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I've skipped three family gatherings this month; Scott and Cordelia have gone to all of them. I feel kind of bad about it, but I also know that Scott's parents are not being very careful. They're a risk to us, and Scott is a risk to them (and to me and Cordelia, but us avoiding him isn't feasible given the givens).

The gathering I missed on Saturday was for our niece's graduation party. They only had a few people at a time, and it was all in their backyard, but I feel like it was very unnecessary. I'm not sure how our niece felt about it, though.

I slept through a lot of the day. Cordelia says that I actually looked ill-- kind of groggy and vacant (she used the word 'dopey'). I eventually figured out that it was a migraine. My head didn't start hurting until quite late in the day, and even then, it felt like a sinus issue. Still, when I took naratriptan, all of the symptoms started to fade.

The main thing that I knew during most of the day was that I was falling over exhausted in spite of having slept well and that my general pain levels were way, way down. I expect my ordinary, walking around pain levels to be between a 5 and a 7. Saturday, I was between a 0 and a 2 for everything but my neck and head. It was weird, and I could tell that something was really off, but 'suddenly I don't hurt!' isn't a symptom that medical professionals have generally considered worthy of note.

I rather think that it should be, though, because it's really major shift without any explanation.

( UCon play testing )

I have ordered some mugs. Now that Cordelia's filling and running the dishwasher, my single 16 ounce mug isn't getting washed reliably. She says she's never sure whether or not I'm going to want it again before the dishwasher would be done. I think it's mostly that she doesn't look for dirty dishes anywhere except the sink and right next to the sink. She often doesn't check the stove and overlooks cups and mugs in the living room.

At any rate, I had a hard time coming up with the right search terms to find what I wanted. I spent a couple of hours on it. I found a lot of very pretty things that claimed to be microwave and dishwasher safe but that looked unlikely to be. I wanted to avoid anything that narrowed much at the base as I'm likely to jostle my mugs. I wanted a solid handle that's big enough for me not to scorch my fingers.

I also wanted something that I wouldn't hate looking at. Most of the things I liked were too small (half of them were 11 ounce; the other half were 15. I wanted 16-20). I decided to avoid text because at least 95% of it was stuff I wouldn't want to see every day, either because it said something like 'Dog Mom' which I'm not or because it had a joke or an inspirational quotation or a political statement. Seriously, I just want a pretty picture or a pretty design.

( Cordelia and yarn )