OK, lest I speak too soon. The house failed the radon test. Anyone know anything about radon? Going to EPA website....

So Halloween cannot come fast enough, that is my last day (fucking finally!) at the old job. Then I have 5 days to get completely organized for Guatemala, then, poof, out of communication for a month. Not completely, really, and since I can go a whole month without posting, y'all might not notice anyway. I should be able to get email and use ( Read more... )

Empty checkbook, here we come! Our offer got accepted after a couple mild rounds of negotiation, and we got a great price! All pending inspection and legal schmegal stuff, we should close on November 17th. While I'm in Guatemala. Then I'll come home. For four days, and we're off to Colorado. So, really I won't get to hang out much in my new ( ( Read more... )

So send some good home and hearth vibes our way, shepholland and I just put down an offer on our first house! A bit of a low offer, we think it's overpriced, needs a ton of work. But it is a cool old Victorian row house, a block from the park and harbour, a short walk to the shops and restaurants, and a long walk to the beach! The kicker is that there is a ( Read more... )

My shoulders are SO SORE from those shots! Damn. They're making me really tired, too. Or maybe that was all the babies that wanted to come in the night. Seriously though, I can barely lift my arms above chest-height. Suck.

So I got all my shots today, and some scary stuff from the Traveler's Health clinic about not drinking the water and not walking alone and only eating fruit you peeled yourself and not taking candy from strangers. Yikes! I have faith that it will all be fine, but it always gives you pause to read about that stuff in print. I imagine my patients ( Read more... )

01. Do we know each other outside of LJ ( Read more... )

I can't even figure out how to catch you all up. I am going to Guatemala from November 4th to December 5th. My friend and colleague Sonja may be joining me for the first week. I stuck with the negotiations with the Catholic hospital, but am ready to turn them down. The midwives I would be working with are unrealistic in a business sense and ( Read more... )

"The Majick shop is closed. The wizard bailed again."

(seen at a shoe shop in Little 5 Points, Atlanta. WTF????)

I saw a nun. Driving a mini-van.