I really wish people would stop posting pictures of mineral-ed up pipes as evidence in the Flint water disaster. That's not showing what you think it is. That's fairly normal. The problem lies in what you cannot see. Mine are so.much.worse and my water is fine.

If they help, it's gout, and if not, he's had delicious cherries, win-win.

That's totally my approach to natural "cures".

Good luck, Dana! With dealing with all the side issues as well as the interview.

I think you might need the Elder Backslash for cheerleader arms. And an apostrophe.

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Good luck, Dana! "An appointment" seems fine to me -- I do try to make a point of being vague about doctor's appointments, too, so it's not glaringly obviously when I DON'T come back in talking about my pap smear (not that I would talk about my pap smear at work!) (except with a few people I'm socially close to.)

I make myself laugh sometimes -- I don't know if I got some kind of discount for setting up reminders at ProFlowers, but I set one up for Valentine's Day for "ME!!!!" so I keep getting emails from them reminding me to order flowers for "ME!!!!" Hee.

That's great, Jesse!

Oh, yeah, I am purposefully vague about appointments. Partially because sometimes they are for getting my hair cut. Nobody needs to know who the appointment is with, I figure.

The dressing for an interview finesse is trickier.

What stops me from buying myself flowers is that my cats will absolutely chew on them, and I'm never sure which flowers are poisonous to cats. I need a handy little list of indoor plants toxic to cats to carry in my purse.

I also need to find the quakehold putty so I can put a vase out. I never had problems with cats knocking things off until Murray joined the family. He's polite but he's unconcerned about what his tail takes out as he passes.

What stops me from buying myself flowers is that my cats will absolutely chew on them, and I'm never sure which flowers are poisonous to cats. I need a handy little list of indoor plants toxic to cats to carry in my purse.

I think the internet will tell you that everything is poison to cats. And yet, they seem eat everything and still live.

My coworker told me that you aren't supposed to feed pork to cats at all. That was a new one to me. (But my cats have all LOVED bacon.)

My boss gets a call about something. He leaves the room with the two people who are responsible for said thing and comes in my office to have me pull it up on my computer. I clearly state, not my thing, but pull it up for him. He keeps going back and forth to them and me talking about it/asking questions. Finally he is standing in my doorway asking if one way is the right way to do a task regarding it moving forward, staring right at me. So I ask, "why are you asking me?".

Jesusita learn the tasks you assigned to your employees.

I think the internet will tell you that everything is poison to cats.

According to the internet, everything is. Seriously, the list I found is a mile long. I'm afraid to buy anything but a spider plant, and the spider plant ruined a table and took over half the dining room before I exorcised it.

I can confirm no ill effects to the cats from destroying my snapdragons, although if they'd spread just a little more potting soil around the living room I might have evicted them.

Here you go, Zen [link]

From the ASPCA, I trust them. You will have to laminate yourself. Here's the source, btw [link] I just skipped past the long list of toxic plants.

Good departmental meeting just now. My coworkers gave me warm fuzzies. We have an employee of the month type thing for Operations, and a bunch of people said that they have nominated me for it and will again which was so sweet. Not gonna lie, I do not always feel appreciated by the company, but by my coworkers, yes.