colliemommie | After long silence...

Well hi, LJ...guess what, I'm not actually dead!
There has been much crap going on in my neck of the woods lately, and I just haven't felt like posting, or even had the time to get my thoughts in order.

mmegaera, I am so sorry about flaking out on that reading I promised to do. I am more than ready to do it now if it will still be helpful. And I am very excited about your paper editions coming out! That prototype looked gorgeous!

Dad has been in and out of the hospital, and I'm concerned about Bruce not managing his health as well as he needs to with the artificial heart valve. Robs and I ran away from home for a week at the beginning of August to visit my aunt in Minnesota. Coming home was actually incredibly depressing...I wasn't gone long enough to actually miss anyone, and it seemed so unfair. :-(

But I'm back and reasonably well-adjusted again. Jenn took me and the kids to the Pittsburgh Renn Faire for my birthday, and I managed to scrape together a Tudor gown and hat for Robby. (I'm being very modest. I made the sucker and it is amazing and Edward VI can take a hike because my kid is so much more beautiful than he was in the Holbein portrait.) Katrina wanted to wear her Sleeping Beauty dress and glass slippers.

Katrina started Montessori preschool this week. So far her favorite part is getting to wash dishes after snack. Hopefully she's less splashy there than at home. I think this is a good fit for her.

Glencora had a bug bite or something on her neck that swelled up alarmingly for two days, but now has disappeared without a trace. I think she does it just to fret me.

I've been referred to an endocrinologist for the thyroid/hormone/why does my body act like I'm pregnant issue. Unfortunately I couldn't get anything earlier than October.

Bruce's car is persistently not working, no matter what he does to it. Mom's been out of town this week, so we've had the loan of hers, but come Sunday I'm going to be SOL with two kids and no car until further notice. I'm hoping Dad might let me use his for a few days; he's recently decided that it's not safe for him to drive. To which I give a resounding NO SHIT! It hasn't been safe for him to drive since the stroke last fall.

Jenn and I have one hell of a sewing project planned, but that's for another post. I've been keeping up with reading, so I'm glad to know everyone else is hanging in there. Cats and being cat-like, and babies are growing way too fast, but that's nothing new.