DON'T CAVE. First of all, she is asking you to agree to do something ILLEGAL!! Second of all, you need to live there too. Why subject yourself to something that will make you miserable/uncomfortable/unhappy? I think it was mean, inappropriate, and downright concerning that someone you are going to be living with would ask you that right up front! She is asking you to conspire with her to break the rules, before you even get to know each other. I know what that would tell ME about her.
I'm speaking to you like I would my own DD. Don't cave in on important things like your own health/well-being, and the RULES/LAW! SUre, if she wanted to decorate her corner of the room in lime green skulls and orange butterflies, it would be okay to let her have her way, even if you hated green and orange. BUt honestly.... dont' agree to breaking the rules!
I'm glad I didn't cave. There are some "illegal" things I'm okay with (mostly Christmas lights or George Foreman mini grills), but pets are above my tolerance level. I don't think they are bad people; my best friend lived with them for the last two years and they were friends. And at least they didn't just show up on Saturday with the dog, they did ask if we would be okay with it or had any objections.
I'm here!! Didn't go to the ER, my skin finally settled down around 2 am and I got a little bit of sleep. Got up around 8, got the zyrtek out of the car and scared the crap out of the milk man! LOL
Took that and slept til 12ish. Minimal itching today, mostly where the original burn was.
Hopefully I am on the mend.
I'm glad to hear you are feeling better and didn't need the ER.
A lot of drama with Dylan's speech delay, which I'll write more about tomorrow.
Sorry to hear this, but of course with my speech path background I'm curious.
Gretchen, hope that ou had a safe and uneventful trip to school today.
Trip was very uneventful, with the exception that the last few miles were on road that was all grooved. That became obnoxious very quickly, both from the vibrations to the car and the noise! Will post more details below.
What was really astonishing is that it quoted a newspaper article that surveyed overweight women.
"A quarter said they'd rather be severely depressed than obese. About 15 percent said they'd rather be blind. A full 49 percent said they'd trade five years of their life not to be obese." 
Which leads me to the QOTD for Thursday, August 25, 2011: Say something nice about your body.
Wow, those stats are incredible. I think I would rather deal with the weight than any of those. I've been depressed and it's not something I enjoy, and not something I can fix without medical help. I've seriously considered what it would be like to be blind or deaf and I truly can't decide which would be worse. And I wouldn't trade any years of my life because they've all made me who I am today, for better or worse.
But for the actual question, I really like my freckles and my hair. The freckles are just such a part of me that I forget how many of them I have until someone points it out. And my hair is a really pretty auburn that I do not ever want to have to dye. I like being ginger!
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I earned 29 activity points today from all the move in stuff, and now I feel like this:
I got a lot done though, only things left to do are unpack the things going in my desk, wash all the dishes, finish hanging things on the walls, and move the living room/dining room furniture around. Quirky things about the house include the fact that the front door doesn't shut tight unless it is literally slammed shut: tested it before we went out on errands, but when we returned, it was wide open!
Water pressure seems to be good, water overall appears clean enough, and the wi-fi is strong throughout the whole house, which I know has been an issue in the past. However, I can't seem to figure out the temperature controls. The air is set at 74 and we don't know how to turn it up or down.
I did alright with eating, nothing too bad, only went a little over. This is also the first day in a long while that I can think of where I didn't have any dessert.
There's a storm brewing, it started in Buffalo and Mom called to check on me, since I'm all alone and afraid of storms. The wind is howling here now, there was one crack of thunder a bit ago, and what sounded like a lot of rain for a few minutes.
I'm on my new laptop, which I really like. First off, it's purple. It's much lighter in weight than the old one but about the same size, super fast, and the only two minor complaints I have about it are that the mouse keys require a lot of force to click and the keys aren't backlit (but I knew that ahead of time and there's no way to add them).
There are definitely some days where I feel differently, though! I will also say it was not easy getting to this point with my body. For years now, I have really struggled with a body image that was positive, and for the last couple months I have really gotten the help I needed to to that, thanks to you ladies. You don't know what it means to be able to have someone to vent to about frustrations as opposed to just eating them. Especially if it means changing the behavior you've spent your entire life watching and doing yourself. But here lately, it's been amazing to have the success I've been having and the motivation and push I get from you ladies on a daily basis. 
Will you have a big new tub to soak in soon? 
Glad that you made it safely and are almost unpacked already. 
