| Ten minutes earlier... |
[Sep. 19th, 2008|03:15 pm] |
Fiery Doom Girl: "Daddy, can I watch TV? I want Dora."
check satellite menu - no Dora on kids' list of channels. Not now, not in the next hour. K. Handy Mannny looks good.
FDG: *pokepoke* "Daddy, Mickey Mouse is one. I don't want Mickey Mouse. I want Dora."
Me: "Sorry, punkin pie, there's no Dora."
FDG: Yes, there is!" *sleevetug*
okay, no mouse today. Kids' list says -- Dora for the next hour-and-a-half on the YouShouldHaveSeenItEarlier Channel. Fine.
*click*
Television: "Where does Dora have to go next? ... To the Big Mountain!"
whew. another crisis solved.
FDG: I don't want that one. I want Dora to go to the beach! *pause for internal monologue* *nodnod* "Yes. That's what I want."
Y'know, folks, in my day, we went where TV told us to go. We didn't argue with TV. And we were grateful.
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| Better than English |
[Sep. 19th, 2008|03:12 pm] |
Conversation this morning ....
Adult: Why are you getting dressed in the hallway? That's not appropiate.
Fiery Doom Girl: It's my propriate!
I love my kid.
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| Blarg. |
[Mar. 5th, 2008|12:20 pm] |
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We are not happy. We are, however, violently unwell. |
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| Birthday cheering! |
[Jul. 24th, 2007|02:30 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | work | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  crazy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Pachelbel, Canon in D | ] |
Zooooole ...
Zooooole ...
Becky, Becky ...
Zoole Zoole Zoole!
Becky, Becky ...
Zoole Zoole Zoole!
Happy Birth Yay!
(This all works better if yiou have muppets in your head. Which I do.) |
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| Happy belated bithday, Jiggercat! |
[Jul. 9th, 2007|10:51 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | in the cube farm | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  grateful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Greatful Dead, "Terrapin Station, Pt 1" | ] |
I hope you had a wonderful time on your birthday, and many more to come.
Many hugs --
G |
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| Oddly triste, I am. |
[Jun. 19th, 2007|02:55 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Corporate Building | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  gloomy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "The Memory of Trees", Enya | ] |
I've been spending part of the afternoon on a lovely piece of work on Slate: "What the First Moviegoers Saw."
The video slide show that goes with it has been tripping a hot button that ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) axejudge and I share, an obscure one: very early film. But that's not what's gotten me posting.
Number Eight on the slide show is Feeding the Baby, 1895, Cinématographe Lumière. The entire film is 33 seconds and, well, it's about a couple feeding their tiny child at the table while the camera films from just the other side of the table. And then I did the numbers: the child, in 1895, is old enough to eat food. even if he were the world's oldest man, he'd be gone now.
As the parent of a two-point-five-year-old, that hit me harder than perhaps it should. |
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| Yay for the birthday kitty! |
[Jun. 19th, 2007|02:33 pm] |
Happy happy, precious one.
Call soon. There must be coffee. And dishin' of the dish. |
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| Okay, so what was a probability is now a certainty ... |
[Jan. 22nd, 2007|12:47 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  confused | ] |
Apparently LJ will only let you scroll back so many hundreds of entries. I'm rather abruptly done with my catchy-uppy work.
And here I thought that finishing earlier than expected was something that only happened to other men ... |
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| An apology to all my many friends ... |
[Jan. 22nd, 2007|11:10 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  embarrassed | ] |
When I say "it's been a while wince I've had time for LJ," I don't mean that I haven't posted since the end of September, although this is true.
I mean that it's been about a month since I've had time to read LJ. I've been trying to catch up, but I am blessed with many friands, and many of you are prolific. I've been reading til my eyes bleed for three days now, and I'm only back to the 10th of January.
Since the 10th of January was my birthday, this means I'm just now getting to see all the birthday wishes and other happygrams that so many have been kind enough to post.
Many thanks! Yes, it was a good day, if by "good day" you mean "Boss, I'm going home home after only an 11-hour day because I want to have dinner with my famn damily, and I don't much care who doesn't like it." It kinda picked up ater that, tho ... :-)
Yes, it is true: I'm blaming a month of minimal socializing on the Work Thing. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. Well, that and the holidays had something to do with it. And the baby (who's now TWO!) And stuff.
Anyway, I'm almost certain to have missed -- maybe forever -- something important that you posted lately. Sorry.
Kthxbye. |
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| Gandalf |
[Sep. 25th, 2006|07:16 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | home | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  melancholy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "Fire of Unkown Origin" | ] |
Gandalf has gone.
He seems to have left his body behind.
If you hear a kitten, lost and crying, please be a little kind. It could be my boy; he might be lost. Not very brainy, as cats go. More of a saber-toothed squirrel, actually.
We don't know what happened. No violence, no apparent injury or disease, no excess of years. "Old age shall not wither..."
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| Yes, it's true .... |
[Sep. 6th, 2006|04:59 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | still at work | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | grateful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "Hare Krishna," Hair Soundtrack | ] |
As alluded to in otterhill's post, unless the crick rises, I will become a real employee as of the 18th of this month. Inshallah.
What does this mean? Well, there's a scosh more money, and better health insurance(also more affordable), and I really need to start a 401(k) fund if Little Bits is going to go to college in 2023 or so. ...
Perhaps most dramatically, it means that anybody in the banking industry might talk to me about moving out of my parents' basement the Isle of MAN. No time soon, you understand: not only is our financial situation every bit as dire as otterhill states, but I also have no interest whatsover in leaving our housemates high and dry. They'd be in deep(er) kimchee without that rental income, and I'd kind of like to take them with us when we do leave, which means that the target for any New Celestial House would be next summer.
In the meantime, it's at least a chance to breathe a little easier. One less thing to worry about... |
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| And now it can be told ... |
[Sep. 6th, 2006|04:54 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | work, dammit. | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | "I Got Life," Hair Soundtrack | ] |
Again, I'd just link to this, but I've recently developed a distaste for dysfunsctional LJ gadgetry and geegaws. Accordingly, I'm plaintexting everything until I can figure out WTF. Anyway, here is the recent post by otterhill that allows me to discuss these issues:
I’ve been very poor at posting lately. I stared Chemo on the 10th of August and have just had my second cocktail dose. Currently I get three chemo drugs and a steroid and an anti nausea medication IV through my port and I have to go in the day after chemo and get a nuelasta shot to boost my white cell count. But I also have a cream to numb the port before they access it, a three day anti nausea pill, a 5 day course of steroids, a four times a day anti nausea for a week and an anti nausea pill that is taken as needed. And that is just the prescription medication. I also on ibuprofen 4 times a day and anti diarrhea meds and anti constipation meds as needed.
Between the surgeon, the oncologist, the Oncology Nurse practitioner and the wound care specialty and soon to be added lymphadema specialist I see a doctor or a nurse 1 to twice a week. This results in a $40 co pay or a co-insurance amount that is my responsibility. The co-insurance caps at $2000, but I still have to come up with the money to pay it. Plus the co pays on all the drugs I take run about $160 a month plus all the non prescription meds and the would care supplies that are not covered by insurance. That adds up to another $200 per month until the wound care issue is over.
Other important developments – The wound under my left has almost closed. There is still the tiniest of holes left. I see the wound guys on Tuesday and hopefully they will clear me for both prosthesis fitting and lymphadema treatment referral.
-- I got the results of my Breast cancer gene testing, I am BRAC1 positive, this means with the Breast cancer in both breast and multiple small cyst on my ovaries that as soon as the chemo is over, I will be having a complete abdominal hysterectomy with ovary removal. I am hoping to have a plastic surgeon on board the team so the he /she can result my tummy area. I have already been told by one surgeon that is common in women of size because it make the healing easier. After that is all done, Then I can focus on if I will have breast reconstruction surgery and fully of make them .
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