There are a few people who still follow me here, and a few people who I think would like to know that I'm engaged to be married ( Read more... )

My apprenticeship is going well. I've been to 18 births, 16 of witch I can count (for various paperwork related reasons), and I freaking love it. While I still get blue sometimes, I'm probably more content than I've been in ages. Almost as long as I can remember ( Read more... )

Ummm... Hi.

So I dropped off the face of the planet internetwise for a while. I've been around. Been reading like crazy, but Big Things were happening that I just couldn't deal with in front of an audience and couldn't post updates without hellacious work arounds.

I've been fighting some major ups and downs with depression and disordered eating. ( Read more... )

So much news!

I have a new job- working in a memory care ward at an assisted living really near my house. The pay is less than perfect, but it's so freaking close that I have no real complaints right now. Also, in my four days of training people have had nothing but nice things to say about me and my performance. Which rules.

Housemates are awesome ( Read more... )

Well, I just lost my job today. I have been an in-home caregiver to the elderly, specializing in folks with dementia. It was mostly due to some clerical misunderstanding. Technically I was fired, but my boss is willing to be a personal reference, so that's on my side ( Read more... )

John and Rodney of Stargate Atlantis so very very clearly traded "OMG what the hell was that someone just died in front of me buddyfuck comfort" handjobs right after The Defiant One. They didn't talk about it or anything then, but that was totally their first time. While I enjoy other interpretations this is clearly a part of canon. Atleast my ( Read more... )

Holy shit, you guys. I just had the most awesomely powerful experience I've had in a really freaking long time.

So I was dreaming this morning. Dreaming I was in a play, acting a small part of one of the seven(?) daughters in some unnamed show about the relationship between parents. Most of the dream was set backstage during the rehearsal process. ( Read more... )

Dear LOST,

in the 1970's and 1980s an unexpected breech presentation (babies coming out ass first) was not call for an immediate c-section. I know it's considered SOP now, when doctor's aren't being taught how to help breech babes come out on their own, but on a REMOTE OUTPOST where I'm gathering MAJOR ABDOMINAL SURGERY isn't routine (if they send ( Read more... )

Oh, Lordy… what couldn’t I say about birth right now? But seriously, how *awesome* is that whole process? I’m so so willing to talk about how scary it looks. How loud it is. It is primal in a way most Western culture is *deeply* uncomfortable with. Organic. Raw. Painful. Powerful. Sweaty. Slippery. Sexy. Open. Intense. Birth is *hard.* It’s called ( Read more... )

Drive by posting for the new year ( Read more... )