MIL was able to feed herself and walk using a walker!  Woo-hoo!  That's a lot of progress from where she was, so rehab will be helpful.

on the story side, I cut about 2K words from the story, and now I feel like it makes sense.  I need to write the rest of it, but it feels more doable now.  Could be it's must a better day.

I spent the day at madigan army medical center as my mother in law had a stroke last night.  Her right side is affected, but she can still talk, which is great.  She was able to move her hand some today (open and close it, make a fist, that type of thing) which is fantastic as she wasn't able to do that last night.  She's having a tough time -- she ( Read more... )

Did you know that a pacemaker can be recalled?  On Monday, my dad received notice that his pacemaker was recalled, and promptly freaked out thinking it was either going to a) burst into flames inside his chest b) short out and send a giant electrical shock through him or c) going to stop his heart. Luckily he had a doctor appointment that day, and ( Read more... )

 Today I made chicken verde enchiladas!  One of the women I work with was going on and on about how good her 'healthy' version of the dish was, so I am giving it a try.  I haven't been doing a lot of cooking lately, particularly not on a work night, but she said it was easy, so I am giving it a go.  My house smells wonderful right now, and I can't ( Read more... )

 I have IMZY codes if anyone is interested in them.  I need your email address, and may not have a recent one for you, so drop me a comment.  The post is not screened, so if you are concerned about others seeing your email address, message me directly ( Read more... )

My life has been consumed by three things: work, construction of our backyard cottage, and prepping my dad's house for sale.  Each of them is consuming more of my energy than I would want, but there has been a little movement on all fronts lately so I am a feeling more heartened today.

On the cottage front, we finally have the fire sprinklers ( Read more... )

Wow, this is a milestone for me. At this point, I have every story I could find uploaded to A03.  I know that there are other stories from the dawn of time that I no longer have working copies of, and a couple of Harry Potter stories that I can't find source for that aren't there, but everything else written has been migrated over.  I now have 180 ( Read more... )

Obviously I had a bout of real life again, and so I have many snowflake posts to catch up on. Fortunately there are no dates assigned to it, so I will be getting to them as I get time.

With that in mind, let's see where I was....Ah!

Day 6

In your own space, create your own challenge. What’s something you want to see more people doing in fandom? Is ( Read more... )

Day 03

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

Okay, cool! I am going to use this as an opportunity to point out some of the stories in my backlog, as I finally have ( Read more... )

Day 2

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts.

Sure!  Why not.

1) My icons are aging, just like their owner. :)  I would love an icon with Miss Fisher looking fabulous, ladies wearing menswear, something in the ( Read more... )