Batman pug cracks me up. Also, seeing that opening again takes me back! I used to watch Batman every day after school. I guess in syndication? When did it air originally? Am I that old? Anyway... loved the show.

I took a nap very late today. Stupid. Have to be up by 5a for travel to early meeting. Not sleepy now.

HA! Meara, she wanted to argue about it. K kept saying it wasn't open for discussion.

K also wanted us to let the nurse finish out the day and let the nursing agency work out the firing of her because she didn't want the confrontation. I wanted her out of my house immediately and I wanted my key back.

So I started the confrontation and when she wanted to continue the convo, I walked away and K, being much nicer than I, continued to try to explain.

K is sort of mad at me because she didn't want to be the bad person.

But as you all know, when I am DONE with someone, I am done and I want to raze things to the ground so that I can just not think about it anymore.

K feels bad, that we should have said something when she was late when we were here or my mom was here. But it was different. It didn't matter then. But when it did matter she still fucked up and my daughter was drive around in the bus in a loop waiting for us to come home and finally taken back to school. And I won't tolerate my kid feeling abandoned.

Anyhow, tomorrow's interviewee is a male nurse which is fine by me but the agency was worried we'd be uncomfortable with it.

The new nurse's name is Phillip. We've been playing guess his ethnicity.

my movers packed less than half the stuff, but I have STUFF and they stored a chunk for a couple of months. It was over $5K.

I probably have half the stuff msbelle has. Almost all mover-packed, cross country, cost about $4.5? The uni paid. Definitely check out movers on movingscam.com and get estimates.

How irritating, Kat. I hope the new nurse works out better.

Was Blink the Dr Who ep that freaked everyone out when it first aired?

The new nurse's name is Phillip. We've been playing guess his ethnicity.

Hee. That amuses me. Do you know if he goes by Phillip, or by Phil? One of my college roommates was a Phillip-who-went-by-Phil, but he was pretty obviously Italian if you knew his last name (and if you met him!...and obviously gay as a $3 bill, but that part came later, sadly for him)

If the nurse is clueless enough that she doesn't get why she's being fired, it's not really up to you to be nice to her. She sounds like she needs a little more confrontation. Ugh. I hope the new guy works out, Kat.

Blink still freaks my shit out, Perkins!

Hope you both like the nurse you're interviewing tomorrow.

OK, I'm sort of glad now that I've never had to move too far. Yikes. Husband of co-worker moved my stuff from DE to Balto. $400. Moving companies were +$1,000 quotes. And I really don't have much stuff at all.

meara, this is what the agency said, "Name is Phillip. He's young but very sharp."

I know the agency has occasional trouble placing male nurses, particularly with children. But some of the nurses who were most caring at TK were men. I don't know how we'll feel, until tomorrow. I do hope it works. If not, the agency will have to send someone else.

Another option which is super tempting and completely possible, but bad if/when Grace gets sick during the school year, is to have Grace take Noah's place at his current day care. This would double our costs, but C would lovingly and gladly take her and, to quote C, "The trach doen't bother me at all."

C actually said, "why don't you have the bus drop her off here each day and the nurse come here to get her." Which is a lovely offer, but I do not want the nurse driving my kid around down the main street because the main street between C's place and mine is filled with idiots without insurance (and possibly without licenses) who act like fools.

C is a complete gem. I'm glad she came into your life. But I hope Phillip proves to be one too.

My moving company was a guy from work who does this sort of thing on the side. I got lucky.

You guys, I just had a thing. I've been going back and forth on this NM tile thing for an address marker for my house. And then with the Carol thing, And she likes designs and quilting, and I am so getting her input when I'm there for a scant 9 hours. So she will be part of this house too.