Blood flowing is good! But you barely need to get dressed for that.

Go for it, Perkins. The stir-crazy sets in fast. Just take your phone.

Ummm. There are $25 C-clamps, aren't they? [link]

I could stay in inside pants!

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Just take your phone.

I can do that!

I am only good at taking care of people because I am bossy. And blood flowing is good. Just don't lift anything heavy.

And yes, Ginger, those are C-clamps painted with ironwork black and sold for $25. On the plus side, that gives me a home decor Idea.

Cravings I can see, as there's now a physical part of that other person inside the recipient and you'd expect maybe the interaction with foreign genetics to change tastes and the like. But purely mental changes when it's not brain tissue at issue is pretty freaky.

I think there are neurons in other parts of the body. I don't know this for sure. That could make sense though, you know, if its true.

But those are hand-cast iron $25 c-clamps!

Holy crap. There is (A) Waaaaay more stuff in the garage of the ex's than I thought. I'm going to have her husband look at it when he is down in October, and tell him that if there is anything they want, he needs to mark it and make arrangements to have someone take it and store it elsewhere, cause I'm going to sell what saleable, and then chuck the rest. Probably not all at once, since there is SO MUCH OF IT, but I would like to have enough room in the garage for a car this winter.

Also, I have cleaned out and rearranged the kitchen pantry and my bedroom closet. Someone please tell me why my darling husband owns 8 hampers and laundry baskets, 3 of which are in our bedroom? CRAIGSLIST/FREECYCLE.

ita, I am glad you are seeing a sleep specialist, but I can tell you, the first thing they will have you do is do a sleep study. Within your system, try to research your specialist as much as you can, and definitely ask what the study will be looking for. Start keeping a sleep log now (there are examples on-line) as this may chop a big ol' chunk of time off the solvation process.

If you don't have one, establish a sleep ritual and examine your sleep hygiene (look it up if you don't already know.) One of the first things they will rec is 2 hours TV, computer, any kind of monitor-free before bed.

IJS.

Start keeping a sleep log now (there are examples on-line) as this may chop a big ol' chunk of time off the solvation process

They gave me some reading material/questionnaire with the appointment (the sleep specialist is in the same neurology dept as my migraine guy), so I'm ahead of the game there. And I have done some sleep hygiene work before.

But TWO HOURS MONITOR FREE BEFORE SLEEP???? Are you bugging me? Yes, I will get a lot more book reading and drawing done, but I needs my stuff! My people! Fictional and invisible both!

But TWO HOURS MONITOR FREE BEFORE SLEEP???? Are you bugging me? Yes, I will get a lot more book reading and drawing done, but I needs my stuff! My people! Fictional and invisible both!

Yeah, exactly. Though you could print out fic to read off screen, I guess.

One of the first things they will rec is 2 hours TV, computer, any kind of monitor-free before bed.

unpossible. Especially at the start of the new fall TV season.

I realized that I have dinner plans tonight, and will miss Undercovers (the first major network non-comedy to have two black leads). In honor of our past, I invoke the VCR prayer.

Attention all religious people, established or not, pagan or Wiccan or Bible Belt or Jewish or Bead Jiggler (like me): Please pray to the VCR gods tonight for all of us who are Unavoidably Unable To Be Home. May the cable systems all remember. May the tapes be fresh and have plenty of space. May our power not brown out and reset the VCR clocks. May kids and SOs and stray kittens not wander by and reset the apparatii. May our UPN affiliates not fold, spindle, or mutilate the show with weird crawls, ads for other inane shows, sports, or teasers for the Ten o'clock News. May we all come home to Buffy, just Buffy and purest Buffy, from Previously to the previews. Amen.