Lots of ~ma to L. What a horrible thing to happen.

Mini-meara ahoy!

Toys on my desk:

• Hello Kitty in red vinyl devil suit with black hair bow
• Heart-shaped Kuromi pouch
• Plush peanut with baby nuts that go inside (it zips up!)
• Small Totoro plush
• Small Totoro bunny (?) plush
• Small Jiji plush (kitty from Kiki's Delivery Service)
• Solar powered waving good luck cat
• Plastic gorilla figure
• Two orange plastic alligators
• Caped Stikfas figure
• 8 Pinky St. figures in a row (one flipping the bird!)
• Two pink tins, 1 with a Shag kitty and 1 with a Shag monkey holding a heart

Apocalypse skills:

• Increase sugar factor of surroundings (see resume above)
• Bring sugar shoes

Oh, that reminds me - last night at Walgreen's I saw Marshmallow Hello Kitty-pops.

Giant and I am sure - sweet enough to rot your teeth at a distance.

Oo! Toys on my desk:

• stuffed dragon
• stuffed iguana
• plastic camel
• Alaskan soapstone inukshuk
• magnetic Shakespearean poetry
• "Uses for Lard" sign (from 826 Valencia)

omg aimée! Much health ~ma heading to MI.

ION I may need some smitting. Those freakin' walking Petri Dishes did it again. Stupid A CHRISTMAS CAROL kids gave me a cold again, despite my efforts of avoiding backstage. Grr.

Bonny, hopefully I get that write up sent out tonight. I got a lil dinner party to attend, dunno how late it will go.

MM, I'll ditto ND comment.

Ah, yes - am at work. Can give toy inventory...

• 4 blow-up palm trees (how could I forget those)
  
• 1 White teddy bear
  
• 1 Mr. Potatohead in A's gear (what?)
  
• 1 Stuffed Tigger

Ok, shorter list than I expected. I guess all my A's posters, pictures, and such don't apply.

I have one good luck cat Dunny bunny

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and double-decker bus (ROUTEMASTER: London's Bus of the Future) model.

I have very few post-apoc skills except dirty fighting. That might come in handy...

Aimee, it just sounds like that corset is lingerie-sized, because it probably doesn't have the steel bones that require measurements of several different parts. If I read it correctly, you order it by bra size.

I can cook, loot, and fight with a blade like a pro

I had a dream last night that I was fencing. I need to get back to that, assuming I ever stop injuring my left leg. (I haven't injured it again, after spraining my ankle, but I'm impatient with my ankle not being all healed yet.)

ION, I'm off work today and tomorrow to finish the interminable packing and clean the apartment. So far I've had my coffee, finished reading a book, and finalized a freelance project (so some of it was actual income-producing work, so there!) and sent it to the printer.

Now I pack. Grah.

How's your ankle holding up, Tep?

ND, I'll be on and off AIM today while I'm working if you want to catch me over there.

Bonny, hopefully I get that write up sent out tonight. I got a lil dinner party to attend, dunno how late it will go.

Anytime, anytime. I hope the food and company are good!

Also, in re: your ick...the surefire cold remedy I've been using successfully for the last 20 years is this:

Place 1,000 milligrams (mg) of ascorbic acid in a cup of water or juice. To make this drink, use ascorbic acid in the form of either esterified vitamin C, such as Ester-C, or a buffered product, such as calcium ascorbate. Take every half hour, keeping track of how much has been taken, until diarrhea results. Count the number of teaspoons needed to produce diarrhea. Subtract 1 from this amount, and take the resulting ascorbic acid drink every four hours for one to two days. During therapy, make sure the stool retains a tapioca-like consistency. If it again becomes watery, decrease dosage as necessary. Repeat therapy once a month.

Be sure to take a multivitamin and mineral complex to replace any lost vitamins and minerals during therapy.

If I get the slightest hint that I'm going to catch something, I do the treatment. If I do catch something, the treatment ensures that the illness leaves quickly and that my quality of life increases tenfold, over the times when I take otc medications.

To ease the yucky flavor factor, I've begun mixing the c powder with Trader Joe's Vegetable Garden juice...which I like much better than standard V8...though the spicy V8 is pretty great too.

The remedy first came to me through the top diagnostician for the med school at Emory U. Now I see it everywhere!

How's your ankle holding up, Tep?

It hurts, but I can walk on it fairly normally (slight limp). During the day, I wear one of those ACE bandage ankle brace thingies that looks like a sock with the toes and heel cut out, and it helps a lot.

But it still hurts enough that I don't envision running a marathon in my near future. (Gee, bummer.)