Here's a brief article about joints and the menstrual cycle - [link] Apparently no link has been proven between the moon and menstrual cycles, though long part of the legend, but I am still curious about a possible link.

I'm tired of the rain and gloominess. It's supposed to be nice this weekend, Will and I are going to do indoor things like see Avengers.

A couple times I wish it would warm up but I'm glad I'm not in Florida and dealing with the heat.

Only problem the way my cubicle is arranged I barely get any air flow and it's kind of stuffy. The other side is cool and has air flow. This cubicle won't be my permanent one, but I'll be here for another 4-6 weeks.

Not that it's any surprise but - wow insurance and hospital billing is confusing. Especially our system. The hospital bills separately for facility and physician. But it's not just "typical" hospital stuff, there are a lot of clinics and doctors offices. So people have outpatient dr's appt but get 2 bills sometimes - and it's confusing. Plus for whatever reason it's easier to do things on one side than the other.

Need to print a statement for facility? No big deal - click some buttons and it prints. For physician side? Find the "Print Screen" for the codes, cut and paste that to a word document. Then go to the print screen for the actual charges and cut and paste that so it's one document.

And for some stuff I had to print, I couldn't (for reasons I still don't understand) so I had to go and change stuff around in visits, print what I needed, then go and delete the changes I made.

So, bubble and squeak. I boil/steamed the cabbage briefly; boiled the potatoes; sauteed a chopped onion in bacon fat; mashed the potatoes and added buttermilk, butter, salt and pepper; then added the cabbage and potatoes into the pan with the onions.

Accurate? No idea. Tasty? Hellz yeah.

smonster, while I'm not precisely on that boat, I'm seriously near the dock. "They were supposed to let me play. This America, man." sj, it really is doubly stupid cause I used to shop at Marshall's in high school. But that was like fandom Autocomplete.

Yes, I think that's rather accurate. Bubble & squeak is made from leftovers from Sunday lunch. Moosh together the leftover veg and potatoes and fry until it turns into a lovely cake.

Well, my pliers were in my pocket, too.

I definitely have the joints/period thing too, but I never made the connection until you guys.

smonster, sounds like bubble and squeek to me, also sounds nom.

I made steak! It was cheap (well for steak anyway) and tasty and I haven't had beef in a few weeks, so it was nom too.

I have no idea what bubble and squeak is supposed to be, but that sounds pretty yum. I think I'm mostly jealous of Vortex's chinese food right now.

Though I did have a shot of Fernet earlier tonight, and thought of many of y'all (and juliana!).

Yay lawyer for Nora! And I would totally hairpat smonster.

Tonight I was at the dyke bar for my friend's birthday, and talking to someone's date, and mentioned I was from Indiana, and she was all "There are other people here from Indiana!" and introduced me to random folks sitting at the bar that she had been chatting up...turns out they are not only from my home state, but went to my high school! They graduated about seven years before me, so we didn't know anyone in common, but remembered a few teachers. And the guy had actually grown up about six blocks away from me! So crazy--they're a straight couple who had just moved here from Miami, and have kids (I'm thinking possibly grown kids, though they didn't seem that old). They said they had smoked up and then walked all the way to the bar from their house, which was about five miles. They were going to take the bus home. It was hilarious!

Bubble and squeak is totally new to me. Woo! Learned something new already today.

Small world, meara. How fun.

I'm feeling old since I don't even remember if I had joint issues when I had a menstrual cycle. Huh. Seriously folks, not even one day for one moment have I missed it. Yay menopause!

Focus on work today and play tomorrow.

I've been having sore knees this week too. Can I also blame the Super Moon?