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Today would have been my grandmother's 100th birthday. She was a great lady, and I miss her.

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except not really. It hasn't been horrible, just not good. I'm tired, and my house is dirty, and I'm overwhelmed. It's the kind of day where I didn't want to get out of bed, so I didn't - yay laptop! - where my I had to drag myself to tennis, where I forgot to buy the fucking milk at the store, and they were out of the ice cream I wanted, and ( Read more... )

Thanks everyone who responded to my post about my mom. She starts her physical therapy today - she chose to go to the rehab center, which is the most difficult physically, but gives the greatest chance for recovery, so I am proud of her for choosing that option ( Read more... )

On Saturday, my mom had a stroke. My dad got her to the hospital in our small town very quickly, and they got her on up to the hospital in Springfield quickly as well. She is doing well - they hope to move her out of the ICU and into a regular room today, and her speech is good. Her movement is improving, and her memory is pretty sharp. I am ( Read more... )

• Dec 21: Flew home.
• Dec 22: Shopped til we dropped (nearly literally, I was actually sore the next day.)
• Dec 23: Iowa relatives arrive; we go to airport to pick up my cousin (also an Iowa relative) who was flying in from Philly where she goes to school.
• Dec 24: Generally hung out around the house waiting for Giant Snowstorm to arrive. Storm ( Read more... )

So today I quit the online Weight Watchers program and re-joined Netflix. I wonder what that says about me ( Read more... )

So I've spent most of the afternoon/evening dealing with the water that came into my house. Nowhere near as bad as many in metro Atlanta tonight, though, so I'm counting myself lucky (or trying to). Hopefully it won't be too damaging, but the rain isn't stopping, so it could get worse I suppose. Ugh. I am now the proud owner of a shop-vac ( Read more... )

Yes it's four in the morning. Yes, I may have told a friend I'd be up at 9 am tomorrow to go to yoga. Yes, I may be a little bit drunk. But I digress ( Read more... )

I'm in my hotel room in Vancouver, playing on the internet and watching tv. Also in Vancouver tonight are Adam Lambert and the rest of the American Idol contestants, and probably the actors from my favorite tv show, Supernatural, which should be starting to film again soon. I, however, have no desire to get off this couch. I fail at stalking ( Read more... )