Holy crap, it's been a long time since I posted here.  I've been seduced away by Facebook ( Read more... )

I"m making an effort today to put aside all negativity, jealousy, fear, resentment, and other petty feelings.

Have a splendid Easter and revitalization of your year!

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My mom (Suzanne Gross Reed) goes in for surgery this Tuesday.  The medical insurance says it's elective, but it's not.  Anyone who's lost a great deal of weight knows that the resulting skin issues can be fraught with discomfort, embarrassment, and even health complications.  I believe her doctor is sending a letter of medical necessity to the ( Read more... )

Feeling ever so much better now and plotting like a Merovingian witch.

Yay co-conspirators!

After a heart to heart with a friend, I am feeling better ( Read more... )

Sometimes the coincidences, synchronicities, and congruencies stack up so hard and so fast it's difficut not to believe in fate. Or something.

So lately I've been talking with some friends about whether or not SF is dead. Well, for me, that's asking what they think, and then listening. And then I get all firey and pugnacious and slam my onager jawbone in the dirt and say by gum, someone just needs to revive the sucker. (And because I'm half insane, I frequently intimate that Ta-da! ( Read more... )

Just sent "The Bonefields" of to Analog.  Trying not to hyperventilate.  Please wish me luck.

The most hysterical thing just happened to me, which I can't go into here, but it so neatly parallels a scene in Chapter 13 of The Horses of Achilles that no one would believe the writing came first.

Nice to know my instincts are correct.

On another note, earlier the spouse brought home a carton of ice cream.  I won't touch it.  He also brought home ( Read more... )

Back and biceps today.

The nursery was closed, so I had to take the kids to swim for a bit--assed around in the shallow end, stretched, thought good thoughts about swimming laps (Except for OMG 35 laps for half a mile?  Yikes!)  My old swimming suit still works.

Biceps--I suck at bicep work.  I really do.

I did 6 setsof Alternate Incline Dumbell Curls ( Read more... )