"Is being an idiot like being high all the time?" Yeah, I watched "The Matchmaker" today. JG in movies trips me out cause my friend Joy is like her fricking twin. Good flick, though. Not expecting DL to be the villain since he's gone all Antihero.

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I've been overwhelmed with cards and kindness.

I am glad to hear this, Calli. You should be surrounded with love. My thoughts are with you. I just cannot imagine the loss.

I just found out a friend of mine tested positive for HPV. She doesn't yet know whether she has cervical cancer.

Ah hell, PC. I hope she doesn't develop cancer ever but at least she knows to be very proactive with the pap tests from now on.

I can't believe that we've developed a vaccine and there's a fucking backlash. Are there people who would risk their daughters getting CANCER because they might have teh sex? I know I have my issues but this is boggling.

I've got quite the family history of various goolie and goolie-adjacent cancers so I am meticulous about going in religiously. And I know that if there had been a vaccine, my mom or my stepmom would have hauled me in to the needle place in a heartbeat. And I would have thanked them.

Laura, I totally get the glaring at your MiL. My mother - whom I love, adore and am often envious of for her Life Zen - doesn't get the damn tests. After cervical cancer... Sometimes I want to tranq her and haul her to a good gyn...

Absolutely. I bought him baseball cards and comic books and now we're going out for a nice dinner.

Yay sj and the fabulous teacup guy!

Am gronk. Might be an early night. That would be just shiny with me.

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Somedays, there's not enough sigh in the world.

Ugh.

Of course, I need to make some time for Vox in the near future. Right now, I'm pricing laptops.

Does anyone know if anyone has YouTubed the opening of The Colbert Report with the video of the Colbert Kid? I missed the show and I'm dying to see it.

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I'd like to say that i hat fascism, racism, and predigest.

Yeah, I hat them too. Well, the first two anyway. What's the last one, where you spew enzymes all over your food and then suck it up through a straw? I'd hat that as well.

Calli, I'm sorry to hear about your mother. I wish all possible comfort for your family.

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I just finished phone flirting with a man with the most gorgeous British accent ever.

Yay! I probably spend more time on tech support of one kind or another than most people. It is much more fun when you can joke with and/or flirt with the person on the other end of the call.

Laura, I totally get the glaring at your MiL.

MIL hadn't visited her girly doctor since she birthed her youngest - 30 years ago! She was still having "periods" into her 60s despite her daughters and every other female relative telling her she was insane. When she had to go to the hospital for gall bladder surgery we ganged up on her and forced a gyn consult. Yeah, uterine cancer. She is doing well now, but it would have been a whole lot less of an effort if she had taken care of herself earlier.

Which takes me to the whole other tangent about preventative care. How much would we save if we had a health care system that encouraged preventative care?

ION, it is my last weekend in Otter Lake. Went to the Stumble Inn for fish fry (well, mine was broiled) with the family. Open house at HS today and GF went and picked up my son's schedule. Along with all the honors core stuff he has TV Production and Team Sports. So not so bad. I still don't know what classes Bobby has because I can't get past a busy signal at his school. Guess he'll just show up and ask where to go.

eta: Hee, I had to back up and find where the billytea quote came from. Found it in Cindy's post, but my eyes had glazed over before I got to that part. Oh my, hugs Buffistas again.

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MIL hadn't visited her girly doctor since she birthed her youngest - 30 years ago!

I don't honestly think Mom has had a real exam since she dealt with the uterine cancer... Something over 20 years ago. And it's not that she's "sex is bad and evil" either... I don't get it.

Then again, she doesn't get my lax dental care.

Which takes me to the whole other tangent about preventative care. How much would we save if we had a health care system that encouraged preventative care?

t joins chorus

ION, it is my last weekend in Otter Lake

So sad...

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Hey Cass! Yeah, a bit sad about leaving Otter Lake. I have worked my usual crazy number of hours a day, and yet I am more relaxed. Same stress, same workload. Yet I am calmer in the mountains than I am at home. Granted I would go stark raving mad if I had to live here all year, but a summer break was a good thing.

Next year I hope to stay a couple months now that I have solved the internet and phone issues. Tonight they say it may get to 38F!!!! When I walked back from Mom's house tonight we could all see our breath. Maybe not so silly for people not from Florida. During the day it should be in the 70s again. Whee! Next week 90s and watching the tropics for storms again. Variety, they say she is the spice.

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Next year I hope to stay a couple months now that I have solved the internet and phone issues. Tonight they say it may get to 38F!!!!

Oh how lovely. And the cool weather, she is divine sometimes. We are at 65 right now and I am in bliss. The days are warm, the nights are cool and occasionally require blankets.

Just chattered with the moving!neighbor and I am going to inherent a guppy if she can't find a home for it. The tank looks to thwart cat attacks so it might have a chance. We'll hold a naming contest if I get me a guppy.

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Right now, I'm pricing laptops.

You too? How's that working out for you?

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Are there people who would risk their daughters getting CANCER because they might have teh sex?

Yes.

Although actually I suspect most of them never think of their own daughters having teh sex.

I frelled my right shoulder. I probably overloaded it doing military presses, and then rather than it getting to recover, I've been carrying 30 pounds of boychild around. Now I can't lift my arm.

And said boychild has decided that 7:30 am is the time to practice his outdoor voice indoors...which is not so good, as the DH didn't get to bed until 2:30 am.

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