your new place?]

Yay!

I am getting there, but I still have a little unpacking and reaaranging to do. I am getting the last piece of furniture I need delivered tomorrow, so hopefully it will all be done soon.

hopefully it will all be done soon

Good for you. Are the cats all settled, as well? And all the new-job-messes?

I just read this paragraph in a Yahoo! news article:

For hitters, boning bats in the bathroom is not considered cheating. Corking, however, is. Guys bone their bats in broad daylight. When a guy corks, he does it in private. If you cork and word gets out, it's bad news. You're a marked man.

ION, I've been carrying around the recipe for spaghetti with mizithra cheese for about 15 years now...The Spaghetti Factory used to serve this as the "Homer" style, I don't know if they still do. Now that I'm living somewhere I can actually get mizithra, I made it for lunch, and it's...okay. I think I used to really like it.

Happy Birthday, JZ! Hope it's a great one!

Oh, Nilly. You were sick a long time, for a stomach virus. Are you able to drink and eat, now? I hope you get through the day tomorrow, more easily than you expect.

Thanks, Cindy. You're such a mommy (in the bestest way possible!), worrying and making sure I eat and drink. I'm usually horribly mommy-ish when it comes to making sure people drink enough and don't dehydrate, so I know where it's coming from.

I was able to eat all throughout the week. I felt bad whether I did or didn't, so there was no point in not eating. I did try to have only simple things, though, toasted bread and the like, so eating vegetables yesterday was like "hey, lettuce party in my mouth!".

Twice, when I was little, I had to be hospitalized, because I started to dehydrate. I couldn't hold anything down. Now I know many, many tricks to mitigate nausea, while warding off dehydration.

Oh, it takes much more than a virus to stop me from drinking water. Nothing short of a Jewish fast comes to mind, at the moment.

I was so sick I couldn't even hold down the water. In the hospital, they put me on an I.V., and then gave me crushed ice (they ground it up in a blender or ice crusher), which stayed down, when water wouldn't.

NILLY! I'm so happy to "see" you. I was just about to e-mail you to see how you were doing. I've missed you.