Looking good, -t!

Continued best thoughts to your sister, Burrell.

All of that, while boring, should be filed under, "Why I Won't Win Mom of the Year."

Also, I dyed my hair (and my ears, my neck, my shoulder, a bit of my forehead and my right hand). Blargh.

oh Kat! Poor Noah.

None of that was boring, Kat! What's "mermaided" mean?

Continuing job~ma for Jilli and Amy.

Someone send me some health~ma to get me over this cold. It's dragged on for a week now. Enough already; I've got shit to do that doesn't involve dripping and sneezing!

That's a great cut on you, -t!

All the words are spelled correctly, yet it fails to make sense.....

And yet I am pretty sure there are people who still have grudges against me for not being a note-sender. I should send thank you cards in the mail, but I just don't operate that way in my brain. I try to be mindful that other people aren't spacetoasters and like being thanked, so my thank yous usually happen in person, via email, or sometimes a random gift.

When I get thank you notes, I almost find them perplexing. I'm a fixer. Once I've completed a thing, I'm on to the next thing, and thinking about the thing after that.

Oh Burrell, best thoughts for your sister and for you.

I had other stuff to respond to, but I have forgotten.

Zenkitty, we call it mermaiding (or mermanning) when a kid puts both legs in one pantleg. This happens with surprisingly more frequency than one might assume.

I am a thank you card sender and a half. We send them to family for Christmas presents as well as birthday presents. I also send them to my students when they send a gift (on the rare occasion that they do).

Thank you notes are a big deal on one side of my family. I've recently transitioned from handwritten thank you notes to emails.

-t, I LOVE LOVE LOVE your haircut! So awesome!

Burrell, thinking of you and your sister. Fingers crossed that this treatment does more good than harm. Much more.

My new stylist asked what I wanted to do and I said I didn't really know, just something different and she was all "Yay I get to be creative!" I am very pleased.

Minus-t, you look so pretty with that haircut! Total win.

If it's any consolation, continuous IV infusion is sometimes less hard on the patient, because concentration in the blood is lower. It's a lower level over a longer time.

Thanks yes, Ginger, that's a huge consolation. I was reading on how hard it is to tolerate as an IV push 5 days in a row so I was very worried. Now I can just think of it as roughly equivalent. Plus it means they'll keep her under observation

How are you doing?

The short answer is I'm fine. I'm getting a bit rough around the edges, as are the kids, but we are all fine. If I could make it happen, I'd like a few good nights' sleep in a row and an entire day off from both work and Liz duty. But in a weird way, this kind of thing also brings out huge wells of gratitude, so I am also feeling incredibly grateful for all the bounty in my life.