'Dirty Girls'
Birth, death, illness, new job, vacation...if it's happening to you and you want us to know about it, post it here. These threads are intended for announcements only. Want to offer sympathy or congratulations, or talk about anything? Take it to Natter. Any natter here will be deleted.
My appendix is a lovely, healthy specimen of appendiosity. (Obviously, otherwise I wouldn't be home to post this.)
I'm not a hypochondriac, though: it's pretty certain I have ovarian cysts (plural), and my blood work came back with an elevated white blood cell count, which means I have a virus of indeterminate nature somewhere in my body.
In any case. My appendix is fine, but I am not exactly healthy. All y'alls vibes certainly kept my appendix in my body, though, so thank you.
Buenos dias de Galapagos!
Kevin and I are sitting in a tiny little internet cafe in Puerto Ayora, on the island of Santa Cruz. Everything has been beyond amazing and I´ll post a URL with pictures as soon as we return on Monday.
I hope everyone´s doing well!
It's official--I made my first "A"! 98.8% for my first course work. I'm now working on Office 2000 (and more advanced typing).
It's January 31, and it's 90 degrees in Los Angeles.
To the rest of the country, and indeed the world: "Ah-ha!"
Okay, folks, I now have too much beer and every condiment known to man. You must come to my party. Excuses like, "I live in Kansas!" will not be accepted.
Day: Today
Time: 7ish (p.m.)
Place: 965 S. Gretna Green Way, LA CA 90049 (Y! Maps Link)
Cell: 323-363-5279
Land: 310-820-7112
X-Streets: Bundy & Wilshire
Freeway Exit: 405, Wilshire West
Bring: Yourself, your friends, and possibly more beer. :)
Happy Chinese New Year to all of you! (Also in Chinese tradition, Happy Birthday to everyone since you would normally celebrate your birthday during the New Year celebration, irrespective of the actual date of your birth).
May your next year be filled with peace and prosperity.
I have jury duty, so I won't be around for 1-3 days.
Just wanted to pop in and thank you all for your good wishes on the audition.
I acquitted myself respectably. I am happy.
Now I'm going to sleep.
My dad is dying of cancer. This was all discovered Monday, after a series of events that are too much to go into here. Whatever it is (he had a biopsy late yesterday, but only to see what type; there's no doubt that this is a metastasized cancer; they/we can tell by looking at him and feeling him) is spreading through his body at an alarming rate.
He has palpable and visible lumps that are multiplying unbelievably fast. The small blessing in that, is that they were able to biopsy one of the lumps rather easily, rather than submitting him to an invasive ordeal. He's currently hospitalized, but we're looking into the feasibility of bringing him home, with hospice care to help. I was called to the hospital yesterday because they expected him to go then. But he rallied, and is fighting so hard that he was refusing to sleep, even while on a morphine drip. Now the doctors and nurses say we can't tell how long he'll last.
Buffistas are so warm and giving but all I want and need is for as many folks as possible to please pray (or hold good thoughts) for an easy and dignified death, free from fear and pain, and for strength for my poor mum who loves him so (as do I, my dh and our children).
Vibes for you and your family, Cindy. Well, it looks like my grandmother is not going to come out of the hospital. She has congestive heart failure rather than pneumonia(she is 91 already and in the middle of a long and slow mental and physical decline.) Vibes for my mother though, as she also attempts to bring Grandma back home, like she would have wanted.