Surgery~ma to Grace!

My cats have a new game. Kitty will be in the living room and pawing at the blinds on the glass back door. Finally figured out that Noodle is my room and look out the sliding glass door at Kitty. Darned cats.

In a complete topic shift, KCD is in the hospital. He has a ugly cyst that isn't reacting to ABs, so he got admitted and they are talking surgery and possible MRSA. K-Bug has seen it and says it is big and gross. With his smoking, high sugar diet and diabetes, I'm not surprised his body isn't jumping to heal itself. His refusal to care for himself was a piece our split. Even so, I feel for what my kids and B are going to be dealing with as he goes through this.

During my usual 35-ish minute drive home from rehearsal, I think I missed a major accident on the freeway by about five minutes, if not less. Traffic could only get through on one lane, but it wasn't seriously backed up yet.

Two or three cars apparently involved, plus the SUV that was LYING ON ITS SIDE.

And then I came home and there's a roach in the bathroom. This is not a calming night.

I was totally a drama llama then, so can't say what's normal. "Lame" initially pissed me off as ableist, but sometimes now I think it fits. And I also don't want to be the crip that nobody can take a walk in front of(Because sometimes then people are afraid to talk about walking, or feet, or standing up for things...nothing like being the only one in the room to make you notice how often that comes up.

Eh, I kinda feel like on the one hand, "lame" tends to be pretty disassociated from its actual meaning/origins. On the other hand, kids who say "that's so gay" try to claim the same thing, and I'm not ok with that, so....yeah.

Oh, Gracie! Here's hoping for Grace, and calm for the moms.

I don't like "lame," but it's not to the point where I'd confront someone about it. If a kid in my class says "That's so gay" or "That's retarded," I'll say, "Not in my classroom," but I won't do the same for "That's lame."

Melodramatic, sure, but that behavior doesn't seem over the top to me for an 11 year old who has just been publically humiliated by his older brother, which is what I'm guessing it felt like to him. Embarrassment is a pretty raw emotion at that age.

(Full disclosure: I probably had a flair for melodrama myself at that age. AND I TURNED OUT TOTALLY FINE.)

WRT hysterical: I am fine with using it to describe humor, but call my hysterical when I'm upset about something and I'm gonna go for the knives. Not just me, I will call people on it if they describe an angry or upset woman as hysterical, because IME it is always used to dismiss her concerns.

Go Gracie! I hope everything goes perfectly tomorrow.

I don't like "lame," but it's not to the point where I'd confront someone about it. If a kid in my class says "That's so gay" or "That's retarded," I'll say, "Not in my classroom," but I won't do the same for "That's lame."

Yeah, like I said, if the MC had just used it unthinkingly or whatever, I would've flinched and moved on, and probably not said anything except maybe in that moment leaned over to the friend next to me and said "lame? really?". But since it went on....yeah.