The government is trying to take over!

Big Brother is counting you!

somebody send the magic jello-making fairies, please.

Jilli, the form inquiring about tattoos only said 12 months!

lish, I am wondering what normal is for me. I think I might have an old blood screen report from when I had mono, but wouldn't even know how to determine 'normal.' My blood pressure is generally pretty low and my temperature is always low...so it makes sense that other things would be too, eh?

Thanks for the cheerleading, omnis...it really does help.

And chikat, I wasn't paying attention to combining vitamin C with iron intake, so that's also on the todo list for this week.

Okay, zenkitty. It's you and me, kid. Irish up...and learn from my example. Pound those apricots and raisins!

Jilli, the form inquiring about tattoos only said 12 months!

Huh. Okay, after this weekend, I go look into donating blood again.

My blood pressure is generally pretty low and my temperature is always low...so it makes sense that other things would be too, eh?

Ha! Mine too but I have no idea if there's any correlation. I wouldn't worry about it too much if you're feeling okay. It's generally a good idea for ladies to eat the iron-rich foods anyway so I'd do that and, really, using cast-iron cookware is supposed to help.

I took my BP last night ... 106/58. Yay me!

Toddson, that's great!

I don't want to get my hopes up, but I think we might have found our perfect house in Nottingham. On only our third house-hunting visit there. It's very quirky, very 'us', and in need of some work. We would to have to replace a bathroom and move a door, plus masses of painting etc. (It bodes well that The Girl is currently looking up how to fix our toilet on the internet. She's refusing to get a plumber. I will support this until I can't hold it any longer.)

My dad's coming up to meet us for a second viewing of the place on Tuesday. I desperately hope he thinks it's worth putting in an offer! And now I'm having 'I appear to be a grown-up' freakouts. I made up a little song about how very grown up I am and sang it in the bath. That helped.

bonny, well done on going to donate blood, and sorry to hear your iron levels were too low. Hope you get to try again soon!

sigh ... they don't want my blood - I take too many medications

Same here - well, that and my EDS (they're worried I'll have bleeding/bruising problems). Makes me a bit sad. I really should volunteer to help them out some other way, instead.

It took four hours, two phone calls, and four customer service representatives, but I have cable again! Plus, I now get TCM and AMC, which I hadn't known were part of the new package -- I'm not paying any extra -- but I'm certainly not complaining.