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[the_muppet]

1) photobucket: Had an email earlier this week from Photobucket warning me that I have less than 3GB of bandwidth left on my account. WTF? *sighs* I checked again this morning and it's now at 8.6/10GB used. How the hell does that happen. I know with the free account it resets to zero at the end of my month's cycle, but I think that at the rate it seems to be disappearing I won't make it to the end of the cycle before it exceeds the limit, so I'm probably going to have to pay to upgrade to a Pro account or have everything on paper_packages replaced with "Photobucket Bandwidth Exceeded" icons for a while - which sucks and I don't want that to happen. Is this purely down to people hotlinking??

{ Thanks to the lovely and amazing mrs_leary I now have Photobucket Pro account - thank you so much sweetie ♥ }

2) visits & trips: purplella and surfer_buoy were here Sunday night on a stopover and will be back next week sometime on their way home - it was so lovely to see them again after so long and all being well, I'll be going to spend a few days with them in Devon sometime in November =) Sadly dazzlebug is no longer able to come stay as she's just managed to get herself a flat after months of looking - which is of course wonderful news for her and very exciting - but I'm sad she's not coming and am hopeful she can maybe make it another time instead =)

{ And as for Expo - for various reasons (which mostly include self-confidence!fail) - I decided a couple of weeks ago that I wasn't going to go. So, yeah. Maybe next time... }

3) scan & stuff: Scan went okay - didn't find anything obvious like a cyst or anything and I have another GP follow-up appointment next Tuesday to see what happens next. Still feeling like crap a lot of the time, still having ridiculously frequent (and completely awful) periods and still having to take time off work sick when it's happening which I absolutely hate doing. I really hate this.

4) thank you: Thanks to el1ie for the very thoughtful card/gift she sent me last weekend - it was lovely sweetie and I hope you got my PM ♥

Thanks to to mrs_leary who recently pimped paper_packages - it's lovely to see someone doing that and always such a surprise to me - makes me smile and is extremely flattering so thank you so much hon ♥

5) catch up: I've been a bit awol the last few days so will do my best to catch up a bit now if I can but if I missed anything important, please just poke me and let me know =)

Hope you're all doing okay ♥

*hugs muchly*

Comments

[mrs-leary.livejournal.com]

You are indeed awesome and shiny - and a big tease!!! :-D Glad I rose to the bait and bit, my darling... ♥ Thank you in anticipation of my own non-text version! You are awesome and shiny... Oh, I said that already. Yeah, when I think of your icons I often think of those winsome moments of Colin's in the Black Knight thing, and also Colin in a hoodie being adorable. You also use so many other awesome images, of course, but you seem to be able to make infinite wonderful icons from those scenes in particular.

Yeah, I know what you mean about wanting 'hard evidence' of something being wrong health-wise, which would prompt some action on their part. But be assertive if you can, yeah? We shouldn't have to live with all this horrid stuff, and I'm afraid even some women healthcare people can underestimate how ghastly it can all be.

I know I didn't have to do it, hon, but there's enough there to cover you for a year of Photobucket Pro, and that makes me happy, too. You won't have to put up with those annoying ads, and I won't have to fear the non-display of your icons. It's a win/win situation! Please go ahead and accept. It's not that much, really, especially not when compared to the smiles and Colin-related thrills you give me. ♥

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

Well if I get enough time today I might get it posted early - if not I'll get it up as soon as I get home and you can check out the non-text version and see if you like it =)

I'm very lucky in that my own GP is absolutely incredible and I know she'll keep things moving on this until they find out what is wrong and get it sorted. I know though that with tests and whatever it's going to take a while but it'll help me stay positive in dealing with all this crappiness in just knowing that something will get done eventually. I hope =)


Again, thank you so, so much for the paper packages donation - it really is incredibly generous of you and if/when I do a post on there yelling at the people who are causing this problem by hotlinking, I'll be sure to point out that you have been an enormous help in making sure the community doesn't crash and burn - for which I am eternally grateful ♥

*hugs muchly*