Skipping and skimming a bunch.

Happy birthday, Calli!

But we also took one last set of pictures of Matilda at the top of the stairs and she wore Jacqueline's clothes. Very sweet moment.

That's lovely.

I've been having a lot of really bad pain the past few months, worse than usual, and I've been having trouble finding a doctor who'll help me deal with it. Some of it is that I need to be more proactive about making phone calls and appointments and stuff, but that's tough when I'm in this much pain and need to work. And some of it is from doctors' offices having long waits and not returning calls and so on. And I'm feeling pretty isolated -- pretty much the only people I see are at work -- and I'm stuck between "If you want a village, you need to be a villager" and "I'm in too much pain to go out and interact with people." And I need to get better at doing at least a little bit more of being a villager.