Hi, all. Sunwarmed purring kitties are indeed the best. I got a gorgeous photo of Emily sunning herself in the bedroom window earlier today; I’ll post it in Monday’s MMP just because I can. 
Yay on getting sprung, Rigs! I was jealous of your hospital food, though. Ours was indescribably awful. Take the worst hospital food you can imagine, then multiply it by a factor of 10, let it sit out till it’s cold, and make sure it’s all swimming in water from being so hideously overcooked that all the moisture got squeezed out of it. Yuck, yuck, and yuck. But being home is SO much better, isn’t it? Especially when all you have to do is lie around and get well for a week!
I’ve been silent the last 24 hours because I’ve been struggling to get through a really frustrating transcript. It’s far too easy to let myself get distracted by visiting with you nice people. We did take a break this afternoon to run around in the car with the pups, though; we drove down to a little beach community about 10 minutes south of here and wandered through the streets trying to figure out how much the houses cost. The nice one on the corner lot overlooking an open expanse of water? Easily seven figures. The huge brick home set back 1/4 mile from the road with the back property line being all water frontage, looking for all the world like someone took a Stately Home from Ye Olde Country and plopped it down in Merrylande? Easily high seven figures, maybe eight. Yeah, just what we need. All it would take is a lottery win.
Velcro is the bestest ever, FCM. I recommend you figure out a way to use it; all it means is overlapping your two edges instead of sewing them together. You can buy sew-on Velcro for in 3-foot hanks at Joanne’s for 99¢ on a routine basis. Don’t get sticky-backed or it’ll gunk up your sewing machine, though. And people say the space program was a waste of money! Anything that gives us Velcro and electronic miniaturization is A-OK in my book!
I’ve been annoyingly uncomfortable My bad foot (left foot – it was my right knee that got replaced, destroyed in the last few years from limping due to all the problems from my left foot) has been driving me NUTS today, all tingly and nasty; it feels like the nerves are on fire. I take medication (gabapentin) nd use Lidoderm (lidocaine patches) on it regularly to quiet it down, but today it has felt absolutely awful. The only thing that would really quiet it down is to take a hefty dose of Happy Pills, but I can’t do that and expect my brain to function coherently. Phooey. So I’m sitting here with extra Lidoderm stuck on all over it, wishing it would just quiet the hell down already!
Anyway, back to the salt mines. I will not allow myself to go to bed tonight until I have finished this one aggravating job, even if it kills me! (If it does, you guys will have to find a substitute MMPer – I know, Alice could do it, telling you all about my funeral! )
(Unless it hits you in the pocket somehow?)
I am consoling myself with DD® iced vanilla coffee and Goldfish® crackers. Not at all the same.