1st - Meeting the extended family and friends at the funeral of my mother-in-law-to-be (or would-have-been) created a decidedly odd dynamic.

2nd - I would have never imagined how good being told "Mazel Tov!" could make me feel.  A close second was, "We're your cousins!"

Thank you to everyone who responded to my last post ( Read more... )

Questions for you all:

How important is it to you that your actions follow your opinions?

How important is it to you that other people's actions follow their stated opinions?

Why?

After a very long line of tests, specialists, and other medical musings, we have identified a "definate problem" that "could definately be causing all of the symtoms" that I have described (all of the nerve pain, vertigo, weakness, migraines, etc).  We'll see how it goes ( Read more... )

My friends are awesome.  The amount they care about me has been demonstrated very clearly to me through how much joy they have taken in my happiness and future happiness.  Thank you all so much for being happy to share my joy.  Many of you are also simply goofy and odd - which I love.  Here are some of the things that have been said regarding my ( Read more... )

Yes

I have been learning so many interesting things at physical therapy.  One thing that I have learned is that there is a set of muscles in the neck that, when they become too tense, put pressure on some nerve/blood vessel combination that, in turn, creates extremely intense nausea.  (This is not the point of this post, but necessary to understand the ( Read more... )

"All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arrive ( Read more... )

I am laying in bed with the sun shining on my skin, the wind blowing through the maple leaves outside of the open window,

and I have the internet.

:D

And that is okay.

We do our best, except sometimes we don't, and even when we do, wopak happens.

And that is okay.

Footnote:  For those of you unfamiliar with the usage, "wopak' is "kapow" spelled backward.  "Kapow" in this usage means general awesomeness and any particular positive in specific.  "Wopak" is, well, the opposite.