Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everybody ( Read more... )

Just taking a minute to check in because I haven't been here in way too long ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was brought to the ER by ambulance with severe abdominal pain, and a cat scan has revealed a possibly malignant tumor. I’m in shock - I had absolutely no previous symptoms! Otherwise I’m perfectly healthy! Today is a day of tests at the hospital to figure out the next course of action. Please keep me and the fam in your thoughts and/or ( Read more... )

Our youngest is in surgery right now - it’s an emergency appendectomy - routine, I know, but we brought her to the ER at 2:00 a.m. and are feeling pretty exhausted. Please send our baby good thoughts and prayers! (I’m sure she’ll be fine, but I’m pretty traumatized!)

Thank you!
UPDATE: She’s home already at a little past noon and resting comfortably ( Read more... )

Okay, so I’m so excited to be the proud owner of a package of these beautiful cards, displayed here alongside my favorite magazine cover of our beautiful boys (for size reference):


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Having seen others do this end-of-the-year wrap-up thing, I'm not going to feel too shy about doing it myself. Seriously, there's value in taking stock of last year's accomplishments and setting goals for the coming year, right? And there are times when I really need the encouragement and motivation that creative accomplishment provides, so there's ( Read more... )

This week is the one when I feel least in control the whole year. Christmas is coming up, I still have shopping to do (little stuff for stockings, so I can't just order them, not that they'll come in time anyway!) I have to work every day but Christmas this week, when I really need to stay home and get ready for Christmas. I have piles of unwrapped ( Read more... )

Just finished my fic for spnopera and I'm in agony. This is torture, I say, PURE torture! Why did I do this to myself? How can I write something with such a blatantly sad ending? I always try to leave things open-ended, the possibility just beyond the end of the story that maybe, MAYBE this time, something good will come out of the pain and sorrow and ( Read more... )

Woke up early to work on my bb story and managed to delete the entire thing. All 15K words, just gone. No back-up. Then I broke my glasses. Walked to the optomotrist to get my glasses fixed in the snow and got attacked by a dog. No broken skin, luckily, just shaken up...

Can I just go back to yesterday and start over, please???

I'm still feeling a little giddy! Got up early cuz today was my posting day on my very first challenge fic for the SPNKinkBigBang on tub! I posted it first on AO3 cuz it's way easier than this place, but I'll try to get that done later today or tomorrow.I can honestly say this has been the BEST experience I have had since joining this fandom. ( Read more... )