I haven't had access to Facebook for going on a day now. Anyone else?

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Good gravy, Vortex. That's particularly vivid to me given how recently I was on your balcony.

crosses Sparky's neighbor off potential therapist list

t adds Sparky's neighbour to kinetic therapist list

My take is largely this. Does your nanny have several clients? Do you need to get on her schedule to have her watch your kids? Fine, she's a contractor. Risk runs both ways - sometimes she's not available when you'd like her to be, sometimes you're not available when she'd like you to be. OTOH, are you her only client, or at least (say) 70-80% of her working obligation? Is it unacceptable for her to say "I can't watch the kids this Thursday, I'm already booked with another family"? Then you're her employer. Pay the woman.

Ok, I have another take too, namely "is it covered in the contract?" If the answer's "What contract?", see paragraph 1.

I can't help but get the feeling that what those people are really saying is this: "You mean I have to pay her and watch my own childen too?!? Waaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!"

Are you freaking kidding me?!?!

They just cancelled school again. Except for one day last week, this makes 8 days in a row (that is, 3 days off, then one on, then this will make 5 off). Now, of course, I love time off... but this is getting absurd. Plus, we have a competition Saturday and I'm beginning to doubt whether we'll even see the kids first!

Mind you, after the day I've had, I could use a good lie-in. But I'm starting to go stir-crazy from not seeing anyone I know except the grocery store people!

Well, now we've got the crazy wind, anyway.

Man, today is a weird day. We had an earthquake and travel to the office this morning was utter crap, but I was way more social at work than usual, and I got a good review and came up with an interesting project for myself for this quarter while I met with my manager. There's the possibility of serious monies coming my way next month. I got a very good deal on three pairs of designer jeans that actually fit me.

I'm tired, gashed my finger on a shoe box, and I still need to make dinner, but overall I'm calling it a win.

Oh man oh man oh man! The therapist sounds like a tool, sparky!

I had a doc visit yesterday. I left an hour early and still was marked no show because I missed my appointment by more than 15 minutes. They still saw me because no person in their right minds was out in the rain.

I learned that my neck pain is actually a recurrent cervical disc injury and that the solution is physical therapy. Luckily the in house therapist also had a cancellation and could see me right then.

Sigh. Fun? The worst part of the visit was being told that the Flexeril isn't really helping me.

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