My mom's had pretty bad eye pain lately but kept putting off doing anything about it. Yesterday it was finally so bad my dad took her to the hospital, and they gave her medicine for her high blood pressure and referred her to an eye doctor. Turns out she has acute angle closure glaucoma, and she could have gone blind in one eye. She's having ( Read more... )

Summer's half over and I haven't been to the beach yet! Bad Miamian ( Read more... )

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My dad made it through the procedure,and although he feels like he was "beaten up by Mike Tyson," he is OK and should be able to come home tomorrow, which is a huge relief ( Read more... )

Been pretty blue today for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, my dad's not feeling well at all, which especially sucks since it's Father's Day. He actually had to go to the hospital for awhile because he was about to pass out at work, but he's resting comfortably now. Also, I didn't get the part time summer job I interviewed for last week ( Read more... )

Last day at Curley yesterday. Managed not to cry, but man it feels weird knowing I'm not going back to work there next year ( Read more... )

Another piece of the puzzle that is my job status for next year has fallen into place. Yesterday I got confirmation that I'll be working at another school next year, making this my last week at Curley. It hasn't quite hit me yet, even though I've known this would probably happen for awhile now. I've been at Curley for ten years, which is a ( Read more... )

Yeah, it's been awhile. Lately all of the mental energy I have available for writing has been reserved for a short story I'm working on to hopefully get published in a compilation the writing workshop I'm going to is going to put out. I have until the end of June, but I know how time flies. But even if I don't make this first compilation, there ( Read more... )

Ok, in case anyone's freaking out, those two subjects have nothing to do with each other except for both being mentioned in this post. Not sure if I'm going to write a proper full review, but for now I'm just enjoying the heck out of it. I will say that if I had to use one word to describe it, it would be retro. Along with the return to a ( Read more... )

The Save Greynolds Park group of which I am chair is starting to come together. It's a great, enthusiastic group of people (our co-chair has already made us T-shirts and buttons!),and we are planning a petition, fundraiser, and protest all within the next few months! It will be a lot of work, but it's exciting. If we can pull this off, stop the ( Read more... )