Manatees have been taken off the endangered species list. Does that mean I can take one home as a pet now?

Math is hard.

lso, you know what's really cruel? When your body decides at 5:30am that it needs to give you a really awful leg cramp. I've spent the last hour and a half trying to stretch the damn thing out. It's doing better, but it still hurts. And I was gonna sleep in today.

Potassium. Electrolytes. If you have some potassium-based salt substitute in the house, a quarter or half teaspoon of that, washed down quickly with water will help a lot.

Bananas. Smoke 'em if you got em.

The Doctor: Don't drop the banana!

Jack: Why not?

The Doctor: Good source of potassium!

Hil, I hope you start feeling more hydrated soon. Sounds uncomfortable.

I, too, am jealous of Cass. My daughter's roller derby league will be participating in a tournament in Seattle in September, and I was hoping for a good reason to travel there, but she didn't sign up to be part of the travelling team this year. I'm bummed.

Sleep~ma to all the Bitches who are having trouble sleeping. I'll include myself in that list. Kept waking up during the night and every time I fell asleep I started dreaming about cats chasing mice. In one dream I found not only my own cats chasing what seemed like a herd of mice, but at least two other cats that looked like Tucker that had gotten into the condo somehow. Verra wierd.

ION, the mouse and/or its carcass is not evident. Guess I'm going to have to go on an extended search to see if I can find it. Sigh.

From my own state:

Someone who had a really bad time with the DMV

Holy Hannah.

Sail, congrats to your daughter on the roller derby victory!

Leg cramps are the most heinous thing. We hates them.

Dropped R off at the airport early this a.m. Mal and I have had a pretty good day - played, lunch al fresco (chicken piccata on the back porch), played more.

{{{vw}}} Leg crap~ma.

{{{Hil}}} Feel better.

Poor Emmett, but yay for the rest of the game.

Cass, it sounds like you had a great evening.

I'm missing things because I am not quite awake yet, and I forgot to keep track. I am having that nasty stabby feeling in my lower legs today. It has been just a dull pain for the last couple of weeks, but last night it picked up intensity and kept me awake.

I got my package today

Yay! I felt bad that we didn't get it out that first day, then it got hidden in my van. Then I wanted to add a treat as an apology, but I wasn't sure what to add - all my original ideas were impractical.

I got to sleep in this morning! Then DH called to tell me how late K-Bug's practice is going to go. I love my kid - but I DON'T CARE. CJ and I are hanging out, chores will happen later, but right now we are watching Serenity (he picked it).

Poor Emmett, but yay for the rest of the game.

He did manage to shake it off and play solidly well and smart for the rest of the game -- and, Hec noted, attempted two spectacular plays that he only barely missed (one of them, if he'd been just one inch taller he totally would've made the play) and that most kids wouldn't have even thought to attempt.

I got all misty when the game ended and the head coach's son Eian came staggering in from the pitcher's mound, all shaky and wrung out and near tears from how incredibly difficult and stressful it all was, and his dad just wrapped him up in a bearhug and kept kissing his head, and when some other parent gave him a sideways look he said, "He may be big but he's only ten," and just kept hugging him and making croony little good game, great game, so proud, my good boy noises.

Oh, ouch, sj, how miserable. And vw too. I've also been kept up or woken up the last few nights with leg pains and twitches and unspecific Bad Feelings. Clearly nocturnal leg pain is the new Buffista Plague. Anyone who's still shaking off the F2F Plague -- how very last month of you.

I feel like an awful girlfriend. Teacup Guy's band has a gig tonight, and I really don't want to go. I am feeling very achy, antisocial, depressed, etc, and the body image demons are haunting me. The gig is at a gothy type club, and I know some of the people there are going to look just gorgeous. I just don't feel up to it. I'll probably go anyway..