Holiday Checklist

1. Made latkes for Chanukah last week. Lit candles for two nights and then lost interest. Check.
2. Ordered all gifts from Amazon that could concievably be ordered from Amazon over the weekend. Check.
3. Tidied the house and brought the tree up on Saturday. Check.
4. Changed book displays in the library on Monday. Check. (Okay, that's not a holiday thing.)
5. Boxes stacked on the living room couch since they started arriving on Monday. Check.
6. Stayed home from school yesterday and slept late. Despite my cold, finished all my shopping EXCEPT ONE THING. :(

I also had a mammogram yesterday -- went amazingly well, no ultrasound or biopsies for me or the Sibs -- and then a visit with the rheumatologist. It looks like I may have to start move up to the next level in treatment, since this one is not working for me. That means either something I inject mysef with (Humira) or something I go in for every six to eight weeks and get in an IV drip, like chemo (Remicade.) I'm not eager for either one, but it so happens that the mammogram tech was telling me she's on Remicade and it's wonderful, no ill effects. I don't have to decide til February; in the meantime, we're increasing the dosage of what hasn't worked so far. (Note: It was my decision to go with this treatment in the beginning, and for now, not the doctor's. He would have been more aggressive, but I wasn't ready for it.)

Tomorrow after school, I will get a swine flu shot, which will be probably be followed in 24 hours or less by the swine flu. This is my mazel.

On Saturday, I must wrap and we must do the tree, and I must plan for Christmas Eve dinner. R is most likely -- as in she told me she's not -- coming to decorate the tree with us this year, which I have to admit, puts a lump in my throat. I mean, it was bound to happen, and she's got her own tree now. I guess I'll just have to save her one special ornament for her to put up, and K and I will hang everything else. Maybe the Hubs will get in on the hanging too this year; he hasn't hung an ornament since the girls were big enough to do it themselves.

I've only just learned that there was quite the fracas in the library yesterday during my absence. It sounds almost more silly than anything else, but during the lunch period, one boy slapped another in the face, of all odd things, and the slapped boy was astonished and enraged, and absolutely did not fight back, although the attack did cause a cup of coffee (milk and sugar) to fly out of his hand and explode across the couch and several windows. (I swear, I would have 1) become one of the Furies of myth and then 2) would have laughed my pants off.) Anyway, only the slapper is suspended, since every witness agreed that the slapped did not respond in kind, but they're all tense over there in the so-called "lounge" area of the library today, which is now slated to become the "small group instruction" area as soon as I can get the custodians in to make some tables around. Lounge no more. (The lounge seating -- the couch and four armchairs -- will still be scattered around the library, Barnes and Noble-like.) And yet again, the architect's design for this room takes a hit. It never occurred to them that children would have to be supervised. A fine plan.

So, my lunch starts in fifteen minutes, no coverage today, so the library will be closed that period. I am starving. Let's see if I can post this from the old phone, and then I can chow down.


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