I’ve been fever free for a couple of days, but everything has been sooooo busy. Not sure how much of the couple hundred posts I’ll get through, but I’m willing to give it a game try!
Yowch! This has been a year for expensive car issues. It cost $8000 for the transmission in my van. I had to get the emissions system done in our car which costs $1200. MFN found out that the rear main seal in the truck he bought a couple weeks ago is going and will cost $1200. Everything is getting too expensive anymore. Here’s hoping you’ll get yours taken care of with the cost being the only pain!
I think I’ve only read the first two. I should give them a try again since it’s probably been 30 years since I’ve read even those.
ooops, yay for better Bailey!
Oh, I know some 70 year old cis-males that can flounce with the best of 'em. Of course, now I have visions refusing to leave my brain, but sometimes that just can’t be helped!
{{{JtC}}}. I’m so sorry for the loss of your biker friend.
wheelie , great job with Murphy!
Taters, yay for long weekends!
Sensei, no one, and I mean NO ONE can be post and whiny like a 14 year old girl. I’ve been apologizing to my folks about being such a brat for the last 20 years! Nice pic, btw!
I feel like that with almost every truck I try to get into. Curse my short little legs!
doggio, you have all over the place dreams like I do. I’m glad I’m not the only one! 
My aunt and uncle wanted to name their eldest son Aaron Scott. It would have made his initials ASS. They kept the name, changed the spelling to Earron. Sometimes thinking out of the box works! 
Though, because I was a sheltered child in a small town, I thought that the only way to spell the name was Earron. I got into a lot of arguments.
I’m not sure if I think this is ingenious or lazy. Or both.
It’s great having a governor like that. I wish I could say the same but… Tennessee. Hope you did get a chance to meet and shake the hand of said individual.
I am so glad that I’m not the only one who went there!
I am so, so sorry.
Bumba, yay on house purchasing! It sounds like an adorable house!
Quietly , I love that sentiment about students coming back to take care of their teachers. Especially since a good teacher can make all the difference in the life of a student.
wordy, I’m steaming for her. You’re right, it isnt the way this is supposed to work. More and more, I worry about the world my kids are entering into. Not that I have to worry about miscarries or ectopic pregnancies for either of mine, but I have a lot of child- bearing age friends that don’t deserve to be raised in this fear. My only hope is that the next generation continues the fight and get us back to sanity.
I’m with you, shoe. I’m trying to get caught up, but I know I missed things. I hope you keep feeling better. 
So that should have me (relatively) caught up on what y’all have been up to. Me? Well, the fever lasted through okay of the day Wednesday. I still haven’t really regained my appetite, but with all the extra poundage, that’s not necessarily bad. Wednesday night I took CtE to therapy and stopped by the library to pick up my holds. CtE came out of therapy with a lot of tears. They’re having a really rough time wrapping their brain around the future, and it kinda scares me. I’m thinking that we may need to try partial inpatient again, or possibly even full inpatient. They don’t seem to find joy in much of anything and I hate seeing them like this. I’m just not sure what more to do.
Thursday morning, they had an appointment with the PA that watches over their meds. It was a good appointment, or so I was told. They also didn’t fight me about going to school right after. If cleared my calendar up a bit, in the hopes that MFN would get the money he’s waiting on to fix his truck, but no luck. So instead I got all the sick person sheets off the bed and did a few more around the house things.
I also got a call from one of BtY’s teachers asking if I’d chaperone the 8th grade formal after the ascension (read: graduation) ceremony. Of course I said yes, because that’s the kind of parent I am. But it also means that BtY will be going to his 8th grade formal, whether he likes it or not. I just hope he’ll let me get him gussied up enough to show off that he’s more than hair and a Dr Eggman hoodie.
Today I had the 2nd/first part of the incontinence studies in doing. I’m REALLY wishing I didn’t have to ever drink Gatorade again, but I have the second party of that study the same days as BtY’s ascension ceremony. At least thanks to these two studies, I’ll be making $400. She also had me do a quick survey that netted me a $20 Target gift card. And she had a friend that had another study that will earn me $50. All just for filling my bladder. A lot. The woman and I doing the study get along great and spend much of our time chatting away about everything. Both of us are the “make friends with anyone” sort of people. We may try to meet on campus for lunch once in awhile.
As for this weekend, tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day so I know we’ll be hitting a few places for that, including my branch of the library. We’re also planning on going out to lunch at a place we visited when CtE was a babe and BtY wasn’t even a twinkle. They’re closing after 50-odd years, I believe. So we want to go one last time before they close. Tomorrow night, I’m supposed to go to a spoken word event. Not sure if I’m going to read any of my poetry, but I’m hoping to check it out. And Sunday, we’ve got a get together for one of our geeky meet up groups. It should be a good weekend all the way around.
Now I’m going to curl up on the bed and talk Hubby into watching a show or something. Have a great nightdayafternoon, all!
I did a load of laundry. Spot knocked his bowl off the kitchen table, and spend 2 minutes alternating between looking down at the bowl at the floor, and mewing pitifully at me, before I stopped laughing and cleaned it up for him. I did take a walk in the park up the road. Spent 20 minutes dodging disc golf discs, but no sign of Darci. 
