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[mrissa]

- We don't have a dial tone on the landline again, and my cell reception is breaking up in the rain. So if you have something of vital interest to share with me, please do not use the telephone to convey it. Does this make me happy? Oh, just guess how happy.

+ It's raining. It's fall, and it's chilly, and it's raining.

- October does not look like it's going to be my best month ever, which is too bad, because usually October is my very favorite month. But the extraction of my two remaining wisdom teeth has been pushed off to October, and I'll be having a procedure to deal with the vertigo that will leave me barred from such important activities as driving, exercise, lying down, and bending over for a couple of days. "Tying one's shoes" was listed as the kind of activity one would be required to avoid. Also there will be more routine sorts of annual medical things for me, and I'll be taking timprov to a couple of relevant specialists. So on the days when we have nothing medical whatsoever scheduled for anyone, I will want to smell leaves and walk around lakes and so on. Bake apples! Roast squash! Etc.!

+ Sampo is actually behaving itself moderately well for the second day in a row. Nice book. *petpet*

- My positive stuff is taking up less space on the lj than my negative stuff, making me proportionately grumpier-looking.

+ The positive stuff is taking up more space in my head, so that's far preferable.

+/-?

Comments

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

- Sucks to actually have a procedure but +++++ if this can actually stop the vertigo in its wavy little tracks for good.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

And the procedure doesn't involve cutting me open or drugging me or poking me with sharp objects. So as procedures go, it really seems like it could be worse. Also my parents will be helping with puppysitting, so that's a big load off my mind on that front.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

No cutting open, drugging, or poking with sharp objects? Sounds like you've hit the procedure jackpot! Now I'm just hoping it actually works like it's supposed to: A vertigo-free Mris would be +++++++++. :-)

[brooksmoses]

+ There are other people in the world besides me for whom "it's raining" goes in the plus column.

+ The bare mention of the rain was sufficient to give me an emotional sense of it that notably improved my sense of feeling centered.

- I needed that.

- I miss real rain. And real autumn.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I did, too, in your place.

[jebbypal]

Seems like this isn't the first time you've had phone trouble on your landline (or I'm hallucinating, either is possible). Does it generally happen when it rains? If so, you can add to your yells at the company that it's probably due to water getting into the line (daughter of an old phone company repairman and I remember this being a very bad issue). Probably squirrels have chewed through a section or something.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We have indeed had phone troubles before recently, which is why we're in the middle of switching service providers.

[jebbypal]

if this is the landline that is causing you to switch and there's something wrong with the line itself or the router box, changing service providers won't help. And the only provider that does "repair" is the actual phone company that owns the lines (ie the baby bell in your area).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your input, but one of the providers routes through the cable and cable modem and the other through a traditional phone line, so we're not actually dealing with the same wiring.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

If it's cold, I have to get from here to somewhere else, I don't have an umbrella and/or I wore my nicer shoes, rain sometimes is a negative. But even in May and June (when I think we got 30 days of rain) I still liked the rain. I just like it better those days when I'm inside and not out. And oh, how lovely it sounds on our roof.

Also, you clearly will have to invest in slip-on shoes between now and the procedure, which has the potential of being a +.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I own clogs. I own ballet flats. And more to the point, I am a good deal more flexible than they seem to think: I can tie my stompy boots without letting my head deviate from the vertical even slightly. So it's not the specific tying of shoes thing that's the problem, it's that even that brief a bit of bending over is on the forbidden list.

[orbitalmechanic.livejournal.com]

+ October!!!!

[intrepida.livejournal.com]

- I'm starving!
+ I'm heading to a friend's place for a big Italian dinner, and The Godfather part 1.
++ I made tiramisu!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Tiramisu ++++++!

[ellarien]

+ Gorgeous Tucson fall weather, a little ahead of schedule
- Horrible jet-lag
+ I don't have to go anywhere until November, and then it's only Boulder, CO, which hardly counts.
- I seem to be running out of bookshelf space again.
+ Lots of good books waiting to be read.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

+ Hockey season starts soon (and preseason play has already started)

+ The rain is really rather quite nice, especially in conjunction with the coolness.

- I have to work tomorrow (to make up 3.5 hours I had to take off yesterday to comfort Logan when he wasn't feeling well)

+ After taking both boys to the doctor today, Dylan has nothing worse than his usual low-level chronic sinus infection and Logan just has a cold (which he's apparently recovering from nicely)

- Angel's job is really throwing a monkey wrench into our usual routines.

+ At least Angel and I are both currently employed.

- I haven't written at all this week, and consequently have been beating myself up because I've got to write six game reviews and 2/3 of an article on chess variants by the end of next month.

+ The process of getting Dylan assessed and set up with special services and registered in a Minneapolis school is proceeding, albeit rather more slowly than we would have preferred.

So unless I'm miscounting here (I'm tired and I really need to get to bed), that adds up to ++, so I suppose I'm okay.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

+++++Hockey!

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Oooh, are ya gettin' one of those nifty maneuvers? Our physical therapist does those (Epley, Hallpike, etc.) for some of our vertigo patients. My understanding is that they're not fun, but they can work like a charm. Best of luck to you. But why wait til October?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That's when they could schedule me/wanted to schedule me.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Hm, I can't imagine making our patients wait that long. But I realize it's entirely possible that yours is a different situation from those I'm familiar with. I trust Dr. porphyrin is watching out for you, and I defer to her in all medical wisdom.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

They're doing it in conjunction with a series of fairly specific tests, so they wanted to wait a particular interval since the last time they did those tests, and also that staff member apparently has a busy schedule.

And I really don't know who else would specialize in vertigo, so going off to a different office as a new patient has limited appeal.

[careswen.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. I'm very glad and hopeful for you.

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

+ engaged! (the good news i mentioned earlier)

- the giants are eliminated from postseason.

+ pretty weather

- fog.

+ i wrote a good short story.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

You know, there are other teams you could cheer for in your Giants' absence....

[reveritas.livejournal.com]

thank you!

i have a very close friend, and many acquaintances, in minnesota ... so the twinkies are definitely up there in my top two or three. i can't decide whether i hate the a's or want them to win, or whether i can really get behind the mets.