We're also headed to a cabin in the woods today!

Yikes JenP but yay for it working?

Go Matilda!!

My doggo is at doggy daycare for the first time today! Hoping he gets exhausted.

JenP, glad it's working.

I came across an article about the Mars landing, with an animation. Nifty.

Also, was someone asking about nail polish? Orly is making a line of "breathable" polishes which might be less stinky than the usual ones.

Woah, Jen, that sounds wild! Glad your heart is doing it's thing!

I have the ingredients for that TikTok feta thing in my fridge right now, but I over-planned my meals and then also went to Trader Joe's, so I might not get there for a couple more days.

Thanks, guys. Yes, yay for working, and yes to probably good to know what it's like.

Ooh, does your heart now have Bluetooth?

Ha, ha! Yes. I wonder if I can connect my headphones... never thought of that!

lisah, where are you going? We're Shenandoah Valley bound. I will never be able to spell that name without spell check, apparently.

I guess I had it in my head that you wouldn't really feel anything when those things do their stuff, but that is pretty obviously based on nothing at all.

I think... and this is really more of a guess than it should be... that it may do small corrections that I just don't notice. It's not a pacemaker, so it only kicks in when needed (or maybe those do, too? I don't know). Apparently, I was very needy this morning. There are a bunch of questions I should have asked the heart doc a while ago, but this thing was, like, bottom of the list through the hospital year. Weirdly just sort of a blip compared to the rest, which is weird, because, heart, but there you go.

For once, I'm the one who is ready to go way ahead of time. I even dashed out to get my monthly blood work done in case my electrolytes are doing the wacky. DP has just announced he's nearing ready... so that's good. To be fair, he did do a couple of work calls this morning.

My mother had a pacemaker and I think it occasionally gave her a ... well, less than a shock, but something. I had heard that you can't use magnetic necklace clasps if you have a pacemaker - the magnets, if they slip around, can do something to it. So one xmas, when my sister gave her a set as replacements (since the arthritis in her hands had gotten bad), I made a fuss about it. I might be mistaken, but I'd rather be wrong than take a chance.

My doggo is at doggy daycare for the first time today! Hoping he gets exhausted.

I bet he will be. Nothing like other doggos to play with.

Go Matilda with the active life. Now too bad she doesn't live closer to meara so she could doggo walk.

We're going to Bluemont in Loudin County, Jen! Here

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Ooh, that looks beautiful, lisah! I saved it .

Doggy Daycare did wonders for tuckering out my sisters dog when she was a puppy. Looking forward to the report!

Go on, Matilda!

Well, the power went out for good just as I signed off from work last night, so I had an early dinner and spent the night bundled up in bed. It came back on and it's been up and steady for about 4 hours now, so I'm back on the work network getting stuff accomplished. If someone can spare some -ma for the Aged Parents, they're in Houston with the power still down. They borrowed a generator and can cook on the gas range, but still.

Also, apparently all of you are heading for a Canadian shack with only one bed in the middle of a snowstorm? I mean, I respect your commitment to verisimilitude, but.....