Missions accomplished

[rolanni]

Errands run after work (with coon cat typing assistance, direct! from my lap):

Bank -- check

Post Office -- check

Vampires -- check

Grocery store -- check

Put groceries away -- check

Snack and water -- check

Email/LJ run -- check

Man, it is pouring out there'! And whose bright idea was it to move the vampires thehellangone to the back of the Fancy New Office Park?

It's cold in the house; I forgot to turn the heat up this morning... Sigh.

Turn on the dragon in the living room -- check

Comments

[laurajunderwood.livejournal.com]

Did I miss something? Please to explain these vampires...

Enquiring minds want to know (yes, I probably DID miss something, but vampires are always so intriguing...")

Laura J. Underwood

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Please to explain these vampires...

It's pretty prosaic in explanation. To wit: I have an underachieving thyroid, and must take (the generic equivalent of) Synthroid every morning in order to, oh, not fall asleep with my face in my keyboard by noon.

Every so often, in order to be certain that the dosage is correct, one must have a blood test, which is what happened today.

Drawing blood = vampires.

A small joke...

[kahva.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one who calls them vampires, I do it too, have for years. I've got PCOS, insulin resistance and just this summer I got the hypothyriodism diagnosis, so that means I get to have even more trips to the vampires in the coming years, whee!!

At least most of my vampires have been pretty good at not blowing out my veins, but every so often, I get a few who need to work on their technique. Of course, my having yucky veins doesn't help, but still...

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I call them vampires (or occasionally wampyres) as well. I'm on blood pressure medication so they want mine tested every year (it also means that I can't donate blood now, as the Red Cross vampires don't like other stuff in their blood).

(As an aside, I have mild dyslexia. One day while driving I passed a large liquid container truck, the sory with a big cylinder on the back. It actually said something like Transeuropean Liquid Transport, but I read it as Transylvanian Liquid Transport and immediately flashed to thinking that Dracula Corp. was dealing in blood en masse. Any authors, please feel free to use this image...)

[jane-barfly.livejournal.com]

And for me, vampires usually mean that I donate 500 ml, plus six tubes. Somehow, though, they pass it on.

Laura

[laurajunderwood.livejournal.com]

Ah, of course. I had so forgotten. My apologies. Hope you survived the vampires...