msbelle's missed anxiety meds reminds me of the question I was going to put to Natter. This occurred to me when I was driving across the bridge yesterday; our car needs a transmission fix. We're planning ahead to pay for it but don't have the money now and the car is mostly fine, but it will get progressively worse.

And I remembered all the other times we tried to squeeze by and avoid maintenance until it was more convenient.

So my question is: How are you currently pushing your luck?

Could be anything, big or small. Are you trying to taper off your ADs without medical guidance? Has that favorite shirt gotten a little too worn to wear? Can you really squeek through the rest of the season without cleaning those gutters? Is that manicure really good enough for the big meeting, or does it need touchup? Is that edit really final or could it use another go over?

Ugh. I just told my boss I didn't want to come in Saturday. I did not like the look on his face. He was not happy.

Ugh ugh ugh. I am going to do the work! I just don't have the spoons to do it from here, and it's 45 mins of work, tops, that he wants me to spend from 10-6 at the office for.

Team solidarity sucks. I get it, but it sucks.

How are you currently pushing your luck?

Living w/o a budget. I should get on that.

Ack, Lisa! That`s terrible.
 
And thanks, everyone, for the condolences. I had a good cry on the SO`s shoulder this morning (and Seabiscuit came fluttering around, wondering what was wrong) and feel at least functional about it. Part of the problem is that we didn`t know when it was happening, so we have no funeral to go to or search to participate in, you know? Not that it would have solved anything. The SO thinks I should just go to Wichita and spend some time with Mary, but I feel dubious about that. But we have begun to think about what we can do in Moses` memory with our org. So I`ll be grieving for a while, but it no longer feels like the blank sheer wall of terror that it was last night.

How are you currently pushing your luck?

Let me count the ways... how about posting here and elsewhere instead of prepping for a meeting with my boss that takes place in 2 hrs?

pushing luck

am taking mac to an overnight camp this weekend.

put off looking for a job for another week.

went off bc for at least a month.

How are you currently pushing your luck?

Regularly scheduling days that keep me AND the kids busy from 7 am to 7 pm.

Not scheduling the kids for full time aftercare? (Although the full time aftercare has its headaches too.)

Speaking of being overbooked, I yelled at my daughter this morning. Such a parental fail. Terrible way to start the school day. I am still feeling raw, and I'm sure she's having a rough day too.

pushing luck

Told my boss I had private health reasons for not coming into the office 6 days straight. Grr.

At least Republican infighting has gotten more amusing lately....

Conservatives Trash Karl Rove After He Insists O'Donnell Says 'Nutty Things'

With the battle won by the ultra-right in Delaware, the national conservative pundits who backed Christine O'Donnell in last night's GOP Senate primary have turned on a man who is presumably one of their own: Karl "The Architect" Rove. After Rove bemoaned O'Donnell's nomination as the end of the GOP's chances to take back the Senate in a heated interview with Sean Hannity last night, pundits and tea partiers have slammed him as a traitor and even called for Fox News to suspend him as an on-air analyst.

In one five-minute interview, it seems, Rove went from keeper of the conservative cause to the next Jane Hamsher in the eyes of those who are ostensibly his allies. It's a stunning turn against the man who has recast himself as a right-wing media darling since Bush left office, and suggests that the next war on the establishment from angry conservatives could be aimed in part at the man who for close to a decade was the progressive movement's enemy number one.

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Dan Riehl, a conservative who blogs at the site RiehlWorldView.com, went the farthest in his attacks on Rove, calling on Fox News to "suspend" him and "investigate" reports that he tried to tip the balance for Castle in behind-the-scenes meetings with tea partiers in Delaware last year.

"Especially given his comments on Fox News tonight, until this is resolved, it seems impossible to trust Rove as an objective analyst," Riehl wrote. "In terms of the conservative movement, we should not simply ignore him, but proactively work to undermine Rove in whatever ways we can, given his obvious willingness to undermine us."

I like the way he used "objective" to mean "agreeing with us."

This should be fun. Who's got the popcorn?

I'm scared, though. Because that means I agree with KR. Hell must have frozen over or something. Still(pops popcorn.Points and laughs)