Radiation started today, and will be every week day until mid-December.  Not enough rads to make me into a super-soldier-monster, though.  It is less fuss than chemo, and whatever side effects there are won't kick in immediately, apparently.

It did involve my boobs getting drawn on with crayola markers and then photographed, but in a much less ( Read more... )

Dan's voice has gotten distinctly deeper, which kind of snuck up on me.

I've never been around a boy going through puberty before.

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The kids' high school had a lockdown on Monday because (reportedly) several students brought ammunition to school. School went on as normal today, but we just got the message that the school is closed entirely tomorrow because of multiple tips concerning a potential threat building on Mondays, and I'm trying really hard to be calm but as soon as I ( Read more... )

 The kids are now old enough that I have to figure our when they make what sound like dirty jokes if they are actually intended to be. Trying to figure out  what the appropriate facial expressions are is challenging, as is the question of mentioning/explaining what would *make* that a dirty joke.

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I have now run through everything the several authors on ao3 that consistently write to my tastes have written, and have been cruising through tags trying to find other things, and wow, does the Discworld Death of Rats show up in a lot of stories. Including multiple takes on what happens when Peter Pettigrew dies.

My tastes are a little too specific ( Read more... )

We went to SakuraCon today. We pretty much go just to cosplay, shop and costume watch at this point, the kids haven't mostly caught on to the idea of "panels" and such.

The costumes went well:


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Today was the day of Dan's sleep deprivation EEG test, which meant that, even though we broke the keeping-him-awake time into shifts, I only got 4 hours of sleep last night, on top of a long accumulation of underslept nights. And went to PT in the morning (I graduated to all standing exercises!)

I feel asleep in my chair while he slept for the EEG ( Read more... )

O is taller than me now. Actually taller, not just taller because of two inches of vertical curls.

So far, D is still shorter, but he is only 13, and puberty is still a ways off.

I feel old now.

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I did not remember until 11:45 last night that I made D a doctor's appointment downtown at 7 am. I kind of hate myself right now. This entry was originally posted at https://jeliza.dreamwidth.org/1071088.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

It's just wrong. I mean, 2023 is a sci fi movie year, not a milestone in my progeny's life year.

Tonight was parent orientation for incoming freshman at our high-school to be. For the younger one.

The art teacher seems cool; I didn't talk to any of the other teachers because I wanted to talk to the counselors and also because stairs. I am allowed ( Read more... )