I think the prescription for chicken soup should also have an addendum for hot cocoa.

With teeny tiny marshmallows.

And popsicles to help bring down the fever. Poor Em!

I think the prescription for chicken soup should also have an addendum for hot cocoa.

With teeny tiny marshmallows.

Great, now I want hot cocoa with rose-flavored marshmallows.

But boo! on useless doctor-types.

I don't think that's an entirely fair way to characterize doctors just because sometimes the illness is something that can't be treated medically. Better to send her home for large doses of love and cocoa and soup than to order an unnecessary Rx for antibiotics.

That said, I, like MM, hate bringing in a sick kid to the doctor only to find there's nothing they can do for her that I couldn't have done at home. It's a PITA.

I sent The Boy a text saying "I have a very stylish buzz cut!"

Hahaha. I did this once, for realz. I was just back from Peace Corps and had no money and a friend was buzzing another friend, so I decided "why not?"

My. mom. flipped. "A *friend* did that? A FRIEND?"

Good times. I only have one pic of me from that era.

ARGH, the only problem is the only color in my size is camel and I wanted navy.

Oh noes! Enable!fail! Hmmph.

Now I want hot cocoa.

That said, I, like MM, hate bringing in a sick kid to the doctor only to find there's nothing they can do for her that I couldn't have done at home. It's a PITA.

Well, to be fair, my uselessness commentary stems more from the fact that there were four doctors in the practice and no one available to see Em until the afternoon and then when she's finally seen, given a non-diagnosis diagnosis.

I was commiserating with MM's frustration.

Yup. I've done the buzz cut before too. I kinda liked it.

I'm cranky because I keep getting radical haircuts which promptly become ubiquitous suburban mom haircuts. I'm trying to rebel, here, people! Work with me! If only the oldest people at my church are shocked by my haircut I'm doin it wrong!

I'm thinking about it because of our Northern Exposure rewatch/blog. Maggie's hair is treated like it's so shocking, but it's such a tame cut two decades on.

It definitely is hot cocoa season, though, huh. I don't have instant hot cocoa packets. But I do have soy milk and cocoa powder. And, err, a stove. And sugar. I have lots of sugar. I bought a whole bunch of sugar and then the hummingbirds stopped coming. So I should make cocoa, right? That's the logical answer?

Yes, the logical answer is to make hot cocoa. nods

I'm going to order hot cocoa when I get to the coffee shop. I'm off to meet a new recruiter about possible job leads.

I've never done a buzz cut. Every now and again I try a pixie cut, and every time I hate it. I don't know why I keep going back to it, except they look so cute, ya know? Just not on me.

I did my one experiment with short hair last year with my angled bob. It looked good and I liked it, but I am inherently lazy and hate having to go to the stylist every four weeks to keep it looking nice.

So I should make cocoa, right? That's the logical answer?

Yes. Hummingbirds love hot cocoa.