Mods, hope me! I forgot my MI tag!!

:( poor lleachie. And 179th in the draft is amazing! I just read recently that Tom Brady was picked at #199.

I should find some Xavier Omon footage for y'all. The man was near unstoppable -- except in the championship, where Valdosta State figured out how to stop him. His story is also an inspiring one, because he came from a pretty beleagured family (one brother killed, one brother committed suicide) and was pretty ticked off at first that he didn't get into a Division I team. But he developed into a team player and a leader, because our coach has very solid principles and doesn't suffer prima donnas.

Meanwhile, got the prescription filled -- but managed, somehow, to wipe out in the middle of the grocery store where my pharmacy is. Slip, boom -- right on my butt. Bruised/scraped my elbow, bruised my left ankle and butt. I had to fill out an accident report, of course. So while I'm sitting in the Hy-Vee cafeteria waiting to fill out the report, one of my former students walks up to me and says, "Heard you fell down. Could you set my pedometer for me?"

Then I go to the local Chinese buffet for lunch and get this fortune cookie -- "Taking caution now will save tears later." Yeah, I could have used that a few minutes ago, thanks.

Best Mother's Day sales email yet: "Your Mother Called -- She'd Like Coffee." I said, "If there's no coffee in Heaven, I'm going to have to have me a little chat with God."

lleachie, I'm having the same issue with the Mother's Day spam. It's *amazing* to me how far companies will reach for the tie-in.

Though I have to say, my favorite was from an advocacy group reminding me to think, this Mother's Day, about how mothers die in childbirth. It spun so many times around "wrong" that I think it ended up in "right."

Sigh. And *hugs*.

You know, that kind of glitch is dang unacceptable. I used to keep aside some spare meds just for such times... thank God I don't need em anymore.

Yeah, that's just awful. Depending on the anti-depressant, it seems like 3 days is just a lawsuit waiting to happen -- for some anti-depressants, 3 days cold-turkey can seriously do terrible things to one's state of mind.

Did you ask the pharmacist for a temporary refill? A few months ago, I lost my refill prescription (on a holiday weekend, of course) and decided it would better to at least try pleading with the pharmacist before subjecting myself to the emergency room. To my infinite relief, she authorized a refill -- and, in a just-between-you-and-me sort of voice, said "this is what I went to pharmacist school for."

I've always had pretty good luck with asking the pharmacist for enough pills to get by till the refill goes through. It also helps to find a pharmacy that's well run and not completely over worked. My current pharmacy knows who I am, without asking, when I go to pick up (and it's a Target, not a small/local store).

*phew* glad the prescription got sorted out.

And occiblu, what group did that spam about the childbirth moms? I need to see that.

dabitch, it was Pathfinder International. You can see the message here.

I'm not even sure how I ended up on their email list, since I'm not familiar with the organization. I assume one of the other feminist lists I subscribe to shared my info... though, looking at the other organizations on the same system, I wonder if it was the Red Cross. Anyway. Happy mother's day! :-/