I got my breathing capacity test today at the allergy clinic. I knew that I needed a checkup with my doctor to continue getting a couple of my prescriptions refilled; so I called this morning and the receptionist said that Dr. Murthy had an opening at 10:30, so I just up and went ( Read more... )

... I always end up coughing blood when I write Ukitake.

I've been picking up Twin Souls again in an attempt to find my own voice. It's been good, rough in some ways, but really good again. I've been also talking with Luke, my gay pastor, on a regular basis about the whole story and he's been fascinated, which has been a lot of fun. I've also been ( Read more... )

I've been having a mildly unusual time of getting taken care of by a lot of people. A good number of them are from our church, and the biggest flood of that was on Sunday, where everyone offered us a hug, condolences, and a few moments of thoughtful conversations. It was amazing how much support we got on that day ( Read more... )

This morning Jet and I were playing in the basement to stay out of the housecleaner's way as Jet had a Late Start Day and he had a pile of presents from his ninth birthday yesterday. He'd been really patient, not opening them in the morning because I got up late and not opening them when he got home from school because John was helping with ( Read more... )

Finished Jet's socks and he does, indeed, like them very much ( Read more... )

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Jet's birthday party day. I do litergist today and we all paint bowls for Empty Bowls again.

( Details and pictures and Stuff, oh my. )

Some shots of the bowl...

( Cut for pictures. )

... you can see pictures of my past Empty Bowls bowls, along with Jet's and John's, at this link. I just realized I hadn't actually posted a post-firing picture of the hummingbird bowl before.

... there was an Empty Bowls get together, with lots of kids and parents, and just the primary palette, which I always have trouble with. I was assuming that there would be black and had planned on just doing simple black and white. There was a pine branch and swallows I wanted to do, which would only have required a touch of red and plenty of ( Read more... )