Happy belated first of Advent 2015
Hi dreamwidth and livejournal! It's almost a years since I last wrote an update here, and since it's that time of the year again, and I actually baked the usual Saffron Advent Cake I thought I really ought to come and say hi to you all.
Things are both good and bad on the personal front. Dad is still hanging in there, and we are so happy to have him with us. He's a though cookie and I love him to bits. He is so happy to have us all around him, and nothing beats coming into the kitchen in the morning when dad sits there in his wheelchair and just smiles at you.
We've had some problems with the personal care thing though, and I'm still working FAR too many hours. My sister is kind of back and works about half time since October, but oh my god how we still manage to annoy each other when she's here. I haven't been able to go back "home" to my flat in Lund since June, but I DID manage a short holiday in September, and even went to the Barbara Pym conference in Oxford, and met up with
cassandre again which was lovely. Fingers crossed I'll be able to head down to Lund for a week in December but who knows?
I've also kind of tentatively taken up my studies again. Managed to take a course in undergraduate French online this spring, and continued for a second term this autumn. I have a horrible grammar exam on the 9th of December, and I really worry, since I haven't been able to study as much as I ought to. Those pesky French verbs.. You really need to keep up with the language, and not live on memories of times past in Geneva and Paris many years ago.. Studying French this year has of course been extra poignant with all the terrible terrorist attacks and things going on in Paris. It's been a bad year all over the world.
What else? My thyroid problems have been crazy this year, and I'm thinking about doing something drastic and selfmedicate on NDT instead of the usual stuff since not even liothyrine has helped me as much as I've hoped. Just going to do some extre bloodwork and then we'll see.
I'm glad to see that some of you still post here at dreamwidth and lj, as I wrote last time I really miss the community feeling there used to be here, and the pleasure and pain that was had by sharing your lives for such a long time. Even if I've scrolled through tumblr quite a lot in the last couple of years, that never produces the same conversations and meetings that we had here. I just can't say why I don't hang out more here still. It's kind of difficult to find the time to write proper posts, and it's so much easier just to reblog something over on tumblr.. so sad.
Anyway, that's my life if the last year. Very unexciting and humdrum, but still kind of nice to be able to ramble through. Hope you all are doing well.
Things are both good and bad on the personal front. Dad is still hanging in there, and we are so happy to have him with us. He's a though cookie and I love him to bits. He is so happy to have us all around him, and nothing beats coming into the kitchen in the morning when dad sits there in his wheelchair and just smiles at you.
We've had some problems with the personal care thing though, and I'm still working FAR too many hours. My sister is kind of back and works about half time since October, but oh my god how we still manage to annoy each other when she's here. I haven't been able to go back "home" to my flat in Lund since June, but I DID manage a short holiday in September, and even went to the Barbara Pym conference in Oxford, and met up with
cassandre again which was lovely. Fingers crossed I'll be able to head down to Lund for a week in December but who knows?
I've also kind of tentatively taken up my studies again. Managed to take a course in undergraduate French online this spring, and continued for a second term this autumn. I have a horrible grammar exam on the 9th of December, and I really worry, since I haven't been able to study as much as I ought to. Those pesky French verbs.. You really need to keep up with the language, and not live on memories of times past in Geneva and Paris many years ago.. Studying French this year has of course been extra poignant with all the terrible terrorist attacks and things going on in Paris. It's been a bad year all over the world.
What else? My thyroid problems have been crazy this year, and I'm thinking about doing something drastic and selfmedicate on NDT instead of the usual stuff since not even liothyrine has helped me as much as I've hoped. Just going to do some extre bloodwork and then we'll see.
I'm glad to see that some of you still post here at dreamwidth and lj, as I wrote last time I really miss the community feeling there used to be here, and the pleasure and pain that was had by sharing your lives for such a long time. Even if I've scrolled through tumblr quite a lot in the last couple of years, that never produces the same conversations and meetings that we had here. I just can't say why I don't hang out more here still. It's kind of difficult to find the time to write proper posts, and it's so much easier just to reblog something over on tumblr.. so sad.
Anyway, that's my life if the last year. Very unexciting and humdrum, but still kind of nice to be able to ramble through. Hope you all are doing well.