You know how I donated blood this week? They run a cholesterol test for donors now, and you can call a couple of days after you donate to get the results. It's just total cholesterol -- doesn't break it down into LDL and HDL, etc., and obviously the donor hasn't fasted beforehand.

July 2004 my cholesterol was 239 (yeah, I know), and today? 201. HELL yeah.

Damn, girl.

That's great, Steph!

Two hours and forty minutes until I leave for a weekend in Charlottesville. I am so ready.

Quite seriously, the only consistent change I've made is eating oatmeal for breakfast every morning. Because my commitment to exercising goes in cycles, and my eating patterns -- well, let's say my diet isn't restricted. At all.

Go oatmeal! I'm going to write the Quaker Oat people and tell them to put me in a commercial.

Mr and Mrs. Rio P. Saget. Wow.

(The "P" is for...Persnickety!)

Loving the text and subtext reading with Lily.

We started to read to Emmett when he was three months old. He saw this as an opportunity to put the board books in his mouth. We kept the books out of his reach and kept reading and he really liked being lulled by the voices after a while (couple months?) and it's been part of his bedtime ritual ever since. This last year has been the year of All Roald Dahl All Of The Time.

Waiting for a Raq Report.

you find someplace local that's good for laptop repairs, please to let me know?

Congrats, Steph! That is amazing. I have been eating oatmeal every morning too. Because I can make it at work though. Glad to know that I am combating the price of stress on my heart with breakfast.

Cass, did you see Maria's post in natter saying it looked like your function keystroke combo to enable the laptop fake 10 key was on? Did you try hitting it again to turn it off, or is it just stuck in it?

Waiting for a Raq Report

Oddly, I've been sending out an e-mail newsletter for the past few years called The Raq Report.

So, Raq Report Special Haircut Edition: Shorter than I'd been thinking. Barely brushes my shoulders. Very curly. Color still dark warm brown.

Go Steph!

So, been uploading a few more photos. Anybody wanna see one of the cutest cat pics ever?

Or "stealthy"?

Here's me at Universal Studios It was a much more exciting picture last July than it is this July.

Yes! I saw the helpful posts starting when I logged in this morning and threadsucked Natter so I could read them. I will be trying to unfunction the laptop when I get home tonight.

I never even knew there was a function keystroke to faux ten key...