Pa has been ok, if a little unsteady. Ma says he fell once, but it was a gentle fall, where he sat down unexpectedly on the floor. He wasn't hurt at all, mostly just surprised. He's actually a black belt, and knows how to fall. This is not to say he could never be injjured in a fall, especially if his brain is shut off as in during a seizure. It ( Read more... )

On Friday, just after seven a.m.,  I woke up to the sound of my cell phone ringing, not Tim's ringtone, just the generic one. By the time I sat up it had stopped, but--like always--I really had to pee, so I went into the bathroom, and while I was in there--an enternity--the landline began ringing, and kept ringing and kept rining. No generic ring ( Read more... )

Follow my brain.  Mr Moth grumbled about how professors give vague assignments and did they ever do that to me?

Are you for SERIOUS, Mr Moth?!

As a specific example I reminded him how Ms L gave us the topic of duality and I drew Gollum.


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Yesterday, on Facebook (where else?) a friend of mine posted this: Here is my response to those bitching about kids going trick or treating in neighborhoods not their own... Who cares. I'm taking my kids to [town redacted] like I did as a kid. Their great grandmother expects it and looks forward to it. If some has a problem with it they need to ( Read more... )

I feel like crap.  Still dizzy, now also out of breath and so fatigued I barely make it up the basement steps carrying a basket of laundry.  I hate this.  I hate having to ask people for help, and I hate it when I ask and they make that little exasperated sound in the back of their throats ( Read more... )

I have not been posting because I have been busy. So busy that those facebook macros that say, "People aren't really too busy, they're just making excuses," really piss me off ( Read more... )

The story thus far:  When my ovary exploded the second time they diagnosed me with scary high hypertension and put me on one BP med.  It worked, but not enough so my first post-explosion doc added a second drug.  My bp still was not what you could call low, but it was low sometimes, which made my second post-explosion doc leary of increasing ( Read more... )

Three nights a week I am in class at dinner time.  Two nights a week, so are Mr Moth and Zor.  So we have been eating microwavable crap ( Read more... )

I always thought, and even said aloud, "I'm not flexible.  In fact, I'm rigid and uncompromising ( Read more... )

I recently put a bunch of coffee cups in the goodwill box.


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