{{{vw}}} That sucks, sweetie. I mean, that's the kind of suck that I wish on nasty people who cut me off in traffic, not good people like you!

Go you, Fay! I love both Thailand and Prague, so I am not much help. Where would you be in Thailand? Bangkok? (Oriental city, and the city don't know what the city is getting). I knew several teachers at the International School in Bangkok when I was teaching in KL.

A love life is possible in Thailand, esp. if you are in Bangkok, which is a pretty diverse city. Food's good. Weather's nice. I am not a big fan of lower elementary myself - I did one year of second grade teaching, and that was plenty.

vw, my preliminary googling seems to indicate that mild exercise -- just plain old walking, not even vigorous walking -- will help steroid myopathy. Because myopathy is affecting your muscles, mild exercise strengthens them.

Really? That's interesting and the complete opposite of what my doctor told me to do. She said to keep the feet up as much as possible...maybe because I'm still on the steroids?

Thanks for all the hugs and kind thoughts everyone. It's been a rough couple of months, but I'm getting through. Like I told one of the project leaders at work yesterday, sometimes you just can't do anything but laugh. And that's how I'm trying to approach this situation...except for when I'm crying from the pain. Therapist asked me yesterday what skills I'm using...Radical Acceptance. Lots and lots of radical acceptance.

{{vw}} I hope the pain at least starts to be reduced with the reduction in steroids. Radical acceptance is good, it gets you through the tough spots when nothing else will. And it is only a spot, albeit a very uncomfortable one. No-pain~ma, hon!

Wow, Fay, what a choice. Decision-making~ma to you.

More punctuation for you, vw. Would you hate me for saying how relieved I am that if you had to have a serious adverse effect from those drugs, I'm glad it was something that will dissipate in a matter of months instead of years or never?

{{vw}} I'm am so sorry to hear you have another health issue to deal with. Ugh. You will surely have exceptionally healthy middle and later years. My story is that the reason I have enjoyed such wonderful good health throughout my adult years is that I was horribly unhealthy as a child. Seems only reasonable. You are overdue. I insist your body give you a break now!

{{MG}} What they all wisely said. Parenting is so hard. You have positively influenced C's life in so many ways. Sucks that we can't read the Book of Wisdom at 9 and save ourselves having to learn stuff the hard way.

Fay! How exciting. How grand to have such lovely options.

I'm buried as always. Yesterday was long. The early morning school thing, then the work thing, then the basketball thing, then the baseball thing, then the grocery shopping thing. Non stop from 6am to 10pm. I rewarded myself by getting up early so I could catch up here.

Today not so rough. I have NO sports scheduled today. It's like a vacation. I do have to do dishes though. I am out of spoons, even the tablespoons. Since I am the family gathering house because I have the most dishes and utensils that is saying quite a lot.

Fay, it doesn't sound like there's a bad option there.

Bangkok? (Oriental city, and the city don't know what the city is getting

Oh sure, earworm me first thing in the morning!

I forgot to plug the coffeemaker in. So I'm hopping on while I wait for it to brew.

Go Fay, with the interesting choices! I would want to visit you in either one!

Oh sure, earworm me first thing in the morning!

I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.

{{vw}}

I don't know what to do. I am in so much pain, I really don't think I can make it to school. But, I'm afraid to not show up at work today, even though I'm not normally scheduled. It's just...I told them I'd be in, and since I've been in hot water there, I'm afraid to not show up.

But, the pain...she is bad.

Bangkok? (Oriental city, and the city don't know what the city is getting

Oh sure, earworm me first thing in the morning!

That's one earworm I don't mind! I love that song.

Gronk. GRONK. I can function perfectly well on 5 1/2 hours sleep in 24--but that time should be consecutive, not 3 hours here, an hour and a half there and then another 2 hour chunk.

The good thing is that Owen's at the sitter today and I can nap with the girl. But we also need groceries and laundry.