for me...well, instead of giving life to someone else, it have me MY life back.

As with most chronic illnesses, it worsened by such slow increments I didn't realize how bad it really was (My GP: It's all a part of getting older. You can take three of these at the worst times) until in the midst of the usual miserable cramps, one physically jerked me double. Two months after surgery I was ecstatic at how *good* I felt--all the time!

that was the hardest damn removal I've ever done. So sorry we had to leave a bit of your cervix in there."

Yeah, my surgeon was appalled at the horrid infection my GP had somehow not detected. Because one abcessed ovary burst during surgery and contaminated the cavity, he expected a long and difficult recovery. But I think my body was just so happy and relieved to have all that gone it bounced back without a single complication. You hate to recommend major, life-changing surgery to anybody. But my experience was wonderful and life-restoring, so take from that what you will.

Meanwhile, my practicioners continue to do PAP swabs. Finally I pinned one with, "I don't have a cervix--exactly WHAT are you swabbing?" She agreed every other year was often enough for random tissue checks.

No grilled cheese truck AND no french fry truck! Betrayed!

Maybe the Rapture did happen after all--and the people who were raptured consists entirely of the folks who run the grilled cheese truck and french fry truck, and the Apple employees who were supposed to put last night's Doctor Who episode on iTunes....

I need to hire a web designer for my site, and I'm unsure what going rates are or how to not be a dick about what I want.

Is it normal to pay a deposit and then full amount upon delivery? Does anyone have any recommendation? I thought I could just mock up exactly what I want in six powerpoint slides that show the color/typeface and where I want the content to be. I tried doing this on my own, but my HTML days have long gone and it isn't worth the frustration to me.

Any recs for a professional designer? How do I know what a fair price is?

Those arrows looked pretty flimsy -- wouldn't the deer be alive but injured for a while after being shot with an arrow?

They have a lot of force behind them and a good bow hunter waits for a kill shot.

Is it normal to pay a deposit and then full amount upon delivery?

When my organization had the website redone, we set up a 5-point payment schedule. There was a deposit, partial payments as various development milestones were reached, and then the last 20% after delivery and launch.

Was just woken up by a chipmunk running over my blankets (or, I was woken by the cat pouncing on the bed, and feeling a patter over me that was too light to be the cat).

'Tis the season.

I am gratefully free of any awful complications Down There, and I haven't had put-me-on-the-floor cramps in 25 years (not an invitation to the universe to remind me). I'm just an average female who has spent 35 years messing with this, and that's damned well long enough.

Insent, Allyson.

It is normal to pay something down. For a small site, it's usually either half down and half at completion or a third down, a third at some specific milestone and the final payment on completion.

Hil, hunters don't always get it right with guns. It's a sad fact but even with rifles, the deer will get hit and run for miles unless it's dropped on the spot. Then the hunter has to track it from the blood trail. Like Ginger said--the good hunters wait until they can get a good shot to kill it immediately.

They'd made the box the product came in smaller. Therefore they could claim environmental friendliness.

They were using less materials and probably reducing the impact on the environment of shipping and storage. How is that not a win.

Hubby and I call it the "Now with free air!" syndrome.

Could be a bargain for a SCUBA diver.

Am being admitted into hospital. I need to take action with this headache. Except, this fucks up work tomorrow.