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I guess we find out today whether or not I can empty the clean dishes out of the dishwasher. Scott forgot to do it last night, and it must be done by 2 p.m. when the cleaning lady comes. I know I can put the dirty dishes in; that just requires standing in one spot and going back and forth between sink and dishwasher. I don't want to leave all the dirty dishes in the sink because then the cleaning lady will wash them, and there are much better things for her to with her time, things we can't do.

I want to shower today, but I'm not sure I should. I definitely need to wash, but a bath might be the wiser course, especially given the need to deal with the dishes. I don't want to overdo again.

The breast care clinic called yesterday (naturally while I was on my cell talking to Scott). My appointment is a week from tomorrow. That means three appointments next week. I really, really have to remember to take Ativan before I go out. Otherwise, I'm not going to make it through the week.

I'm already debating canceling the dermatology appointment. The thing it's for is so very small, and I'm pretty sure it's just a tiny cyst. It's right next to my right eye, so I can't get a good look at it, however. My doctor said it was a skin tag and that it was inflamed (which isn't a surprise since that corner of my eye waters frequently and I end up wiping it dry repeatedly). There is a history of skin cancer in my family-- My father's father was always having to have things removed. But he worked out of doors for decades, before sunscreen was a thing.

The other link finder for metanews is pressed for time. Their father is back in the hospital. I don't know if they're going to get their links in or if I should try to cover for them. They said they'd have the links in by now, so maybe I should just go ahead and do their stuff for this week. The family emergency also means that they haven't gotten me the email addresses for our potential volunteers. I'm more frustrated about that than about the links because the addresses should take less than five minutes. I can do everything after that.

I discovered yesterday that Scott has hung my bathrobe in a place where it's impossible for me to get it. The doorbell rang yesterday before I was dressed, and I went for my robe. It wasn't where I usually put it, on the hooks on the bedroom wall. Scott had hung it from a hook over the bedroom door that's high enough up that I can't reach to unhook it. (Scott's a full foot taller than I am, and I doubt it occurred to him that there'd be a problem.) Fortunately, the doorbell was just someone leaving a package, and they left it on the doorstep when nobody answered. Now I just have to remember to make Scott take my robe down. It completely slipped my mind while he was home yesterday.

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I went back over the results from Monday's blood tests and noted down the things that were outside of what the lab considered normal range. I don't think any of them were far outside of the range (my doctor hasn't called me to say we need to do something about any of it), but this is a change from last July when everything was in normal range.

The things that are a little too high are my chloride levels, my basophil %, and my absolute neutrophil count. I did a little googling but reached no conclusions. I very much doubt these are signs of anything catastrophic. Pretty much everything I found seemed to indicate that these things being a lot outside the expected range was a bad sign, but a little? Not so much. My suspicion is that at least some of this is caused by inflammation from my fractured heel and sprained ankle.

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There are seventeen fandoms currently available to be remixed for Remix 2015 that I would be completely happy to write. There are at least ten more that would be a stretch but might be fun to try. All of them but one of them (Naruto) are western fandoms. The anime/manga fandoms being requested are all things I either don't know at all or don't know well enough to write (and generally didn't like when I tried them).

I qualify to be remixed in Weiss Kreuz (which nobody's signed up to be remixed in yet) and The Chronicles of Narnia (which has, if I'm recalling correctly, three people asking to be remixed and six people offering to remix). I have to offer one of those two fandoms when I sign up, and I'm not convinced there's a point in offering Weiss Kreuz if nobody else wants to be remixed in it.

I've got to narrow my list down to only five fandoms (including either Weiss Kreuz or Narnia). I'm really not at all sure how to do that. I want to do it today, though, so that I can get my sign up done before I forget entirely. I just have no idea how to pare things down to a mere five fandoms.

Any suggestions?

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A restaurant we really like is closing-- Cafe Marie will close its doors on Sunday and not re-open again. Their official statement (Scott's on their mailing list) is that it's just gotten too expensive to keep operating.

That doesn't leave us much on this side of town. I think Applebee's and Olga's are our best options. There are a couple of nice places that are just a little too expensive and a bunch of places that haven't impressed us or that aren't safe for me or for Scott for one reason or another.

Pretty much, if we want breakfast on our side of town, we'll have a choice between the Northside Grill which always has a huge line for such a tiny place, out the door even in bitterly cold weather, and has no parking and Big Boy which... well. The bagel place does do breakfast sandwiches, but they're exclusively egg which I can't have. The last I knew, Wendy's didn't do breakfast, and I don't see us heading to the McDonald's by Kroger to eat (Wendy's is at least nearby. Scott and Cordelia can walk there).

When we're eating with Scott's parents, it'll pretty much have to be Applebee's. I don't think there are any other options that can accommodate Scott's mother's need to be gluten free that are also safely American in cuisine.

We don't eat out dreadfully often, but we prefer not to cross town (or to go downtown) to do it if we're going to. This is especially true when Scott and I have a narrow window in which to eat. There are a lot of times we drop Cordelia off for something that lasts an hour and a half or two hours and then we go get a meal. Cafe Marie was perfect for that.