Aw, sorry to hear that :-\ ... Need me to give her a swift kick in the lady-nuts? Hopefully there were some good times other than that...
It's been stressful. Got a call about my blood test from yesterday, and the results could have been better. Other than that... pizza \o/

Thanks for the picture!

Good evening. =)

Very frigging tired, but not bad otherwise. Glad you had a good time at the pyromania festival. ;)

lady-nuts ? :-D heehee !!! yes, please !!
Oh... Sorry about your blood test results... :-( ... of course pizza sounds good, but if you need to talk, you know where my PM is... **big comforting hug**

You're welcome :)
Just noticed the weird combination of a burning tree and a EUR-pallet ;)

I ended up doing the same thing. Now I've got 215 in that folder and another 37 still on the desktop.

Hello Crow :)

Sorry to hear that you're tired - that's not right as your neither European nor Agent :p
Thank you - but festival is a bit exaggerated ;)
o_O....sorry to hear about your blood results...bad blood ^^ *big hug* :)

I liked the addition of the tree! Good idea. Usually large bonfires here are stacks of pallets too. Some can get... pretty big if enough of those things get piled up.

It's okay. Haven't slept well in about a week, if at all. Fatigue is inevitable.

Festival sounds more grand. A pyromania party just sounds like people burning down sheds for fun.

**puts on my kicking boots** ):-| ... **and grabs an anatomy textbook**
Merci... I appreciate that very much **extra-big thank you hug** ... Actually, I might take you up on that. You're pretty smart about medical stuff. Maybe you could help put my mind at ease a bit?
*thank you hug, and rips that earring out of your ear* >;-)

I have a two-year technical degree in "biochemical and biological analysis", so, eh, why not :)
(but i'm not a doctor anyway !!)
**big silly scientist hug**... don't worry !

Well my friend who organises the fire always collects every christmas tree he could get after christmas ;)
The burn pretty good :)

So despite the boring insomnia you fully embraced the idea of insomnia? o_O
;)

Well it was something like that in the end :p

Ouch >.<....always forget that Corto wears an earring ;)
*big you're welcome hug* :)

Better than my "failed Health Science 3 times" :-)
**PM hug**

Just had to stop in to let off some stress. What follows is sort of long and personal.

Some of you know that my grandparents raised me; my grandfather had a stroke last November. It was pretty severe, but he recovered almost completely - up into the 90+ percent, which is amazing. He even got his driver's license back this Tuesday. He's still pretty easily fatigued and weaker on his right side.

Today, he went outside to start the riding lawn mower and pick up pine cones and such off the lawn before mowing. After he'd been outside for about ten minutes without hearing anything, my aunt went out check on him and found him sitting at the bench in the shop, unable to stand up. Apparently, the lawn mower had a flat tire that he wanted to inflate with the air compressor, but came over weak. He had almost no voice at all. When I went out a few minutes later, it looked like possible heat stroke/over-exertion - pale, sweaty, etc. - but when we called 911 because we couldn't move him, he ended up with a super-low blood pressure of 74/42, so went to hospital. Right now, doctors are testing to see if he had another stroke and they're looking at the possibility that he may need a pacemaker.

He's 85. The initial stroke was terrifying, but now I'm having to face a very real possibility that we'll be losing him a piece at a time over the next few months to years.

I'm not at the ER with my aunt and grandmother because I'm newly recovering from illness myself, as well as being someone that freaks out at hospitals. Instead, I'm home alone and trying not to freak out at this line of thought.

I just turned 40 last weekend, so having my grandparents still around is a blessing. I'm just not ready to look at the possibility of not having either of them anymore.

Thanks for 'listening,' all.

Eh, it's more like embracing the idea of being tired whether I sleep or not. I'm not sitting here actively sale watching. That ship sailed, caught fire, burned and sank after the first 6 hours.