I don't have to work Thanksgiving! Either all the adjusters in the Northeast are dialing back this week or they've got things under control.

Sadly, I think everyone's going, "I'm going home for Thanksgiving, dammit, I haven't seen my family in a month, I'll pick this up next week." Which means working through lunch for another few weeks, probably.

October Was 332nd Consecutive Globally Warm Month

Twenty-seven or younger? Then you’ve never experienced a month in which the global temperature has been colder than average, according to the latest data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Scary.

Forgive me, but I'm going to wait for the UK life on Mars, if you don't mind.

LIKE.

I totally bribe Dylan to read books, and so does his school. (At school, reading earns points which can be exchanged for "Bee Bucks" which the kids can use to buy Bee Buck things like pencils and stickers and whatnot. At home, every ten books earns a toy from the mystery bag.)

it's the prettiest damned phone I've held/seen in a while

That's my next phone, unless my lizard brain talks me into the Note 2 instead. Which is a really impractical phone but a gorgeous little tablet, and it's not like I use my phone for making calls anyway...

It really does surprise me how many different staff configurations you get at the hospital, given you're pretty much there at the same time each week, right? Is it because it's a shift that people don't want? Or do ERs not have the kind of regular weekly schedules that jobs like mine have?

I am still not at the part yet where this isn't a v. generous gift of e-readers to everyone...

I don't even know what that means. (I mean, I do now that I've googled.)

I just got this case for my new iPhone: [link] and it is so purty. Every time I use my phone, I feel like petting it. It was pricey, but I tend to knock things around, so a good case was called for.

Kat, if it's not the wrong (and never right) time to ask, what are the goals of this procedure specifically?

Each time it's a larynoscopy and bronchoscopy. So technically it is just to look. But they are checking the size of the opening. Doc also either dilates or lasers scar tissue. Ultimately we hope for decannulation. Sigh. I would like for this to be a faster process but oh well.

Better slow but done well, right? Still, ugh.

I totally agree. Except we do this every 8-10 weeks and we have been doing it for two years now. As Grace gets older it gets harder because she is more aware and she gets way more upset.

Yeah, that sounds terrible for everyone.

The fun part is Grace is totally princess of the procedures unit. They love her as does admitting. Today there was a crowd in her room watching her play a game on the iPad.