I wonder if I went back and did a check, how often I'd find that as the lead up phrase in any post I write? Probably it would just depress me if I found out the answer to that. I haven't slept yet--at all--and I still need to go out shopping for jeans, go to a physio appointment, and then--joy of joys--I will be taking the babies on their first ( Read more... )

This is Ash posting on Jay's behalf. I got a text message from her. Her Nana passed, in her sleep, at 2pm PST this afternoon. Thank you to everyone for their thoughts and prayers.

It's not going to be long. Months turned into weeks, which is rapidly turning into days or less. Everyone in the family is being called, we've got doctors and nurses and hospice people making house calls, and we've got some of the strongest cough medicine known to man to try and get her to stop going into spasms. She's on the top of the waiting ( Read more... )

( ...and it's not good )

Okay, so I've had a busy crazy weekend and start to my week, what with the reunion, which I survived, and various post-reunion activities, which included an evening next to a crack den. But don't worry--they didn't let their four pit bulls out into the dirt yard, and apparently they don't have any guns, so it was all fine ( Read more... )