I am in favor of kissing and of complete sentences. Also of ltc waiting a couple decades to try margaritas.

ltc's strong personality will serve her well in the future, although it is quite the challenge for the parents that think they are the boss of her.

This was my hope with the Willful Young Emmett and it turned out to be true.

This was my hope with the Willful Young Emmett and it turned out to be true.

Thanks. This helps a lot, since Emmett is quite obviously an amazing human.

ltc, sj, smonster, all awesome. smonster's new boy, potentially awesome. smonster's wanker roommate, the opposite of awesome.

Laura, incredibly awful about Bobby's friend. I'm so sorry.

Java, increasing wellness to you!

Continuing ~ma for those in hospital, may they be well soon!

Re: me, while of course I want what is best for my leg bones, I also really want this cast off. It itches and is uncomfortable and I want my regular life back. Percocet seems to dull itching as well as pain, and now that I'm taking less of it for pain, there is more itching. It's probably inadvisable to stick a butter knife down my cast to try to scratch my ankle, but I'm doing it anyway.

Good morning! My bag is at the hotel waiting for my room to be available. I'm at the convention center clocking in volunteers who are helping with set-up and working to organize our volunteer room. It is pretty quiet...for now.

No butter knife under the cast!

I had a cast on my shin back in the day. I really wanted to scratch, but I was scared to hurt myself and get an infection. So I invented something: taped the vacuum cleaner's crevice tool to the hair dryer. Got some cool air under the plaster which helped, especially on my trapped foot.

Maybe I just liked being able to do something for my leg while I waited for the bones to knit themselves back together.

Suzi, kick some ass and have a lot of fun!

Zen, no kicking anything, except kicking back. Sorry about all the itching! Seems like that's something they would have figured out by now.

Wanker once again failed to answer the door this morning, so I gave the delivery man his number. Delivery guy didn't call back, so I guess his phone DOES work. @@

Feel better, Java.

Zen, I saw an article that someone's designing a cast that's made of waterproof something (plastic? fiberglass?) that's cut like netting so it's not only more comfortable but you can shower in it, your skin doesn't get as itchy, etc. Wish you'd been able to get something like that.

We went to meet ltc's new teacher today who was teaching camp. ltc walked right in and started playing with the other kids like she had been doing this all her life. And she even helped at clean up time! Then we went with my mother to lunch at our local museum and Nonni bought ltc a book at the gift shop to congratulate her on doing so well in the bath this week. It was a good day.

sj, that sounds like a GREAT day!