Trudy, those awesome curtains include the gothy motif which Jilli doesn't like...

Em is indeed a most wonderful child.

Laura, I got nothing for you, except the wrinkled nose of sympathy.

smonster, that sucks about your health plan. Will you still get everything covered? I hope it doesn't affect you too badly.

It's just more hoops. I go through my yearly allotment of outpatient visits every 3.5 months, and i'm shit at keeping track and getting providers to apply for more, so I end up paying for out out of pocket because they also don't approve retroactively. IOW, let's make it as hard as possible for sick people to get the care supposedly offered. Nonprofit my ass.

Jilli has been warned!

I did not see the smider upon first view. T'is a tiny smider.

My parents are proud of me now, but they weren't proud of us as kids. Which is weird, because I considered myself a much higher achiever up to age 18 than anything I've done since then. I think I get points in their eyes these days for surviving. But before I would actually do stuff.

But I didn't have to achieve stuff for them to love me, which was much more important. I did, in fact, have to ask my mother to make the love conditional, because unconditional creeps me out.

Timelies, all!

I've been buried under work for the last...oh...month or so. I hoenslty can't remember the last time I looked at the board from my desk. Anyway, work is fine, we moved to a new house about a month ago, and tomorrow, Joe and i head to Hawaii! With five other adults and none of our children! I am mostly looking forward to a) drinking what I want b) going to bed when I want and c) getting up when I want.

In theory, I will be scuba diving, seeing lava flows, and seeing the USS Arizona, but I might just read books and listen to the waves for a week.

That was interesting. I'd submitted my information for price estimates from a few moving companies. The first one to call me back told me that they're expensive and I can probably get a better price elsewhere, and they told me to look at movingscam.com to find someone reliable.

The first one to call me back told me that they're expensive and I can probably get a better price elsewhere, and they told me to look at movingscam.com to find someone reliable.

Huh? Maybe it is where you are going. Sometimes a moving company only covers a certain area with their own people, and just subcontracts to whoever they can find for other areas.

They said that they don't subcontract to anyone. They did give me an estimate and told me to call back if I wanted to hire them, but also told me to try some other places, too.

My guess is they can do the move for you, but not very efficiently for where you're moving to - hence the higher price and the suggestion to look elsewhere.

IME, that kind of answer is usually code for "Your job is too small for our company but instead of saying No, we're going to overcharge you and hope you go away."

Or they may only be interested in larger contracts.