I've decided I have chronic, non-operable, stage 4 monkey foot cancer.

I understand that once you remove the monkey foot, recovery is pretty smooth.

{{sj}} You are a good friend.

Sparky's patron, not a good patron.

I understand that once you remove the monkey foot, recovery is pretty smooth.

It depends on if the foot is still attached to the rest of the monkey, I think.

friends do not send friends texts like that and then not answer their damn phone.

Ugh, I am sorry. I didn't mean to be all tuff-love, etc., I still likely have my wounds from my own relatively recent situation and I *may* have been projecting.

Good work on getting her to call back though!

No worries, Nora. I understood perfectly what you were trying to say. I hope I didn't sound snappish.

Good work on getting her to call back though!

Thanks, I can be the most stubborn person in the world if I have to be.

It depends on if the foot is still attached to the rest of the monkey, I think.

Good point. At stage 4 has the monkey fallen off, typically?

Thanks, I can be the most stubborn person in the world if I have to be.

This can be a very useful trait!

Much ~ma to Aims, PC, Theo and all who need it.

I did okay with managing the blood draw this morning. But they did it in the middle of things so the doctor came back in before I'd gotten myself back together and he was a little freaked out. It could have been much worse.

In the end, they charged me less than half of what they quoted me last week for the physical. God bless them all.

Results on Monday.

In childhood hair news, my father demanded that I keep my hair long and straight. As a wee thing, I wore pigtails tied up with these odd, rubber arrow-like contraptions. He'd pull the ponytails so tight, it was sometimes hard to shut my eyes. I wish I was kidding about that.

Straight as a stick. I could sleep in curlers, take them out in the morning and then then watch the curl fall out of my hair. In the 70's, the era of beer can rollers, it was a travesty.

Ugg. I was hoping to leave the office to drive out to the one Best Buy that had the small screen I am thinking of using, but now the Music Director is waffling on the idea. And on a dinner break to discuss it. And now I have to wait for her to come back. So I can drive to the suburbs in rush hour. Ugg.

t /first world problems

Sending out the ma~~. May everyone have really boreing news as a final news.

Looks like my hair is 3a on the curly scale.

My hairdresser and I have talked some about letting my gray grow in. She has some process she'd use so that it wouldn't look like progressively bigger grey roots. I'm kind of intrigued about what I'd look like, the grey is pretty extensive now I think. But I'm not ready to take the plunge.

try it. Seriously -- you might be surprised. I sorta accidentally,lazily stopped coloring my hair. I've had more compliments in the last 6 months from people -- that claimed they couldn't help themselves, but they had to say something. now my hair is pretty dramatic - -black and white -- but it is worth trying - esp if some one will ease you into it.

Sending out lots of ~ma to everyone who needs some.

At lunchtime today, I didn't feel like going out to buy something, so I checked my stash of food, which is down to some ramen noodles. I pondered aloud, "Which do I want, artificial chicken flavor or artificial beef flavor?" Officemate asked if there was a Jewish holiday around now that had anything to say about the choice.