Suzi, so glad CJ and friends are okay. How scary! You have a great kid there.

Maria, I shake my fist at the shitweasel! SHAKE MY FIST!!!!

{{{Ginger}}} I hope you are feeling better.

I don't understand why people don't trust their doctors. When mine told me I needed the flu shot when I was pregnant? I got the effin' flu shot! Her job is to protect my health and the health of my baby and I trust her to do that.

ION, my day of 6 interviews in 6.5 hours is over (it was yesterday)! I think it went well? So hard to tell - you get loopy. I should know if I got it by end-of-week. Meep.

It seems like such a good investment for the company compared to the cost of lost work if flu swept through the office.

Right? Protect your investment in people.

CostCo has flu shots for $14.99 too. If you need to protect your investment in yourself or loved ones.

Ginger, I'm sorry your alien baby is being a jerk. Mine has calmed down a bit, gotten a little smaller, and only gets cranky when I sit. Or stand. Or step from side to side. But at least it didn't care what I consume.

In related news, i should really go to the grocery store. But that would involve standing, getting dressed, walking, getting into the car, driving the car, parking the car, getting out of the car, walking around the store, standing in line, getting back into the car, driving home, getting out of the car, etc and it all just seems like way too much today. I still have a few hours to muster up the resolve. It might happen. Or I might have stale graham crackers and ginger ale for dinner. That's also an option.

I used to have it at least monthly. Finally was told to suck it up or get my tonsils out when I was 23. Recovery was hell but I haven't had strep since. Really regret I was able to talk my way out of surgery when I was little. But that, as I recall, was just that they were inflamed a lot but not phrased as a great reservoir for strep. Weird when a chronic health thing is just fixed. Nice. But weird.

Mine are only every few years, but I still wish I didn't have the stupid tonsils. That said, it's not often enough for the docs to recommend I go for whacking 'em.

That said, it's not often enough for the docs to recommend I go for whacking 'em.

It's a brutal recovery.

It's also why I think morphine isn't shit. Because it didn't even touch the post-op pain. Well, it probably did. But it didn't good touch the post-op pain.

I'm glad that I did it but it's not a minor thing. And, actually, I don't even know why. Kids pop back so fast from it.

edit: Oooh, newer, easier on the body procedures now. That's awesome.

There is no vaccine for it (there are for some bacterial infections, like pertussis, but not for this one).

Urk. Thank you very much for the correction.

Had an impromptu drink or two with coworkers. And then Boston won so E bought us a round of shots. Holy fuck, last time I was drunk on a Tuesday was... I was going to say Mardi Gras but I was sadly sober on Mardi Gras. Good times.

Ha -- I'm having wine and D is having cider. I'm all "We're drinking on TUESDAY! END TIMES!"

OMG, I want a drink SO BAD. And I have a house full of wine, ciders, and various varieties of booze...so much deliciousness...and so much bad interaction with the drugs :( I can totally rationalize drinking with the liver tumor- livers regenerate pretty well! But pretty sure that booze + muscle relaxers (or worse, valium) might be not for the best. *sigh* It makes me sad. So i'm working on eggs cuz at least for that i gotta be sober to get good straight lines. yeah, I'm totally staying sober for my art. Totally. That's what i fully believe. If I keep saying it enough, it'll be true, right?

GC, I haven't felt like I had a "my doctor" in fifteen years. As opposed to someone on a list I got antibiotics from.

I'm totally staying sober for my art. Totally.

Which is a twist on the traditional relationship of art and booze.