raiining's personal blog
THURSDAY Thursday
So I'm re-reading Check Please! because I've started to explore the fandom and I'm realizing that I'd missed a few (probably key) points my first time through.
I'm also LOVING the idea mentioned yesterday on the Wednesday discussion thread over at ClintCoulson about fanfic Phil being a fan of the Falconers. HAHAHAHA! THAT IS AWESOME! I think the fun thing about Check Please! is that you could make ANY fanfic character a fan (or anti-fan) of the Falconers. Check Please! could be like the Unifying Theory of Fandom.
(Steve wasn't into hockey, but Bucky enjoyed it, and what teams are the same and what has changed and ?WTF Canada and Russia and HAHAHAHAHA it would be awesome)
also: back to a full day of work today. I'm slowly getting used to the office routine? I know it says something about me that it's taken 4 years to feel like I'm fitting in here, but every year I add an extra week a month, so now I'm up to 3 weeks a month (the first and second years were both 1 week a month) so I'm only now feeling like I'm here almost full time.
It doesn't help that the hospital is changing, and the team that I'd been a part of there is breaking up. I love all the new people who have joined, but it's definitely different than it was. The work is different, too. I'm back there the last week of September and it's going to be... different. The patient allocation model has changed and our billing has changed. The WORK hasn't changed, but it's going to feel different?
Being part of an office has always been my goal because I love settling in. I love nesting, and having MY chair and MY coffee cup and MY workspace. Sharing all that never felt quite right. I'm a territorial creature and it feels good to sit and growl from my Safe Place. I'm just starting to feel like a dragon on her Precious Pile and it feels good.
In other news, things with mom are still up in the air. Ottawa says they're going to delay the re-transplant transplant for at least two weeks while they try to figure out what's going on. I would like nothing more than to be there with her at those apointments so I can get the information first hand, but it wouldn't change anything except my peace of mind. I'm needed here, I can't leave hubby and the kids for two weeks, and while I COULD go up for just the day or two of the apointment, mom has said it's not needed. I'm trying to be okay with that. It's hard.
The good news is it's Thursday, which means dinner with my inlaws tonight for my son's fifth birthday (which isn't until the Solstice), and then tomorrow is Friday, and that will be awesome. Weekend experiment will include making almond milk (apparently it's not difficult, just needs to be planned out properly) and having fun with coconut flour. Hubby has really thrown himself into this no-sugar-low-glycemic-index thing, which is what happens when you get unexpected bloodwork results back, I guess. I'm glad to see him taking an interest in his health, but I feel my role is to help him from going overboard, which is wacky and crazy, because usually I'M the TYPE A personality who does things all-or-nothing.
The good thing is that his solid B type personality is rearing it's head and it only took him two days to back off into something reasonable. He loves to cook but he hasn't been lately, so giving him a REASON to do that seems like a good thing to me. We'll see! I'd also like to get back into making yogurt, which I haven't done for a while, but that would involve a steady stream milk and with our fridge still acting up, that hasn't happened yet. The appliance guys haven't called back, so every morning I test the milk before giving it to the kids. sigh That's getting old real fast.
Anywho, my longest post on Imzy yet! I have to admit, I've missed having a blog. Now we shall see how long I keep it up for! It might be nice to log things just to vent about mom a little.




Blessings to you, and positive energy for your mom
I'm always here to listen to you vent about what's going on with your mom (and anything else you want to talk about, of course) I hope her spirits are still good. She seemed like such a positive person when I met her!