The article I linked to is long but fascinating. It's weird to think that in many ways, life will be getting worse for a good length of time....

And with teaching tonight. I need to learn the word no.

Saying 'no' can be quite complicated. But the first rule is, "Don't say 'yes.'"

Ack! Costume time approaches!

Do I just stick some sparkles and some feathers in my hair to top off Moulin Noir? I figure I'll wear my knee length black skirt with built in petticoats over a pink and white double-layer of net petticoats, my dark red underbust corset and a sheer silky top over a black strapless bra. I will also have on a dark purple garter belt holding up fishnets and some sort of boy shorts which I will flash at any opportunity.

With suitably macabre (or just smeared) makeup, what else am I missing?

I was looking through Cute Overload and found this cute cat cartoon -- How The Cat Wakes You Up in the Morning. [link]

It made me laugh and maybe it will make some other cat lover's laugh too.

He's also doing synergis clinic for RSV.

What does this mean? I thought RSV was just a shot. (btw, I can't recommend this enough - Ellie had RSV at 18 months, she wasn't immuno-compromised, and it was still very scary.)

fwiw, I'd get him the flu shot if his dr. doesn't recommend against it. After I saw ELlie get her first cold, I took her straight to get the flu shot.

I don't know. I just know that he needs a referral to the synergis clinic (synergis, I believe, is the name of the vaccine).

Thing I would really love? cupcake.

I'd really love for my cat to not foam at the mouth. (The flagyl has to be put in a suspension because they don't make pills small enough to dose an 8.9 lb cat. And apparently? It's bitter, hence the foaming. Uhg.)

I just know that he needs a referral to the synergis clinic

This would make sense. When Ellie had RSV, they told me that there is a vaccine but they only give it to preemies and other IC babies because it costs something like $1000 per shot.

eta: I would really like a cupcake too. Yum!!

Do I just stick some sparkles and some feathers in my hair to top off Moulin Noir?

Yup. Mebbe a "beauty mark"? Mine will probably be a cobwebby thingy.

I was goign to post about water in the West, but the subject makes me antsy and angry and frustrated, so I decided not to go there.

Though I may someday start going all Monkey Wrench Gang on the irrigation systems at the golf courses.

If she really said this, I'm going to have to revise my vote for her from Holding My Nose to Punching The Little Punch-Hole With Wild Abandon And A Gleeful Grin.

Seriously! I love a bullshit caller!

All you two spaces after a sentence people were put here to teach me about how even when people are WRONG WRONG WRONG and crazy-making it doesn't necessarily mean they are bad people, right?

Ugh. I can't get motivated to go take a walk like I oughta because I blew off hardyoga class. But I really need to go take a walk. I'm like made of flubber after this weekend.