Having turned this thing on again, I ought to use it, eh ( Read more... )

Yay! Thanks to an unexpected cancellation today, mom was able to see the ( excellent) neurosurgeon today instead of next month. The tumor is a menengioma, almost surely benign, and may have been there for 20 years. Slow growing. Surgery isn't worth the risk at all and not needed. Either watchful waiting with regular MRIs, or Gamma Knife, which ( Read more... )

The 100 things meme sounds fun (if daunting).  And doing 100 things I'm Grateful For would be a good thing for me for various ways, since there's some stuff in my life right now that is making me grumpy.

So.

I'm grateful for late spring.

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Back from Chicago -- it's sort of mindblowing, seeing tulips blooming in Chicago at the end of March!  My conference talk on Friday went well enough, and it was lovely to have the weekend with my fambly.  My brother's new dog Scout is adorable; very very sweet and calm and a total cuddlebug.  He's going to be a big guy, so it's a good thing he's ( Read more... )

It's March -- and that means Colon Cancer Awareness Month.  So here's the PSA ( Read more... )

Good morning, flist!  This week has been work and fighting a virus.  Such excitement, I don't know how to tell you ( Read more... )

No enormously new things here, so how about another stream-of-my head ( Read more... )

A small look inside my head this morning:

It's not quite noon and I'm doing ok for someone who slept until nearly 9am.  I've had breakfast AND lunch (food is important, after all), I'm dressed (what, yoga pants and a Dr Who tee doesn't count as dressed?) and I have this week's recipe in the crock pot (I'm trying to cook once a week.  This time it's ( Read more... )

I have always always been a bookworm.  I still remember the triumph when I read my first pages on my own, and books are simply a given in my life ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a good day.  Sort of exhausting, but good ( Read more... )