Starting with LJ (for the less serious stuff)...



Golly! With those three, plus Dorcas (and possibly Cho, if the other RP takes off; and Luna, for WitherWings), I'm going to be swamped...? Nah. I think I can handle it. It looks like a lot, but if you spend as much time as I do waiting for other players and their characters to respond, it really isn't that bad. It just looks like a lot.
As for RL, well, my mom is scared because she recently went to the doctor's office and they told her she has hypertension. She thinks that if she just diets and loses weight, her blood pressure will go down; and that is true, as she's done it before. But the doctor totally scared her. As if she'd have a stroke or heart attack right in front of her *knock on wood*. I told her to go with the diet first, and if it doesn't lower, then we'll look into other things. She doesn't want to be stuck on a medication for the rest of her life, as most medications only treat the symptoms but they don't actually 'cure' the illness/disease. And though the med that the doctor prescribed was okay, she wants to go with Chinese remedies. It doesn't help that last night (I think it was Dateline), on TV, there was a program about counterfeit drugs.
Funny how most people in my profession (even though we deal with medications and hospitals and doctors) would rather avoid said medications and try for a natural healing method instead. Perhaps, it's because we see what happens and we don't want it to happen to us. I think I'd rather live my life ignorantly bliss than have to take ten medications for every disease in the book when I'm 65.