First of all, thanks to everyone who commented & emailed, etc. or talked to me or whatever. I will try to answer everyone personally, but I'm really tired and spazzed out right now, so this lame mass thank you is it for now ( Read more... )

Left the house @ 10 a.m. to take my mom to a various array of tests & then the hospital for her surgery. Spent all day except for a 1.5 hour lunch break hanging around the hospital. Came home @ 10 p.m. to a house full of starving cats & poo/puke everywhere. My mom's surgery went ok, but she's still at the hospital; they're keeping her overnight. ( Read more... )

Mom update: Bad news. Her leg re-broke and she's going into surgery tomorrow to get a plate put into her bone. :(

What this means: I'll be up in SF for at least another week, if not longer.

While sitting in the waiting room, I had the urge to write something. This rarely happens to me.

( This is the result. )

The only good thing about my mom breaking her leg is that over the last 5 days, I have successfully weaned the cats away from their self-imposed exiles in the very scary, very dark, very filled with cans of paint & paint thinner garage. The littlest cat (10 lbs), who had made the insulation-covered heating pipes her new "live-work loft space" is ( Read more... )

Quiz goodness. The battle cry of AoK:

( How is it these quizzes understand me so well? )

Gaaaah.

( Good news... )

My lack of updating of late has more to do with LJ than with myself. I've actually tried to update several times this week, and the bugger's been down. A sign from on high? Or, a fiendish plot to keep my life's little mysteries mysterious? You be the judge, gentle readers!

( Birds... )

All of these wonderful people are sending me email. They have fascinating names like Damon Bennett, Tamika Bowman, Alicia Trevino, Shelly Correa, Phil Hyatt, Carlo Berry, Ahmad Dill, Derrick Torres, Wilda Andersen... and they're very concerned about me. They want to make sure that I get a good mortgage rate and that my printer never runs out of ink ( Read more... )