A Truly Beautiful Thing
My dear and talented friend namastenancy had kindly offered to create a picture for Miss Peri's new room. That picture arrived in the mail today and I'm just blown away. It's a gorgeous colored drawing in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and to tell the truth I'm going to be hard pressed to give it to the kid. Just joking.*g* Thank you, Nancy, from the bottom of both my heart and Peri's (her comment was, "Sooooo pretty").
In other news, we had a lovely Halloween. Our little town gets all decorated along the main street and the merchants give out candy to the kids. It's a wonderful chance to see all the kids in their costumes, and everyone's so nice and friendly. Just one reason among many that I love living in small town America. Of course it helps that our version of a small town is also politically liberal and pretty highly educated (and a half hour away from the big city), so there's always money for the schools and the library, plus quite a few residents who are artists or writers. I might not last so long in a remote farming community. Anyway, I borrowed the jacket from my old Babylon 5 Centauri costume and went as a pirate. Peri was a ballroom dancer--we found this amazing dress thrift shopping: a long, fitted gold bodice and multilayered black chiffon skirt with gold edging, all in size 0. I have to say, though, I'm not quite ready to see her looking so sophisticated. It's kind of a shock, really.
After trick or treating we went to a party at our neighbor Pegge's. She's just the sweetest person--by weird coincidence, the first cousin of the girl who took pity on me in high school and made sure I wasn't ever picked last for PE (yes, I always was an impressive athlete, between the asthma and the horrible eyesight I had then). Nice must run in their family.
I feel kind of bad that I'm not doing NaNo. I think if I did, I'd have to do it unofficially: I don't stand up well to that kind of pressure, so why put it on myself. Which is to say, I admire the hell out of those of you who did (which seems to be half my flist).
I've had to give up the Topamax, that was working so well with getting rid of my migraines. I'd started to have a weird reaction to it, though. It was fine when it was causing tingles to my hands and feet (like when your foot's fallen asleep), but when the tingling intensified and spread to my entire body, then parts of my face, neck and arms were going numb, I figured it was about time to call it a day. Honestly, I'm kind of glad to be off it--the side effect of decreased appetite was nice, but it also made me feel like everything I did was happening in slow motion, uphill, with weights tied to my arms and legs. It's not such a struggle now to function. Meds and their side effects can definitely be a pain.
I started to do a little of my Christmas shopping on line, on the principle that if I don't start early, the things I want will be sold out/unavailable/unattainable by human means. That, and I have this nasty habit of getting really sick in December. If I get done the things I need to do and don't stress, maybe I'll avoid that this year. Tomorrow I'm going to gather up my supplies and start my card making. I think I have just about everyone's addresses, but if you missed my last address-begging poll, I'm going to put about another, along with one about card preferences. I already have some cool ideas for solstice and Hanukkah cards, as well as Christmas.
And I guess that's it. Goodnight, my dears.
With love,
Sema
In other news, we had a lovely Halloween. Our little town gets all decorated along the main street and the merchants give out candy to the kids. It's a wonderful chance to see all the kids in their costumes, and everyone's so nice and friendly. Just one reason among many that I love living in small town America. Of course it helps that our version of a small town is also politically liberal and pretty highly educated (and a half hour away from the big city), so there's always money for the schools and the library, plus quite a few residents who are artists or writers. I might not last so long in a remote farming community. Anyway, I borrowed the jacket from my old Babylon 5 Centauri costume and went as a pirate. Peri was a ballroom dancer--we found this amazing dress thrift shopping: a long, fitted gold bodice and multilayered black chiffon skirt with gold edging, all in size 0. I have to say, though, I'm not quite ready to see her looking so sophisticated. It's kind of a shock, really.
After trick or treating we went to a party at our neighbor Pegge's. She's just the sweetest person--by weird coincidence, the first cousin of the girl who took pity on me in high school and made sure I wasn't ever picked last for PE (yes, I always was an impressive athlete, between the asthma and the horrible eyesight I had then). Nice must run in their family.
I feel kind of bad that I'm not doing NaNo. I think if I did, I'd have to do it unofficially: I don't stand up well to that kind of pressure, so why put it on myself. Which is to say, I admire the hell out of those of you who did (which seems to be half my flist).
I've had to give up the Topamax, that was working so well with getting rid of my migraines. I'd started to have a weird reaction to it, though. It was fine when it was causing tingles to my hands and feet (like when your foot's fallen asleep), but when the tingling intensified and spread to my entire body, then parts of my face, neck and arms were going numb, I figured it was about time to call it a day. Honestly, I'm kind of glad to be off it--the side effect of decreased appetite was nice, but it also made me feel like everything I did was happening in slow motion, uphill, with weights tied to my arms and legs. It's not such a struggle now to function. Meds and their side effects can definitely be a pain.
I started to do a little of my Christmas shopping on line, on the principle that if I don't start early, the things I want will be sold out/unavailable/unattainable by human means. That, and I have this nasty habit of getting really sick in December. If I get done the things I need to do and don't stress, maybe I'll avoid that this year. Tomorrow I'm going to gather up my supplies and start my card making. I think I have just about everyone's addresses, but if you missed my last address-begging poll, I'm going to put about another, along with one about card preferences. I already have some cool ideas for solstice and Hanukkah cards, as well as Christmas.
And I guess that's it. Goodnight, my dears.
With love,
Sema