I read this as porn and coming from Erin it didn't seem out of place.

Well, I don't have cable, so I have to make my own...porn.

Sean, I'm keeping S in my thoughts.

The Sabres have ended their season. I am inconsolable. ::weeps into old Hawerchuk jersey and blows nose on Briere t-shirt::

My yoga practice kicked my butt, today, and then I cleaned the house and shopped for a retirement party tomorrow for a librarian I've never met. At the moment, I've got my feet tucked up under me here on the couch, while the Roomba does it's thing.

I think I need a Roomba. The hairy dust bunnies are starting to crawl out from under the furniture like the hair of that creepy ghost in The Grudge.

Of course, first I'd have to clear enough floor space that it would have room(ba) to work in.

She just made me go and buy one. AllergyBeGone had good prices. I'm supposed to be vacuuming 2-3 times a week because of the allergies, and that's just never going to happen. I'm not home enough during times when it's not rude to turn that beast on.

We just got back from dinner with one of DH's labmates from his PhD program. Her older daughter was born about 3 weeks before Iris and they play together sometimes (and she calls Iris 'Walrus,' which is cute). They have a 3-month old son who is also adorable, as well as amazing, as she was diagnosed with breast cancer in the middle of her pregnancy. It was really good to see her, and to help with the babies and to watch Iris and her daughter run around in circles like crazed way-sugared-toddlers, which they were. We don't see them very often, so it's nagging me that this was a fly-by and there's more we could be doing. She's absolutely amazing though - and DH is a good friend to stay in touch with her.

Plus, she helped me torment DH for 10-year-old silliness at his bachelor party, which is always a bonus.

Sparky - can I road test your roomba sometime? I hate lugging the Dodge-dart-vacuum cleaner up and down three floors.

health~ma and also diplomacy~ma going out. Also head-smackies to doctors and their percentile charts... Iris' pediatrician likes to alternate between 'she'll be short' and 'she'll be tall' each visit. He has no clue. whatsoever.

also, on our way back to Baltimore from Glen Burnie, we passed a huge black cloud of smoke near the airport... nothing I can find in the news though. Strangeness.

Bananas and OJ, Sean. Does she have a doctor with an answering service, who you could call and double-check your decision not to take her to the ER? Maybe you'd feel better about it, if you got confirmation.

{{{Sean and S}}}

I have no advice for surviving rural TN. Just remember you don't have to live there.

LOVE my Roomba. Do not currently have it. Floor covered in cereal.

Mal and I spent all day doing the zoo thing. He loved riding the metro, even the underground parts. For those he flirted with everyone, just like he would do in Athens. He pretty much loved the zoo also. I was *this* close to buying him a stuffed naked mole rat.

We saw the pandas splashing in the water, and somewhere billytea felt a cold shudder as a woman said, "Is that a wallaby?" and her friend said, "No, it's an oryx."

I am tired.

Bananas and OJ, Sean.

Potatoes have a decent amount of potassium too, don't they?

I was *this* close to buying him a stuffed naked mole rat.

Dude, we have one! So does billytea.