Thank you to everyone who was so concerned about me during the hurricane. We came out of it relatively unscathed. We lost power for 2 days, lost landline phones and wifi until yesterday, but other than that everything was fine. We really got very lucky.

Hi everyone. I realize it's been a long time since I visited LJ. Life is busy, unfortunately ( Read more... )

I'm finally starting to see a difference in my face. It's not really moving much, but eating, drinking and talking are much easier. I can even raise my eyebrow a smudge. Hallelujah!

No change. Completely depressed.

I've been slammed with a real twofer this week. Today is the 10th anniversary of my mom's death. I was anticipating a lot of grief, which is certainly there. I still miss her so much. But I'm somewhat distracted by the fact that the right half of my face is partially paralyzed ( Read more... )

My aunt's funeral is tomorrow at 2. She's not biologically my aunt; she's the wife of my father's lifelong best friend. She was a high school friend of my mom. They lost touch, and then ran into each other on the bus one day. Fredi (my aunt) got the idea to set her old friend and her new husband's best friend on a blind date. Obviously it ( Read more... )

It's not quite midnight, but why wait? Happy New Year to all of my wonderful LJ friends! And please God, let 2017 be a good one!

Happy Chanukah and Merry Christmas to all of my LJ friends out there!

Also, thank you to aswanargent and digitalwave for the holiday cards, paper and digital alike!

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Huge thank yous to talitha78, jackiesjunkie and roxymissrose for the lovely holiday cards!