I should be in bed, but I don't feel good and I don't feel tired and it's like this vicious cycle.

And then I was trying to get in bed and I took off my slippers -- LL Bean slippers I want to point out -- and noticed the stitching at both heels is gone and they are coming apart. The stitching all the toe is coming apart on one and the leather seam on the back near the heel of the other is splitting.

I got these as a Christmas present this year. They haven't even lasted 3 months! Granted I wear them whenever I'm awake in the house, but I had a pair of JEssica Simpson slippers I got when Mom visited in the fall of 2012 and they lasted through March or so of 2013. So maybe I got 6 months use out of them but those were cheap slippers we got at Marshall's.

Anyway I called LL Bean they are sending another pair. Which is nice. Hopefully the new ones actually last.

The funny thing is, the guy clicked like on that reply.

I saw nothing in what you said he wrote to keep him from liking what you posted. He was lambasting the idiots who misuse the guns.

Got to visit one of the students in the hospital, this evening. The other wasn't feeling much like visitors today. Sadly, they have rooms in opposite towers, so they can't even visit each other. Student #1 was in pretty good spirits. He was a little, not sure the right word, astonished (??) that it happened to him, and when it did. And then that it happened to his classmate. So we chatted a bit how sometimes your body reminds you what's really important in life. Later, he mentioned his frustration with how slow he was recovering. I reminded him, his body isn't digital. He can't tweak the settings, to increase the healing rate. He can't bargain one activity to make the pain go away. It seemed to help a bit. I reinforced, classes and projects will always be there, and take the time he needs to heal right. We will see if he listens. He's a very anxious person, always got his foot on the gas, to get things done. Sitting still and healing could very well be the hardest thing he's ever done. His parents were there too. Flew out from Chicago to be with him. Real sweet folks. It looks like he will be discharged in the morning. Not sure how much more time the second student will be in for.

Appendix. It's a mystery, but when it goes, it does a lot of collateral damage in there.

I saw nothing in what you said he wrote to keep him from liking what you posted. He was lambasting the idiots who misuse the guns.

Huh. I didn't read it that way. It was a meme he shared, not something he wrote himself. It sounded to me like it was a folksy folktale expansion of "guns don't kill people..." rhetoric.

Ugh. Roommate just texted me saying her stay elsewhere has been extended 30 more days (she was supposed to be back 3/9) and might be permanent. Grr. Do not want to look for a new roommate again already! (She did sign a year lease, but I don't think I could really hold her to it)

Appendix. It's a mystery, but when it goes, it does a lot of collateral damage in there.

Very true. It ranges from easy fix to extraordinarily extensive and painful damage. I hope the students have quick recoveries.

Sorry about the roommate woes, meara. I find the unsettled and not knowing time to be the worst part.

Very true. It ranges from easy fix to extraordinarily extensive and painful damage. I hope the students have quick recoveries.

I was surprised, that the second student, whose appendix did not burst, still had collateral damage. Crazy.

Good god, you guys, I haven't gotten a haircut since July. (I had to check Quicken to verify that.) That's...well, that's what happens when you're fundamentally lazy and no longer work across the street from your salon. I look like a Yeti.

But I just made an appointment for Monday. My stylist will probably faint when I walk in. Hell, she probably thinks I got mad and found a new stylist after she had surgery in August and couldn't do my wedding hair. Well, once she sees me, she'll know that isn't true. Yeti is maybe not my best-ever look.

I know I am not alone in wanting photographic proof of yeti status.

No one can get a picture of the yeti!

...right? We don't have cable, so I have no idea if the guys on the Bigfoot hunters show have gotten selfies with Bigfoot or what.