Today (well, July 2) was my 50th birthday.

( Birthday stuff under here )

Contains spoilers for Ragnarok.

( When Tony found out about Thor's new nickname )

Today's gratitude:

1) I live in a country where I am free to vote. (My choices sucked, but I was completely free to vote for the least awful among them. :P) Bonus: First openly trans person elected to state legislature! Not my state, but I'm still delighted ( Read more... )

I had a rough day, emotionally, but I still managed to find 3 things to be thankful for ( Read more... )

First of all: I hope NONE of you were anywhere near the church shooting in Texas. Second of all: WHY WHY WHY? I have had enough with the horrible news, especially horrible news of mass murders by shooting, running people over, blowing things up, etc. And at a place of worship?? Even worse. Stop it, stop it, stop it ( Read more... )

Sorry, I didn't have time to post anything last night. So ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for ( Read more... )

So, Two bombed another math test last week - and he did confess this, but he also was perfectly cheerful about getting 8 more points in half-credit bonus for getting to fix his mistakes the next day. Even though that just meant he went from a 50% to a 58%. >_< Which meant his teacher emailed me today. And he's now got a C in English, as well, ( Read more... )

Now that I've had a chance to go through all our accumulated mail, I wanted to thank cynthia_black, ina, lachan, pegkerr, pingviini and abigail89 for their lovely holiday cards. A bonus thank-you to celandineb not only for her card, but for the lovely HP winter ficlet and the tasty-sounding recipe as well. ♥

Thank you all for the happy! If only mail was this fun to open all the time.

Will came home a little bit early tonight with stomach/intestinal something-or-other. Ugh. Hopefully he'll recover quickly, given that we're all supposed to attend MiniPlu's closing show on Sunday afternoon, with his family coming from NJ to join us. Meanwhile, he's propped up, semi-miserable, on the sofa.

( Opening night of the school musical was tonight )