I love the midwives: despite the occasional tragedy, I find it far more soothing than most of my other tv.

It's been an exhausting weekend: family in town, lots of functions, and I picked up an upset stomach at some point in the last 24 hours. So I begged off visiting my folks this afternoon and lay down for a nap, followed by a glass of ginger beer. Not sure it's helped.

This week will involve: a site visit, two doctor's appointments for my mother, and two interviews (one of them with possibly six people!). I'm exhausted pre-emptively.

I really think Call The Midwife might be my favorite show right now.

Also, one time at a hotel, I had to work all day in the room(signed up to go to a conference, got a last-minute deadline), so I got room service and put the Do Not Disturb sign up, and eventually they called to get their tray back.

I'm exhausted pre-emptively.

As you should be!

I keep housekeeping out because that way I don't have to clean up for them. Also, if I've picked through six pillows on the bed to find my one true pillow, I don't want to go through that again.

I am as Dana wrt hotel housekeeping. Anyway, I'm uncomfortable with people in my living space, even a temporary one.

But if I do have them come in, I leave a tip.

Field trip tomorrow!

We're taking a staff trip over to Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve. I've been wanting to visit there since I moved down here. We're having lunch nearby at some cute restaraunt I forget the name of and then a private tour.

It's a good thing that I do my gardening at work, because my "yard" is Japanese Stilt Grass, Honesuckle, Garlic Mustard, and Raspberries.

Has anyone had experience with getting Poison Hemlock on their skin? It exploded last year and is everywhere now and there might be hand-weeding. (Usually when I have to hand-pull Poison Ivy, I wear a long-sleeved shirt and mud gloves, put the vines in a trash bag and the shirt and gloves into the wash twice over and I'm good).

Can you spot treat with Roundup, Julie? You can use the glove-and-sock trick: wear gloves, pull a sock over the glove, wet it with Roundup and apply to the offending plant.

Clean up for the hotel staff? Fair enough, that's an alien concept to me. Just cotching on the corner is such an inherent part of the hotel experience that as long as we're not bumping into each other, I like that they're in and out like brownies.

I have a rogue device on my home network. Something keeps trying to log into my email server, fails, and then gets me locked out of my webmail IP. Five times today, but I've shut all the email clients off as soon as I think I'm clear...IT HAPPENS AGAIN. I've scanned everything for viruses, I'm clean AND IT IS STILL HAPPENING. I'm going beserk.

Ginger, I can use round up for some of it, but other spots its in too tight with the other perennials.

I always let them clean hotel rooms, except rare vacation occasions when I'm in the room or in and out all day. But I hate turndown service because I hate coming in and the tv or radio is on and I didn't leave it on. That creeps me out.