Whew. I have completed the one Christmas present I knew what I was doing! (Making a calendar on iPhoto for a friend, which involved scanning a bunch of old pictures and shit). Of course, then I realized I didn't have her address, so had to email her for that, so I haven't actually ORDERED it yet, but...

I'm so bad about shopping and getting Christmas presents. Argh.

Boobie~ma to Suzi.

YAY Sparky and DH! Lucky little Babyfras! That's fantastic, excellent, utterly wonderful news!

Also yay on making it through the sucktastic first trimester. I'm in complete awe of you making a first-trimester teaching trip to Poland. Between the nausea and the constant crushing exhaustion it's a real slog even for a non-world-traveler. I can't believe you went and taught on a whole other continent without just curling up in a ball and never moving again.

Quick drive by to say: Sparky1!!! Congrats! Lucky kid, getting you two as parents.

Mammograms, while uncomfortable and occasionally painful, don't last long - really, it's not that bad.

Wisdom tooth removal again, while painful, doesn't have to be the ordeal that many people make of it (unless the tooth in question is badly impacted).

(signed, no discernable pain threshold)

I skipped some but -- congrats Sparky! yay babyfras!

GC-- Mom had a cat she had to have put down because the cat attacked her, and the vet, and the vet techs, and anyone else, all the time. Mom was torn of this, but she talked to the vet and the animal shelter and they both told her that was really all she could do. The cat (named Zoe...) was almost two by this time and Mom got her as a kitten. The vet said that really there was nothing that could be done.

Mom only did this after she was bit for the third time and it was almost bad enough to need stitches.

So excited about Babyfras!!!

omg! One of the FSU football players is going to be on the Colbert Report. I don't know when, his name is Myron Rolle and he's awesome. Star football player, Rhodes Scholar, pre med. actually he's finished with bachelor's work. He's created an entire curriculum about health and fitness for a Seminole charter school and went down and taught that to the kids. He wants to open up medical clinics in countries with extreme need.

He's a really sweet nice guy. He actually missed part of a football game for his Rhodes Scholarship interview, the NCAA approved a private plane to fly him back to the game, and then after the game (which FSU won), his teammates poured the cooler of Gatorade on him instead of the coach.

Smonster! Sean! javachik! Hi, all. Good to see your fonts. Seems like there should be licking, or something, to celebrate.

Wisdom tooth removal again, while painful, doesn't have to be the ordeal that many people make of it (unless the tooth in question is badly impacted).

I thoroughly enjoyed the procedure itself thanks to the wonder that is nitrous oxide. The pain of the abcess that caused the surgery was highly unpleasant, but less than the sore throat I had a few weeks ago while on vacation. And while I didn't love the pain after the procedure, with the vicodan plus ibuprofen, it was ok.

Mammography~ma, Suzi.

Oh, COOL! I love Myron-- his parents raised all four of those boys right and they're all insane overachievers.

Has bruised other people and in one case drawn blood--check

Oz was plenty happy to see me when I first arrived. It was only when I came bearing two NEW! OTHER! kitties in crates that he whapped my ankle.

As much as I don't like getting beat up by a cat, I totally get why it happened.

YOzMV