For Frank, and anyone else who needs it (including me): I'm Not Okay (I Promise) [link]

Aw. BOB. God, I love that video, and I haven't seen it in years. Thanks, smonster.

I'll send you an email or maybe even call and burble at you.

Excellent! If you want to call, I've got a dinner thing tonight but should be around after 8:30 or so, and tomorrow night's free. And good luck with the water sitch! I just called our landlord to request, again, that he fix our hot water. Here's hoping for quick resolutions for both of us.

So wishing I could watch that video at work, though I've seen it so many times I could probably storyboard the whole thing from memory...

In "I'm not adult, I just play one on tv" news, my water got turned off. I thought it was staying in my landlord's name (as is common here), but no. My landlord claims he told me this, but I am dubious. He also claims he gave me his address to send my rent check, but I just checked my lease and it's not on there.

Yeah, that's not your adulthood fail, that's R's landlord fail. He back in the country?

I think this [link] is a product many Buffistas,(including me, but ESPECIALLY Jilli) need to won.

There are pink ones, too. Bev linked me to them. Alas, I can't justify more dishes, otherwise I would have them.

Andi has mentioned here before that we have a lot of catnip growing on our property.

Has she also mentioned our gravel driveway is carpeted with Chamomile?

How about that the most common "weed" on the property is Motherwort?

Either Gaia is trying to tell us something, or previous owners or tenants had interesting plants.

Then there are the poppies...

It's a shame they don't sell the pink bowls alone. I don't need anymore mugs.

Well, technically, I don't need anymore bowls either. But my bowls are more boring.

Yeah, that's not your adulthood fail, that's R's landlord fail. He back in the country?

Yes, he is. And the plot thickens - I went in to start an account and get it turned back on, and there hasn't been an authorized meter there since Dec. 2008. I saw on the screen that a stolen one was found there in Dec. 2010. So she recommended that I *not* start an account, in case there's a tampering charge (which is $300) and call tomorrow to see what the report is on the meter they removed. I haven't decided whether I'm going to call Ray before or after I find out what they say.

So I'm going to be without water for a few days. Related note, uh, can I take a shower at your place?

And my COBRA stuff has gone missing, but MFC (my former company) sent me a bill - according to United, *they* do the billing, so WTF is MFC telling me to send them money? When United hasn't even gotten my info yet? I am pretty sure I made copies before I sent off my forms, but I can't find them. And I don't remember if I sent them to United or MFC, or which MFC told me to do. And of course the HR person at MFC is not in today.

Kate, do you still have the 413 number?

Yeah, no problem. Your towel is still there from when you used it before!