~ma for your mother, Shir.

I'm having a fairly productive weekend. My front room, which has been filled with junk for a year and a half, is almost clear. I really want to put a loveseat and coffee table in there, but I'm trying to save money, and new furniture is pretty far down on my list of how much I need various things. I could probably get a coffee table pretty cheap at a thrift store, but I don't want to buy a loveseat there.

They're keeping her for about a week for further testing and treatment. To be more precise, they don't know how long it'll take to cure it (if at all), but they said to get ready for a week. They think it's pressure on an inner nerve. It's nothing serious, I guess. She can lose her hearing in one ear, and thank God it's nothing more. She might also be able to go home from time to time. I'll be coming back home tomorrow night, and spend Tuesday with her as much as possible.

It's the first time something like that is happening to either of my parents. I'm more worried than I should be, and this is tiring.

Thank you for your ~mas.

Lots of ~ma, Shir. Here's hoping it's nothing serious and she better and home soon.

Went to brunch, back at old place. Kitchen floor mopped, now going to scrub the tub. Then the last stuff will be ready to load, I think, and I'll just need to clean the fridge and sweep the front room. Is that a light, yon?

I'm more worried than I should be

I'm going to with the opinion that once you get past mild indigestion or a paper cut (and even then...) there's not much to the idea of "should" when it comes to worrying about loved ones. As long as you don't get in the way of their recovery.

Which reminds me...I haven't spoken to my mother in a couple days! Time to call home. Can't wait to find out how long it takes her to get tired of this...

Bathroom totally clean, food moved to new place along with other stuff. Now to clean the fridge and see how many loads I have left. Trying to enlist last-minute help, we'll see if that works. My neighbors were going to help but their plans changed. Also, kind of pissed at ex-roomie. She did NOTHING to clean except sweep her floor. I had all her stuff staged on one section of counter and she didn't even wipe it down after packing. Grr...

Thank, ita.

As selfish as it might sound, I prefer a half-deaf mom at home than a not-sure-need-more-testing mom at the hospital.

smonster that sucks. I'm glad she's your ex roomie.

Seconded.

ita !, do you have any links to places where people can buy weapons on line? (Story idea, people! Sorry -- no IRL bloody rampage planned.)

Like a variety of weapons, some with a high grade of iron or steel? Real weapons, not for show.

Also, any links to awesome krav explanation videos or sites? I'm doing research. Just getting ideas for future scenes in my research files.

What sort of weapons? Bladed? Swords? Knives?

Couldn't tell you about krav explanations. We were always parsimonious with what we gave up for free, and I haven't looked around much recently--what I was aware of wasn't, you know, us.

There's Atlanta Cutlery [link] Erin. I was friends with the owner and the guy who started its related business, Museum Replicas [link] but they're both gone now. The company is run by the Indian company that initially made most of their knives, a company founded to supply kukris to the the Gurka.