Jilli, I like CNN piece. You look, as ever, wonderful.

Very cool, Jilli!

Work and other things have kept me away from karate for a couple of week. I was back today and I couldn't remember the stuff I learned within the last couple of months, but remembered a weapon's form I learned about 3 years ago. The brain is a scary place.

Kids in restaurants is always a challange. I remember taking walks outside the restaurant either to avoid a meltdown or to have "a talk". I think with each of them it took one time of sitting in the car while everyone else ate and they figured things out pretty quick.

You're a great neighbor to have, Jess! And you totally earned yourself a sit.

104? Jesus.

Jessica , what a hellish evening, but now it is done and you can relax. I am trying to figure out what to do with the 50 students enrolled in my AP lit class tomorrow.

The 104 ninth graders enrolled freaked me out. I wouldn't have enough desks, nor syllabi nor anything. But they didn't all show. Thank god.

We've got strobe effect lightning and I let Pumpkin out on the deck. She was nonplussed. Just sat staring at the sky.

Aaand the news just broke in with a tornado warning for Baltimore County- as in take shelter (it's to the NW of me and the bottom edge of the system is just skirting me.)

They're most worried about my old neighborhood for tornados. Huh.

I made the call to not stop at the small pharmacy near the doctor, but go to the chain near home, because I had a script waiting there. Doctor wrote one prescription on the wrong paper, and the can't-miss-a-dose medication they won't have in until next week, if that's okay. HOW IS THAT EVER GOING TO BE OKAY??? Insurance won't let me fill it a week early, so clearly I can't wait that long. So that means I gamble with a pharmacy near work, but then I have to drop off and pick up tomorrow, because working from home Thursday and stuff...too many meds I can't keep track, and none of them make it not hurt.

Like, Monday was a 3 until I got home, at which point it was a 5 with flashes of 7. Today was a steady 5 with an hour or two of 7 in the middle, and the fellow's brill little exercise has had me back up to at least a 7...he kept recommending it after I told him I couldn't hold the position without pain, and would need a different exercise to work up to that one.

I never got that transition exercise, but I do have the 7 pain which isn't just the head anymore, and now has accompanying nausea. So, thanks for that, fellow.

Gah, how frustrating, ita.

And sheesh, Jess! Thank goodness you were able to do all that.

I ran around town today doing a bunch of show related stuff, on the promoter side, which is weird. Advertising, sponsor tickets, opening act, preshow venue, show venue, hospitality. And then some company banking (at two different banks) stuff.

And I scored a lampshade for my free lamp at the thrift store. So that's totally functional now and I really love it.

And I weeded.

So I think I'm entitled to lie around and eat mint chocolate chip ice cream for the rest of the evening, yes? Oh, no wait, I still have laundry to put away. Pout.

whoever asked about not getting rid of stuff when you have bed bugs ...... what I was told was to bag and treat things and keep doing that until you see no evidence for months at a time. I bought a heat treatment machine, vacuumed multiple times a day, sealed baseboard with silicone, bagged or sealed in airtight bins most clothes and anything that could not be heat treated. All clothes left in circulation were washed in hot and dried on hot for 1.5 hours then bagged into ziplock bags. removed only to wear and put into other ziplock bags when dirty. I also bought gallons and gallons of 90% rubbing alcohol, that will kill them on contact. I would set alarms for 4am and spray down the beds and other furniture.

I was a bit crazy.