Just before Thanksgiving, my grandpa passed away. He had 3rd stage terminal lung cancer, and he passed quietly in his bed at the ALF, under the watch of a hospice nurse who had arrived to begin his first night with my grandpa only 4 hours earlier. I know it was a relief for him. He'd wanted to die. His health had been deteriorating rapidly since he ( Read more... )

My head tells me thar be rain on the way.

It hurts. A lot. Damn storm fronts.

I've had a terrible time of sleeping lately. I wake every half hour or so, consistently, all night long. And if I do manage to get any long term sleep, it's only 3 or 4 hours worth before I'm awake again, tossing and turning until my alarm goes off. On nights before I work the sleeplessness gets much worse, and now it has been even further ( Read more... )

I'm currently on hold with the IRS, trying to get a hold of my AGI from last year so that I can electronically file this year's taxes (I didn't file at all last year since I didn't make enough in '07, therefore, no forms to look up the number myself : / )

I've been on hold for 16 minutes. The hold music?

Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.

Hilarious!

I hate it when these weather systems come trouncing across the state. It makes my head really, really cranky. I've been fighting a migraine all day long. The pain hasn't been constant, it's been off and on, sharp and stabby. I'm trying not to take too much Excedrin, but if the pain gets too bad I have no choice but to pop another geltab. And now my ( Read more... )

This is so hard!! SO SO fucking hard!! I can barely get one sentence written down. The characters used to talk to me, practically write the damn thing for me. Now it's like they're ignoring me, like I'm shut off from my own story.

I hate this so much right now.

So, I have strep. I stayed in bed all day Sunday feeling yucky, got up around midnight to check email and whatnot, and then around 2am my throat started hurting really bad. I've been back in bed ever since. I'll have to call in tomorrow so I can go to the doctor ( Read more... )

UUGH! Nooo! I don't want Saul to die! NonononononoNO!

These last few Fridays are gonna be the death of me. Or at least knock a few months off of my life span.

I'm ordering a pin to put on my apron at work. Cuz I'm a NERD!

California woman who gave birth to octuplets already had SIX kids before that.

No mention of any kind of father. Just her and the (hopefully not too elderly) parents, responsible for raising a whole herd of genetic miracles. Now, I could get into all kinds of heated discussion about the consequences of this woman's over zealous use of fertility ( Read more... )

I don't think I'm going to eat out anymore. Really. I seem to have very bad luck with getting seated near people who have no idea how to act in public with any kind of intelligence beyond basic motor skills.

Take for instance the incident that occurred just an hour ago at our local Sonny's.

The plumber broke a sewage pipe so our kitchen is out of ( Read more... )