lood. Everywhere, absolutely everywhere.  How's that to start your day?  After a few fairly peaceful months I've had another dramatic start to my period.  Oh, sure the day started fine, minor cramps, a little tried and achey but other than that I felt fine.  By lunch time, however,  my body apparently made the decision that it didn't particularly care for my emotional well being, or our shared physical well being.  From there things quickly spiraled out of control.
I got home and decided that I would skip lunch and have a light snack of Ibuprofen instead followed by a heating pad chaser.  I really thought that meds and a hour with the heating pad would make me feel better.  Instead the cramps began to really intensify  and I began to get trembly.  I actually had to call work and tell them I couldn't come back.  So that was my Monday, 5 hours at work, the next 6 in extreme pain, followed by another 10 in general discomfort.

Anyway, isn't the drop cap great?  Found it at Daily Drop Cap.

Panda Mushroom Cloud! Yay!

My home computer, the pitiful PC,  has betrayed me and stopped working.   I'm too distraught to be witty, so just watch the cartoon below.

While you're at it, enjoy these images too,

Images and video via Mari-chan 

Since I still haven't heard anything my raise...

That's not true, I got a "we work something out" last week.  But since then I haven't heard anything, not has the bookkeeper, which means no research has been done as the raise.  So, in my passive aggressive way I am rebelling.  By working on notecard invites to send to friends for all the fabulous future parties that we'll be hosting.
Here are the two I did yesterday;

I think they would look cute printed on small index cards with a "hand drawn" map on the back.  And the usual info, time, date place, etc. of course.

Going to the subject, the cause of my angst, the raise, it looks like I have to bring it up once again.  Motherfuckinsonofbitch.  Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased that I've been so ballsy about the whole thing and that I'm willing to pursue something that I want.  But no real progress has been made other than acknowledgement and the "promise" that something with be "worked out", whatever that means...

*le sigh*

Another book to add to my wish list

Best possible coffee table book evea, Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930

It's only $30 on Amazon, and wait until I have something celebrate, then I'll get it.  Top image from NPR, lower image found on Amazon.  

Just because it makes me smile

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