DH had severe hypoglycemic episode. During struggle to (a) get his pump disconnected and (b) get some glucose into him while (c) realizing that Crashie has major infected hot spot on his head and shampooing him with the hose outside- well, I started with Crashie and couldn't leave him all sudsy- I wound up falling on my ass in the kitchen. I think ( Read more... )

I brought in 11 little makeup cases of varying sizes to work and left them on the table in the lounge. There is one left.

Temps still soaring around here. Have decided: with inheritance? Air conditioning! Clearly the heat is getting to me or I would have figured it out before. Air conditioning! How wonderful!

Attempted to make lemon sorbet a couple of days ago. The stuff went through the ice cream freezer twice and it didn't solidify. Finally I put it into the freezer and after 48 hours, it's still syrup. Sweet, highly lemon syrup ( Read more... )

I bought out the Estee Lauder counter at Nordstrom's before Toad's wedding. Complete skin care line plus makeup. I cannot even begin to count the number of compliments I have gotten on my skin and makep- I had two this week- one of DH's coworkers saw me in the elevator and said God, girl, your skin is GLOWING. What do you do to it? I mean, this is ( Read more... )

It's 103 degrees at Seatac airport, establishing a new record. We are hotter than Dallas and El Paso. This is not a record we yearned to break, BTW.

My thermostat says it's "01" in our house- it won't go past 100!

I've just soaked the dogs, the herbs, and my hair.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09209/986890-100.stm

Car accident broke off power pole. Leaking hose on rescue vehicle caused haz-mat incident. Repairman with jackhammer ruptured water main.

Some days, nothing goes right.

However, global warming isn't real! (/sarcasm ( Read more... )

My doctor told my husband what my cardiac stress test showed ( Read more... )

Go-Live day with the computer update. By some miracle, the schedule (for us) was very light. I left 90 minutes early, and I wasn't the only one. However, "cross-town" (the other campus) was making heavy weather of it and we sent them two nurses. I did get one add-on admit from the ED and consequently was able to document changing out his IV ( Read more... )

Actually, that wasn't all about Ribkicker. He found Grampa's wine-stopper- you know, that thing you replace the cork with after the wine is open? And mimicked pouring from the stopper into his sippy cup ( Read more... )