Blerg

[mrissa]

I woke up at 5:40 because my back and neck hurt too much to let me keep sleeping.

It keeps giving me the urge to stretch, and then when I stretch, the pain sharpens and nauseates me.

My appointment to get my back (temporarily) fixed is tomorrow morning at 10:00.

It's going to be a long day.

If you can tell me something good you've experienced in the last week, I'd really appreciate it.

Edited to Add: Later in the day I will give you a list of good things I've experienced, so it's not just you folks being positive and me absorbing.

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[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

This past weekend, my friends and I got together with another of our group, close as a sister, who for the last several years has lived 12 hours away. We drove all night Friday night, arriving in the small hours of the morning. Saturday night she and her husband threw an oyster roast, with a big fire in the firepit in their yard and four barrels of oysters and tables of other food, and we spent hours standing around the fire together.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That does sound like a good thing. Something burning, lack of sleep, broiled invertebrates....

Seriously, it does sound good. Thank you.

good things

[seagrit.livejournal.com]

Two health babies were born to two of the families in CIT yesterday, Keara Joanne and Seth Joseph. And we found out that another couple that we're friends with are expecting again. Lots of babies! Babies are good!

Oh, and Jeff got his birthday present from you in the mail last week! We got home, and there was a ~mysterious~ box on the porch. He hadn't opened it yet though.

Re: good things

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

As far as I am concerned, he may open it at any time, it being his birthday present. His brother-in-law probably feels differently, however.

[songwind.livejournal.com]

I got to hang out with several friends on Sunday that I don't see often enough.

My motherboard came in so I could fix my computer and stop freeloading off the other adults.

I was invited to a very positive parent/teacher conference.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Finally got a check from the kidlit folks. . .

Hope you feel better soon!

[fiddledragon]

timprov's party!!!!!!

Less immediate to you, the whole contraction timer good vibe stuff :)

another good thing

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

I regained hope that my complex relationship, as a whole, will survive, through perseverence and consistently applied love. That's pretty good.

Chris

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

All very good things!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hey, maybe mine is coming! That'd be good....

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Very glad to have deserved so many exclamation points.

Re: another good thing

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That is, in fact, the best.

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

Went to dinner at a new Indian restaurant with splash_the_cat and made exuberant small talk about what kind of mischief we'll get into on our upcoming roadtrip.

[fiddledragon]

It was lots of fun, and awesome meeting new folk who are just as fun and interesting as you guys :)

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

Positive thoughts seem to be the order of the day ...

I saw one of my favorite bands in concert Friday night. I started a new novel on Saturday, and nearly completed the first chapter by the end of the weekend. My roommate and I started to make plans to get out of our duplex and into a home one of us actually owns. Good things, all!

[mkille.livejournal.com]

I got bananas at the store yesterday. Reid wanted one, but they're green, so I was explaining to him that they have to be yellow first. "But that little bit yellow!" No, sweetheart, they have to be *all* yellow.

(Some people might like green bananas, but I don't, and I know from experience that Reid doesn't either.)

Last night, when putting him to bed, he said, "Daddy, it dark now. Bananas get blue." Blue? "Yes. Green now, need to be yellow, it dark, they get blue." Okay then. This morning: "Daddy, banana get more yellow!" Yes, it is, but it needs to be all yellow. "But...sun up!" Apparently the bananas are meant to have a diurnal color phase sort of thing.

It wasn't this past week, but in other happy color conversation news, we were all driving home together, and Laura saw the sign for one of the periodic bluegrass concerts in our town. "Look, honey, bluegrass!" Yay, bluegrass! Reid chimed in from the back: "Grass not blue, grass *green*!"

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Today, probably more so.

And we're almost through the perishable leftovers. Sort of. Almost.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I cower in fear.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Indeed!

I like not sharing a wall with outsiders. It is A Good Thing.

And new novels are very good things, much prettier and shinier than old novels and their stupid blood-soaked revision pages and their innumerable notecards (well, probably numerable, actually) and their...stuff. Ahem. Yeah.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

It's supposed to rain today, again. And this weekend there was real snow in the high country. Rain in the desert is always a good thing. Also I realized today that my birthday is only half a month away!

(Now if I could just get Ted to join your school of birthday celebration....)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Boy, grown-ups just don't get it sometimes, do they?

I think I'm very happy we don't have diurnal bananas.

Today may be a day for making banana bread. Banana bread will be made soon, in any case. The browning bananas are lurking.

[fiddledragon]

hehe

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Poke him. A severe poking may well do the trick.

Otherwise, ignore him and celebrate your five days o' birthday with friends if he's going to be an old poop about it.

[tanaise.livejournal.com]

I had a mostly strange boy admire my valentine's picture more than was necessary to be polite. So I gave him a copy of it, and he got all pleased and excited. That's pretty much as much as I can hope for before 10am.

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

much prettier and shinier than old novels and their stupid blood-soaked revision pages and their innumerable notecards (well, probably numerable, actually) and their...stuff. Ahem. Yeah.

Heh heh. Yes. My writer's group reviewed an edited version of the first chapter of my old project last night, and it just made me think about how much work I have left to do on that one. Meep. Can't I just worry about the shiny new one? :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Boy Admiration Good.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I keep saying to myself, "I should get TN out to first-readers before Easter." But uff da, that's still a lot of work.

[greykev.livejournal.com]

At game-night last night I kept a room full of people in stitches for close to five minutes by reading Beyond Balderdash responses in the manner of the Great Karnack.

-K

[ckd]

I had a wonderful Chinese food dinner with friends celebrating a birthday (not mine).

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

Talking with Robin about getting a new house:

"Do you want a new house to live in after your birthday?"

"YAH."

"Who should live there?"

"Um, ROBIN."

"Yes, but who else?"

"Mommy."

"And?"

"Daddy."

"And Aunt Kim?"

"NO! And Aunt Missa."

He pauses, thinks for a minute. "And my cat."

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Some Good Things That Have Happen In The Last Week
(To cheer up the mrissa)

I turned 40 and the world did not end.

I got to ham it up in a LARP

timprov's birthday party, when I met fun new people and got to know your household better.

I finished the stupid Cyberpunk/Urban Fantasy short story, and it is ready for workshop.

I had left over birthday cake for breakfast because I could.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Last night I outranked the cat! I rule.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

My mom is a big believer in birthday cake for breakfast. But she also eats things like mashed potatoes and cold pizza (separately) for breakfast, so we really can't go by that.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

mmm cold pizza for breakfast mmm. Takes me back to college and weekend long gaming sessions.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

When cake is available, birthday or otherwise, I have it for breakfast. Cold pizza is one of my favorite breakfasts. Mashed potatoes...don't think so. They need to go *with* something, and I don't normally have the energy in the morning to put together a whole meal.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

my grandmother would take leftover mashed potatoes, mix them with a beaten egg, then fry it up as a patty for breakfast. *shudder*

[pameladean]

Definitely Timprov's party. Also, Aristophanes had to have his teeth cleaned today, and they were able to do this without anaesthetic, thus saving him a health hazard and me about a hundred and fifty non-existent dollars. As an added bonus, the vet tech told me that they had put "a polish" on his teeth to prevent tartar formation, and that it was cherry-flavored, "which cats hate, so he drooled a lot." Vets use a lot of pediatric medications, in wild flavors unbeloved of cats, and of a lot of kids, too, as David pointed out.

P.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I remember my dentist trying to talk me out of my fluoride flavor choice when I was about 6: "Mint, please." "We've got apple!" "No, mint." "Bubble gum? Watermelon?" "Mint."

I really am pleased that so many people had a good time for T's birthday.

[porphyrin.livejournal.com]

You rank over his blood relative, Aunt Kim, too.

:)

Just sayin'.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Auntie Kim is a human, though, and being more or less important than another human is just a thing. Happens sometimes each way. But the cat is his cat.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Mashed potato french toast? Hrm.