OMG, but the maryland flag is so ugly!!!! Please tell me it's less ugly in black and white or whatever colors teh friend is getting it in.

Thanks for both the name and marathon encouragement d and Juliana.

It feels good to be doing both at the same time each makes me take a little gasp...ya know?

My surrogate mom told me that she is proud of me for taking 'such a brave step' with this name business. I never thought of it as brave, but if bravery means 'being afraid but doing it anyway', as I believe I've heard...then yeah.

The bigger challenge this week though is helping some friends who are doing IVF. He's leaving town and she needs help taking her injections...so they come to me...their one friend with a feverish needle phobia. Not a dislike...let me be clear about that. It's a full-blown phobe.

But it turns out my control issues trump my fear.

I frankly don't trust anyone to do the job. It's so important and the recipient is dealing with so much both physically and emotionally, I just have to step up.

They had me over on Saturday for the 'dry run.' I watched...and did a run through without the actual needle so I could get positioning and such...all went well...then I had to come home and be sick a little.

Yeesh. The things we do.

OMG, but the maryland flag is so ugly!!!! Please tell me it's less ugly in black and white or whatever colors teh friend is getting it in.

I think she's just getting the bars part? Maybe in black. I don't remember.

sitting down, sitting up in order to stand up, etc. *That* caused the gasp-in-pain response.

Yeah, that was my thing too. I could even do yoga poses! But as it was a pulled muscle or something it healed up pretty quick. Glad you're on the mend as well.

I have gone to yoga. Then ate a burrito. Carnitas burrito, to be exact. Yum.

We haven't had a coffee pot since my sister moved out in July. I've been living on black tea, mostly. These days it's Constant Comment.

::wave:: hello bonny!

I live and die by my Melitta filter. No moving parts! Nothing to break! Easy to knock over and spill, though. Also, cold-brewed coffee is a thing of wonder and beauty.

::wave:: hello bonny!

::waves back:: hey Laga!

This American Life: Did Ira Glass just blame Bill Clinton for the war in Iraq?

Oh god, I love this line from Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union..."He picks up a shot glass he's dating."

I'm listening to an excerpt from the audiobook, read by Peter Riegert on borders.com. I'm going to have to get this one.

I love the MD flag, although I'm not sure about it as a tattoo. Oddly, I thought briefly about getting the Zia from the NM flag as a tattoo...but I still have tattoo commitment issues.

Didja guys see that an ex-BF of the lead actress from High School Musical put naked photos of her on the internet? That's not the punchline. She just turned 18, so they are pre-18, so probably child porn. THAT'S not the punchline. They were published in a couple international newspapers, which are on my company's intranet. So yeah, the punchline is kiddie porn at work.

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