I just puked.

Please, oh, please tell me I'm not getting the stomach flu.

I vote stress!

That's what Emily said.

He takes Sudafed, but it only mitigates, it doesn't cure. Sigh. (He's not on any major meds, actually.)

Yeah, I'm the same way. I take what seems like a lot of sudafed or more accurately, I've taken it pretty much every day for years.

Saline and gel 2-3 times a day, sudafed, and ibu when necessary. If anyone knows of a better routine, I'm all nose.

Edit: no flu for you, vw! I vote with the Emily bloc.

Happy Pi Day!

To celebrate, my office is having caramel apple pie. It seems appropriate to me.

So....has anyone had anything *good* happen to them lately?

• Although it is hard to lose my church building, it could have been worse. A fireman said that if they had been ten minutes later, the whole block would have been lost. And if the fire had been six hours later, or worse, twelve, then we probably would have lost most of downtown due to high winds.

• My hopes are already coming true and the local community and larger faith community are both really pulling together here. Since the fire, our church has been offered free office and small meeting space in a building less than a block away, and the Roman Catholic cathedral, a block away, has offered to share their facilities for main services, etc., for at least a year. I was especially concerned about the AA groups that meet in our church, and the cathedral has offered space for all of those meetings as well. We were supposed to start up Wednesday suppers for the community tomorrow, and those are also on schedule. Others around the state and country have helped, with donations and support. The outpouring is just amazing to me.

• The leadership and community at my church has hit the ground running as well. I won't go into all the details, but I'm just blown away. We were scheduled to provide dinner at the local soup kitchen last night, and we did. Someone is working on getting something set up online for donations. For those who have asked, I'll post in Press when that is available.

• And...we're having a "wake" on Sunday afternoon, inviting everyone from the community who performed or attended performances or meetings or appreciated the architecture, or whatever.

• In addition to all the help and support from people in Alaska, I really appreciate the support of all of you. Thank you, everyone, for your support, prayers, ~ma, for everything. It means so much.

• And, course:

JZ makes me want to cry with joy and hug her on an ongoing basis.

Wrod.

Therapist is really pleased with how well I'm handling everything that's coming my way. That was nice to hear. It's kinda been a rough week. I needed some more encouragement and validation.

vw, I’m so glad to hear about this and good!nurse. Too much has been pile upon you, but you are handling it in an amazing fashion, and I’m so glad that you have found good friends and professionals in the mix.

My left ear is plugged up from the cold. Sometimes I forget and hold the phone to that ear -- hilarity ensues.

Oh, to be a fly on Sparky’s wall.

I'm blushing but baffled -- just babbling about my dress is all.

I'm glad your community is pulling together and being so supportive. There's so much news all the time about the humans and their stupidity and cupidity and spite, it's incredibly heartening to hear about a whole community being so good and generous and loving.

I'm just catching up on Natter and discovered the pi talk was all there. And I thought I had somehow managed to be ahead of the loop on this one. Silly me.

I have boatneck envy. I have this sort of grizzly bear hump on my neck from slouching to hide the boobs of doom and so I look horrible in boat neck shirts. Plus, the wide bra straps always seem to show.

My good thing that happened today was Owen was "reading" his copy of Brown Bear, Brown Bear. He opened it up and clear as a bell recited his way through the entire book. I nearly cried.

Stephanie, insent.

I will be getting some vintage bakeware (and a teapot) in the mail soon (all pink with black lids!)

I'm sure no one is surprised that this is the first I've heard of this... humph.

I'm sure no one is surprised that this is the first I've heard of this... humph.

Pete, I have no idea what you're like... but I could tell my DH about all my purchases and when the packages arrived it would still be the first he'd heard of them.

libkitty, it's nice to hear that in the aftermath of the fire there are good things.

{{vw}} just because.