Can't have cheese. Will settle for whine.

[mrissa]

Oh, my dears, I am not doing well. I am going to have cereal for dinner because I'm pretty sure I can eat cereal. This had better go away VERY VERY SOON, because I have hopes of lunch and plans of dinner tomorrow. I'm not absolutely sure that the allergy meds are involved, but the timing is pretty suspect, and one of the problems, without being too graphic, seems related. I have an ENT appointment for Tuesday. I hope for the best. I don't know what the best is here, but I hope for it. I'm having difficulty keeping my body temperature regulated again. My mom asked if the blanket on the couch was the dog's blanket, and I had to tell her no, it was mine. She made momly faces at me.

Today has had some good moments, but it is not the best that ever a day has been, and the smiting has not progressed as quickly as one might like.

I am so tired of this.

Tell me something good, please?

Comments

[zalena.livejournal.com]

Q: What did the grape say when the elephant sat on it?

A: Nothing, it just let out a little wine.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Elephant jokes are so much better than peeled baby jokes. (When the Crowd in college got to telling elephant jokes at the dinner table, I stayed and giggled and groaned. When they started peeled baby jokes, I left.)

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[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

What's the funniest joke that doesn't involve making fun of someone? (http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/34705)

Figure there's /something/ in there to laugh at.

Also, I saw Scylla today! Spring! Whee!

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[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Some of the posters in that thread didn't seem to get the "not offensive to anybody" thing, but yes, there was funny stuff. Thanks.

What season is it if you see Charybdis?

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[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it kind of degenerated. But the /idea/ was good.

Presumably, Charybdis appears in the fall. (It did occur to me that it was possibly not bright of me to be going "Yay! Spring!" when spring is not, in fact, one of your favorite seasons. Sorry about that.)

[zalena.livejournal.com]

I have never heard a peeled baby joke and I don't think I want to.

We published an interesting book on humor which traces the coincidence of humor with cultural moments. There are whole chapters on elephant and "dead baby" jokes. (The entrance of the dead baby joke apparently culturally coincided with Roe v. Wade.)

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

It was sunny! With crocus and daffodils and while I was reading a trashy novel on the couch in the afternoon, children came by outside and yelled with excitement about the flowers. AND! Their caretaker told them to look and not run around in the garden! My faith in humanity is high.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

And not only that, you can go outside without boots and a heavy winter coat! There are buds swelling on trees!

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Um. I'm mostly recovered from the creeping crud, and I'm mostly done with Disgaea (for the third time)?

Sorry. There's not much news at all from Alec-land this week.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

Do you know caddisflies? The larvae make shells of sand, picking each grain and inserting it perfectly into the growing structure. It's lovely with plain sand.
This guy, I don't know his name, gave them gold flake and beads, pearly bits, instead. The shells are beautiful and fit together very well. Go arthropods!

[redbird]

An eight-year-old stranger came over to me in the supermarket to tell me that she liked my purple hair.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

The crocuses out by the mailbox have gone, in the last two days, from anonymous little green things to purple! flowers.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Our chives have grown two inches in two days. I'm not sure we even like chives that much, really. I'm not sure we'd have replanted them. On the other hand, they grow reliably all season, and one can always just leave them out there if one doesn't want them on potatoes etc.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

We have some strong purple crocuses, and some up-and-coming yellow and white ones too. (They're not in a place that gets as much sun). Yay spring!

[ravenelectrick.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's the 25th anniversary of the movie 9 to 5. Does the news get any better than that? ;-)

Feel better!

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

When I drove home from work today, there were narcissus and snowdrops blooming in all kinds of odd places. Every once in a while I'd see splashes of color under trees or nestled up against the edge of a rock wall, and it would be another cluster of flowers blooming for all they are worth.

Not just the big yellow trumpet daffodils either, but the small paperwhites, and the narcissus that are white and bright, bright orange.

And when I work up this morning, the meadowlarks and the red-wing blackbirds were back from the place they hide for the winter, singing and calling and filling the air with song.

Best of all? You have people who love you.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Best of all? You have people who love you.

I do. And it is best, and I don't forget it.

[beth-bernobich.livejournal.com]

Message from Moose-the-Kitten:

It's Spring!

It's Kitten Weather!

It's time to leap and pounce and chase bugs!

And eat them!

OMG, I need a nap Right Now.

*purr*

[ellarien]

Here, we have hedgehog cactus flowers. I saw that splash of brilliant purple-pink on my way back from lunch, and my heart lifted.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you don't feel good. Hugs and prayers.

Good things...let's see. I had *two* naps today. And yesterday Erica sent me this joke that I thought was funny:

Toward the end of the service, the Minister asked, "How many of you have forgiven your enemies?" 80% held up their hands.

The Minister then repeated his question. All responded this time,
except one small elderly lady.

"Mrs. Jones? Are you not willing to forgive your enemies?"

"I don't have any," she replied, smiling sweetly.

"Mrs. Jones, that is very unusual. How old are you, again?"

"Ninety-eight," she replied.

"That's amazing! Would you please come down in front and tell us all
how a person can live ninety-eight years & not have an enemy in the
world?"

The little sweetheart of a lady tottered down the aisle, faced the
congregation, and said:

"I outlived the bitches."

There are a couple of little old ladies in my book group that I could see doing that. And if I were preaching, I could see myself walking into exactly that kind of exchange. Hee.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah. It may be indicative of my relationship with my old ladies that the punchline was much nicer than I expected (replace "outlived" with "knifed").

This is not intended as a criticism of my old ladies in any way.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

I did the same thing, and I don't have many old ladies to hang around with.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Good thing: my parents are here for a visit!

Other good thing: a friend of mine appears to have stolen your baby arrival voodoo and had her kiddo today.

Hoping for the best for you.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

my dogs are rumpusing upstairs. rumpus rumpus rumpus.

also? minicon in two weeks.

[miz-hatbox.livejournal.com]

Good things? Well, let's see:
The weather continues warm and not-too-rainy.
Some very close friends of ours are back from visiting relatives. We missed them, so we're glad they're home.
I borrowed Mirth's conditioner today (mine wasn't working well) and no longer looked like a Medusa impersonator.

aaaaaaand I found five dollars. :-)

I hope you feel better soon.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I told a found-five-dollars related story yesterday. It was satisfying.

[ckd]

My PDA came back from the repair shop and now (a) the digitizer doesn't get uncalibrated at random and (b) it now likes the buildingwide Wi-Fi at work. Also they are giving me fun challenges again.

[talimena.livejournal.com]

It's been unseasonably warm and the crocuses are blooming. And our new cat and old cat are almost playing together.

I hope you feel better soon.

[pariyal.livejournal.com]

I've cleaned the kitchen cupboards and found some yummy saffron sugar that I didn't know I had.