Glad he's getting it checked out!

I told my next-cubicle-neighbor that I was wearing white because it was after Memorial Day and I've been waiting (although I do not really stick to that) and she had never heard of that rule. Completely foreign concept.

I don't wear white because I spill.

I have to think about the white thing when I go to upstate NY. Here white, or pink, or anything pastel works all year. I try and consider when I travel that I may look like I just arrived from Florida.

I don't wear white because I spill.

Yesterday I was going through my dresser drawers and I found a nice white button-down shirt that I never wear. So I was thinking, "I should wear this. On a day I don't eat food."

she had never heard of that rule. Completely foreign concept.

I never think about whether it's acceptable to wear white unless I'm going to a wedding or a funeral. Also I never wear much white in general because I'm also a spill-food-on-myself-ista.

I don't recall the first time I heard about this "rule." I think it may be more of a New England/New York kind of thing because of the Victorians and the nouveau riche.

I don't recall the first time I heard about this "rule." I think it may be more of a New England/New York kind of thing because of the Victorians and the nouveau riche.

I think I first heard it in "So I Married an Ax Murderer."

Speak of the devil: Why Are You Still Washing Your Clothes In Warm Water?

More than 60% of Americans still wash their laundry in warm water. It’s a practice that’s as costly as it is environmentally unfriendly. What’s more, it doesn’t make our clothes appreciably cleaner. Here’s why you should make the switch to cold water.

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As noted by Leigh Krietsch Boerner at The Sweet Home, “[U]nless you have a really good reason for washing in warm or hot, such as really stinky clothes or cloth diapers, go for cold. It saves energy, and your clothes will last longer.”

Indeed, cold water is actually good for certain clothes. Lower temperatures protect the dyes, and therefore the color of clothes, while also helping to preserve the fit of the clothes by preventing shrinkage, particularly along the seams. What’s more, some stains, like blood, should only be washed in cold water. Warm water just makes blood stains set in.

eta: They also recommend a cold-water detergent.

It's not all white clothes, surely -- just white pants or shoes.

Hey, so Tim has a completely collapsed right lung. Urgent care sent us over to University of Cincy hospital ER. It's a level 1 trauma center, so they see a lot of gunshot wounds, etc (this will be relevant in a minute).

I went back in the ER with Tim, but took his phone outside to call his primary care doctor. When I came back in only 5 minutes later and started to go back to the ER, an attendant guy started yelling at me and told me I had no business back there. I told him I was just in there with my husband, and he said I shouldn't have been back there because they were on a lockdown and I needed to calm down and sit down. Because apparently the waiting room isn't on lockdown?

So I kind of lost my shit and he told me to calm down and sit down again, and I just stood there sobbing and he finally said "I'm getting a social worker. DO NOT MOVE."

The social worker, who was much nicer, repeated that they were on lockdown because of an incident with a patient, and she would check on Tim for me. She came back out and said he was sitting up and comfortable and just waiting for some tests, and she would get me as soon as the lockdown was lifted.

So I'm sitting in the waiting room trying to stop freaking out and waiting to be allowed to go back.

The way to uncollapse a lung is to apparently put a chest tube in the chest cavity (not the lung) that removes the air around the collapsed lung, so it can inflate.

He has no idea how this happened. Did I already say this? The Urgent Care doctor said lungs usually collapse from trauma, but it can just happen spontaneously. Now I feel bad about my bubonic plague joke.