How does a week get this chaotic when you never leave the house?

I had serious sleep deprivation early in the week, and had managed to get into a reasonable cycle again by Friday... Only to sleep for 14 hours today and throw the whole getting up in the morning thing off again.

::facepalm::

Other than that, I'm doing okay. My sib was in town and I got to interact with the adorable toddler.

Things are pretty good over here on the farm. The baby goats are getting big and bouncy, the daffodils are finally blooming, and it is warmer now in the grey morning. In the past week, I've read Games Creatures Play and Moonscapes (Fiction River #6), and am dabbling in a few re-reads and Letters to the Pumpkin King.

I'm glad you are looking forward to Europe this summer. I hope you have a blast!

Here is our wheelbarrow of fun from 2012.



(The cheat sheet for names is here: http://reedrover.livejournal.com/pics/catalog/7971/189812)

Fighting strep throat, prepping school things, finished two more marker pieces. Got vid of the two dogs playing tag. The wolfhound mix slows to a trot so that the dachshund can get zip ahead of him, and they can keep playing.

Enjoyed excellent trip to England. Starting new job next week. Cornkitten started daycare. Cornkitten seems to have dodged the stomach virus her daddy and I both had earlier this week (and will hopefully continue being well). And, of course, looking forward to many new Seanan writings!

Stuff is good. *wiggly happy shuffle*

I am sorry you have grumpy foot, and glad things are going well otherwise. :)

I am doing well and very happy with my decision to move to Virginia to be with kyttn.

Got the maple tree pruned (A priority since a few branches were dangerously close to the power line to the house), finished a coding side project and figured out that the reason our banana bread didn't rise was because the baking soda has lost it's oomph.

6 Weeks 'til school is out. Weather may actually be spring-like by then because it hasn't really been to date. Otherwise life is pretty good :-)

Doing okay. Not really feeling the work thing at the moment but I imagine I'll get over that eventually today. Very much ready to blow this popstand for Vegas at the end of the month just to get away.

I have a copy of Games Creatures Play waiting for me for when I'm in a short story mood. I've currently been rereading Diana Wynne Jones books because I can.

You can't die! You have more books to write!

(We're fine, in a preoccupied sort of way...)

Only because you asked:
Josh is potty trained!!!! occasional accidents, but oh man so liberating!
Loved the rain last week, loving the sun this week, weather yeah!
I got to ride in an electric school bus this afternoon, I love my job!
Also babies are exciting, babies that belong to other people are cute without the sleep deprivation. My brother's daughter is about a month, and good friends and neighbors are expecting any day now.

I am trying to buy my first house... I am negotiating on my second offer on a place now. Not sure if I can swing it. I've got financing approved for a certain amount, contingent on X, Y, and Z that are not really in my control. Of course, not having control drives me nuts. But I very much want out of my cramped apartment where my moving in coincided with the past two years of being sick from antibiotic over-prescription. I would love to close this chapter in my life, even though the health problems are better but not gone yet. I could move on to a nice, newish house while still in Birmingham, near work and parents, where I am not forced to store the Christmas ornaments under the kitchen table for lack of space!

Yeah. I both need and want this.

Also, of the four or five books I have going on right now, I am enjoying "Letters to the Pumpkin King" the most. Rereading some of those entries is not easy, though, because they make me move out of my comfort zone and contemplate new ideas and points of views. However, this is probably a good thing.

(I have only skimmed the poetry, where most of the poems are new to me, but I am looking forward to trips through the Babylon Wood.)

Don't know if you know about this yet but
http://www.lookhuman.com/design/35610-i-can-handle-this
has megera shirts. I saw it and thought of you.

I'M GOING TO DISNEYLAND NEXT MONTH. So Cal native residing in Seattle. Only thing I miss!

It's been busy up at Chez Cornish, although probably not as fun. I waved at you while you were up here for ECCC, by the by! :-)

Hazel is settling in and taking charge with her mini Maine Coon adorableness. (seriously, she's half Johnny's size. She has both a tiny, adorable mew and a tiny, sometimes frustrating, but still adorable fierce. Johnny has pounced on Hazel a few times trying to play with her, but I've also seen her chase him away from his food dish. For only 2 months together, I think they are doing pretty well)

We miss Smudge, but it's so much less raw now. I still cry looking at the last week of pictures we have of him, but I'm getting closer to actually being able to make the memory book we want.

I ended up having emergency gall bladder removal surgery April 1st. I'm really glad I'm not known for being an obnoxious kind of April Fool's Day pranker, because it made it much easier for people to believe me when I said I was headed to ER shortly before midnight on the 1st and then started talking surgery later in the day... It was a good thing it came out when it did. I'm recovering pretty well, although it feels like a million years inside. I'm trying really hard not to get frustrated with how quickly I get tired.

I will be at Norwescon, although I won't be doing much. I'm looking forward to seeing you and will do my best to be at the concerts. We'll have Hazel and Johnny with us if you need to escape and have a short cat break. :-)

Oh, and your books along with enforced idleness helped break the reader's block I've had for a while. I devoured Midnight Bluelight Special, Half Off Ragnarok, and Chimes at Midnight and loved them! Thank you for helping get over that it felt weird not wanting to read! :-)