How long have you had the explodey eyeball, erin? Because I've caught pinkeye several times (hello, teaching; I've also had lice: GROSS) and never tossed anything besides mascara. (And if it had been pricey mascara vs. cheap stuff, I would have just cleaned the brush off.)

Really, if you haven't touched in in several weeks, I would keep it.

P-C I know it's hard but you are doing awesome you really are.

And Aimee I wish I had some advice but you and Joe are good parents.

I haven't had caffeine since Monday and so far I'm doing okay. I get really sleepy in the afternoons and I'm not sleeping well at night but no headaches. A few cravings for Diet Cokes. And I feel tired but I'm wondering if I've just been really tired and run down from the infection and all the caffeine had masked it. Or if it's just the antibiotics.

P-C I know it's hard but you are doing awesome you really are.

Thanks. And I don't even have it that bad: a friend of mine just got kicked out of the house for some scarf-related drama with her grandmother.

I'm trying to decide if I should call the friends that I had dinner with last night and see if they want to have dinner together again, or if I just want to sleep. I think I'm leaning more toward sleeping. I've been all energy all day for interviews, and now I think I'm about to crash.

Paging Nicole: your invitation to our shindig, which we mailed Dec 22nd, just got returned to us today. I had addressed it to you and your DH with your old last name, not knowing if you'd changed it, but I used your DH's full name, so I'm not sure why that would have mattered. Anyway, I doubt you were planning to come, but I wanted to let you know we weren't uninviting you. Stupid USPS.

(moan) I think I'm actually going to need lawyers, guns and money. I have here not one, not two, but three official Seven Day Notices from management and they all relate to Next Door.

Requiring me to pull off a $2,000 repair job in in seven days is just not going to happen. Especially since the part in question was damaged by workers hired by management lo these many years ago.

I also have to "remove wood" from the back yard. Not allowed to have lumber, even when it can't be seen from the street.

Honestly, if anyone can offer some cogent advice about how a nerd may engage the appropriate sort of lawyer for this dilemma, I'd be ever so grateful.

Placed here in another, happier post: an Amazing Story about the incredible smartness of the cats here at Chez Bee.

Night before last, a part on the bedside lamp turned up missing. Cranky and tired, DH was persuaded to stay in bed and let me try finding it in the morning.

When I got home from driving DH to work, the missing lamp part had appeared in the very center of the DH's dent in the mattress. One of the cats had left it there. I think it was as a present.

Grammar Trauma!

Why can't I remember this?

If you're mailing an invitiation to Bob and Suzy Pinchus, is it "The Pinchuses"?

Yes.

Trudes, yes. But "The Pinchus Family" or any of the variants of "Judge Pinchus and Mr Pinchus" (etc) are also quite correct if the plural is too painful to look at.