Double Mischief

What I Did on Mother's Day (part 1, 10am to 1pm) by Katya, age 49

Sun, 13 May 2018 21:08:54 GMT

( tl;dr - the day is not off to an auspicious start )

Warning: contains spiders.

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Even the 23-year-old needs Mom sometimes.

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:04:26 GMT

Drove onnakitty to the dentist this morning for her oral surgery. Five teeth gone, temporary bridge-thingy done, and (maybe?) posts for future implants put in. She was drugged to the eyeballs when she was done, and was biting down on gauze on both sides of her mouth, so conversation was difficult. Her solution was to intersperse such bits of ASL as she remembered (most of which I don't remember) with made-up emphatic gestures. It was like playing charades with a drunk on the verge of blacking out: amusing and frustrating in turns.

She seemed better (albeit sleepy from painkillers) a couple of hours later when shadowbat and I finally headed home from her place, leaving her to the tender mercies of her fiance and her roommate, both of whom are off work sick today.

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Reflecting back on shadowbat's first year of high school

Wed, 25 May 2011 20:45:04 GMT

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The consequences of not buckling down

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:19:41 GMT

Apparently the college I'd been doing my distance education program through is closing down. I haven't been checking in regularly and I missed most of the lead-up to this. I really have no one to blame but myself; I should have been done with the program by now, but I let life interfere and now I'm out the tuition for the full B.S./M.S./N.D. program. *sigh*

I could probably transfer some of my existing credits (two semesters short of my B.S.) to another institution, but I'm already tens of thousands of dollars in the hole and I have neither the money nor the drive to do so.

I guess I'll just consider it an idiot tax and a sharp reminder of why procrastination is such a problem.

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I do not think that word means what you think it means...

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 20:04:35 GMT

( Cut for long-ass rambling about the new school year. )

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The State of the Me

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:47:09 GMT

I haven't really been on DW/LJ in an age. Yesterday, though, I had to connect with a friend with whom I'd lost touch, and the easiest way was a PM on LJ, so when I'd done that I started reading through my old entries, remembering what things had been like back in 2003, when I started this journal.

Wow, things have really changed. *g*

Anyway, I don't know that I can promise to keep up with journaling in the future any more than I have in the past, but I figured I'd post here and get it on the record:

I'm happy.

I'm happy with my smart, beautiful, kind, generous, sometimes pain-in-my-butt kids. I'm happy with my life. I'm happy with where I'm living. I'm happy with the new friends I've made and the old ones who've been here all along. And while I can't officially speak for onnakitty and shadowbat, they seem pretty happy, too.

I can't say that everything is roses (or perhaps some other metaphor to which I am not allergic *g*) all the time. For instance, not a day goes by that I don't think about why our lives have changed so drastically in the last few years; I suspect that's going to be true for the rest of my life. And to say that it doesn't make me angry anymore would be a lie, because it does — every single time I think about it. Angry on behalf of my kids, and angry on my own behalf. There's a whole lot of other negative emotions tied up in there, too, and I suspect that I'll be untangling those for a hell of a long time.

But the other 99.99999% of the time? I'm happy.

I sincerely hope you can say the same.

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