My aunt has been in the ICU since Thursday afternoon, sedated and on a ventilator. She has very severe bronchitis, on top of her COPD. Hopefully she will start responding to the antibiotics soon, but she will probably be in the ICU for several more days.

ETA: She is doing a little better for now. Still very sick, but not quite as bad as the doctor made it seem earlier ( Read more... )

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The thing about coming to Christmas Eve at my cousin's house is that, strangely enough, I don't really know most of the people who are here. I mean, sure, I know my mom and my aunt and uncle, and my cousin, and her husband, and their kids. But besides my mom, I pretty much only see the rest of those people twice a year, maybe three or four if we're ( Read more... )

Looking through my bookmarks and comments people have left on my stuff at Ao3 makes me realize that I used to be able to write. And it's been so long since I've felt that way.... It's like inspiration dances just out of reach, all the time, lately. I guess it doesn't help that my epic got totally jossed by movie #4, either, even though I was still ( Read more... )

So, I figured I might try the 30 days of thankfulness for November ( Read more... )

Okay, so I survived day 10 of the school year and kind of love all my kids. Even the super annoying one. (And I'm so thankful that he's not half as annoying as he could be ( Read more... )

That awkward moment when you want to post on Facebook to see if someone can translate a document for you & then realize that you're friends with your school's Parent Liaison, whose job it is to translate stuff for you (but you're just too impatient to wait until she gets to it).

So tomorrow is the first day of school with kids. I'm excited but a little apprehensive too. We're going through a lot of changes at my school which will make things interesting ( Read more... )

You'll never believe what my cat Rudy did ( Read more... )