adding my continued-ma for the Zmayhems. Juliana (or Hec), please let me know if there is anything I can do.
Wash: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral. Something with imagery. Zoe: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay. Wash: Oh, no, I'm starting to like this poetry idea now. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...
'Shindig'
Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Lee - Aug 04, 2006 11:46:22 am PDT #6963 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Toddson - Aug 04, 2006 11:54:42 am PDT #6964 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
SO glad to hear that JZ and Halloweenie are all right and, while being in the hospital sucks, it's good she's being taken care of.
Lee - Aug 04, 2006 11:57:02 am PDT #6965 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Oh, Calli, I'm so sorry. All sorts of -ma to you and your family.
P.M. Marc - Aug 04, 2006 11:59:33 am PDT #6966 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
28 weeks is very early if (God forbid, crosses self, knocks wood) the Halloweenie decided to come now. But she won't. She is staying put - by order of The Empress.
It is. (And she is, damn it.) On the small plus side, 28 weeks is also considered a big ol' gestational milestone with a much higher chance of a good outcome than you'd see a week or two before that. (As I recall: 24 weeks is the effective threshold for viability, though you have the occasional 23 weeker who makes it. 32 weeks is the next big one, with 36 weeks being the one following. Depending on your doc, either 37 or 38 weeks is considered term, though if you're being considered for induction at 37 weeks, they'll do an amnio first to determine lung development status.)
(Not, you know, that I obsessed over this during my pregnancy. What can I say? Statistics are soothing.)
Beverly - Aug 04, 2006 11:59:41 am PDT #6967 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Today was one of those days it was good to be behind. I got to hear the not-awful end of the story almost as soon as I read about the scary part. All good thoughts for David, Jacqueline, and the little one.
Ginger, we have lived here since this neighborhood was built, and the city keeps promising sidewalks. They put in water and sewer lines, streetlights, followed immediately by an increase in breakins and car vandalism (the theives could see what they were doing, now), and tax increases regular as clockwork. They built a 100-unit development at the end of what had been a quarter-mile dead end street, put in quaint olde fashionede lamplighter streetlights instead of the War of the Worlds Orange Death Glow hideosities we have, and...you guessed it, sidewalks.
And now that I have watered all my expiring deck plants, I hear the sound of distant thunder. Yay.
P.M. Marc - Aug 04, 2006 12:00:11 pm PDT #6968 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Calli, I'm so sorry. I had hoped you'd have more time.
Glamcookie - Aug 04, 2006 12:03:52 pm PDT #6969 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
I really wanted to do homework this afternoon at work but since my co-worker is trippin' about workload, I'm thinking this would be a Bad Idea.
Beverly - Aug 04, 2006 12:04:18 pm PDT #6970 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh dear, Calli, I'm so sorry. Strength to you. I'm here if you need someone, just call.
Todd, I think a lot of us have been in a similar spot. It's just too bad they won't permit pie cannons in cases like these.
lisah - Aug 04, 2006 12:04:52 pm PDT #6971 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
strength to you and your family, Calli
Glamcookie - Aug 04, 2006 12:06:18 pm PDT #6972 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
Calli, I'm so sorry.