I've seen dogs walked on a coupler. I've even walked dogs on a coupler, but they were much smaller. Of course, I live in a state that is otherwise known as Dog Heaven, so the amazing thing is not that I saw a coupler, but that said dogs were on any sort of leash at all.

More importantly, Happy Shower to JZ and Hec and Happy Belated Birthday to Fay! Many happy returns of the day!!

Less importantly, except to me, I have a migraine, which is bad enough, but it seems to have an aura on and off, which I hate more than the pain. Auras sound all sorts of lovely, but actually they suck.

What kind of auras do you get, libkitty? Mine are just flashes up and down the edge of my vision--reminiscent of a torn retina, which is what I worried had mysteriously happened when they started up. Sorry about the migraine no matter what auras you have--they're never worth anything attendant.

Okay, gotta go hit some people.

My auras are usually an area of sparkliness. They usually start out to the edge of my vision, sometimes before I get any pain. If I don't take care of myself then, they work themselves to the center of my vision, at which point I can see things but am functionally nearly blind. If I still don't take care of myself (which only happened the first time this happened because I didn't know what was happening), then pain and nausea hit like a cement truck, and within a few minutes I'm in tears.

Fortunately, this time I self-medicated early with Aleve, Pepsi and bed, so it didn't get that bad. I've also gotten fractal auras, but those weren't quite as bad and I haven't really gotten a fractal aura for a few years.

I've never had a torn retina, ita. Do you mean your aura is like flashes of light? Are they big (encompassing your field of vision) or smaller? Are they really sharp and bright, or more diffuse? However they are, I am likewise sorry. This migraine sucks, but I am in awe of how you cope with yours. Also, I hope you have fun kicking people!!

Now, my head is starting to hurt more so I'm going to get off the computer and lie down with a few sips of Pepsi. I think perhaps this sentence was not very coherent. Oh, well.

I don't really get migraines enough to have studied the auras I get, but it's mostly like a bright greyness creeping in from the egdes, until eventually all I can see is right in front of me.

Posting from a blackberry so don't expect too much in way of caps or punctuation (at least what the bb doesn't insert for me like apostrophes in contractions such as don't and doesn't because the bb is just that cool!!!!!!).

My auras are sometimes fractal. They always start with either silver floaters or with an effect like I get when a flashbulb has gone off. +ften, they bring partial blindness. It's like a good bit of my field of vision has been erased. When I can, I take tylenol (my first migraines of note happened while I was preg) and then I lie in complete darkness til the vision symptoms pass. When they're gone I have coffee totry to mitigate the headache that follows. I think of these headaches as migraines sometimes, but other times they seem more like aftershocksm

I hope jz's shower is rocking and that fay's bd is happy. Thumbs tired now. Bye.

I hope the Zmayhem baby shower is going swimmingly.

It was fun. Well attended and chatty as we tend to be. Imagine a buffet of Trader Joe's snacks topped off with cake, coffee and champagne drinks (mimosas and bellinis).

P-Cow took a bunch of pictures which he'll be sending to me.

Folks were sent off with white onesies and envelopes and told to personally decorate them and send them back.

Tomorrow billytea gets in.

Folks were sent off with white onesies and envelopes and told to personally decorate them and send them back.

Hmm, perhaps to do for P as apparently that whole getting a baby thing means she also gets a shower...

Zee billytea is with you until Wed a.m.?

I think the shower went well. I had fun, at least, though I think I may have used up all my social for a few days.

Whoops. Backed up my pictures and videos, resorted and cleaned a mess of them up and then rescanned.

Who's got a kitten on me rescanning the old backup as well? Cause I think that's what I did. (My clue? Watching lots of Buffy and Angel eps going by when I trashed the files due to dvd-age.)

Oh well, there's room on the drive and I have one more pass to make and then The Defrag of Defragging shall come to pass. In theory. Or a nap. Might be a nap.

Oh, I neglected to mention that a bunch of Buffistas kicked in to get us a super deluxe car-seat and also a Baby Bjorn. Either that or just the pictures of said items.

So many thanks to DXM, Betsy, msbelle, Kristin, ND, vw, Ginger, Corwood, Emily, Jilli, Ple, Deb, Teppy, Maria, Sue, Tina, Juliana and Lee for that.

Also we got many fun individual items from people like Sail and Sparky. P-Cow brought us Moral Compasses for the baby: What Would A Pirate Do ("Maroon a Scallywag") and What Would A Ninja Do ("Unleash Fury") spinners. You will be shocked to hear that somebody brought us baby clothes covered in the A's logo.

Lee gave us Pooh based fun stuff, and of course, organized everything with JZ's friend Lisa and Suzi. Many many thanks to them.

I'm eating some of Deb's cinnamon cake now. Mmmmm.