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Happy birthday, JKR and HJP. But I always remember today as the anniversary of my son's diagnosis of diabetes. I talked about what that day was like in this entry last year. Here are the symptoms of diabetes onset; I thought I could recognize them but I found it was a lot like the signs in C. S. Lewis's The Silver Chair - they didn't look like what I expected in a kid who 1) wore (and still wears) baggy clothes that make Dudley's hand-me-downs look like Ralph Lauren 2) spent his days outdoors in 90+ degree summer heat.

Warnings signs of diabetes:

C onstant urination
A bnormal thirst
U nusual hunger
T he rapid loss of weight
I rritability
O bvious weakness and fatigue
N ausea and vomiting

On a lighter note, I'm taking a break from packing. Tomorrow my family and I are heading to Alaska (oh, blessed coolness!) and will explore Anchorage and the Kenai Penninsula, then board the Statendam for a week-long cruise to Vancouver. We'll be gone for the next two weeks.

Packing, as you all know, is a beotch, especially when the rooms in our house are far too hot. We have to play dress-up for dinner on the boat, and for a family of Denverites, that's like asking us to wear our formal wizarding robes. Formal means the flip-flops with sequins, right?

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Sequins and heels (honestly, they were a BIG thing here last year... urgh!).

Have a blast up north. Watch out for hungry looking polar bears, and satiated polar bears near empty igloos!

Enjoy your adventure!

And whatever you do, don't eat the liver of a polar bear. It contains enough Vitamin A to kill you.

Random, but true.

Well, that just gave away the big plot twist for Book 7 - Harry kills Voldemort by cooking him a dinner of Polar Bear liver...

*g*

...and a nice Chianti!

but no beans, gives old Voldie terrible wind...