Glad that the surgery went well.

Speaking of rashy...Grace has a rash that started on her legs and left arm today. She'd scratched the hell out of it, as she usually does. Then it has blossomed into a full body rash, red wherever she can scratch. Where she can't reach, it's fine.

I meant to give her benadryl earlier, but I then forgot because it required putting her bolus extension on blah blah blah. K is worried that it's something I fed her (strawberries, beets, coconut milk, sheep's yogurt, chicken, brown rice and whey) but she's had this precise blend at least once before and a similar one 2 times before that.

I'm convinced it's a reaction to grass yesterday (at the park) and heat today (we went to the farmer's market where they strolled without the canopy on the stroller, then K took them to the playground. When she woke from her nap the rash got worse).

We did the Aveno oatmeal bath and that may have calmed it. Then I gave her some water and some benadryl. We've put her in long clothes and I trimmed her nails down.

If she looks this bad tomorrow, I'll have to take her to the ER or force our way into the pediatrician. Of course, I have a work obligation that I also have to be at.

The house is also a disaster zone.

I miss my mommy.

In other news, my poor mom is in Hawaii with my sis and nieces. She called on Wednesday, when she flew there, to tell me my dad was in the ICU in Jackson, Wyoming.... he's being discharged today and he wants to go back to camping in Grand Tetons because that's what his plans were. WTF is wrong with my family?

Boo rashes! It is that very under breast rash that drives me to leave Florida and come north in the summer. Like Grace I can't stand an itch and will scratch myself raw. pain is easier to deal with.

Yay for movers bringing home the stuff!

That sounds like encouraging news, Zen.

Past my bedtime and must work in the morning. I set the wireless to turn off at 1am. Of course I will be asleep then, but a part of me totally looks forward to the sound of my son expressing his disappointment when it shuts down. Hee.

I felt bad for you having to work all weekend, but now NSM.

No! Feel bad! I have a conference call at 9, and I'm back from Colin's. I've been online checking mail and problem wrangling since 8am, and all day yesterday. Colin just saved me from going postal. Him and the vodka and the strange people he knows.

Dear lord, kat. Does that at least mean he's doing well? Or is he just crazy motivated?

You have a conference call at 9PM on a Sunday?!? Please tell me you mean 9AM tomorrow.

I mean, heck, I have to be at the airport at some ungodly hour (6AM?) tomorrow, but at least I'm not working right now. Though really I SHOULD be, because I've got a ton of shit to be doing. And at some point I have to fire up the work computer ot figure out when my flight is in the morning...

Instead, I'm looking online wasting time daydreaming about where my airline miles could take me and what I could do with them. I want to visit Fay...and my brother (in Prague)...and I need to go to South America (but don't wanna do it alone...). But I also want to STAY HOME. Sigh.

ita, is it a conference call with people in China or something?

Nah. It's in twenty minutes, with Americans. I am so depressed by the thought I'm having a hard time psyching myself into connecting my work laptop to the VPN. Ugh. This weekend was supposed to be a straight up repeat of last weekend, but it took a hell of a lot longer, so we're kinda screwed.

Ugh, ita. Should you even have to do that as a contractor?

I guess the under-boob rash is more common than I suspected!

I am watching Rizzoli and Isles (which I keep wanting to call Vanzetti & Oates?) and the victim's name is Gail Jager. My horrible old boss had the same first name, and her last name was Jagel. It is very disconcerting I was also just thinking (after watching Covert Affair) that there seems to be a lack of women in their mid to late- thirties on TV, and there they are. Usually I think people are my age, and it ends up that the actors are my age, but the character is 28. Or possibly just 30. And female actors just a bit older than I (like Keri Matchett) keep getting playing opposite men in their fifties as though they are the same age

Great article in the NYT magazine about how medical schools are addressing abortion. [link] I didn't realize that the Susan Buffet Foundation (wife of Warren) funds so much pro-choice and contraception programs.

Should you even have to do that as a contractor?

He is going to have a shitfit when he sees my bill. I wonder if I can take a day off next week...Thursday is Colin's birthday, and his girlfriend is having a surprise thing for him.

I spent the day at a hotel pool for my friend Whitney's birthday. Honestly, I felt like I was at MTV's Spring Break. As I walked in, "Welcome to the Jungle" was playing. Luckily, we had a roped off area away from the children.

It was surprisingly fun (I think that the special area helped). Hanging out, enjoying the sunshine and a cocktail or two was a lot of fun. I thought of ita and wondered if she was having a good time at Colin's pool.