I hope Penny gets a new home!

If she were staying with me, I would absolutely be calling her Penny instead of Penelope.

Work, pups, family, school

Thank you, but I don't know how impressive. At least 90% of all that is done from home. So pretty lazy.

ETA please ignore everything after "Thank you". Accepting compliments is hard, yo.

So, spent much of the day at the hospital yesterday with Mom. She's been admitted again. The vascular surgeon seemed less upbeat than previously about what can be done, what can be saved, etc. She's definitely losing another toe, but they're also talking about metatarsal something or other (where they'd basically just take everything from the end of the foot) and the words "saving the foot" also came up, scaring her and me both. Waiting today for the vascular guy to try to fit her into his schedule to see what he can do about blood flow (if anything) and for them to decide from there the best path forward. Since that's not quite tricky enough, they have to be SUPER CAREFUL with the antibiotics because they need to knock down the infection but have to try to prevent a recurrence of the c.dif. I'm so tired of all this, and I feel so bad for her 'cause it's obviously a hundred times worse for her than me.

Meanwhile, I still went last night to the Dr Who convention hotel because I had volunteered to help with setup. Thankfully there was almost nothing to do, so I mostly just hung around chatting with people, so that was pleasant. I promised to help with the party tonight as well, so trying to squeeze in a visit to my mom after work and still get there on time should be a trick.

Then I have packet pickup tomorrow morning for my 5K on Sunday morning, plus seeing Mom in the hospital and the convention both days. I was already concerned about how full this weekend was before adding in hospital visits, so this should be...interesting.

Oh dear, Epic. I hope the treatment isn't too traumatic for your mother, and you.

Finally catching up on the news and here. Hope I didn't seem all mememe in my earlier post - I literally hadn't seen any news or read in here since Wednesday. Mother of Pearl, did I miss the memo on the end of the world? So much ~ma for those of you with loved ones in danger.

~ma for your mom, Epic, and may you enjoy the good parts of your weekend, with as little worry and stress as possible.

We had rain this morning, complete with thunder. It lasted a couple of hours, and while the sky is still cloudy, they are actual *clouds*, not just a solid pall, and between the clouds are glimpses of a *blue* sky.

I wish the rain had included south and east of here, but I'm grateful to be able to breathe easier.

Health ~ma for your mother, Epic.

Biting my nails watching this storm approach. It's caused such devastation already, and it will just get worse.

At least something is finally distracting me from the Trump disaster...

Driving today and listening to MSNBC I kept thinking at least it wasn't all Trump all the time.

I'm crunching through my final paper for my Project Management Office class. It is due by midnight tomorrow but our professor has asked, if possible, us to turn them in as soon as possible because he lives in Tampa Bay area and expects to lose power and internet Sunday/Monday. I'd guess that is an understatement since Tampa has been told to evacuate. But I don't know if I'll be done today. Arrrggggg. I'm a bad enough procrastinator.

Been keeping this sort of close to the chest, because I do that with important shit. But someone told me I need to brag about myself a bit, and he's right.

After 30 years, I am no longer a smoker. Six weeks and going strong!

That is awesome, brenda!! Trust me on this, it is a freedom to be rid of the need.