Stephanie, I'm a day late here. I'm a child of divorce as well as a parent. KCD has CJ on the weekends - it has taken 3 years for KCD to hop on the homework enforcement bandwagon. CJ still doesn't have weekend chores and somehow refuses to see (or admit) to KCDs flaws. It is frustrating and there are times I wonder if CJ will ask to spend most of his time there. But I can really only deal with the now. Hopefully the parenting I do now will give him the tools he needs for the future.

Insent to profile address, ita !

Jesse, maybe try this [link] ?

Yeah, I should try it.

I did a little more digging on the pheremone spray, and it is actually recommended for cat peeing problems:

•Clinical Trial of a Feline Pheromone Analogue for Feline Urine Marking - Journal Vet Med Sci. This was a study of cats who had urine marking problems (peeing in the house). After one month of using a feline pheromone (feliway) in the house, the problem was completely gone in 37% of cats, greatly reduced in 40% of cats and unchanged in 23%.

•Urine spraying in cats: presence of concurrent disease and effects of a pheromone treatment – Applied Animal Behavior Science. This study used Feliway to treat 34 different cats with urinary spraying problems. An improvement was seen in 74% of the cats.

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Vonnie, she'll need an unscented lotion to put on the irradiated skin. Aquafor was suggested to me and that's what I used. She also needs a deodorant rather than an antiperspirant, because the aluminum in an antiperspirant can react with the radiation. I had to try several to find one I liked (Liquid Rock). A lot of people like the Tom's Unscented. You could make a basket with things like that and maybe teas and hard candies. She'll get more and more tired through the weeks of radiation, so a gift certificate for food delivery, cleaning or the like would be useful.

No pink, for the love of god. She'll get enough pink for 12 lifetimes.

I had to set up a funds transfer through BofA, to Russia, and it was fine. I just needed a bunch of info at first, but once the account was set up, I could do transfers (at some expense, per transfer) really easily.

Oh, and hey, while we're both here, Ginger, you were totally our 800th Hope in Transit fb like! If you'll give us your snailmail address, the SO will send you a copy of his book. Profile addy is fine or you can message us over there.

(Thanks msbelle, et. al, for promoting!)

Hauled my ass out to Towson at 8:30 this morning to swim, came back and climbed on the roof to lop branches down, chopped up and bagged said branches, cleaned out all the weeds between the sidewalks, put down weed barrier and now I need to go get juice at Safeway and decorative mulch to put down. And I've already taken my second (well, technically third if you count the pre-swim rinse) shower of the day. I hope there won't be one more.

And I haven't eaten anything yet. Maybe I should fix that.

Hubby just reminded me that his driver's license expires this coming March, which I had spaced that it was so soon. I already had the website for the California birth certificate requirements, so I thought I was home free. Then he says, "and what about the adoption information from Hawaii?"

Crap. He's right. His mother's third husband formally adopted him in Hawaii, so we're going to need some kind of court order information showing that. And getting adoption info is a bitch. So I'm going to have to contact Utah or really dig through their website to find just how much they need to cover his name change. Fortunately, this may be a situation where having all his mother's genealogical paperwork dumped on me may help, and thank god I spent several days a few months ago sorting all that paper. I'm pretty sure I saw a copy of that document, though whether it's legal is another question.

I'm also going to need a copy of my marriage license to cover my name change.

I think I'll start a conspiracy theory that all this was put in place to generate fees for the various states.

I recently heard (on NPR?) that neuroscientists are studying how "time slows" when you're in imminent peril, and are leaning to the theory it's not that time perception slows, but that the brain concentrates so hard on noticing everything at those moments that a flood of sensory data that is usually ignored not only gets noticed but evaluated and remembered, hence a half-second fall off a ladder seems like a couple seconds worth of experience.

I've experienced the slo-mo thing a couple of times. It's kind of neat.