We spent a couple of hours this morning reprocessing and upgrading shipping on 500+ orders that FedEx seems to have misplaced. So that was fun. December, man.

I made up for my week of slothiness by going to 3 of my doctors offices and enrolling 7 of my doctors in ePrescribing of controlled substances. An annoying process. Lucked out and arrived in time for one of their holiday parties at lunch time and was well fed! They also gave me my 2nd shingles vaccine, so kind of mixed visit. Oh but the yummy catered food!! I really have to visit my doctors on Fridays more often.

We're still at the hospital because Tim had some unexpected bleeding (an iv was pulled loose while he was dozing, so no one noticed immediately). It looked like something out of a horror movie, for real. He bled so much that they had to get him a new bed. He's fine, but they wanted to observe him for another couple of hours to be sure everything was okay. Hopefully we'll be home within the hour. I was up at 5 this morning and I am so beat.

Oh! The procedures went fine — they got a good look at his floppy mitral valve, and the cardiologist is pretty sure it can be repaired with a minimally invasive approach, so yay!

Yay for good results!

Timelies all!

Yay for good results for Tim!

Yay for good results for Tim's floppy mitral valve! No more bleeding!

Man, I am tuckered out. Having reheated spaghetti-n-meatballs for dinner. There's a ribeye in the fridge but I'm too tired to cook it. Tomorrow, slab o' meat. I'll most likely grill you tomorrow.

I'm glad the results were good, Steph.

That sounds so scary Steph, but I am glad for the good results!

Msbelle- Aidan pretty much plays video games. He likes animals. He doesn't really seem to be seriously doing the school search- Maria says he is considering forestry. I think he is more into it than Sylvia was, but still not too into it.

Sylvia does seem to be OK right now working as a patient room cleaner at a hospital. She has a regular schedule. Maria was sort of a late academic bloomer too, so I think she doesn't want to force college too soon. When she went back in her 40s she was super successful. It is hard because her family is very academic (her dad a professor, mom a teacher, brothers and extended family all with advanced degrees). We are sort of opposite because I am the first person in my family to graduate from a 4 year college, and also the only one to attend. My mom dropped out of nursing school and got a 2 year degree in Art as an adult. My one uncle did a two year degree in accounting as an adult. None of my cousins attended college, but did well in trade school

Any hoodie, that was a digression, but I settled on an Amazon gift card for Aidan, and maybe the same for Sylvia. I also have a button maker that Sylvia requested, but it is maybe better to be equal.

I got my first manicure last night. I loved it. She did acrylic "covers" of my own short nails and painted them red! She was super nice, even though I was super nervous about the appointment. She said I could continue to do this, or if I hated it, she would take it off, or I could get super short tips (I don't like keyboard clacking)

Teppy, sorry about the bloody scare. I hope you have Tim home by now and that everything goes so smoothly that it is boring.

msbelle, I did a quick skip & skim since I've last been here. You've had a helluva lot of changes, lately. Good luck with the job search and your move. All the best wishes for Mac, too.

My girl's taking a semester off. It's so surprising college hasn't been her thing, but it just hasn't. She's 21 now. She's going to be a barista, at least for the near future. I am being hands off. She needs to work full time, pay for her phone, and get ready to pay her loans when they come due in June. I wish she were facing the future differently, but I just want her to be happy.

My younger son is feeling well and is anxious to get back to college in January. He's our academic and aside from having to deal with the Crohn's disease, it's frustrated him that it's interrupted his plans.

Older son and DH are both job hunting. I'm trying to figure out what's next for me.

I mean, I had an English and Theatre degree and was first gen, so all it did,if I wasn't working in theatre, was make me qualified for a basic office job which probably made about as much money as SYlvia does! And she would not be suited to an office, I don't think. She will find her way. I think she would do well to get her own apartment and just try living because she and her mom just sort of fight about everything and anything Maria thinks she should or needs to do means she won't do it. Which I totally get! Maria is also intense and a little scary sometimes. We are actually toying a little with the idea of SYlvia being my roommate as a starter, because I care, but I am not going to like, cook her dinner every night separate from my dinner or tell her she shouldn't spend her money on Uber. But I actually can't drive her to work instead of Uber or the bus, which is what Maria does because she can't stand the thought of spending that money.

Aidan, for all how tall and grown he looks, is still so very much a little boy, I kind of don't want him to go to away to school yet. I mean no smoking, drinking, partying, girls. He just likes to play video games with his friends from school, who are delightfully good kids too, watch Comedy videos and play with animals. The thought of him in a raucous college environment sort of scares me. I didn't take well to it and commuted after the first year, but you can't commute from forestry school!