Yikes, Hil. I skipped a whole chunk of posts due to crazy insane work day, but you were dizzy this morning. If this has persisted all day do you have other symptoms that might indicate a flu or low blood sugar? I'm worried about you.

Thanks, Laura. It's been going on all day, and my best guess is side effect of codeine. No fever, blood pressure is fine, and eating doesn't make me any less dizzy. If I keep being dizzy, I'll contact my doctor and see if there's a different painkiller to try.

Job~ma Jessica!!! Jilli you too - and a cluestick for your former department.

(We shall not speak of the Blueberry Incident Involving A Rental Car.)

made me snort so loudly I woke HelloKittyFan up.

Aims you will be awesome with the 20girls.

wtf Thursday? Seriously. Friday had best trip in on chocolate paws.

my best guess is side effect of codeine

Ah, that is a real possibility. I can't take codeine at all because it makes me nauseous and uncontrollably shaky. May tomorrow be a significantly better day.

I ... I might have bitten off more than I can chew with this Girl Scout thing

Yeah, that's a lot. Even just coaching 12 boys is crazy making. It does help to have a really tight plan and move them from activity to activity quickly and without any loose, baggy in-between moments. Like...

"Okay, girls, time for the Girl Scout Oath. [blah blah] Drop and give me twenty! Take a lap! Bake a cookie! Sit ups! Help that old lady across the street! Lanyards!!!1! Community Service Forms! Build a fire on the dog! Oh, look your parents are here."

David, you are absolutely right - there was too much downtime tonight. Next weeks meeting will be airtight. Get your nametag, into the psychomotor room, song song song, learn Girl Scout promise, you ten with me, you ten with Miss K, and now SWITCH! Snack! GET OUT!!

Get your nametag, into the psychomotor room, song song song, learn Girl Scout promise, you ten with me, you ten with Miss K, and now SWITCH! Snack! GET OUT!!

There you go. Seriously, it makes a huge difference to spend fifteen minutes planning it out ahead of time, communicating it to your fellow leader and executing it crisply.

Jilli! They had a Nightmare Before Christmas Monopoly set at B&N! With cunning little game pieces and Jack money and such what. Also a NBC Yahtzee set (with Jack Skull dice cup and painted dice).

There is a commercial telling us that Nutella is a great way to get kids to eat healthy foods. And it's "wholesome" because it's got hazelnuts and skim milk. "Breakfast never tasted this good." These health claims on commercials are getting ridiculous. Nutella tastes good -- can't they just advertise that?

Jilli! They had a Nightmare Before Christmas Monopoly set at B&N! With cunning little game pieces and Jack money and such what. Also a NBC Yahtzee set (with Jack Skull dice cup and painted dice).

Waaaaaant! I am hoping Sandy Claws brings them to me during the Autumn - Winter gift giving season. (October: Halloween! November: my birthday! December: Christmas!)

Kickboxing was so much fun! And I'm, apparently a natural! And the instructor I was working with is a Buffy fan and a Star Trek fan (he mocked Kirk's punching technique)!

It's even making me abuse exclamation points!

So it seriously rocked. They were very nice and during the warm up cardio part were like "don't try this, here do this in stead". I seriously suck at jump rope but I'm going to get one and practice.

Anyway, after I got through the cardio and stretching they put me with Geeky Instructor Dude (GID) in front of the mirror and he taught me a drill. Jab, Cross, Hook, Hook, Front Kick (I think that's right). But he showed me the proper stance, and how to make a fist right and it was all step by step. At first it was hard to loko in the mirror because of of the Body Image Demon, but I got over it and looked and practiced and both GID and Head Guy said I was picking it up really quick.

There were two teenage boys (friends I think) who were on their second lesson and were getting some extra help and GID said under his breath that I was picking up faster than them.

Anyway I signed up and I go next Tuesday.

It was fun in the This is Hard I Don't Know if I Can -- Oh I'm Getting It! Kinda way.

The Student to Instructor ratio was really good, I think there were a dozen or so students and 4 instructors.

I have totally corrupted The Boy.

He said this not 10 minutes ago: "If Batman and Superman had sex, *Batman* would NOT be the bottom."

Ahahahahaha!!!!!

(Also, it's SO true.)