"Meeting in the Ladies Room"

Hee. ::visits iTunes::

Halloween in Broward County was cancelled.

I think I'm going to frame the newspaper picture with the picture of Mrs. Flintstone and the word Bitch plastered next to it. It feels vaguely appropriate.

I had to leave my condo to come to this

I woke up completely exhausted this morning and decided to call in sick instead of fighting it. The resulting 3 extra hours of sleep have helped immensely.

ION, I have no idea why my upstairs neighbors open their door to the laundry room and then close it again 30 seconds later several times a day. They actually have to descend the stairs to do anything in the room, but I just hear them open the door and then close it again a short while later. At first I thought they were listening for the washer and dryer, but this happens even when neither of us is doing laundry.

Teppy--I am waiting for my doctor's office to open because I see that I am not supposed to take Lexapro and Imitrex--and I am about to enter Week of Womanly Wonder, where I get slammed with migraines every day. You know anything about this? I can't be doing without my Imitrex.

What I've found is as follows:

Imitrex (sumatriptan) – when taken with Lexapro may cause more side effects, though the two drugs may sometimes be used together with close monitoring by a physician.

That's not an absolute contraindication, just a "Keep an Eye On Yourself If You Do This." (And no, it didn't say what side effects are most likely to be exacerbated.)

t edit And in looking on MEDLINE, there are no actual reports of the combination resulting in Bad Stuff. So there's that.

t edit again And when you Google the two drugs' generic names along with "interaction" (like so -- "escitalopram sumatriptan" +interaction), there are also no reports of badness.

Hey Almare. Yay for generators! Although we have power it is still hot and sticky. Yuck. They did take off the boil water order today, so yay again. We had Halloween between 4:30-6:30 yesterday. Very sparse turnout though. But lots of leftover candy, so yay again.

Where are you in Broward? We have MIL staying with us. She lives in Margate (rock island & atlantic) and last time we checked was still powerless.

FYI--Barack Obama is going to be on the Daily Show next Monday.

I'm debating taking a half-day today, just because I have to be in at 8:00 tomorrow morning and wait on my computer to get the results from today's Colorado elections. Next week is earlier, since I have to be in at 7:00 next Wednesday for those results. Oh, well, it could be worse--it could be an even numbered year. Even-numbered election years are insano around here.

HALLOWEEN BABIES!

Kitty Annabel is so pretty. And wily looking.

Lion Tickybox is so freaking cute. Those cheeks needs lots of pinching and kisses.

Bunny Casper broke me. That intent look with the innocence behind it. I only get that look when Nine West has their annual boot sale and even then, I ain't that pretty.

Kara! I wish for camel! And Aidan - I love babies in fuzzies.

And what a fearsome Pink Cuthulu! Hee.

(I think that's all the babies.)

Matt, do you mean lisinopril? I doubt it would ever be prescribed as a sleep aid, only because it's a blood pressure med, and if it were prescribed to an insomniac with normal or low blood pressure, they'd have some serious blood pressure problems.

I thought my bottle said Lisiprin/HCL (the hydrochlorothiazide is a minor ingredient), but I could be mistaken.

Probably the reason you slept so well, and would fall asleep right away, is that lisinopril can cause fatigue, because it basically suppresses your heart rate and your adrenalin response. I was on it for about a month, when I had to stop it b/c I was so exhausted all the time.

Oddly enough I didn't feel particularly fatigued during the day while I was moving around. But it took me months to get sufficiently used to the effect that I could stay up late at night. Or, y'know, actually make it to my bed to turn in intentionally rather than wake in a sitting position on the couch after 10 hours.

Where are you in Broward?

West Hollywood, on the Border between Hollywood and Pembroke Pines. I'm skulking in the South Regional Library as we speak.

Four blocks away, there's a huge region with power, and then theres our chunk of land, where there is not one, but two downed powerlines. Also, a distinct lack of generators here so the nights feel vague and depressing.

My uncle accidently burned his house down already. The poor man didn't have any fire insurance, so we're sending him any spare food and ice we have.

However, we have friends in the area with power who have graciously allowed us to take hot showers at night, and watch Smallville. True friends know man needs more than hot showers to feel human. They need their weekly dose of HoYay, too.

As soon as everything goes back to normal, I will send them a very large gift basket.