I thought I remembered that my ex-BiL sells something like Testa-mints, but apparently not. He does sell Atonemints and similar.

How's the GF doing, Kalshane?

She's doing alright, all things considered. She was diagnosed with gestational diabeties, so in addition to everything else she's got to jab herself in the finger several times a day and watch her diet. However, diet has been keeping it under control, the baby itself is fine and at our last appointment the physician I dubbed "Dr. Doom and Gloom" (due to him constantly harping on everything that could possibly go wrong) was actually very positive, so things could be worse.

Next week is going to be odd, as I've been unemployed the entire time she's been living here, so we're both used to spending the whole day together, barring interviews and whatnot.

Kalshane, all the best wishes for your new job.

I'm glad GF and the babe are doing well. I'm sorry about the Gestational Diabetes. A couple of Buffistas have dealt with that, and their babies are the picture of health and the moms made it through A-Okay.

Congrats on the job, Kalshane! And the healthiness of the GF.

Thanks, guys.

Yeah, GF isn't too worried about the gestational diabities, especially since the baby is doing fine. She could just do without the stabbing her fingers every few hours and her feet looking like balloons.

Kalshane, congratulations on the new job and I'm glad to hear that the GF is doing well (all things considered).

Yay, Kalshane! And good to hear the pregnancy is going well for the GF, even with the GD--my SIL had that with her last two pregnancies, and both kids are as healthy as can be ten and fourteen years later.

Lots of good job~ma floating around, because my sister just e-mailed me with the news that she's got a new job that starts on Monday! She'd been laid of for about about a month, and has been trying to get a position with decent pay and more responsibility (she's been taking classes in project management and was hoping to get something along those lines). I'm waiting for her to call me and fill me in on the details.

I've found DHL to be much more reliable, except no US companies have DHL accounts.

Mine does. It's all we use. The guy who owns or founded the company lives kinda near my mom. He's apparently a character.

Some people have a way with words, and some people are Missouri Sen. Kit Bond. At a hearing on the president's foreign aid budget this morning, Bond explained the importance of the Senate Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs this way: "Even though I spend a very large part of my time working on military defense matters and intelligence matters, I believe this committee is extremely important. Because the old saw that in a battle against ideology it's 20 percent kinetic and 80 percent economic development ideological."

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I do have to giggle at my work cafeteria's thinking sometimes. Usually, their Friday hot meal consists of some kind of bar set-up (hot wings, appetizers, during Lent it's usually a fish fry bar), but today they had an "April Fool's Dinner"--turkey with all the fixings, including dessert. I skipped it in favor of an egg-salad on rye with a side of mixed fruit, mostly because I had a turkey sandwich for dinner last night.