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Sharing my feeling is good....: busy

We had a pretty decent day filled with a relaxing time, a little baking, and just hanging around.

That was before we went to the family thing.

Don't get me wrong, I love my family, I just don't particularly like them. Oh, they're ok most of the time. But through various ways that might be considered dubious, a couple of them live in large, expensive, houses that are furnished with things that could probably pay for my house a few times over. Just the place you want to take your two year old, yeah? So, rather than actually getting to talk to anyone or try to be civil and family like, we spend all of our time watching Liam like a hauk to make sure he doesn't bump, break, or otherwise harm anything. So lots of tension and can't really respond to anyone because we are constantly redirecting Liam. Sure there are toys, but there are lots of things, expensive things, that he's not seen before and look really cool and enticing to a 2 year old.

And it didn't help any that they told us about 10 times to be sure and be there BY 5. It started right AT 5. Don't be late, because we will start without you, etc., etc., etc. So we show up at 4:40 figuring that would be good and Liam wouldn't have to wait too long before the meal started. But, about 5pm they announced it would be at least another hour. Great. Liam's hungry and we're in this huge expensive house.

Well, guess what? We failed. About 10 minutes before dinner's ready he saw it. The nice big crystal elephant, and he got to it just before Mr IR did. Just as he grabs it, Mr IR very sternly says "no!" and of course 2 year old Liam knows that means to get your hands off...so he drops it like a hot potato. *facepalm*

Nice big crystal elephant is now missing an ear and part of a tusk. Which lead to the 80 year old ass that is my uncle grabbing Liam by the arm and yelling at him to keep his hands off everything. (Which very nearly lead to me shouting at him to get his hand off my son and leaving.) Of course we apologize to my aunt and tell her we'll replace it. But I can't find anything close that doesn't cost a few hundred dollars. I'm about ready to throw my hands up and say too bad.

Is it worth it? All the tension? The total lack of anything resembling family fun and joy of being together? It seems like the older I get, the less I like them.

Ah well, enough bitching. The rest of my day was good. No work tomorrow. It'll be a good day.

Sharing my feeling is good....: bitchy

Here's hoping your ritual sacrifice goes well today! May it please the god (or goddess) you offer it up to, as well as your friends and family! And who knows, maybe a mortal stranger or two.

Sharing my feeling is good....: thankful

We are redoing the floor in the hallway. We are going to continue the wood laminate in there. In prep, we pulled up the carpet. Unexpectedly, there is a half-dollar size hole in the floor in one spot. About what you would expect for some sort of gas pipe, etc., only there is no pipe there. Well, since we pulled up the carpet, things have gone missing around here. Today, Rosebud spotted Liam dropping something down the hole. So Mr IR got the flashlight and peered through the hole and...holy moley we've hit the motherload! *g*

In view are several butter knives, a couple of Mr Ir's good screw drivers, a bag of cheetos (how'd he get those through there?), and a corn skewer. Goodness knows what else is down there.

Only problem is, it's on top of the basement ceiling, kind of right in the middle. So we have to go through the crawl space, and somehow figure out how to get to the middle of the basement ceiling to get all that stuff.

Just goes to show you, if there is a hole...children will put something in it!

Sharing my feeling is good....: amused

( Spoilers Big Time! Just saying. )

And while one can draw innumerable comparisons with the characters of the Jossverse, Supernatural is its own story. And while Joss will certainly take a stab and laugh at the show, himself, and wink at the fandom, maybe even try to persuade them as to his intent, I don't think he would outright mock them in the serious way that Kriple and Edlund have. Was it a friendly ribbing, or was it a reprimand to certain less than desirable aspects of fandom?

Ah well, in conclusion, I miss Castiel!

Sharing my feeling is good....: contemplative

Bwahahaha... no, really?

Trust me when I say this, because as a nurse I am being completely straight with you, the one thing you never want to hear from a doctor you are paying to evaluate your problem, is that you are "interesting". I don't know if there is anything worse than being "interesting" in the medical sense. *g* I once said that to a doctor when he commented about an "interesting" case. He laughing and said that is very true.

Which is what I did when the pain management doctor made the comment that I'm not the average patient. I laughed. He's right. And yes, I am "interesting" in the medical sense. If my family had a crazy rare inheritable problem, I inherited it. I inherited things that most doctors learn out in medical school but are told they will "never see a patient who has this." I'm just lucky that way.

(But for the most part, I ignore them. *g*)

But hey, the doctor was very thorough and comprehensive. I liked him. He only annoyed me once. Maybe twice. He very clearly explained what was going on, and what we can do to fix it. He did do a little head and beard scratching since I'm such an interesting person and present some unique challenges. After all, I'm not the average patient.

Anyway, they can fix my pain. Yay! Not today, because they have to get the insurance to authorize everything first of course. But they can make my head feel better. So I say "yay" to that!

Sharing my feeling is good....: amused

The Pain medicine people had another cancelation and can work me in tomorrow! Thank goodness I don't have to go through the weekend like this. The nurses at work didn't seem too bothered by the short notice absence, but we'll see how the ones from on high feel about it tomorrow. (They were all gone by the time I got the call.) Then again (ah), I am thinking that (ah) they might be a little (ow) tired of me (ow) spending all day like (ow) this.

I'm just amazed that I'm still running into people who I haven't explained why I stop every few seconds and grad the side of me head and grimace.

Yay for getting my head fixed tomorrow!!! (ahahaha...like THAT is possible! Ahahaha.)

(and yes, all of my children are still alive, thank you for asking. *g*)

Sharing my feeling is good....: happy

I love them. And on occasion I want to choke the living $%&^ out of them. *g*

I'm cleaning off my desk at home this evening, when I notice this little piece of paper with a phone number on it. I recognize the phone number as belonging to the pain medicine doctor with whom I have an appointment on the 23rd so he can fix my wonky nerve that makes me want to rip of part of my scalp. Nothing else is written on the paper, just the phone number.

So I roam around the house asking each of the girls who wrote the phone number down and why. Finally get to the transplanted rose and she says, "oh yeah, I forgot to tell you....your doctor's office called and they moved your appointment up. I think it was today sometime. Sorry!"

AAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!

I was on the cancelation list. My head could be better right now.

Sorry?! SORRY?!?!?!

Sharing my feeling is good....: annoyed

71 years ago Kristallnacht was taking place.

If you don't know what that was, then this is the perfect opportunity for you to learn a bit of history. I do not bring this very sensitive subject up to shame or spotlight any particular people, country, or religion. But rather, I bring it up to highlight what can happen when religious intolerance becomes the bedfellow of political power.

And it doesn't have to be religious intolerance. Iintolerance to any subgroup of people can result in this kind of sanctioned hate crime. When we start thinking of people in terms of "us" and "them", and how infinitely right we are, which means that "they" are infinitely wrong, this can happen again. And again, and again, and again.

When we forget what happened, or excuse it, we begin setting the stage for it to happen again. And it is becoming so distant an occurrence, that people are already forgetting.

And people are still hating. People are still being intolerant of those who are different. Those who aren't "us".

So take a moment tonight, to meditate on the past. Tomorrow, continue to work on changing the future.

Sharing my feeling is good....: contemplative

Turns out some of it is in my neck!

So, my headaches have changed this weekend to this really blinding, stabbing ice-pick of doom, sort of thing. Always in the same place and sort of branching from there. Has my complete and undivided attention when it happens. Sure, it only lasts a few seconds, but WHOA MAMA!

Turns out this is a classic symptom, and the headaches I've been having for weeks (months) now are sort of the precurser. But now it's full out assault!

It's called Occipital Neuralgia. And it's what happens when you have a pinched nerve at the C2 level, the nerve that feeds the scalp. Hence my headaches.

If you could imagine what it might feel like to get shot in the head about 100 times a day...this would be it.

Sharing my feeling is good....: crappy

I have a couple pounds of carrots, and two good size fiarytale pumpkins. Any suggestions other than making a dozen pumpkin pies and carrot cakes? Not that there's anything wrong with pumpkin pie and carrot cake, mind you. Just looking to cook something different.

So, any suggestions?

Sharing my feeling is good....: hungry

First of all, I want to say thank you to everyone for your wonderful thoughts, energy, and prayers. My headaches do seem to be a bit better. Still an every day occurrence, but at least they aren't ALL day, or as bad as they were. So perhaps they are on the way to resolving.

Second, the MRI. I have reviewed the films myself, and there are no signs of growths, tumors, or anything worrying. It did show plenty of deep sinus inflammation, which is likely what has been causing my headaches. (Likely in concert with stress.) We already knew that my frontal sinuses are very abnormally small, but they are there.

Fixability (hey! I made a new word!) is questionable. We have already tried nasal steroids, allergy medicine, and anti-inflammatories. I did allergy shots years ago, which helped my asthma, but did nothing for my sinuses. I've done sinuses washes to clean them out. I've also tried just leaving them alone. I really don't want to start on the path of pain meds. Nor do I really want to contemplate surgery. The only thing that seemed to have helped was a short course of oral steroids I took a while back for bronchitis. It got rid of my headaches for a brief period. But that certainly isn't a long term solution.

So it seems that we are left with a watch and wait scenario. Particularly since they seem to be getting somewhat better.

Again, thanks to everyone for your wonderful thoughts and prayers!

Sharing my feeling is good....: grateful

If you could sent a thought or vibe this way, it would be appreciated.

( cut for those who don't want to read )

So, if you could spare a thought, or vibe, or prayer my way that everything looks good and that my head stops hurting, I would be very, very, grateful!

Sharing my feeling is good....: worried

Big shiney happy birthday wishes to a wonderful, splendiferous, stupendous person, who also writes some kickass stories!

Woohoo!!!! I passed the exam. I am now an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant!

Sharing my feeling is good....: ecstatic

Today is our anniversary, Mr IR and I. Sometimes I wonder how it can be so long, and others I think there is surely a year or two missing in there somewhere. *g* We had a handful of rough periods, but we worked it through. Sometimes people ask us how on earth we can stay together so long. I tell them that I think we're just different. We never went into this with the thought that if it doesn't work out....or if this or that happens, then we can always... It is work at times. But we never considered that there was an alternative. This is something you do forever, so you might as well do it right, and make it work, even when it gets hard.

That's usually the point when people tell me that's crazy. *g*

Ah well, lquality of life and love is pretty ood in crazy land!

Using my wife icon- because although it doesn't really fit, I don't have anything else that fits better! *lol*

Sharing my feeling is good....: loved

Well, two of the four kids and Mr IR have what is probably the flu. So it's lots of vitamin C, silver, and some herbals for all. I would guess that about 30 to 40% of my city has this crud right now. Ah well, at least we'll all have good immunity to it when it rolls back around again.

Sharing my feeling is good....: tired

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Sharing my feeling is good....: tired

I just found out they are shooting season 2 of Being Human!

YYYAaaaaaaayyy!!!

Sharing my feeling is good....: happy

Don't suppose anyone has 2x02 of Sons of Anarchy? The transplanted rose missed it the other day and is just dying for her fix. (And who am I to throw stones? *lol*)