My new job involves wading through an acronym soup. The big ones are in the title ( Read more... )

I'm theoretically starting work at Boston Sci tomorrow- I'll get the green light today as the background check and drug screen come through. It might be as late as Thursday, depending on how fast the service providers get back to the agency. I have a few things I need to get done today in preparation for it- the big thing being getting my clothing ( Read more... )

Grandma Marie's funeral was yesterday. There was a short visitation beforehand- Nancy asked me to pull together a swing music mix for background music, and it did take a while to pull in all of Marie's favorite artists without picking songs that were too maudlin for a funeral. I did get a bit impish with a few choices, like Bing Crosby singing " ( Read more... )

I took today off from work in an effort to get my brain to stop slipping gears. The weekend was going to be crazy by design, and I knew I'd need a little more time to get my act together as a result. Saturday was my coworker Heather's wedding; it was in Fulda, MN, which is a small town very close to the Iowa/South Dakota borders. Sunday I was ( Read more... )

In the last installment of As The Stomach Turns, my godmother Georgia was newly moved to hospice care. She'd rallied from the stage 4 bone cancer a while back, and seemed to be responding to chemo, but two weeks ago she fell at home and fractured an arm badly. When they went into surgery to pin her back together, they discovered she was chock-full ( Read more... )

Minor drunk post here. I got back an hour or so from the hospice where my godmother Georgia is now. They chose to take her off dialysis yesterday- her cancer is so out of control, she's mostly tumor, and so tired of chemo ( Read more... )

( funeral suckage )

I found out today that one of my dad's good friends, my "uncle" Mark, was found dead yesterday ( Read more... )