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First off, thank you to everyone that sent me birthday wishes! *squishes you all*
I've been busy in evenings trying to poke at my Yuletide. I'm not thrilled with it. Not that I hate the source material or the plot points in it, but I know I'm forcing it along and I'm thinking that makes it suck. I may just slog through more of it tonight just to get to the ending so I can try to hack my way through it. I've finally gotten around to transcribing the stuff I wrote during the drive to and from Michigan, and I have a few scenes in my head for later on my book, yay.
And! I read through the advanced reader's copy of my book and went all SQUEE! Projected publication date is in March. \o/
We've had lots of dinners for my birthday, and Saturday we went out with a friend of mine from work. We actually share a birthday, which is funny because our offices are right next to each other and we love chatting about random things in between patients too. We still had our gaming session yesterday, which was pretty much all combat. Today I had off from work, but it was basically errands and the preop doctor's appointment. Errands are done, including finishing the last of our Christmas shopping. We're all done!
On Dec 19 I'm going to have a bunion correction and metatarsal repositioning in my left foot. It's a nice mouthful, isn't it? Basically the bone has angled out and twisted, and there had been pain in my foot, sometimes in my knee and hip from walking so much. I finally got around to getting it looked at, and lo, the angle in the bone is enough that conservative treatment with constant orthotic use won't help reduce it. Yanno, that just makes me feel freaking old. Bleh. But the preop appt is really just talking about stuff and asking questions, no actual exam or anything. I have the preop physical and clearance Wednesday morning, then it's IV sedation and local anesthesia. The surgery itself is only an hour. Go figure, it's 25 minutes to drill a hole in the bone and put in the tension clip, then about as much time to close it back up.
In other health news, apparently losing weight means my ovaries work the way they're supposed to. On the one hand, this is great that my hormones aren't out of whack anymore. On the other, I had been really looking forward to not having periods or cramps or any of that crap ever again as long as I had the Mirena in. But no, my ovaries are still trying to cycle and go through all that, even if there's hardly anything there. Needless to say, I'm not thrilled by this part of it. I've asked Jay if I should take this as a sign we should spawn again, and he's not entirely thrilled about trying. He doesn't like the idea of being too old and chasing a little kid around. We'll see what happens with that.
Anywho, time to shut down so I can pick up the kids. I can whine about other things later. ;)
I've been busy in evenings trying to poke at my Yuletide. I'm not thrilled with it. Not that I hate the source material or the plot points in it, but I know I'm forcing it along and I'm thinking that makes it suck. I may just slog through more of it tonight just to get to the ending so I can try to hack my way through it. I've finally gotten around to transcribing the stuff I wrote during the drive to and from Michigan, and I have a few scenes in my head for later on my book, yay.
And! I read through the advanced reader's copy of my book and went all SQUEE! Projected publication date is in March. \o/
We've had lots of dinners for my birthday, and Saturday we went out with a friend of mine from work. We actually share a birthday, which is funny because our offices are right next to each other and we love chatting about random things in between patients too. We still had our gaming session yesterday, which was pretty much all combat. Today I had off from work, but it was basically errands and the preop doctor's appointment. Errands are done, including finishing the last of our Christmas shopping. We're all done!
On Dec 19 I'm going to have a bunion correction and metatarsal repositioning in my left foot. It's a nice mouthful, isn't it? Basically the bone has angled out and twisted, and there had been pain in my foot, sometimes in my knee and hip from walking so much. I finally got around to getting it looked at, and lo, the angle in the bone is enough that conservative treatment with constant orthotic use won't help reduce it. Yanno, that just makes me feel freaking old. Bleh. But the preop appt is really just talking about stuff and asking questions, no actual exam or anything. I have the preop physical and clearance Wednesday morning, then it's IV sedation and local anesthesia. The surgery itself is only an hour. Go figure, it's 25 minutes to drill a hole in the bone and put in the tension clip, then about as much time to close it back up.
In other health news, apparently losing weight means my ovaries work the way they're supposed to. On the one hand, this is great that my hormones aren't out of whack anymore. On the other, I had been really looking forward to not having periods or cramps or any of that crap ever again as long as I had the Mirena in. But no, my ovaries are still trying to cycle and go through all that, even if there's hardly anything there. Needless to say, I'm not thrilled by this part of it. I've asked Jay if I should take this as a sign we should spawn again, and he's not entirely thrilled about trying. He doesn't like the idea of being too old and chasing a little kid around. We'll see what happens with that.
Anywho, time to shut down so I can pick up the kids. I can whine about other things later. ;)