Questions I never answered

1. Friends

Do you have lots of friends, or just a few good ones? What makes someone a good friend for you? 

I guess I have a lot of close aquaintances, but not many true close friends. A good friend is someone who will help you in a time of need and likes to do things with you.

2. Sex

Was your 'first time' a good experience? 

(I probably shouldn't type this at work <g>). Yes, it was. It was freshman year in college. And in a weird quirk it was on my parents 20th anniversary (not that they knew). Long lost touch with him though,

3. Music

Who was the first band/singer you completely loved? 

My Long Island roots are showing - I'd say Billy Joel. But I've never seen him in concert. I was supposed to the April before Alan was born, but he cancelled and rescheduled till October too close to my due date. He's doing about a zillion concerts at Madison Square Garden in NYC this spring but that's hard for me to go to at night and get home late. I'd prefer he play the Meadowlands (10 minutes from my house), but I guess he's skipping that arena and leaving them for Bruce Springsteen or Bon Jovi (NJ natives). No, I've never seen them either.
4. Drugs

What medications are you taking now? How's your health, in general? 
Medicine: Levoxyl (thyroid), Advair (asthma), Restasis (dry eye), Zoloft (depression), Xanax XR (anxiety) and Zytrec or Actifed for allergies.
My health is ok, I think all the thyroid cancer is gone (either surgically or nuked). There is one little spot that I think they are watching, but it is very tiny. I kind of think of it as a chronic condition, unlike most cancers. Using my Advair more regularly has helped with breathing - I can read to Alan for longer periods of time. But I've gained a lot of weight lately, probably from overeating. I do think my triglicerides were high at my last blood test, but blood pressure is ok. (Actually if you ran bloodwork on me, my TSH would be consided abnormal, but it is kept that way to prevent the thyroid (good or bad) from growing back.)

5. Love

If you could give advice to someone who has never found love, from your experience, what would that be? 

Well, if they are looking for it, I would advise do not do anything you don't like just to meet people. That doesn't work. (I remember going to Jewish singles volleyball and not having a good time, while there are other singles events where I didn't meet anyone but would do again (Delaware River Tubing was one of them).
 
6. LiveJournal

I'll repeat a question I was asked: have you ever seriously thought about leaving LJ? Why did you, and why did you decide to stay (a decision we're all very glad for!)? 

No, I've never thought about leaving entirely. I'm a low drama person - I've cut a few people here and there and been befriended by others for their own reasons. I've left a few communities I've outgrown (pregnancy, breast feeding) but usually just skim things I don't care for.

 I am even on cat lists I joined nearly a decade ago when I had my 2 cats, I just can't seem to admit I won't have one anytime soon.

Daily Rambles

Got not good news about an extended family member last night. My uncles SO may have had a breast cancer recurrance. She's had a tough life - raising 5 children alone, 2 ex's and previous health issues as well as a bad time working for USA Today at one point. But all of her children are reallly nice (we've met them) and her family is close knit. She lost a sister last year and a grandaughter had scarlet fever last year, so maybe stress aggrivated things.

Mark, Alan, myself and my MIL had been invited to a 70th birthday party (surprise) for her. (My SIL doesn't have much to do with her uncle, disagreements over the years). But it was at 4 PM on a Saturday in Mass where her daughter lives (She's in CT, most of her family in the Worcester area - except her son in Florida, we are probably otherwise the furthest away) - anyway we weren't going due to distance. But now I feel we either need to go or at least visit soon. We'll have to see what happens. And for those who say prayers, do say a prayer for Elaine.

They are shutting the water off in the condo for the 3rd time tommorrow to fix the pool valve. So I bugged the super, it should be finished tommorrow though. I guess I'd rather have 3 planned outages to replace a 40 year old valve than a pool leak!

My MIL picked up my microwave yesterday and dropped it off. Now we are back in contemporary times.

I'm going to bring Alan to the doctor Saturday. His scrapes on his forehead have left ugly red marks. Maybe I didn't take care of them well and they'd gotten infected. I figure if the pediatrician isn't the right person to see for badly healed wounds, they'd refer me to the right person. (I don't need a referal for insurance purposes though.)

Speaking of insurance, the company insurance as usual s*cks. We were supposed to get our FSA's reimbursed by direct deposit starting March 1. So I rushed to drop off a blank check and now noone knows when that will happen so they will send checks. We are self insured (I'm ok with that), but use a third-party-adminstrator to handle claims. I wish I knew what other companies did this and have some brochures or reps sent to HR. We could do so much better. (The coverage is good, but the management of it s*cks...never did resolve trying to get them to cover Sloan Kettering as a special case out of network.)

Should go sneak out for my free starbucks coffee today - it's between 10 and 12 (I bet it is there slowest time.)

Lunacon!

http://www.lunacon.org/lunacon2006/

I had no idea this was about 1 exit down on Rt 80 from me this year.

I'm trying to see what's scheduled etc, but the site links DON'T work...wanted to see childcare/childrens programing or just the schedule.

This is actually closer than the Chiller Theatre shows in the Meadowlands!