January 2006

Yesterday was my flex day. This month I started a new work schedule whereby I work one normal week, and then one wonky week with four ten hour days and Tuesday off. The theory being that I can schedule all of my doctor’s appointments for those Tuesdays, in order to avoid using my vacation time [...]

Good news first: my clotting tests came back normal. Dr. Doctor is not sure what happened, her best guess being that some sort of “dilutant” accidentally made it’s way into my first blood sample. On the message, Dr. Doctor invited me to call her with questions, and chirpily asserted that she’d “see me in a [...]

Thankful salutations to those who have commented in honor of de-lurking week–I simply adore getting comments. Perhaps it will get old, eventually, and I will merely dismiss them with a languid wave of my manicured hand before rising from my desk to ring a tiny bell alerting my kitchen staff that I am in the [...]

Because it has occurred to me that not all of you share my deep and abiding love for test results, today I offer you two separate posts. We here at Flotsam aim to please, and so allow me to present Door #1—a post about sundry non-reproductive topics, and Door #2—a post devoted entirely to yesterday’s [...]

It is three whole days into 2006 and I have made nary a resolution. I have so much I would like to do and so little confidence that I will accomplish any of it—it is enough to make a girl take up drinking (if she hadn’t already) looking at the year laid out ahead like [...]