Calling all L.A.-istas: I'm going to be in L.A. and free of my parents from Dec. 29 through Jan. 2. I have no solid plans, but it would be nice to see people. Who's available and interested?

DH has said some things to indicate that I can release all keep-your-job~ma for him back to the general pool. This has been a tough couple of months and I owe many of you enormous thanks. For the powerful ~ma, and d- for the truly kick-ass bodywork.

Some ~ma would be greatly appreciated on behalf of a friend of mine, who was struck and dragged by a truck while riding her bike earlier today. She's been in surgery for the past five hours, repairing rib fractures, forearm fractures, a hip fracture, and a collapsed lung. Plastics is working to repair a facial laceration right now, and hopefully she'll be out of surgery soon.

Her parents are elderly, frail, and in Oklahoma. She has no siblings. Any good thoughts, prayers, white light, anything, would be greatly appreciated by myself and my friends, who are trying to be her family now. Thanks.

My grandfather passed away this morning. I'll be flying out to Cincy tomorrow and going very dark until probably Tuesday.

DCistas! I will be in your environs from Sunday am December 30 - Tuesday afternoon Jan 1. Let's do something! F2F thread or my addy is good for planning. My time is pretty free on Sunday or Monday. Also, if you're at loose ends for NYE, drop me a line.

Just got word that my mother's eye surgery, while not completely smooth sailing, went pretty well. They are optimistic that she will regain some vision in that eye, and will find out for sure after a month. It was kind of a long day for her as she also moved into her senior citizens apartment. Thanks for all your kind words and support. Releasing the eye~ma back into the wild.

A little bit of travel-ma would be appreciated. I'm hoping to get out of Cleveland before Snowpocaypse hits. If I can do that, and not get hung up in Detroit, I might be able to make it home tonight.

S and I have been in San Francisco, visiting my relatives, and S has had to be taken to the ER. She's doing okay-ish, all things considered, but health~ma and quick-recovery-and-release~ma is appreciated.

They are drawing up dicharge papers for S, and she should be released later today. We will hopefully be driving home tomorrow or Sunday. Thank you all for your love and support.

We have a couple more DVDs we want to watch before we go, but at some point before we leave, I need to hand off a laptop to someone local, so they can hand it off to the unbelievably kind and generous javachick.