Good luck, smonster. And if you want to come by tomorrow for water bottles, come on by.

{{Fred Pete and Hubs and Marie}} So sorry.

Congrats, Shir!

{{P-C}}

~ma all around: Scrappy's aunt, Raq's friend, Maria, Barb's mom, general love thrown in Sean's direction, even if you don't see it.

Kate, I hope that your landlord gets off his butt and fixes your leak. I miss you guys already!

Was out until 10PM sorting through 24 bags of trash with my Capstone class. They did a dirty job fabulously well. I'm so proud. Sadly, I dropped my beloved (SO beloved) 1st gen iPhone on the loading dock and shattered the glass. The time has come for us to part ways, after all these years. I'm slogging through our final sync right now. It feels very meaningful.

Smonster, I'm sorry you had a rough day.

I'm freaking out about everything and nothing all at once. I wish I could just relax and enjoy the fact that I'm getting married soon. I really need to call the SS office tomorrow and tell them I'm getting married. Really don't want to. They have a way of always making me feel like crap.

So a couple years ago my mom got a hip replacement.

The hip prosthesis she got? Just got recalled.

They're doing tests now to make sure nothing's terribly wrong. I don't know if she'll have to get another surgery or something. Some hip~ma, if you will?

In other news, I responded to her e-mail thusly:

Are you kidding me? Of all the prosthetic hips in all the world...no wonder it didn't seem like it helped. Grr. I hope nothing's too wrong.

She responded thusly:

NO I'M NOT KIDDING......I JUST DID THE BLODD TEST AND X-RAY AND MRI ARE IN NOV...

I think we have communication issues.

Wow, P-C. Sending hip~ma her way.

Will your mom take it in the spirit intended if you tell her your Internet friends are wishing her good hip~ma? Tell her the white she-devils wish her well.

That sucks. I read an article in the Times recently that said that the FDA fast-tracked those hip replacements through (I think due to some cronyism, but I could be remembering wrong). That really really sucks.

And, yes, it looks like there's a bit of a communication issue. Perhaps less slang or sarcasm? Keep very literal?

P-C that really sucks for your mom. Much ~ma to her.

I mean, she put the damn surgery off for years because she knew there would be so much recovery and rehab time afterward, and now it looks like she'll have to go through it all AGAIN?

I wonder if there's a class action suit you can get in on. That sucks so damn bad.

Man, that really sucks, PC. I hope your mom doesn't have to go through too much to put this right.