WS, glad you were there when the resident keeled over - and glad it sounds like they're recovering. It might have been a TIA - similar symptoms to a stroke, but people tend to recover quickly.

A friend once told me about getting a truly terrifying call from her mother (who lives about a six-hour drive away) who was hallucinating. Turned out it was some new medication that she was reacting to, but there was still the six or so hours of panic as they drove up to make sure she was OK.

huh, that was odd, my post was bold.

I read this and thought, "Well, that was good. You had something to say, and you said it. It was assertive, but I don't think overly s... oh."

(pours coffee through the internet for Emily)

What an excellent idea. Lovely Toddson.

maybe a couple of onion rings

I know I haven't even had breakfast yet (though my oatmeal is sitting next to my keyboard, cooling off enough for me to eat), but now I want onion rings. Mmm. Big, thick, hand-cut, batter-dipped and fried onion rings.

Unfortunately, the only coffee I have access to at the moment is the stuff from our office machine. Weak and bitter. And, today, COLD.

The full song for those who care. (Not sure why this is on Youtube when it's not actually a video, but eh, whatever.)

Yay Dylan! Sleep is such a lovely thing.

If I recall, we have some Hello Kitty fans here, so I thought of you when I saw this headline:

Hello Kitty Gets high Fashion Makeover

(and by that, I don't mean pastries. though you should treat yourself to something today, no?)

There is, at this very moment, a soup mug of hot cocoa (two packets of cocoa mix plus a small dark chocolate bar broken up into it) on my desk. Except when it is in my hands.

And yeah, I'm very glad I hopped up as fast as I did when she said she was dizzy, because I hate the thought of her getting hurt (though the difference between her being safely lowered to the floor and smacking her head into a door frame on the way down would have been less than three seconds).

WS, glad you were there when the resident keeled over - and glad it sounds like they're recovering. It might have been a TIA - similar symptoms to a stroke, but people tend to recover quickly.

I'm very happy about her being back home so fast myself. And a TIA makes sense, because a couple times in the past year or so we've noticed a brief period of slurred speech, or something not quite right about her gait as she walked, together with some confusion - but nothing as dramatic and easy to put a finger on as this - more like, "Wow, that's wacky, we'd better keep our eyes open."