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Dad went into surgery at 7:30 AM. The pre op nurse had him call me before he went in. It was nice to talk to him.

The operation was supposed to be 4 to 6 hours. It actually was 7. The surgeon called and said it went well, but he wasn't much of a talker so I got no details. I am concerned. We finally got to see him at 6, but he was not conscious. I am concerned. They had him zipped up in what looked like a heavy cotton sleeping bag and were blowing warm air in it. His color was good, but I did not want to stay long as I don't like seeing unconscious people like that. I watched 4 people die last year. I dont need to see it. They said that they would try and wake him up slowly since there is a lot of pain from the incisions. I will call the desk tomorrow at 8 am and see how he is then see him at 11.

My sister and partner are up to the same old shenanigans. It took us 2 hours to get home from the hospital last night because they refused to drive on the expressway or the Jamaica Way (another direct route to the hospital part of Boston. We went through every back residential street in Roxbury and Dorchester. It was ridiculous. Tonight I told them that if they did not go the Jamaica Way I would get out and Walt to the nearest train station.

Tonight the partner tells me she can't drive my sister back and forth to the hospital as she has to work and it will take 4 hours. Umm..Yeah. It's why I offered my house to you guys. Just what am I supposed to do with that info?

Then when the partner steps away my sister tells me that she may have to sleep over every night. Ummm... I asked you to tell me that a week ago so I could company clean the house. So now you are staying and paying for a hotel room. WTF.

Now I have to try to stay home and clean things and wash sheets and towels and stuff and get to the hospital. WTF

chez_jae

Southern Spells (Sweet Tea Witch Mysteries, #2)

Southern Spells by Amy Boyles

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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Juuuuuust after midnight I finished reading Southern Spells, which is the 2nd book in author Amy Boyles’ “Sweet Tea Witch” series. The main character is Pepper Dunn, novice witch.

Pepper is learning to embrace life in the magical town of Magnolia Cove, and she’s especially excited about the upcoming Cotton and Cobwebs Festival. This year, Pepper’s grandmother, Betty, is determined to have the winning entry in the magical creatures contest so as to best her nemesis, Melbalean Mayes. When Melbalean is attacked and killed at the festival, Betty becomes the prime suspect. With her Gram sidelined by the official investigation, Pepper takes it upon herself to launch her own investigation to prove Betty’s innocence. That, and Betty gives her a list of tasks that must be accomplished in order for Magnolia Cove to continue running smoothly.

A fun and quirky story. Pepper is a likable character, as are her cousins. Her gram confounds me a bit, and her aunts, Mint and Licky, are double trouble. Literally. They are chaos witches. The slow-burn romance between Pepper and Axel is coming along. We were also subjected to the return of Pepper’s nemesis, Rufus, who was allowed into town for 24 hours to attend Melbalean’s funeral. Everyone knew that Rufus had twice tried to abduct Pepper, yet he was again able to confront her in this book. Um, I thought he was meant to be under constant surveillance to ensure that wouldn’t happen again. Did it add some drama and excitement? Yes. Did it add anything at all to the plot? No.

Favorite lines:
♦ “You might be making unicorn coffee, but it won’t make you poop rainbows.”
♦ “The chicken’s the best witness we’ve found.”
♦ “Sorry, I got cat brain.”
♦ “If you had an opportunity to get back at someone and you were putting all your faith in a chicken, would you just want one chicken, or would you want to increase your odds by having two chickens involved?”

Cute story, four stars.

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Blackhawks at Predators

witchpoetdreamer

Bridgerton S4 is all out at last!

( Full spoilers ahead )

days_unfolding

I applied to volunteer for Special Events for the Humane Society (fits better with my schedule, and I'm less likely to wind up with another pet) and an organization that provides books to prisoners, which is right up my alley. The books for prisoners people emailed me back right away.

Overslept until 7:45 AM. Today is a pajama day for me.

At work, the conversion to the new ticketing system seems to be going well.

The dogs wouldn’t come in until 11:15 AM.

I way overslept my nap at lunchtime.

The cats like the bed that I bought for the top of my desk upstairs. And I haven't even plugged it in yet! I need to rearrange stuff.

I need to log back on tonight to make up my nap time.

The lamp that I liked is pending sale, but I found another one that's similar. I need to figure out how much cash to get so that I can buy furniture this weekend. $185. I’ll need to break some bills. Oh, plus $15 for end table?

I got my new ergonomic keyboard. I need to set it up.

I screwed up and forgot to soak the cat dishes. Did so and fed Lily. Submitted a grocery list for tomorrow. Fed the rest of us.

Note to self: Scan music (done) and do French homework tonight. It turns out that I don't have French tomorrow, so while I started the homework, I'll finish it on the weekend.

pauraque

This short memoir follows Jones' early life growing up as a gay Black kid in 1990s Texas, through his college years and young adulthood struggling with feelings of unbelonging and uncertain identity.

The core of the book is his relationship with his mother, who died of heart disease when he was 26. She was an iconoclast, breaking with her family's conservative Christianity to become a Buddhist, and insisted on doing things her own way, including raising her son on her own. The dynamic between them is complex; he loves and respects her, and in many ways they're close and protective of each other, yet he doesn't feel truly seen by her. His sexuality is part of the barrier—she doesn't reject him, but is resistant to talking about it—and I also got a sense of her as a person who held others at arm's length because intimacy scared her.

But Jones is not too afraid to write about his most vulnerable, self-destructive, and howlingly painful moments. ( cut for content: gay bashing ) It doesn't read like he's being too harsh on himself, and it doesn't read like he's trying to make himself look good. It reads like he's found a narrative arc in what really happened rather than editing events into artificial tidiness.

Jones is primarily a poet, and the book's emotional clarity and concise lyricism bears that out. The material is heavy, but I didn't find it depressing. Rather, I felt that the fact that he's now able to write so honestly about what he's been through demonstrates that he's achieved what he's been longing for: knowing and sharing who he really is. He doesn't need to spell out that this happened for him, because when you read the book you're holding the evidence of it in your hands.

hannah

This morning in the gym, a woman some decades my senior was doing a virtual training session with another woman in between our age brackets, though closer to her than me. I could hear and see them and they could see and hear me, but it wasn't an issue - I just grabbed a kettlebell and moved to the other side of the room.

The trainer let out a gasp and said, "Look at that girl's hair!" She'd seen my braid hanging down, and couldn't help but comment.

I won't lie: it's pretty wonderful to have something about myself that catches complete strangers' attention in a charming, positive way. And I won't lie: it was a superb moment to hear someone call me a girl. Affirming and euphoric.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: nothing now

chez_jae

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Blackhawks at Predators

marycatelli

A rare photo of Chappies the Gum-Nose Terrier, who appeared out of nowhere one day last June, barked that I don’t use enough magenta, and ran off.

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Fandom: BTS
Rating: Gen
Length: 200
Pairing: jhope/SUGA
Prompt: I love you
Summary: SUGA apologizes.

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Fandom: BTS
Prompt:
Pairing: RM/Jin
Summary: Romance novelist RM spots a fan of his work on the subway.

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ysabetwordsmith

Did you know that bathing suits used to have buttons? Back when they were jumpsuits or dresses, buttons helped with the fit. And you can still get patterns for that if you're into historic sewing or want to go swimming without exposing a lot of skin. Here's an example of a reproduction pattern from 1872. Thanks to

atherleisure for the fun historical tip.

Current Mood: amused

ysabetwordsmith

According to Dr. Bill Moomaw who coined the term, "proforestation" means growing intact existing forests to their ecological potential.

I am all in favor of stopping deforestation and protecting extant forests. However, there's more to the definition than that.

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Current Mood: busy

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Title: A Way of Her Own
Fandom: Women's Soccer RPF
Pairings: Hope Solo/Kelley O'Hara
Characters: Hope Solo, Kelley O'Hara
Rating: G
Length: 324 words
Summary: Hope constantly faces criticism about her nature. Kelley reminds her not to let them affect her.

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Poll #34295 Daily check-in poll

Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 18

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I am living single
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One other person
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Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

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~~( PH 14 - Jumurdzsák gyűrűje | Yoomurjak's Ring (Video Game), Crossover Fandom, Hallo itt Mátyás király! - Bogáti Péter, Night Prince - Jeaniene Frost )~~
( PH 22 - NoPixel (Web Series), Video Blogging RPF, 文豪ストレイドッグス | Bungou Stray Dogs )

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sovay

I hope Rob Grant would take it in the intended spirit that when I heard the news of his sudden death, all I could think was "All most of us get is 'Mind that bus!' 'What bus?' Splat!" The first six and a half series of original flavor Red Dwarf (1988–99) were a social staple of my sophomore year of college, watched primarily in my case from the top half of a bunk bed occupied by a structurally unwise number of students who would shortly branch out into whatever British television comedy we could get hold of the tapes for. It became an immediate and ineradicable part of our language. Decades later, the number of quotations from especially the first three series that have worked themselves into my present household lingo would be difficult to estimate without a rewatch. In storage with the rest of my library, I still have some of the tie-in novels, including at least one of the separately authored parallel continuations, which unfortunately for this memoriam may have been Doug Naylor's. I cannot find that I ever saw another project of Grant's except for the first series of The 10%ers (1993–96) and I am still stricken to lose yet another artist while Kissinger's heirs don't even seem to be in this machine. Not everybody has to be dead, Dave.

Current Music: Jenna Russell, "Red Dwarf"

lupine_dreaming

Been reading comics more lately, so I might make a round up posts on the stuff I read each week. Will probably give individual books their own posts when I have more in depth thoughts, but for everything else, I’ll stick my reviews in a round up post.

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Have you already decided what fandom(s) to write for? If so, how about doing a little promoting? :D

We've all chosen tiny obscure canons, needless to say. But by posting here you might be able to entice someone else to give it a try — or perhaps you'll even run into a fellow fan, who can't wait to read your coming fic.

Your promo can be long or short, and contain whatever you feel like. Want to post a couple of intriguing screencaps from a movie? Quote a few paragraphs from a book? Rec the best episode of an anime or a TV series? Talk about why you love your favorite character and/or pairing from your fandom? It's all good; anything goes!

tielan

So, I was reading a Thread where a guy was warning about old drives, and how they might not last very long anymore because of degradation of the components used in them.

So, while looking for a mouse this morning, I dug up 2 old HDs (circa 2010?) and two external HDs and figured I'd kick them started and see if they worked.

And I just found the MOTHERLODE of photos!

Dating back to 2011! Including ones of my old cat, and the parentals' old cat, and friends' children as babies! WOW.

And old trips! Including a few that I thought I'd lost forever!

(Apparently, I have always taken lots of photos of builidngs!.)

Also, boy was I skinny!! Either that, or the camera made me look skinny. Oh, younger me, why did you not realise? XD

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