Bah. Good luck finding and ridding yourself of the spider, vw.

vw, have you changed detergents or anything, lately? I had a weird rash on my way lower back, a couple of weeks ago. I can still see where it was, although it's finally cleared up. If you have any cortisone, it's probably not a bad idea to put it on the bites/rash.

vw - I hate to sound like a nervous mom, but I've had friends who've reacted badly to steroids and one of the symptoms was hives... I swear I'll stop with the hand-wringing, but I just needed to say Maybe it's not spiders?

Usually, steroids are going to [if I'd had more coffee I could word this better] not give you hives and, they're often prescribed to treat bad cases of hives.

They're immunosuppressive drugs, and hives usually result from the immune system overreacting. Steroids are given to people with asthma for two reasons: first, they help make the lungs stronger, but secondly, because they knock the legs out from under an overactive immune system's response to allergens (which often includes asthma attacks).

Crap. I've tried rewriting that about 5 times, and I keep making it worse. Anyhow, I'm not too worried that vw has hives from the steroids.

Coffee. Must find more coffee.

Anne, how are you feeling?

vw, have you changed detergents or anything, lately?

No. I'm really careful about that, because I have sensitive skin.

Anyhow, I'm not too worried that vw has hives from the steroids.

Thanks. Me either. But, I think I'm gonna wash my sheets today anyways. In nice hot water. Take that! whatever it is :).

Oh, and I've been putting Benadryl cream on the areas.

If you can do so without annoying your asthma, vacuum your mattress and dustmop under your bed. Do you have laundry facilities at your apartment or do you have to go to a laundromat?

meara, the surrogate mom was played by Joan of Arcadia's best friend whose name escapes me but she was the daughter of a rabbi. Real name is something like Becky Wahlstrom. (I saw the name in the credits but don't remember it exactly.)

Do you have laundry facilities at your apartment or do you have to go to a laundromat?

I have laundry downstairs. I was gonna do laundry anyways...

And vacuuming and dustmopping is a good idea.

Anne, how are you feeling?

I'm still feeling run down, and I've got a cough, but things don't feel any worse. In fact, I feel better than I did yesterday because I don't have to be up, about, and mentally active. My fever is down to a wee bit above normal. I went out for about a half-hour this morning to do some very low-effort gardening (pulling a few weeds out of rain-soaked beds, deadheading the flowers in the window boxes) and I need to run out to pick up my comic pulls, but given how zonked I felt after a half-hour's puttering, I think that'll be it for me for today.

Ok. It's official. I hate my new haircut. I don't know what she did to my hair, but it's just weird, and I can't get it to do anything that looks right. Blech. That's what I get for going to someone new.

Perhaps your hair knows you are supposed to be doing homework and it is refusing to cooperate until you have made some progress?