Adventures in Parenting

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Since we adopted Rosalind, a mere year ago, I swear I've had more childhood illnesses than I had as a child. I've had, in approximately chronological order:

Stomach bug, the first

An ear infection

Pink eye

Hand, foot and mouth disease (No, not hoof and mouth disease. Really.)

Pink eye, again

Stomach bug, the second

Not to mention various and sundry stupid colds and sniffly noses.

This past week I've managed to add one more to the list: tonsillitis.

Which wasn't fun, and basically knocked me out for the better part of four days, but is a better outcome than it could have been. Both my doctor and I thought I'd managed to once again get mono. (I had it, very badly, fourteen years ago.) Since it's possible that would have taken me out for MediaWest at the end of the month, I'm glad that got ruled out.

Anyway, that's a long way of saying I haven't been on LJ (or online at all) much in the last week, and since I've now got a zine deadline that's way beyond the drop dead point, I likely won't be on much for the next little while either.

Hope everyone's well, and I'm looking forward to catching up on lots of fun stuff when I've got a bit more time and feel a bit less sick.

Comments

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I'd wondered where you were! (Most especially when you didn't participate in my movie meme--that's not like you at all!) I'm so sorry you've been sick again. Cripes. It's times like this I'm thankful it's just me and the cats. Feel better, my dear. What zine are you contributing to?

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I have felt like utter death most of the week. I occasionally would turn on my computer, pull up the old flist, and realize I didn't have the energy to read any of it. (Sad, no?)

I did see your movie meme, but Callisto had already gotten the only one I had the brain power for (Master & Commander, ahhh). There's a couple of others I know I should know, but cannot for the life of me figure out. (4, 5 and 11, FYI.)

Someday, I'll do my own version of the movie meme. When I'm feeling less like reheated death. :-/

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No worries! I know how tough it can be when you're too wrung out to even =think=! You poor thing. Feel better. I'll be thinking of you.

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BTW, congrats on the vid award! That's fab news. Clearly the award organizers know quality when they see it.

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Thanks so much! I hope you know that means a lot coming from you. :-D

I've had some more good news on that front. Jess got back with me and shared that Take Me the Way I Am just got chosen for Con.TXT (I think that's the capitalization on that...). This makes me very happy. Outside of Close Quarters, my stuff has never been shown at a con before.

I feel like a big kid. :-)

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I was going to ask you about that. Well done! It's always fun to have stuff shown at a con. Well, at least when there's no technical problems. (Are you going to the con? The best thing is to be in a con room when your vid's shown.) And that vid is currently top of the Vids That Make P Happy list.

Jess emailed me last night to ask whether she could have Love's Not, as well as possibly the stupidest, and definitely the shortest, vid I've ever made, Pop a Boner. Which is nice. Though the Boner request made me chuckle.

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Ah! She'd told me she had some Pros vids in mind already. I just didn't know which ones. Well done, you. Looks like I'm going to be in very good company.

I don't know if I'll actually be going to the con. I'm such a baby about going when I don't really know many people. Given my line of work, you wouldn't really think I'd be shy. But I am. :-)

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I can sympathize with the shy thing. I spent most of my life until late in university thinking I was shy, then realizing I mostly wasn't. But I still have bouts of shyness, especially when confronted with masses of people who know each other but don't know me.

The first couple of cons you go to are always tough. But once you've been to a few, you start meeting more and more people. Then they become big reunions of friends you only get to see once or twice a year and they're a blast.

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Oh, and the zine is still the WWW one. I was just getting going on the bloody story when the pestilence hit.