Happy late b-day, CaBill!

Hello everyone. Someone tell me I need to get up, shower, and resume the apartment hunt. Donwanna.

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Would you rather write my stupidpaper for me? I'd be more than happy to trade.

Laura, my previous insurance said that, with no other risk factors, 50 is fine. They didn't consider my mathernal grandmother's breast cancer to be a significant risk factor. My current doctor does consider it so, which is why she thinks I should have had my first 2 years ago. I guess we're splitting the difference.

I know I know...

I write your stupidpaper if you'll grade my essays, write parent DPU narratives, and THEN find me a new place to live. And move me.

What? I think it's only fair.

A little late, but since I wasn't around yesterday --

Happy Birthday, CaBil!

Wow. That's a high price for a StupidPaper. But then, I'd rather do everything else on both lists than grade papers.

The move I'd be more than happy to help with, anyway. If I'm in town, or you'll get me there.

As for the other, I don't think more than 2 make a fair trade. How about grading and compiling a short list of places?

Deena, especially as stupidpaper only has to be 10 doublespaced pages.

GET YOUR MAMMOGRAMS!!!

Sorry, I just had to deal with my MiL who had stopped getting hers a few years ago because she said they bruised her too much. Last week when I stopped in for a visit, she said she had found a lump and had to have tests and that I couldn't tell Christopher because she didn't want to worry him before his actuarial exam. She finally called me and said the tests came back ok--it's looking like it's a cyst. But I was worried all week for her sake.

We're dealing with a whole round of after effects of Owen's flu shot. He spiked a fever for a few days (which did go down) but now we've got a combo of diarrhea and a strange, unexplained rash on his face, neck and shoulders. Nothing too drastic but it can't be fun for him. I'm calling the pediatrician in the morning to see what's up.

CaBil, I hope you had a happy birthday!

I am debating the farmer's market this morning. It's lovely but my alstromeria are still lovely, the tuberrose is tubering and really it is only the bird of paradise that is not doing anything for me - and the bloom itself is still all fresh, I just get no joy from it.

Ahem, I am grateful that I can even have this quandry knowing that for less than $10, I can fill the house with flowers. What did I do before farmer's markets and Trader Joe's because I certainly live better than it used to cost with them around.

My doctor wanted my first mammogram this year but the insurance won't fight if we do it next year so we are going with that. I am 34. Guess they factored in those risk factors pretty seriously.

Kristin, come down here and lounge with me. More fun than grading or apt hunting.

If the rash came on just as the fever dropped, it could be roseola (very benign), which Eve had at about 9 months: [link] I don't know that diarrhea is a symptom, but some kids seem to get diarrhea at the drop of a hat.