Keep drinking rum, move NOTHING more.

Honestly. Friday I went to work and did the terribly strenuous task of moving from desk to desk (stand up, walk a couple of yards, sit down, plunk at computer, stand up, walk back, sit back down, plink away...) for about a half an hour and the ouched muscles? Tore. If you did hurt yourself, don't stress anything. If you didn't, the coats can be moved on Friday. It will still be before the wedding.

Hot/cold is icky. I do ice/heating pad or ice/hot bath grudgingly because I don't like the feel of icing. But I will do it.

How does Percy feel about the kitten?

I am all pink and woozy from the bath. I think I shall get things ready for bed, dip in one more time and then sleeeeeeeeep.

hot/cold shower - that sounds like torture

After the first two or three it feels really decent. At the end you feel nearly good.

After the first two or three it feels really decent. At the end you feel nearly good.

This is how we break suspected war criminals, innit?

Yes, but they don't complain about their backs hurting later.

I'm embarrassed. I've been thinking I was getting sick for the last 4 days - headaches, tight stomach, a bit nauseous, combined with feeling empty and shaky like I'm hungry. A massive bout of depression to kick it off. Even the horrendous craving for chocolate yesterday didn't clue me in.

This morning my body voted conservative. Clearly I'm out of practice at this whole thing.

But relieved I'm not getting sick, as I have too much to do.

Poor beth!

Poor Cass!

Poor Raq!

Yup, that's all I've got at 5:30am.

So, what's a good side dish with pork chops? I'm planning dinner for when the guests return tomorrow.

Fried apples are great with pork chops.

So, what's a good side dish with pork chops?

I grew up with fresh mashed potatoes tinged with yellow from the copious amounts of butter my dad used, so what do I know?

Oddly? My cholesterol is under 130.

Blargh.

It's not even 8 and I've already been at work for an hour. WithOUT coffee.

I need to go stalk and capture the elusive coffee so that it can kill my gronk.

Mmm, both apples and potatoes sound really good. And my guests will like them.

The menu planning problems are that my DH is a super-taster (if not an UltraMegaSuperTaster) with a few political boycotts of foods, and our longtime friend is the polar opposite of a super-taster. He salts McDonald's french fries, and puts sugar on Frosted Flakes. And then his girlfriend grew up on Russian and Romanian food, so the usual Tex-Mex and Asian stuff I make doesn't appeal.

It's convenient that I'm omnivorous these days.

IOfood-relatedN, do the anti-abortionists eat eggs? Or are they just concerned with humans? I was wondering this as I cracked the 10th or 11th egg I've gotten recently that was extremely fertilized and looked at the embryo in it.