The assumptions people make...

I'm sending a birthday gift to a 3-year-old. I told her dad that it was coming and it won't have my name on it because it's from Amazon but he'll know it's from me. (It's the Eric Carle Seahorse book.)

His reply was "No butt molds!"

Yeah, totally something I would do.

For a toddler.

This is the same dad who is pretty sure his daughter picked up the idea of rubbing pineapples on her armpit (and calling it her "crotch") from me.

Also totally something I would do.

Apparently :)

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It's normally my day off, but our office is always super busy right after a holiday weekend, so I came in today to pick up some more hours and preempt the giant pile of stuff I'd otherwise have in my inbox tomorrow. I was going to just do half a day here, but we were so busy I just stayed. It's finally quiet now in the last half hour of our day, though a new claim did just come through our email.

I'm feeling okay. Not too much pain, but definitely still constant pain. That sucks, but I'm hopeful it'll go away soon. On the advice of my coworkers, I'm going to see my GP today. Basically if you have a medical claim and you don't start treatment immediately, the other insurance's adjusters will use that against you. So this is more of a cover-my-ass kind of appointment, so that if I do have more problems in the future, I have a paper trail or whatever. And I want to check with my doctor about what kind of exercise they think is okay. I definitely want to keep working out, but I don't want to make anything worse. I'll get referrals for chiro and PT today, too, just in case.

I'm hopeful I'll be able to go running again by this weekend, but I'm not going to be an idiot about it. As of right now, I have a hiking date with my friend Paul on Saturday. About six weeks from now will be the best time for hiking in Oregon...I'm not in any hurry to leave summer behind, but fall is pretty spectacular out here.