Crappy news: ED IS a tyrant who belatedly decreed that my boss and I were obligated to work holidays.

ION, have new house, and am now contemplating absconding with the W/D unit. It's a foreclosure. Surely the bank won't realize it's missing an appliance?! I'll put the dishwasher in its place... seriously, there's one in the attic.

...and I'll drop my weapon

A phrase I never expected to use in my life back when I was a young person in Pennsylvania:

I hate dodging tumbleweeds on the highway, with the way they smack into the side of your car and then go skittering across the hood or over the roof. Or a bunch of them will get tangled together and form big rolling balls bigger than a Smart Car. Any bigger and they don't roll well and just block the road.

I may have been in the West too long. I understand water wars now, too.

This non-morning person has been up for an hour this morning. Of course I went to bed at 8:30 last night with a migraine. I seem to have kicked the headache, but hmog what have I done to my neck? Head movement has been restricted to sloth pace so far today.

OMG, the first guy to work on my mother's apartment showed up at 6:40 this morning. Good thing she is more or less a morning person! But she did end up seeking refuge with me shortly thereafter. Her place has been a total construction zone for weeks, and she is miserable!

Speaking of miserable, I think tomorrow is going to be the end for poor Hazel. I'd better call the vet now, come to think of it. Of course this morning she was a little perkier, but I know it's a lie.

Aw, poor girl.

I started going to the gym last week (there's one downstairs in my building we can use for free, so I really ran out of excuses). I usually do 45-60 minutes but today after 20 mins on the elliptical I thought I was going to keel over and die so I called it a day. Weird.

I feel better/more energetic since I started going, but now like.. I'm breaking out all over the place? I've had bad skin my entire life, but it's finally under control, but the second I start working out, BOOM, face exploded? Not fair!

zuisa, I wonder if you are sweating out some stuff that has been deep inside your pores lying inert until disturbed or something. And then after all that gunk gets cleared away, you will have better fitness and better skin, perhaps.

I just spend an hour shoveling snow. If there was any doubt that I have lost a lot of upper body strength since I stopped working at the house with a lot of lifting, that is gone. What a weakling I am. On the other hand, potato chips and dip is a perfectly reasonable and nutritious breakfast after all that exertion.

WindSparrow, that is what I am hoping. And today I made sure to wash my face both right before and right after going, and ensuring I don't touch my face after touching gym equipment, even after wiping it down.

Chips and dip is ABSOLUTELY perfectly reasonable after shoveling snow. Shoveling snow is horrible and so much work.

~ma in abundance for your Mom, and you, Strix. I hope they figure things out quickly.