How do you like the new template? The original version of this was prettier but for reasons I haven't quite been able to establish, I couldn't make it work in Blogger, so this stripped-down version is what you're getting. Thanks to M for finding it for me anyhow.

Health update: Better. Much better.

Following the old adage of, "You get what you pay for," what I got from the $24/20 pills medication wasn't much.

But the new meds, which clocked in at $127/20 pills are working like a charm. I've even had intervals over the last 24 hours when I was able to hear things in both ears. Pretty exciting stuff.

All was well in hand getting ready for this week's Familial Vacation until I lost my billfold on Saturday.

Monday morning, after one final round of phone calls back to all of the places I'd visited on Saturday, I gave up and cancelled my credit cards and bank card and this morning I went down and got a new driver's license.

Now tonight I have to just do laundry and stuff some things in a suitcase and I'm all ready for gulp Mom's arrival tomorrow evening.

I love my Mother. I do.

It's not all been horrible, though. The woman behind the desk at the Motor Vehicle Department asked if all of my information was the same, including my reported weight of cough130 lbscough and when I dithered, she said, "Oh, you're skinny" and put down 130.

Hee. Hee.

It's far from being a true number, but it gave my morning a little lift anyhow. (It's not a case of dishonesty in government employees. Honestly. She couldn't see anything but my shoulders and head over the edge of the counter and I'm willing to believe I looked around 130 from that perspective.)

Hey, I've been sick. I'm entitled to a few polite lies. "You're skinny." "No, your hair doesn't look like a bird's nest today." "Hey, that's a great driver's license photo!" "No, of course I can't see the gray." "Wrinkles? What wrinkles?"

In other news.... Well, there is no other news.

I have read no fanfiction and have strenuously avoided the efforts of A Certain Person to get me to go and look at various train wrecks that have been posted.

I'm still watching the same television shows (The West Wing, CSI, Firefly, and Monk) and enjoying all of them in a non-fannish way. I would have been very grateful for a new fannish obsession this fall, but I guess I should settle for being happy that one new show (Firefly) debuted that proved to be worth watching.

I'm a boring person when I'm not being bitchy, aren't I?