Today I spent my last money on a lovely little coffee table for my living room area ($15 at the local thrift store), a small and sturdy folding card table to press buttons on ($2), and a pink tenspeed bike I saw at a garage sale ($4). The bike is gonna be the best investment, because I can part it out and replace my broken pedals (which are at ( Read more... )

Hey guys. As I said before, I got back in town last night, and have not yet gotten around to checking my email or DA comments. I've got a huge list of things that have gone critical in my absence, and I'll be working my way through it over the next few weeks. I tried not to worry about it too much while I was gone, because even though they drive me ( Read more... )

I've been home exactly 25 minutes and I'm still sighing in delight. My apartment smells like lilacs! My kitchen smells like a kitchen (with slightly moldy dishes from Dropping Everything And Running last month)! My computer smells like INTERNET! Not-phone-internet!

My email smells like ... complaints from people waiting on books.

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Oh, shit. ( Read more... )

Today this guy we'll call Doucheface, my sister's boyfriend's brother, told me I shouldn't be a dog owner because I hadn't picked up a pile of dog crap in the yard by the time he saw it. It was pretty messed up, I don't usually get mad like that, but that shit is a major transgression. I take fucking awesome care of my dog, and I've met this yahoo ( Read more... )

Still in NE. Bro is emerging from his post-accident agitation, though he still has delusional ideas about the time he's spent in hospital and the exact nature of his injuries. He swears they implanted stuff in his spine, and that the accident broke his fingers and they've healed, and that's proof of how long he's been there ( Read more... )

I have not been able to go home since yesterday. Bro was being mellow in the evening, but when everyone else left and I was the only one here, he refused to sleep. Lights off, didn't talk to him except when he asked questions, no joy. I caught catnaps between nurse visits, but that was it ( Read more... )

Doing the night shift again, again. I am so goddamned tired right now. It was actually easier when Jay was on the vent, because when he was sleeping all the time he didn't need constant constant stimulation. Also he wasn't climbing the walls trying to talk me into untying his hands so we could sneak out the back way ( Read more... )

I left the ICU to go let out Dog Butt von Schnöttenhund, but I barely made it through the storm. Heavy bouncing rain, no moonlight, pavenent flooded til I hydroplaned at random over neon streaks of light that hid the lane markers. There was a huge fuckoff smoky fire where i80 and i75 meet, and I had to creep most of the way here just to stay in my ( Read more... )

12 hours at the ICU last night, as mentioned before, and then 4 hours of sleep. Woke up hungry to a phone call telling me my brother was awake and talking. They took his vent out this afternoon a few hours after I went home to sleep ( Read more... )

It is 6:40 and all is well. The surgery went great--they fused his spine back in place and tell me he'll be out of the C-Collar in several months. He's still on the ventilator but is spontaneously waking up more and more (he is not happy ( Read more... )