Waiting, wanting, went
Nov. 23rd, 2011 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grammarwomanIt's been another intensive month of infertility treatments, but the test today confirmed that I'm not pregnant. I had the tiniest shred of hope, but the cramps this morning pretty much put that to rest. Hey, now I can drink with reckless abandon over the holiday, right?
We're going up to my parents for Thanksgiving. It will be the first time I've seen my brother and his kids since his wife announced she wanted a divorce, and all the drama that followed that. Needless to say, she won't be there. I'm sure much mud will be flung. If I could slap her once to get it out of my system, it might be easier.
We've been trying to explain to the Emperor what's going on, and it didn't seem like it affected him at all, until he told us Monday that he'd been thinking about it at school and wrote a letter to his cousins with the help of his social skills teacher, saying that he was really, really sorry about what happened, and hoped that my nephew's leg (broken during football practice) felt better. I totally choked up when I heard that. He really is the sweetest kid when he's not driving us crazy.
I was very sad to hear that Anne McCaffrey died this week. She was one of the first non-YA sci-fi/fantasy authors I ever read, and definitely the first that I would buy any new work of hers that came out as soon as I could. I got to bond with so many people over our love for her work. Meeting one such person at a summer orientation was a strong factor in my decision to attend the residential high school that changed my life. Other people like me, who read the same kind of books that I do, that might know/own other such books I could read? Outstanding! Thanks, Anne. My only regret is that I never got to thank you in person.
I've been obsessively scrutinizing the Black Friday ads from a bunch of different sources, but aside from a little online ordering, I don't know that I'll do much shopping this weekend. Nothing looks like a good enough deal to make it worth it.
I have been kicking ass the last couple days at work, not on the stuff I'm actually supposed to be working on, but on emergency issues that have arisen. (People really shouldn't be allowed to take off days that their stuff is going live.) Now my brain is done and ready for a break.
On that note, I hope you all have a fabulous weekend, hopefully long and filled with good food and companionship.
We're going up to my parents for Thanksgiving. It will be the first time I've seen my brother and his kids since his wife announced she wanted a divorce, and all the drama that followed that. Needless to say, she won't be there. I'm sure much mud will be flung. If I could slap her once to get it out of my system, it might be easier.
We've been trying to explain to the Emperor what's going on, and it didn't seem like it affected him at all, until he told us Monday that he'd been thinking about it at school and wrote a letter to his cousins with the help of his social skills teacher, saying that he was really, really sorry about what happened, and hoped that my nephew's leg (broken during football practice) felt better. I totally choked up when I heard that. He really is the sweetest kid when he's not driving us crazy.
I was very sad to hear that Anne McCaffrey died this week. She was one of the first non-YA sci-fi/fantasy authors I ever read, and definitely the first that I would buy any new work of hers that came out as soon as I could. I got to bond with so many people over our love for her work. Meeting one such person at a summer orientation was a strong factor in my decision to attend the residential high school that changed my life. Other people like me, who read the same kind of books that I do, that might know/own other such books I could read? Outstanding! Thanks, Anne. My only regret is that I never got to thank you in person.
I've been obsessively scrutinizing the Black Friday ads from a bunch of different sources, but aside from a little online ordering, I don't know that I'll do much shopping this weekend. Nothing looks like a good enough deal to make it worth it.
I have been kicking ass the last couple days at work, not on the stuff I'm actually supposed to be working on, but on emergency issues that have arisen. (People really shouldn't be allowed to take off days that their stuff is going live.) Now my brain is done and ready for a break.
On that note, I hope you all have a fabulous weekend, hopefully long and filled with good food and companionship.
