Gacked from spiffikins:

1. Did you catch COVID-19? If yes, when, and was it bad?
To the best of my knowledge, I did not have it. I know I’ve been really careful, but still - I also was fully aware that masks and handwashing and 6’ distances aren’t 100% foolproof.

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Some positive things which have been shared with me recently:

People doing positive things during the crisis.

People recreating famous works of art with anything they have on hand at home. My favorite: "The Persistence of Memory" (the melted clocks) done in ... lunchmeat. :D ( Read more... )

Recent events:

MiniPlu turned 17 on Saturday. SEVENTEEN. After spending much of the week cleaning the house and doing other party prep, her party thankfully came off without a hitch, despite several friends being unable to attend last minute. We just put out a pile of snacks on our picnic table, a bunch of chairs and lit the fire pit as ( Read more... )

Man, how do I even catch up after 2.5 weeks? Yikes. TBH, I don't even remember what I was doing two weeks ago.

I do remember Palm Sunday (Apr 14), however: ( Medical emergency - not ours - at church )

Book cover #6, without commentary:


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You guys, I've been trying to sit down and type an update for weeks. I have literally not had the time, especially since, the more time passes, the more there is to say, and the more time such a post would take. I haven't read my LJ flist in a month (I'm up to date on DW - my flist there is much shorter), so if you're LJ-only, I am really REALLY ( Read more... )

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And thank goodness for that. I was put on the same clear-liquid diet and 10oz bottle of magnesium citricate (twice a day, morning and evening) for two full days this time, since last week's colonoscopy prep of the standard one-day protocol did not work. This worked. I was terrified going in that it still wouldn't work and I would have suffered ( Read more... )

Since drinking the gallon of gritty crap last year didn't work well enough, this time I was put on a plan to drink an 8oz (~250ml) bottle of magnesium citricate at 8am and another at 5pm, yesterday, along with the standard clear-liquids-only diet. I had cleared my calendar, not knowing how much the morning dose would affect me, and thus ran all my ( Read more... )

MiniPlu landed at JFK 30 mins ahead of schedule, yay ( Read more... )