Hello! I'm sorry it's been so long since I posted. Apparently it's easier for me to post if I have something to report on regularly. However, nobody with four feet has eaten any sour cream and onion dip or anything else toxic, and fortunately I have not broken any more bones. I did get the flu, but the clinic advised me to take Tamiflu (MY GOD THAT ( Read more... )

The eventual result of our main drain's backing up and Roto-Rooter coming out and boring through a lot of tree roots to restore function, and then sending out a person with a camera to see just what all was going on with the tree roots and the sewer line in general, was that Roto-Rooter quoted us $17,000 to dig up the yard and replace the ancient ( Read more... )

PAMELA: *despite having had the same desk setup since approximately 2004, knocks full glass of water onto the floor, where it drenches her jeans and sweater and the carpet, and spatters the power strip into which are plugged All the Things ( Read more... )

I'm really going to miss Ursula Le Guin. In the past ten years or so I had come to cherish wholeheartedly her trenchant, take-no-prisoners comments on the state of everything, her calls to hope and action, and her sharp, nourishing sense of humor.

I read the Earthsea books as a teenager, and fell into them wholeheartedly and read them over and over ( Read more... )

The Onion Watch is over. Both Cassie and Saffron are fine.

I am very tired of this boot, and yet two weeks is really a very short time to be wearing one of these. It's better since I got the shoe balancer. But that can't be worn outside at this time of year. I ventured out yesterday sans shoe balancer, but with a lot of help from Eric. Fortunately, ( Read more... )

The cats are still fine. They have done all the cat things: scampering (both of them), tail-chasing (Saffron), getting underfoot (mostly Cassie), demanding to be fed at the wrong times (both of them).

I finally received the Evenup Shoe Balancer that I ordered, which is a kind of sandal that is more or less bungied onto the shoe of one's uninjured ( Read more... )

I didn't get a big enough supply of cast socks (still no actual group of characters in the sock *disappointed face*), but I think they can be hand washed. My foot approves of my having figured out that I was putting the front panel of the boot on upside down. No permanent damage seems to have been done; and actually, it may be my right knee, which ( Read more... )

It's been an interesting few days. The weekend involved both my family birthday celebration and a date with Eric, one sort of in the interstices of the other. Both party and date were very pleasant indeed. During one of the date parts, I got email from David saying that water was coming up from the floor drain in the basement. I wrote back saying I ( Read more... )

On Monday I called the nurse-advice line associated with my health insurance and described the history of my injured ankle. The nurse said I should be seen by a medical professional who could decide if I needed an X-ray. I hadn't gotten around to the call very early in the day and then they had to call me back, so my clinic was closed by then. I ( Read more... )

On January 1st, I went to a fabulous Hair of the Dog party hosted by a friend who knows all about food. I left behind me when David and I went home a backpack containing his slippers, my shoes, the pillboxes with my medication in them, and various items like an umbrella, some spare underwear, a hairbrush, and emergency candy in case the metformin ( Read more... )