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    Thank you for any and all kind thoughts a prayers. After day in ole Inova, he returned to us and felt sufficiently well enough to resume micromanaging my and my brother's lives.  Yesssss.  Funny story, though.  The country club to which we belong, the parking lot of which was the location of my dad's collapse, sent us a lovely gift basket ( Read more... )

    My father had a minor incident in which he fell, bashed his head, and all one night and the better part of a day in the hospital with a neck brace on.  He's home now, his blood sugar is good (he's diabetic), and we're all breathing easier.  He'll have to see a neurologist in another couple of weeks, but that should be all.  The ER isn't all fun ( Read more... )

    This update is pretty much a photodump.  I hope you don't mind.  Also, one of the reasons for the photo-taking is sitting in my lap and disrupting my typing, so forgive any typos, please!

First: Space Veggies!

Seriously, these things are huge.



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    I'm breaking my own rule and posting again.  Oh, well.

I came across a couple of old journals today, one starting in 1998 (I was 13) and another spanning 2001 (15-16).  Man, did these have me laughing.  I was more actively embarrassed by the more recent one, as it also included a few feeble attempts at romantic short stories, most of them ( Read more... )

    Oh, hello again.  I am increasingly bad at this journal thing, it seems.  I'd really like to be able to keep an actual pen-and-ink journal, but I'm lazy and typing is less energy- and time-consuming than writing.  Anyway.

Update: Still at Adam's, the family comes home on Thursday.  Today, however, I am at my own family's house, as they ( Read more... )

I've been so busy this week that even
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    So, uh, about the earlier update.  I was bored, and sick, and
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    Long day. I got more sorting of books done (but had to backtrack a little, so not as much as I'd like), then had Jane's funeral, which was torture, and then work from 5 until close. I'd brought a change of clothes with me to the service so that I wouldn't be working in a skirt and heels. The shirt I'd intended to continue wearing got covered ( Read more... )

    Jane passed away tonight, I think around 8.  They took her off all forms of support earlier today and the fact that she went so quickly (I was prepared to spend the next day with the dogs, and my mom the day after that) is a testament to how weak she really was.  Some are managing to be rather accepting of this, but I can't.  She's gone, it isn ( Read more... )