Quotable...

"You know where I'm at in age? I don't need anything. That's a little scary — when you know that the last two bras you bought are it. You won't need any more. I'm not going to live long for any big, new discovery at Victoria's Secret."

- Elaine Stritch

Spamming today!

Got my passport returned to me - I can haz visa! YAY! I can go to China in less than two weeks and actually, y'know, not get turned away!

The pharmacist yesterday pulled me over to the "consultation" window to tell me about possible drug interactions with my regular medication (very low dose) and the very small amount of cipro my doctor prescribed because I am going to be traveling to China - and along with inoculating me against just about anything ever in the last year (hep A, typhoid, polio, tetanus, H1N1, regular flu), he wanted to make sure if I have digestive troubles that could be cured with a three day course of antibiotics to help my body fight it off he was going to make sure I had that level of protection. I had to tell her it was very sweet, but I only have the prescription "in case" and my doctor is okay with the possible side effects of the interaction - and told me what they were. It isn't *quite* as bad as "use back up protection because this drug will mess with your birth control" but it was a similar conversation (I probably didn't have that conversation with the pharmacist because I am not *taking* any birth control pills...). Sigh. I know it is a terrific service, but in my case completely unnecessary. And I'm on the verge of not taking the medication I've been taking, but my doctor doesn't want me to stop just when I am about to go away on a long travel trip and muck with my schedule.

It is time to start making lists of what I need to take. I need to be packed the by the evening of the 29th, because I am going to a Halloween party on the 30th and my flight is not quite at o'dark thirty on the 31st.

November (1st-15th) is China and then recovery from China which will take me nearly up to Thanksgiving (which happens to be another big day for me) and then onto December!

I am looking forward so so much to going to NYC for the first weekend in December - and possibly California a couple weeks after the weekend in NYC.

But China first!