Still tired from days of blood loss. Finally got my nosebleed cauterized yesterday, and slowly recovering. Did not want to complain because of what others were going through even with FPC, but misery seems to have slowed down a bit I can bring myself to post. Took it easy today, though I made a pot of chicken soup for recovery meals, shopped at Trader Joe. Well I also went to an OWS general assembly, but left after 4 hours and went home to take a nap.

Typo Boy, this is making me very sad. Needing to have a nosebleed cauterized is not nothing. Anything that follows the phrase "Still tired from days of blood loss" is the complete and utter opposite of nothing. Blood is important to more than just vampires. Much continued healing~ma.

bonny, still sending out the healing~ma for Bartleby.

Sox, I don't even know what to say about the bank thing. I think the best curse I can think of for them is to wish the Occupy Wall Street movement becomes every bit as efficacious at forcing banks to stop fucking things up for people as I hope they are.

Finally got my nosebleed cauterized yesterday, and slowly recovering. Did not want to complain because of what others were going through even with FPC, but misery seems to have slowed down a bit I can bring myself to post.

Oh man, I had my nose cauterized when I was 10 and it was really painful. I'm sorry. That is no fun.

Great not to have to clean the blood off three walls, the mirror and the toilet of the bathroom multiple times a day along with off random fabrics. BTW, hydrogen peroxide really does get blood off anything. If the fabric is not hydrogen peroxide safe, it will get the blood off by making a hole where the blood used to be, but one way or another it will get the blood off.

Ack. Typo boy. Get better

DRUNK. At Clover Grill. Help. Not really, friend taking care. But need grease.

I'm finally getting into this Flylady thing. Or, at least, I'm giving it a try. The website is still way too cluttered for me to focus on anything

So far I'm just taking what I can use and ignoring the rest. (But I'm really close to buying a bunch of the cleaning stuff, because they sound SO COOL.)

I also decided the other day to set the stopwatch on my iPod Touch to see just how long it takes to put away all the dishes in the drainer, and how long it takes to clean the bathtub, because I tend to put those off because they "take too long."

Answer? Putting away a super-full dish drainer full of dishes (like, piled super high): 2 minutes, 30 seconds. That includes dumping out the water that collects on the tray the drainer sits on.

Cleaning the tub: about 8 minutes, start to finish (and that includes wrangling the shower curtain out of the way -- it's a pedestal tub with a shower enclosure, so the curtain goes all the way around, and it's a bear to wrangle).

So, no more complaining about how long those chores take. Dang.

I haven't taken a good look at Flylady (yet), but when the place is starting to get a bit yuck looking, I'll set a timer for 20 or 30 minutes and get to work putting stuff away and doing light cleaning (wiping counters and the like).

It's amazing how much I can get done in that amount of time.

So far I'm just taking what I can use and ignoring the rest. (But I'm really close to buying a bunch of the cleaning stuff, because they sound SO COOL.)

Yeah, that rubber brush thing seems like it would be great for cleaning my sofa.

I've got a ton of energy this weekend (I'm pretty sure it's the Prednisone), so I'm taking advantage of that to get some of the bigger chores done, like switching out all my summer clothes and bedding for the winter stuff.

I've got a ton of energy this weekend (I'm pretty sure it's the Prednisone)

Dude, I *love* the steroid rush of I Am Invincible! LOVE.

Morning. Send coffee.

First night with Ridiculous Dog the second last night. She whined for a while, then got very quiet, which this morning I decided was Too Quiet, and came downstairs all paranoid that she'd killed herself on her crate. Nope. She's fine.

Thus far, Daisy isn't getting cranky or defensive, so knock wood. Ahahaha! Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd Bluebell just discovered the joy of getting startled on wood floors with no traction.

Spark in the bathroom this morning that switched off the circuit breaker for two bathrooms. When I flipped the breaker back on an outlet was black. I can still smell where the plastic on the outlet burnt.

1) I'm leaving the lights off in the bathroom where the circuit blew until an electrician can look at it.

2) Is it safe to use the lights in the other bathroom that is on the same circuit until then?