Julep: You girls need to post more.

I mean, sure, Twinks is about to have a baby and Dibbs had surgery and LoLa seems to be lost in Babyland ... but I need the occasional blog fix! Here are my moments of blog zen for today:

(1) Mr. J is out of town and Mr-Sis was going to stop by on her lunch hour to let the pooches out for a moment. She sent me an email around 11 to say that she was just on the phone with Mr-Mama, who was on her way home from running errands and would stop by our house "if that's OK!"

Fortunately I did not get this message until nearly noon, too late to speak up. Because I would have had to bite my tongue pretty hard not to say, "Actually, since the time we were ten hours away from home and your mother set my dog loose and left her roaming around the neighborhood so as not to be late for her riding lesson - I try not to ask her to interact with my pets."

I don't think that would have done much for family harmony.

(2) I've been feeling a little run-down this week. I've chalked it up to the trial I have coming up plus a lot more on my plate at the office, in addition to all the adoption stuff we are plowing through. No big deal.

One of the adoption forms is something signed off by our doctor that we are healthy enough to raise a child. Mr. J had a physical last week and he took the papers along for both of us. Doc had most of the info for mine already from my last physical in July, but she needed me to come in for a urine test and a chest x-ray. (A chest x-ray, really? Have they updated the regs since Waverly Hills closed?) I stopped in Friday morning and headed off to work.

I got a call today from the doctor's office that everything looks great for the paperwork. But, the nurse said, the urine sample actually tested positive for a low-grade strep infection, so Doc will call in some amoxycillin for you. I told her not to bother. It's been almost a week since I gave the sample, and it hasn't developed into anything. I'm tired, but I am pretty sure a couple good nights' sleep will be just as effective, cheaper, and less hassle at the pharmacy.

But it made me wonder. All of these years I've thought I was never getting sick, have I been fighting off bacterial infections all unawares? Do I only think I am usually quite healthy? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? And now that she's told me I'm sick, will I feel sicker?