Wow. That picture is really, really hard to look at. Damn.

WAKE UP SOPHIA!!

Can you at least call out sick from your job tomorrow and sleep?

Hey, Dana, do you start this Monday too?

I do, having finally signed the paperwork yesterday.

Yay for ita's job working out!!

I took Amarna into the vet this morning for a checkup and clawtrimming, and I wanted to get her weighed since it's been about 5 weeks since I changed her food. I know she's less bulky, so I was guessing she'd probably lost at least 1 to 2 pounds. Turns out it's only 1 ounce!! She's still at 13 lbs., 2 ounces. But, she's so much smaller, that the fat has to be converting into muscle. Here's hoping that she'll be smaller when I take her back for her next trimming in six weeks. The vet said she wanted to see Amarna at around 11 pounds eventually, and I really thought she'd be close to that already.

WAKE UP SOPHIA!!

Thanks!

Can you at least call out sick from your job tomorrow and sleep?

No, it is my boss' last day before vacation and we are really fragmented. I am not going to go to opening night, which is pretty lame, but I am pretty sure I would fall asleep during the performance, and since that has already happened to me once....

Getting out of town should be doable Saturday but you may have to go not your usual way. Up and around rather than straight through.

I'm sad I'm not participating in the marathon this year. Usually I do the 1/2 in my mostly walking half assed way. It's so fun (if painful). but my family from NC was going to be in town this weekend and I wasn't sure exactly when so I couldn't plan to marathon. They'll be here tomorrow though, mostly. We're going to the aquarium and I'm hoping getting downtown to get there tomorrow won't be a cluster. We do have tix reserved at least. Dolphin show!

JenP, I'm so behind here! But happy birthday and I'm happy to provide any help I can with the apartment search! The place east of MLK could be interesting. Lots going on down there. Sketchy neighborhoods pretty close by though. You might want to email me if you have more places to check out since I've been, like i said, so behind here. I'm only catching up today because i'm home trying to get over a stupid cold before my family descends tomorrow.

my family from NC

lisah, where's your family from?

lisah, where's your family from?

They are in Raleigh. My brother and wife and three kidlings. We're from DE and my SiL is from NJ originally but her whole (huge, 7 sisters) family moved to NC (Greensboro) back in the early 90s when her dad got transfered down there. She and my brother followed so they could finish up school in Charlotte then he went to Law School at UNC. Once he passed the NC bar he was like "We are never moving from this state. I'm not taking the bar again!"

I lived in G'boro for a couple of years for grad school and try to go down there as often as I can. Which hasn't been nearly enough in the last couple of years. I haven't seen them since last Thanksgiving. So wrong!

Apartment Vacancies Hit a 23-Year High:

U.S. apartment vacancies rose to 7.8 percent in the third quarter, the highest since 1986, as rising unemployment reduced rental demand, Reis Inc. said.

Actual rents paid by tenants, known as effective rents, declined 2.7 percent from a year earlier, the New York-based property research firm said in a report today. Asking rents, or what landlords sought, fell 1.8 percent from a year earlier.

You clearly owe your bro a visit. During which we will dominate all your free time!