Yay for responsive and awesome doctor, ita! Wish they could all be that way for you.

Go, nice attending!

Ugh. I was sick this week, and Emmett was sick and we sat around watching all the LoTR (extended) DVDs. But I felt well the night I did my Tom Waits Movie Night (full house!), so JZ did something in the East Bay last night.

And like ten minutes after I got home to solo Matilda my fever starts shooting up. 101...102...103.3. I thought I was well past the days when I'd have to solo a little kid with a high fever.

One of my least favorite things!

And I felt horribly sick and achey and sore. Matilda was begging for dinner pancakes and it hurt just to get up. Buh.

But she got fed, and I begged JZ to come home and the NyQuil did its coma in a cup trick.

Unfortunately, my coma involved sleeping wrong so my right shoulder is totally fubar and sore.

Anyway, fever's down. It just feels like everything in my torso is a square edged mismatched jumble of junk so there's no comfortable place to sit or lie down.

And for the record, Jesse totally saw me before I hugged her it's just that it was on a street corner in Manhattan so I was completely out of context and it took a minute to register. Also, I'd just caught the end of a light so I'd come running across the street and sort of swooped into her buffer zone of private space.

She didn't hit me, nor knee me.

Speaking of kneeing, ita, Emmett's getting in to watching the UFC videos they run at his Krav studio and now he's making me Tivo fights. They had a lightweight bout and the knockout blow was a knee to the chin, which was impressive since the chin in question was still about five feet off the ground. The winner got incredible elevation. I didn't know you could get that high to knee somebody in the face.

Finally, I'm going to endorse Jesse's whackadoo plan since there's already precedent in fighting weight classes.

Yay ita, and a thousand gold stars to that attending. But really, dammit, that kind of treatment ought to be the rule and not the exception.

and was just plain nice. She got me verklempt.

Wow, I love that attending.

I didn't know you could get that high to knee somebody in the face.

Clearly, your life has suffered from a deficiency of Muay Thai fights.

Yay for attending!

sorry you are sick, David.

so far, breakfast. I am aobut to clean up the kitchen and sweep. Later this afternoon the Niles christmas home tour.

DH is working the tour and taking a four hour work call today .

All of you Point-deprived people should find a way to watch it RIGHT NOW. It is awesomecakes.

I was super-productive this morning and am now paying for it. Our neighbor invited us ice skating and rather than risk the rink not having skates in D's size we all biked over to the shoe store beforehand and I bought him a nice pair for $20. (This place also lets you trade skates in, which is why they always have a good selection of used kids sizes. When I have more time I'll probably go there for skates for me too.) Then we biked to the rink and skated around for about an hour, then we had hot cider and lunch and then biked home. I am freaking WIPED.

Fortunately my saintly husband is going to the tamale stand to get me a molé tamale, which should restore my strength quite tastily.

I love that attending too. ::sigh::

Hec, Jesse's plan has women competing against men in their weight classes. Also it doesn't consider sports in which weight isn't the key differentiator.

Krav studio

This reminded me that I'm re-reading the Skulduggery Pleasant books, and the character names, though sometimes corny, tend to amuse the hell out of me.

Bad guy names: Gruesome Krav, Murder Rose, Billy-Ray Sanguine, Mevolent (no last name, that's how bad he his), Nefarian Serpine.

Good guy names: Ghastly Bespoke (he's a tailor [get it?] with scars all over his face), Mr. Bliss, Skulduggery Pleasant.

Not-sure-who's-side-she's-on name: China Sorrows.

Every time I read "Gruesome Krav," it made me giggle.