Thanks, beth and Cindy. That's what I thought, too, but I can get confused about which one first, sometimes.

When you know you hurt yourself, ice is the deal, because it helps reduce swelling, which is at least partly to blame for your pain.

Go ice, choose ice. Just joining the chorus.

Parton I'd imagine.

Yes, I forgot to mention that part. She was cute. I think Jon might be smitten now. TDS is on 3 times a day so I actually manage to catch it on a regular basis.

Please excuse me while I curl up into a ball under my desk. Yes, the red hordes are making their stand.

Except I can, because my boss just asked for a status report on a project she gave me last week. My response: "Oh, I haven't looked at it in a few days (she's been out), but let me give it a once over to make sure it's all in order and I'll send you the draft."

Anyone care to guess what this means in real terms?

Ice. Rest. Ice. Double up on anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen. Ice.

Poor Ben and Cindy. I hope they figure out what's wrong quickly and it's minor and easily treatable.

{{{Maria}}} Your family has had a time these past couple of years. I'm waiting breathlessly for pictures of you in The Dress.

Thanks, Ginger, and...

{{{Maria}}} Your family has had a time these past couple of years. I'm waiting breathlessly for pictures of you in The Dress.

Yes. This. I can't wait.

You guys will get a kick out of this.

I went to my fridge, pulled out both ice trays. My fridge is way too efficient. These new-fangled ones that you don't have to defrost? Well, it evaporated all the ice in my ice trays, because I'm not a big enough boozer to use up the ice occasionally and make new. I've gone ahead and filled both trays up. But, in the meantime, I still needed something to ice my back with. Fortunately, my daughter is one of those (freakish) people who keeps her flour in the freezer. So, yup, I'm icing my back with a 5 lb. bag of very cold flour.

I always keep a few bags of frozen peas for icing purposes. Way easier to deal with than ice, and they conform better to whatever body part needs them.

Oooh, my daughter usually has frozen peas. Only, I think the bag might be open. I don't need to be digging moldy, formerly frozen, peas out of my easy chair 6 months from now. The flour is working quite fine at the moment.

Brenda, Cass calls those "medical peas". Cracks me up every time she says it.

Also, would be a great band name.

But I don't talk to them, other than telling them not to tamper with my weapons stash.

Yeah, this would cut down on chit-chat in many offices.

Since my closer co-workers are fellow geeks, conversations tend to be pretty good. Although we're more likely to send one another links to interesting sites than actually converse. Still, when we do talk the Chuthulu references tend to be plentiful. And who wouldn't like a manager that keeps the Zombie Survival Handbook in his office?