We did indeed receive almost ten inches of snow. Friday morning, after hastily shoveling just enough snow to get out of our driveway, we reversed into our unplowed cul-de-sac...and promptly got stuck. Managed to dig ourselves out fairly quickly from that one, reversed again, and...stuck several feet later ( Read more... )

Last Monday, the doctor thought Christian's eye was making a lot of improvements and had him use fewer doses of his steroid drops. Today, not enough has changed and he has to have the steroid shot directly into his eye next Monday ( Read more... )

It's not pinkeye. It's uveitis. Thank goodness we went to the eye doctor, after Christian suffered for a week with acute pain, light sensitivity, headaches, etc ( Read more... )

So I "finished" writing Book One by February 1, as scheduled. Took a day off writing and finished reading Love in the Time of Global Warming, which convinced me my own post-global warming story is indeed still worth writing. I was actually slightly disappointed by the novel, maybe because of all the hype I put towards it last entry ( Read more... )

This winter has been brutal, and I can't believe it's only about half-over (please let it be half-over!). Our gas heat provider has already had to turn to backup reserves to provide for everyone, and now they're asking us to turn our heat down to 60 degrees after a pipe exploded in Canada. Ugh, ours was already set that low! My crazy in-laws have ( Read more... )

After vowing for years to write every day, especially after participating in NaNoWriMo, I may have finally accomplished this. It is January, and I am still writing. Have I ever lasted this long after NaNo? If I have, it hasn't been with the same commitment that I have now ( Read more... )

I lost everything I wrote at work yesterday. Once again, the emailing my story back and forth has proven my downfall ( Read more... )

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Apparently, all the schools in the state will be closed on Monday already because of our extreme Arctic weather coming through this weekend. Governor order. But what about poor International Falls? Their temperatures were already sitting at -43 degrees WITHOUT wind chill...

Here's what my area's looking at, per weather.com:

A WIND CHILL WARNING ( Read more... )