sj, if there are issues, you can work with the moving company to hang on to your stuff for a few days (it will cost $$, but it's doable) and you can stay at a hotel or with family or something while it gets worked out.

It's annoying and stressful, but there are definitely solutions - keeping them in mind now as you move forward could help you set things up so if contingency plans are necessary, the groundwork has been laid out. This stuff happens all the time though, so there are mechanisms in place to deal with it. much ~ma that it all goes according to plan though.

In other news, we didn't hear back about the potential tenant, so I put a call into my credit union to talk about short sale-ing it. Have an appointment to discuss it with the boss man on Monday afternoon. Crossing fingers!

sj, if there are issues, you can work with the moving company to hang on to your stuff for a few days (it will cost $$, but it's doable) and you can stay at a hotel or with family or something while it gets worked out.

Thanks, Nora. I do know this, but I am hoping it doesn't have to come to that because of the stress. If we keep our current closing date, we will actually have a few weeks overlap to clean up the new place, paint, and do some minor before we move in, which I really don't want to be living in the middle of. Plus we have to make our current place "broom clean" before we leave and do a walk through with our landlord and hopefully get our deposit back.

Right on. I figured you knew, but wanted to reassure.

Fingers crossed that it all goes according to plan! There's a good chance it will, so I send all the ~ma.

That would make my head explode. Can you imagine the hundreds or thousands of times that those of us with insomnia issues, or kids, or a good novel at hand have crawled our butts into work on little to no sleep? Suck it up, dude.

Bad insomnia can be a legit reason to call in, or in my universe, work from home. If I am not safe to drive, I should not be going into the office. (If I work from home, I can sleep a little later, and catnap as needed.)

My lawyer said that really the only thing that could delay things at this point would be if there is a problem with the deed, and since the current owner has only been in the house for a few years and there wasn't a problem with the deed in his sale, it should not be a problem. So, I am hopeful, but I never expect things to go the way they are supposed to. We signed the Purchase and Sale agreement today, the seller will sign it later today and then it is all in the banks hands to do the appraisal and get the paperwork done.

After about two weeks straight of 2-3 hours/night sleeping, my manager sent me home from work because I was too exhausted to function properly. That was about five years ago; my insomnia issues aren't nearly as bad these days, thank goodness.

Bad insomnia can be a legit reason to call in, or in my universe, work from home. If I am not safe to drive, I should not be going into the office.

Yup. If I'm punch-drunk from not sleeping, I should not make the 25-minute drive to work.

Ha, I got sucked into Angry Birds on Facebook and went to bed. . . much too close to the time my alarm goes off. I wish I could have called in "tired."

Can you imagine the hundreds or thousands of times that those of us with insomnia issues, or kids, or a good novel at hand have crawled our butts into work on little to no sleep? Suck it up, dude.

I call in unable to work because of insomnia--sometimes it's unable to drive, sometimes it's actually unable to perform the required tasks. I'd hate if someone were writing me up because of insufficiency of spoons. Even if it's my fault, it wouldn't make driving in any safer. And I'm not sure how my boss would ever know it's my fault. That's between me and my godlessness.

I, too, have no magic words for getting through grief. But Maria, you are in my thoughts.

Ginger, still sending you good 'scopy~ma.

So she's in the bedroom and immediately she jumped on the bed. I hope this doesn't mess up her stitches but there's no other place I could put her.

She'll be fine. They ALL do that. Unless you put the cone of shame on 'em, and they'll eventually figure out how to do the jumping with the cone on... or how to get the thing off. The best you can do is the best anyone can do.

Until this morning when Penny started biting his tail and trying to pounce on him.

At this point, as long as they aren't getting into a knock-down drag-out all out war, or he starts kicking at her tummy, it's probably just fine. Heaven knows I was never successful at restricting post-spay activity levels for as long as recommended. Main thing is to keep an eye on the incision site and know what too look for as far as excessive inflammation and swelling.

Similar, if he is saying EPA is corrupt, he needs to document. Though parts of it were very corrupt in Bush era.

Yeah, but was it corrupt in the way this guy thinks, anti-oil? or was it corrupt in the way I think, anti-planet-and-healthy-people?

she's afraid if she takes him to the vet, she'll end up having to put him down.

I don't know any specific cause if there is no visible injury. But is your friend asking if this is an emergency, take time off work and insist on the vet seeing the cat immediately - I'm leaning toward "tomorrow is good enough" yet in her shoes I would ask the vet by phone. My thinking on dealing with symptoms in aged pets when financial resources are limited is - it might be something that is simple, easy, and inexpensive to treat. Or, it might be something that is simple, easy, and inexpensive to treat if caught soon enough but difficult or impossible and spendy if left too long. Or, yeah, it might be the bad news we fear. But if it's something that might be fixable now I would hate to have the regret of leaving it too long.

A while ago I saw a T-shirt that had on it "I was out of sick days so I called in dead".

But that really only works the one time.

Hivemind question: A friend at work has been recently hit with cluster headaches (I think he said that is what it is, rather than proper migraines). He is supposed to have a "cranial neural block" today, and doesn't know what to expect. Does anyone here know much about them?