Timelies all!

Got my semi-annual haircut today. (Ok, more of a trim- 2 inches gone to even things up)

I took an AARP sponsored Defensive Driving course today (it will lower my insurance costs) and woah nelly - over half that class was listening just to respond - "I have a story...", "I've heard this...", "This one time...". Class was 4 hours long (it is required to be at least 4 hours long), teacher was fine, but absolutely DID NOT go through everything in the book. Class could have been 3 hours, easy, so that requirement is bs.

While at class the internet router miraculously started working, so I have cancelled the service call. no call, no $$.

mac is mad at me, because he got busted calling a friends' parents for a ride somewhere when he had not even asked me. This is the grandparent raising the grandchildren who is his friend. They grandparents almost never so no to the kids and have done things I have asked them not to because "they kids asked" and "we don't mind". She is a nice person, but completely co-dependant and afraid of the kids being mad at her. Trying to get her to respect my rules was not working and I did not want to start a fight, so I have put it all on her, he goes over there all the time, spends at least one night a weekend over there. Her calling me to "let me know" he had called her for a ride, and to "see if that was ok, because she was running errands now and would be a little late" was her way of saying I am getting sick of this. She won't say it to the kids, god forbid.

So he got an earful of "she is NOT your taxi service" and he got mad and tossed a few things around the house before I got home. Apparently him going wherever was not that important because now he is hold up in his room and says it doesn't matter about the ride.

ION - I am going to see La La Land with some friend tonight and then Lion tomorrow.

Oh, doctor with online forms I'm filling out. The only options for "Salutation" are Mr., Mrs., and Dr.? Really?

Yes, how could they forget "Sun"?

Or "Beloved Lune"? Or in my case that would be "Loon."

And speaking of which, for some unbeknownst reason, I really really want a demilune. I've wanted one for years. I don't even have a specific place for one, but I'd *make* a place if I found one I liked.

I like to look at those, Beverly, there's something graceful about them.

They've always appealed to me. My ideal would be like that one, between three and four feet wide, four legs with a drawer between the two front, no shelf or stretchers, and a double top like that one, hinged to open flat into a circular table, but that would also stop vertically against the wall, with a design in marketry or painted.

I may have given entirely too much thought to this.

Why do any online forms require a salutation anymore? It just seems ridiculous and an unnecessary point of contention.

I was hit with either food poisoning or a flu on Thursday night. I had to ask a friend who lives nearby to bring me some applesauce so I could start eating again with something gentle. I've done okay with applesauce, crackers, and Farina so far but now I have a headache that is probably caffeine withdrawal. I don't know if I'm quite ready for coffee.

Boo, food poisoning and/or flu!

Hope your tum settles down today, aurelia.

But then I realized I tell them all to you people! So thank you.

Thank you for trusting us with your freakouts.

Tea and cola both have caffeine, aurelia. My mom used to feed me flat coke for nausea, and it helped. That may have been the placebo effect, but I believed in coke or pepsi for upset stomachs for a long time.