Many of you know that fsr44's sister (BCer Lifeworx) has been struggling with cancer for a long time. I got an e-mail from FSR this morning: Early this morning, her fight ended. I appreciate all of your vibes and prayers during these difficult last few weeks, so I wanted to let you know that her struggle has ended.
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An episode of Desk Avoidance Extraordinaire

I had a most entertaining email conversation with wandererjen today. Click here for the good parts version (yes, that was an homage to the fab Princess Bride). My favorite part might be the footnote at the end.

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You know how you keep telling your friends they need a blog, and it should be on LJ so they can read your friends-only posts? And that it's much easier to read their blogs if they are on your friends page and you don't have to go to another site to read them (where you won't have all your cool icons, etc ( Read more... )

She's safely ensconsed in her hotel room in Salt Lake City. Reading, of course. It was a long, tiring day, and her Internet directions had her going south when she should have been going north (or vice versa) when she was headed toward her hotel. By the time she checked in, she was ready for a good cry. Which she had as soon as she got to her ( Read more... )

I've been thinking this for a while. Probably 6 months or more, but LJ has really put a magnifying glass on it for me. Let me preface this with a little background that I hope will make sense.

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Some people call it serendipity, some coincidence, some the hand of God. Whatever. In this case, I'd say there was a reason I was thinking about rubbergirl this morning. In my wanderings, I found trav28, a friend of hers. In scrolling through his entries, I found that his dad passed away in February. Unexpected, sudden, out of the blue, and he got the ( Read more... )