(((Robin))). Are you not allowed outside because you'd have to climb and/or descend stairs? Or... is sunlight disallowed on your recovery plan? I'd think it would be a boon, actually. But the steps, nsm.

'Suela wrote a very nice short fic about running in the pre-dawn. I think there were hills.

Anyone else having a problem with yahoo mail? It's totally dissing me.

Richard Jeni apparently killed himself. Sad. [link]

Come on by, K. I feel better already, honestly.

Elaine Boosler has a nice blog post up about him at Huffington: [link]

I can take short walks outside, but they strongly discourage being a passenger in a car until two weeks after surgery, as abdominal incision+sudden stops=interior scarring. I took that as more of a guideline and am ready to ride around, but my DH is VERY worried and doesn't want to drive me anywhere but to my two-week follow-up check up. His feeling is that there is no reason to drive except boredom, and since there is an outside chance something bad could happen, let's be cautious.

Happy Birthday, tommyrot!

I'm caught up in Natter! Just in time to fall behind again in the enw work week. I've accomplished exactly nothing this weekend, making it different from all other weekends... not at all. Seriously, I need four days off at a time.

from mac reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, last line: with liberty and a just frog.

Bwah! mac cutie!

Yay ita job!

Yay Kathy fitness!

Yay Robin home without troublesome organ!

Yay Allyson for writerly awesomeness!

Yay pale people! of which I am one. If I buy foundation that matches my neck, it's too light for my face. I have to go one shade darker than my base skin tone or I look like I've been exsanguinated. I have to have a pink undertone in the foundation, too much yellow looks just wrong. I am pinker than I used to be, which I guess is sun damage or near-rosacea, but it could be worse. In related... something, I just uploaded to Flickr possibly the silliest picture ever taken of me. I was encouraged to vamp out...

I'm doing all right for 43. Hello, Salma! I don't have Salma's boobage but damn, honestly I don't want it. What I've got is too much.

Also, I want my hour back.

Dana, I've been on Zyrtec, Claritin, etc., and my allergist says that it's fine to take a Benedryl if you have a reaction like that. Apparently the two work in different ways (preventative vs. reactive? can't remember), so it might be worth trying.

I did take some earlier in the week, before this had progressed to "OH MY GOD" stage. Right now, I sort of want to leave it alone so the doctor can see what's really going on. Ice pack to the itchy areas is actually really soothing.

This is such a good picture of you, Zenkitty! Sex-eeee.

Dana, ice packs are good. Don't keep them on too long, though.

Robin, I'm glad you're feeling well enough to go out, even if DH won't take you! He's kind of right, too. And yay for pain meds kicking in!

Thanks, AmyLiz! Except it makes my nose look HUGE...