Well, unless they're ASH level hot.

Don't be so rough on yourself--I'm sure your nipples are ASH hot.

I was going to ask about tipping delivery guys (I get a couch on Friday) and shrift beat me to it.

Well, despite the fact that these guys assembled my bed, it only took a few minutes, and they charged a flat fee for deliveries. So I figure that letting them use my bathroom was tip enough. I may tip the mattress guys, because a) they squeezed me in at the last minute, and b) they're delivering for free. We'll see.

Sounds like a smooth move, that's great.

It's working out pretty well. And tonight I won't have to sleep on the couch anymore!

I am currently taking 4 pills every AM and 8 at dinnertime! Maybe some people are used to this, but it's weird for me. The antibiotics are bigger than the horse-pill-prenatal-vitamins. But they are capsules so go down a lot easier than the prednisone, which are tiny but chalky and icky and must be followed by m 'n ms.

I am at work today, not wearing a bourka, and nobody has fainted from seeing me yet. But I still feel hideous.

flea, are you feeling better, poison ivy wise?

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QUESTIONS for the hivemind: Do P.C.s at airports have a special term, slang name, or brand name? What is generally the going rate (how many minutes for how many dollars)?

Better than I was. I still itch like crazy in little outbursts and have to sit very very still to keep from screaming. But much less oozing and swelling!

On the other hand, I found out my colleague got her wisdom teeth pulled on Thursday and got dry socket yesterday, and CAME TO WORK, and given her description of the pain I think I found someone more pitiful than me. She's here again today; I told her to go home and gave her Advil.

Gah. Major crisis now over.

Some overnight stored procedure didn't run at our big client. I had to get it working before they could use their timesheet system. My boss who usually deals with this is out of town. I came in late today, which didn't help.

Then I discover that we have no VPN connecton to client. Spent over an hour trying to get around that. Then it started working for some unknown reason.

So all is fixed. I can breathe now....

Trephanation kit on eBay

Current bid is $5,500.

12 pills a day? Oh, flea, that's vile. Was your MD able to give you something good for the itching and misery? And how is your eye?

The only pill I have a real problem with is the omega-3 fatty acids capsule to boost brain development, and which is about as long as the first joint of my middle finger and encased in a hard plasticky carapace to prevent the fatty acids from leaking out and being absorbed until they're too far down in the gut to rebound as fish burps. I used to take these very nice, easy softgels, but it got too disconcerting to finish a bowl of mildly sweetened cereal and then burp fish. So now there's the big yellow plastic bullet, which is nigh impossible to swallow but at least doesn't come back up once it goes down.

The only pill I have a real problem with is the omega-3 fatty acids capsule to boost brain development, and which is about as long as the first joint of my middle finger and encased in a hard plasticky carapace to prevent the fatty acids from leaking out and being absorbed until they're too far down in the gut to rebound as fish burps. I used to take these very nice, easy softgels, but it got too disconcerting to finish a bowl of mildly sweetened cereal and then burp fish. So now there's the big yellow plastic bullet, which is nigh impossible to swallow but at least doesn't come back up once it goes down

It's so weird that this Omega-3 push started between Owen and Olivia. I didn't have to worry about it with Owen but then just a year later, I had to choke down another supplement every morning.

Luckily (ish), I've been taking Omega-3 stuff because it has been found that one of the things it builds up is seratonin. I've been taking it with my Happy Brain Pills (tm) so, if I ever have another baby, I'll already be used to is (ish).