{{juliana}}

So much love heading your way from here. You've gotten some good advice. I'm so sorry this is happening.

Day off for Veteren's Day, yay, I was feeling so run down I'd have probably taken today off anyway and burned off a sick day. Went to the eye doctor guy and he told me that I had a non-ifectious common eye irritation which I can't seem to find online. Though, I sort of forgot the name of it but I'm operating on the assumption that I would recognize it if I saw it. Not conjunctivitis though, whew. I have steroida anti-inflammatory drops though.

So, yes, exciting! My eye squick is high though so it's been taking up quite a bit of mental space with me.

Hoping to hear from GC about the GREs and Maria, how is the house hunt going? Is it a better time to look in the DC/VA/MD area? I know here the housing market has cooled appreciatively and interest rates are only slightly higher. They say it'll be till 2007 till the housing market starts going up again. Insert my standard guilt here about buying at the top of the market, but, hey, I love this house and that's when it was for sale!

hey, I love this house and that's when it was for sale!

This is so much more important than the rest of it. Don't let anyone suck the joy out of that by harping on interest rates and things and ignoring that there's a huge tangible element to this, too. It's not like buying a stock at the wrong time.

This is so much more important than the rest of it. Don't let anyone suck the joy out of that by harping on interest rates and things and ignoring that there's a huge tangible element to this, too. It's not like buying a stock at the wrong time.

Totally. I think I've calmed down a little from the OMGOMGOMG I'm in HOW much debt now? and the subsequent obsession over all the financial stuff, and am trying to just relax, and enjoy my beautiful home.

ION, I got the stones to email my mother and tell her I wanted to do thanksgiving at my house. Whee! So, Operation Holiday Dialogue with Family has begun!

Ooooo! Fun, Nora!

I'm dreading Thanksgiving. We're all going to IL for the holiday. My flight is at 6am on Thanksgiving Day, and it's been oversold, so I don't have a seat. This could be interesting...

Mallory's crabby. He thought we said we were installing the STARgate, not the stair gate.

My sister and I will be doing our own thanksgiving this year, while my dad's off with our usual cast of, well, tens, in Myrtle Beach. Sucks that we couldn't go, but it just wasn't happening this year, and honestly, I think we both need the time to chill out and just relax more than we need the big family thing, even though it's pretty much our favorite holiday with our favorite people.

So, what you're saying, brenda, is that if things get tense at Chez Bug Family, I can escape to your place, right?

ETA: Poor Mal!

Absotively.

Strongness~ma to Ellie's immune system.

There was other stuff I planned to say, but can't remember. What I have and thought was a cold, I'm now thinking is a sinus infection. Either way, oxygen deprivation is making me less sensical than usual.

Hugs for Stephanie and Ellie. That first cold sucks. Mal lost his voice during his, and sounded so pathetic.

More hugs for juliana, because.

Sinus infections are of the suck, also.

We're not doing anything for Thanksgiving, I don't think. We've a couple invites, but it'll be more valuable to spend the day coccooned. I'm sure the DH will have schoolwork. I may make a turkey, though, as that will provide food for several days (and trytophan-laced baby food).

We're going to Germany in early December anyway, so that will be the holiday.