No pictures of the haircuts yet. I'll see what I can do tomorrow. I do have red in my hair now. I also need to dye my goatee again before pictures happen.

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I don't know if meara liked her cut, but I thought it looked sexy as hell. Wow. ND's red is extremely cute as well.

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I am jonesing for a haircut to fix the sucktastic one I have. It's like two haircuts, neither of which make sense for my hair.

I have a feeling I'm going to be losing a lot of length, because even my awesome guy in VA needs something to work with.

Double emergencies last night - first the cruise ship accident and then some sort of gnarly injury on Mallory's leg. So while R (who is the civilian maritime officer) was on the phone making sure all the Americans were okay, I was trying to pin Mal to determine whether he had a burn or a bite or a rash or what.

I just can't get my head around Piazza on the A's. It's like I don't even know the team anymore. Chavez is pretty much the only player I recognize in the green and gold.

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Did you figure out what happened to Mal, Raq?

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I'm leaning toward bug bite. It's on his inner thigh, and last night when I picked him up from the nanny's it was a swollen angry red area about 4" long by 1.5" wide, with a clear bright red circle in the middle. It looked like it could have been irritated from rubbing against his diaper.

I was pretty worried it was a scorpion sting because it was so awful looking, but after putting cortizone on it and a gauze cover, much of the redness and swelling went away, and there never were the vein traceries I associate with scorpion stings.

Whatever it was, it ruptured a whole bunch of blood vessels and involved some toxin. Since it took 4 adults to hold him down for one quick shot, I doubt there's any way just R and I will be able to hold him for long enough to pull the toxin out, so we're just monitoring it.

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I hope Mal's leg is ok, Raq.

Scary cruise ship sinking.

Our houseguests were out and gone by 7 a.m. We don't have to leave until noon so I have time to pack and do my dishes.

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How would you pull the toxin out, in theory?

Our houseguests were out and gone by 7 a.m. We don't have to leave until noon so I have time to pack and do my dishes.

Hey, that's a pretty good trick -- getting rid of houseguests at 7am. Have a good weekend.

We had our annual Easter play at church last night. Scott and the kids are part of the crowd. I acted some in junior high, high school and college, but I've lost my nerve, so I'm happy to just be in the audience.

Scott and Ben were against Jesus. Chris and Julia were for Jesus (this is when Pilate is judging him). They were all in the play last year, but this year, the anti-Jesus half of the crowd really bothered Chris. We weren't sure he was going to be able to be in it (which was fine by us, but he wanted to be in it). He ended up doing fine though. I thought he was crying, but it turns out he was just acting. There's another performance, tonight.

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I thought he was crying, but it turns out he was just acting.

Heh. Watch out for that kid.

there never were the vein traceries I associate with scorpion stings.

Yargh! I don't ever want to live anywhere where I know these kinds of things! *shudder*

I can imagine Hec standing up in his seat and yelling "PIAZZA!" (Like the guy in Mets Jail on King of Queens.)

Gah. My FiL just called and I had to tell them they couldn't visit today. They are always super busy with their activities and my BiL's senior year in high school. They were in Florida for Spring Break last week so it's been nearly a month since they've seen the kids. They finally both got the day off and wanted to drive down (a rarity) to see us but we have to leave by noon. They won't be home next weekend when we go through town, either so it's going to be a while until they can see the kids.

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How would you pull the toxin out, in theory?

In theory, we'd use the vaccuum thingy in our medkit that's for snakebites. Since we didn't use it right away (since we didn't know what the injury was), there's probably no point now, other than Making Mal Miserable (tm) (what he claims we do best).

I was just talking to a friend who coaches 10yo softball, and none of his girls, although they attend church and Sunday school, could tell him what Easter is about. Doing a play seems like a great way to learn (although, I never understood Palm Sunday and we acted that out).

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Morning! Today is haircut day, and then head down to the beach day! I am armed with lots of pictures for the hairdresser. Wish me luck!

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