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[phosfate]

Took Mom in for maintenance this morning. Her BP is actually below 150 most of the time for the first time in at least a year, apparently thanks to Dr Pinhead's new meds. ("Is it wrong to be amazed that something these assholes gave you actually works?" "No. I am.") So yay.

I hate her doctor's waiting room. One of those horrible beige-and-violet things, with steel chairs and a television playing fake health "news" that can't be turned off. Add the hospital smell and you've got a total spirit-crusher of an establishment. Feh. Dr Coffman's dark-paneled, owl-infested waiting room is depressingly prefab southern gothic, but at least it actively wants you dead, instead of going after you with passive-aggressive blandness. And there's no stupid tv.

Stopped at B&N for new Newtype and manga (Kodocha 8 and Demon Diary 2). Again, yay.

I would like to go to sleep for a very long time.

Comments

[herdivineshadow]

My mum takes this stuff for her blood pressure... uh...co-enzyme Q10.

According to her it works, but I... have no idea, though it was me she sent looking on the net for herbal type remedies...

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I don't know what Mom's taking now. It's some kinda new thing. According to her pharmacist, "Oh! This is the good stuff!"

[herdivineshadow]

heh. My mum makes me take her blood pressure for her... I don't quite get the whole ...thing... I am too young to worry about my blood pressure yet. But it does mean that yay! we don't have salt in food and therefore no one complains that I don't put it in food. :D

[cageyklio.livejournal.com]

::gives Ann a corner of her blanket::

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

::chews it for comfort::

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

I always ask them to turn the tv off. Or I unplug it when they're not looking.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Me too, but the receptionist is directly across from the video, so it's difficult.

It's like being in one of those damned airport lounges where they play CNN at full volume.

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

That POOR RECEPTIONIST.

[orangekoi.livejournal.com]

Demon Diary 2 is out? That slow-ass Borders. >:|

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

We had it two weeks ago. Then it sold out. Then someone dredged up another copy and put it out today. *snatches*

The thing that really drives me mad is our store's habit of getting Tokyopop series starting with the second volume. ::hits store with stick::

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Planet Anime got a shitload of new Tokyopop titles last weekend. Which is why I wound up spending $50 something dollars on my DVD rental trip.

[orangekoi.livejournal.com]

Gina reminded me that we'd seen it at Borders once before, but that we didn't pick it up because we didn't have the first yet. It's since disappeared and been replaced with 4352436543573546 copies of the first volume. But! Triumph! There was a siiiingle copy of v.2 hiding in one of the mall's comic book shops today. ::snatch snatch snatch::

We have a really nicely stocked comic book store near our house, but it has funky hours for people who tend to shop for books after 9:00 pm. I've been psychically blackmailing Borders into improving their manga selection because of this, and they actually seem to be responding. Livejournal is next.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

the doctor's waiting room strategy is to secretly suck out your soul and make you docile, or at least in doubt of your own sanity, in case the doctor doesn't know what is wrong and has to bullshit. that way you're more likely to go along with it.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

::nods::

The last time someone tried that on me was when that asshead counselor suggested I join the Methodist Singles Group, because they have great annual Super Bowl parties. Suddenly: "I see stupid people. They're everywhere. Most of them don't know they're stupid."

His waiting room was cream and taupe, with seascapes. *shiver*

[cimness.livejournal.com]

seascapes? dude. that's even worse than floral still lifes. i'm afraid there is no cure.

hahaha. we have an agnostic/spiritual healing/paganish friend who goes to a methodist church because it has a better singles life.

Demon Diary

[danakate.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I'll have to check that out when next I go graphic novel hunting. I usually go on the first of the month so I get all the new stuff. And I usually go to Waldenbooks because they put out the next volume of Mars on the first instead of the 15th when everywhere else says it's going to come out. *pets waldenbooks*

Re: Demon Diary

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

MARRRRRRRRRS!!! *spasm*

Demon Diary is strange and charming, and takes that androgynous character thing to a whole new level ("That's a guy???").

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Glad your mom's doing ok.

I'm so glad that Dr Ware, once he left the soul-sucking Durham Clinic, never ever used that awful medical tv crap. It's like being stuck in an endless commercial. Oh, and he has Monet prints in his office. Not original, but you can live with it. At least his art is from an artist that you've heard of and doesn't do greeting cards.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Our office is trying to get into the Inspirational Poster kinda thing, supplied on a monthly basis by the EAP. It doesn't work too well, since we tend to hang them at knee-level. There's one by the fax machine with a picture of Ayers Rock on it that says INTEGRITY. I feel like scrawling OPPRESS THE INDIGENOUS POPULATION over it, but don't, mostly because I don't want to hear "What's 'in...di...genius?'" over and over.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

I know how Dr Pinhead's office could be worse! He could have Thomas Kincaid pictures on the walls.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

You bitch.

(God, have you seen there's Kincaid scrapbook paper out now? I felt kinda bad for exclaiming, "Oh, ew!" in the stamp store when I saw it. But only kinda.)

[fingolfin.livejournal.com]

your grew up in the sixties?
*gears turning*

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I was bornded in 1962, last of five. I swear to God that Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was on a continuous loop in our house for the entire decade. (My memory may be somewhat fuzzy on that point.)

[ymfaery]

Demon Diary? That sounds vaguely familiar. Need to take a lookee at Waldenbooks next time I'm there.

But then, I'm trying to keep purchases down to a minimum this month and the next 'cause I had car insurance to worry about. *whinewhinewhine* I managed to restrict myself to Wedding Peach v.1 (Viz!? Uh-oh.) and the 3rd Saiyuki dvd. And Clamp Campus Detectives v.2 'cause it was on sale for $5.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

How is Wedding Peach?

I have to watch the Saiyuki ep in the Newtype disk from a few months back.