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*tap, tap, tap* Is this thing on?
Wiscon approacheth! Current plans are to arrive midday Friday and stay until midday on Monday. It will be the entire immediate family, although not the cat. Social plans will be a bit limited bc of the insane numbers of children with us (3), but I plan on sleeping as little as possible to up the chances to seeing everyone I want to. :) Am up for ( Read more... ) -
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Have taken my friend's list back as far as lj will let me which is just before wiscon. Trying to find and friend ppl I talked with and make some kind of coherent con report other than "amazing, sleep now." -
Pregnant
So, yeah, it looks like I'm pregnant and prob due in Dec although there will be more tests at the OB's office, as well as a dating u/s. Am stunned and not sure how I feel about the whole thing, although we are discussing names already. :) -
Wiscon introduction
I go by tuppence or charlotte, am medium tall, curvy and have short red hair and glasses.My kids and spouse will be with me so I'll be doing a lot of running back and forth from childcare to panels and food supplies. I love meeting new ppl, especially those I mostly know only online, but wiscon sends me into a tailspin of impostor syndrome, since ( Read more... ) -
The census meme
1961: neither my sisters nor I were born yet. My parents were married, I think, and living in Rustin, LA.
1971: I was born and had two older sisters. We were living in Charleston where my dad taught civil engineering at the Citadel. We lived in a small attached house on campus.
1981: we'd moved twice now, still on campus, to increasingly nicer houses ( Read more... ) -
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Such a nice day yesterday ( Read more... ) -
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So, um, the top floor of our apartment building burned down early this morning/late last night. We were awakened about 3am but people running and knocking at our back door. Our house is a double house (two rooms wide, three stories tall) divided into six apartments, two to a floor. The top two apartments are gutted along with the attic. The middle ( Read more... )