Halloween was amazing and bittersweet and sad and funny and wonderful.  I am not sure exactly what the future holds for the Cheerleaders, but there will still be performing and sexiness and fun.  I hope people go out for the show tonight, even if we aren't going to be dancing ( Read more... )

Good news: as far as they can tell, I don't have lupus. My white blood cell count was low (which I believe does happen with lupus), but the proteins and whatnot were not indicative. If I do have another face rash issue or other symptoms, I will make an appointment with the actual clinic rheumatologist (instead of the internal medicine doctor I saw ( Read more... )

This update is for Erik, who says I never update my blogs. Which is really only true for my LJ, because I keep my knitting blog updated and my IAM account is expired. Most of my online time is either Craftster or Ravelry these days ( Read more... )

It's been awhile since I posted ...

My mom is still in the hospital. She went into the hospital on July 2 -- I think she had about a week in late July when she was home, but went back to the ER with stomach pains and has been moving between ICU and Intermediate Care ever since. She's been in the hospital so long that she has to do rehab/physical ( Read more... )

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I got a call from the district attorney's office yesterday; the girl who robbed me pled guilty and will be sentenced June 8. They asked me if I wanted to give an elocution, and of course I do. I talked to them a couple of weeks ago when they said they were working on a plea deal, and they asked if I thought she should do jail time (because her ( Read more... )

95% finished ... just need to go back and add blue to the water.


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My chest tattoo is finished ... for now. I think we will probably go in and add blue to the water after it's all healed up. Despite the size difference between the goldfish and the koi, it's nicely balanced by the water and the cherry blossoms ( Read more... )

I will put up a better (i.e. non-camera-phone) picture when I have one, but some horrible ailment killed Honey Sweet's camera at work so this was our option.


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Here it is ... a close-up, and then a shot showing the placement. Obviously, it's sort of icky because it's fresh and peel-y.


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