I made the A team in roller derby and my league got into WFTDA--the Women's Flat Track Roller Derby Association.

Woo to the Hoo!!!

K has had a sore for 2 days at least. So she says, "should I go to urgent care?"

yes, I say, but she has 100 excuses -- trafficy to get there. They open at six. Long wait. She wants me to use our otoscope and check her ear (what! doesn't every mom want an otoscope? Magic for preverbal kids). I do. I tell her it looks red, but I am not a doc nor do I play one on TV.

She hems and haws and doesn't want to go. I mention the minute clinics (which are fuckall pricey). She agrees to that. $90 and $10 script later and she has antibios.

Of course, I also have cipro ear drops which would have been much cheaper and not required a trip to the minute clinic.

Or she could have gone to urgent care.

If someone found me on ancestry.com I'd feel myself pretty stalked on the internet, really.

Yikes, yeah.

On the other hand, I don't think it would be too creepy if someone sent me a facebook message asking if I might be related.

The main reason I don't sign up for Ancestry is I'm less than an hour from the main genealogical library of the LDS church and I can dig around in the records for myself. Also, I'm cheap. Also again, I don't like the way they're making money off of other people's labor. But their corporate headquarters are just down the hill from where I work. I am often tempted however, and if I come up with the energy to do enough work online to justify the cost, I may grit my teeth and sign up.

No one ever wonders if they're related to me. They either know for sure, or they can't work it out. My family's clear like that. Naming conventions are helpful.

If I had these sheets, I'd start having casual sex in my home, I swear. Can you imagine how cool that would be???

Too 'spensive.

Terrifying, ita. And not conducive (for me) for getting it on.

Batman sheets are not enough of a litmus test.

I forgot to claim something from my Jetta! My McGill license plate holder. I gotta get that replaced. Problem is, I'm tempted to get a Batman holder for the front.

Oh, I feel for both you and K. See: waiting 36 hours with a fucked cornea. And now I think the last round of antibiotics didn't kill off the ear infection completely. It's not going ballistic, it's just a constant itchy weirdness that is more than swim ear. And how long have I waited? And how much longer will I wait? At this point, I need to move beyond Target's clinics (only $30 for me plus $4 abs) and maybe even beyond Patient First style clinics to a GP. But that's an even longer wait. Feh.

I like those sheets in theory, but I think I'd get all disturbed when the dog napped on them during the day.

I get it. But if you are in pain and it means you can't sleep, FIX IT. Especially since we have health insurance.