What are you doing right now?

[~mj~]

Going to bed. It is 7:30 am. How was your night?

[Haplo]

Right now I'm looking at my $500 Christmas bonus check and feeling thankful for this job. In 2 days I'll have been here 4 years.

[Haplo]

Trying to find Christmas presents for the family. I'm thinking this for my best friend

[~mj~]

[Saber Dog]

I don't understand this thread. I'm sitting at my computer and posting...just like every other time I've posted in this thread.

[~mj~]

Stitching, ripping, stitching, ripping....

[Haplo]

At work early today so I can get in a full day. We're closing 5 hours early for our annual company Christmas party. I'm normally not even awake for another hour and a half so this sucks.

[~mj~]

I am up, shouldn`t be. Hormones hate me...can`t decide if I should stitch or do laundry...

[~mj~]

Whichever it is, it sounds delicious...I LOVE cloves...in tea, pies, gingerbread, spice cake...yum...

[~mj~]

OOOOH YES!! Cloves go wonderful with pork...i`m commin` for dinner...

[Perfect Warrior]

Indeed it was good- should have thought of it when I was first disappointed with the batch. Now I'm wondering what sort of gravy the liquid off it would make. A four pound roast braised in a pint of it for a bit over three hours, so is it closer to drippings or closer to still being a spiced honey mixture?

[LamBear*]

Thanks for the responses. On the birthday card I went with the bland and cliched "Thinking of you and wishing you well". The thinking of her is true enough, but THOSE thoughts won't be conveyed to her. Not to mention the cost of four weeks of hospitalization, so far, including a week in the ICU on life support and several rounds of dialysis, must be staggering. Gah. Don't mean to sound so cold, but this is her second attempt in about 4 years. She won't accept the fact that she needs help. *rant, rant*

What I'm doing right now- The breadmaker is running and a pork roast is in the oven. I dumped the last bottle of mead on it- the batch that I put too much mulling spice in. The clove is really noticeable. Clove goes fine with fresh pork, right?

Lordy, that sounds good!

[Perfect Warrior]

Cancer always sucks, no kidding.

On that note, my respirologist is also happy with my CT scan and wants to try various medications. First one is a prescription nose spray? For coughing up golf balls of phlegm in the morning? Whatever.

What I'm doing right now- The breadmaker is running and a pork roast is in the oven. I dumped the last bottle of mead on it- the batch that I put too much mulling spice in. The clove is really noticeable. Clove goes fine with fresh pork, right?

[dubiousbystander]

Excellent to be a grandparent, blood or not.

[dubiousbystander]

Oh yes! I know how that is.

[dubiousbystander]

Haplo said pretty much what I would have.

[dubiousbystander]

Maybe six hours.

[Haplo]

On a less happy note, I also found out my step-daughter's pap smear results this morning. The doctor's say it's concerning, but not alarming, at this point. They will have to do a biopsy on the cancerous cells to get a better picture. Cancer runs strong in Dreigha's family. There's other shit going on her life that makes this really lousy timing but I'm not allowed to go into that.

*Just a note..all 4 of her kids (3 girls and a boy) are technically step-kids since none share my blood but I raised the youngest two since they were 5 and 7 so consider them 100% mine.

[Haplo]

Just got done talking with a customer who had 2112 as part of their email address. I had to ask to be sure and they were indeed a fellow Rush fan. So now I'm going through the album in my mind until I can listen to it at lunch.

The Priests praise my name on this night

[Haplo]

Try "I'm glad you're still with us". If you're glad that is..not my place to assume much less judge

[~mj~]

I am up...have no idea why. I think it`s one of those existential mornings...who am I? Why am I here?...

[~mj~]

Oh lordy Lamb....that is a difficult one! Maybe a more'how are you feeling ?' approach?
G will be feeling better soon I hope, he went to doc and his BP was in the tank. I am thinking we need to get a BP machine/cuff thingy. I think my cold is better but the allergies are he**...

[LamBear*]

I went to Yokohama, visited with friends, got to tour a boat. Stood in airlocks, felt my ears pop. Bought a few things. Heading home!

That's cool. How long were you there?

[LamBear*]

So, Kat, are your Christmas decorations up yet? I'm hardly decorating at all. We go to Pennsylvania to visit my M-I-Law every year and end up decorating for her while our own decorations sit at home unappreciated. Bah

That kinda sucks.

Is Pina all better?

Are you and the horse on better terms?

Reading back on my posts in the thread, I haven't kept up to date have I?

Edited to add: Got a phone call this afternoon that there is no evidence of cancer on the CT scan. So what I'm bugging the internal specialist about is scar tissue complications.

Good news on the CT scan.

[LamBear*]

How do you wish someone who just tried to commit suicide a Happy Birthday? She's still in the hospital (been there for almost 4 weeks--overdose). "Hope you have a happy day" just doesn't seem like the thing to say. Or, "I'm sure this isn't how you expected to spend your 60th birthday" doesn't sound quite right either.

Other than that, we had a great Thanksgiving and the Christmas tree and decorations are already up. First time ever for me and Hubby to have that done this early. It's not even December for crissakes, but Spare Heir Two was home for T-Day and won't get home again until just before Christmas, so D-I-L wanted him to be able to help the kids trim the tree and be there for that special fun.

~mj~, hope you and G are feeling better. Hap, glad your daughter's knee is healing.