Thanks Hon. It's reallly, really worry making. Both the mom and her fella are in their 80s and have lived very full lives. (complete with diabetes, heart disease, etc.) I'd just hate for them to end in some scary, desolate accident.
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beekaytee - Aug 30, 2005 2:06:11 pm PDT #9625 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Maria - Aug 30, 2005 2:07:15 pm PDT #9626 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Huzzah, Fay!
Hurry up and post, Emily. We need more good news.
~ma to your friend and her mother, beej.
JZ - Aug 30, 2005 2:10:08 pm PDT #9627 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, Beej, big big vibes to your friend, her mom and mom's companion. I get flinchy every time I read a man-on-the-street article about Katrina -- so many of the people who are worst off, most helpless, most trapped, are the elderly. They're so horribly vulnerable. It just cracks me into pieces.
(And also really, really makes me want to hunt down askye's heartless asshole co-worker and perform a no-anesthesia splenectomy by way of his left nostril.)
(Not that I'm in an emotionally heightened state or anything.)
Stephanie - Aug 30, 2005 2:10:52 pm PDT #9628 of 10001
Trust my rage
Fay, that's great news. I'm thrilled for you.
Beej, sending safety~ma towards your friend and her mom.
Cass - Aug 30, 2005 2:11:44 pm PDT #9629 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
this is definitely a Moment Of Yay!This is quite the Moment of YAY!!!!! Such lovely news Fay. I am glad to read it.
I want to hear Emily's news now.
beej, I hope they are okay and just waiting out the storm. My thoughts and prayers are with them.
I have done my dishes (two weeks worth), done some of my laundry (two weeks worth) and taken out the trash (again, two weeks worth). My back is definitely not happy, but I think it is getting to the point where I can slowly slowly do things. It felt like I was using it, as opposed to abusing it and tearing more things.
Tomorrow, we work. Talked to my boss and she's back in a better mood. I hope the mood holds until tomorrow when I am back in the office.
Glamcookie - Aug 30, 2005 2:22:16 pm PDT #9630 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Did they check Aimee's house yet? [link]
Maria - Aug 30, 2005 2:24:44 pm PDT #9631 of 10001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Anyone wanna hear another piece of good news?
My best friend from college, whom I haven't seen in almost 7 years, is coming to my wedding. All the way from Seattle. And she's bringing the babies. I'm floored and completely ecstatic. I never expected it.
billytea - Aug 30, 2005 2:26:15 pm PDT #9632 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Stephanie, congrats! That's a big achievement.
Fay, that's great news. I'm very happy you'll still be getting your teaching on.
Emily - Aug 30, 2005 2:38:48 pm PDT #9633 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
It's not that big news. It's just, I passed my MTEL. Got a 92 out of 100, with 70 needed to pass. Of course, that was just math. The hard part's going to be the actual teaching.
Trudy Booth - Aug 30, 2005 2:39:04 pm PDT #9634 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Did they check Aimee's house yet? [link]
Even though they cost MORE than an i-Pod, Empress, they are NOT your bride's maid present.
Put 'em back. Right now.