Happy birthday, ND!
A quick update from here. I know I'm mostly not-here now.
I'm alive. So's the dog - and I'm sure your ~mas are helping on that, because I'm not sure what keeps him alive and perky at this stage. He's on steroids now, and that seems to help (though I'm not in love with the side effects). And finally, after a hell of a long time, we managed to talk my dad into putting Lou down if the next thing to try on list won't make him better.
And I'm mostly not here because this is taking so much out of me. I'm now down to keeping up with only 80-85% of my reading material, and I totally neglected French, it's bad. Between the pressure from uni to taking care of the dog, I'm trying to escape to any places which won't talk back to me - reading material, books, etc., and I cut off a lot of the web.
So, until this will be over and I'll get a two months vacation from my life with cabana boys just to get my engines going again, I'm going for the more quiet less here version of myself. I still love you all, just need every piece of rest I can find for myself. It's a question of keeping my sanity.
We love you, too, Shir. Do whatever you need to do to preserve your sanity. Just know that we are thinking about you and caring about you and will be here for you whenever your life allows you to return.
Happy birthday, NoiseDesign!!!!
Pix, job~ma and all that entails.
Shir, life~ma. And, what smonster said.
Vortex - and anyone else who may have allergy-related skin irritations - you know what's good? Benadryl cream (ointment?). It comes in a tube, it's white and icky, but it helps. I get mosquito bites when it gets warm and I've found that if I dab some on soon after I'm bitten the bite will clear up quickly; if I get to it right after the bite, sometimes it won't itch at all.
I actually just grabbed a hot shower, which took care of most of it.
Some the-right-thing-happening~ma to Kristin.
What she said.
Happy Birthday to Kristin's missing husband! Or Near-missing...
Andi is doing better today. We have discussed me taking her to work so I can get my oil changed near there. We'll see.
My boss gave me heck in advance for being (13 minutes!) late yesterday. I ran out and got Andi some lemon lime sodas, and her favorite fitness water, and then ended up getting out of the house late, so I called him on the road and let him know Andi was sick and that I would be a bit late.
All he did was gripe about how the phones were over ringing.
Well, dude, we are shorthanded at the best of times, and I have been coming in 15-20 minutes early, at least, for the last few months, is what I should have said.
Popping in from the in-laws visit to wish ND the Happiest of Birthdays!
Pix, I'm sorry about the director position, but I hope the teaching position pans out. It sounds like a decent risk to take at this point, if only so you can be closer to home.
Non-itch ~ma for Vortex.
All kinds of comfort and doggy ~ma for Shir.
Hugs and any other kind of ~ma for all ma Bitches because I miss you so.
