Memnison Journal

Yesterday was my first day out with both feet in REAL shoes; it was snowing in Chicago, and I had to go downtown to have my monthly all-day session with the leukemia docs and get my IVIG treatment.  The two dogs had torn up my sleep a lot the night before with getting up and [...]

Susan’s Mom, Connie, who lives with us, spent the holidays off at her son’s house in Sinai , South Dakota, and was going to come back today, but the icy roads are holding her off for a day.   She just called and asked how things were; ’sleeping’, I said.   Still no noise from upstairs.  I [...]

The wound.  There’s nothing but a scar there, according to Susan and Mere. Thank you, God. “Just a little bit of adhesive gunk, and not even a scab,” said Mere last night.
 
I’ll be able to wash my foot properly for the first time in a year. You can’t believe how wonderful [...]

We spent all of Saturday being very quiet around the house; everyone was very very tired from the bustle of the holidays, and Susan’s knee was swollen and painful. (She’s been fighting off this arthritis stuff a lot, and things like walking a lot or shoveling snow have just been killing her.)
 
So we declared the [...]

A very good op-end in the NYTimes on adoption; nature versus nurture and the misty past:
I AM not adopted; I have mysterious origins.
I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as an adopted person. I like it so much I put it into the mouth of a character in [...]

Susan managed to drop her new Centro phone in the sink, and it’s apparently good and fried.  We got a Torx T-6 to open it up, and she and Rich Rostrom were working on it, but it sounds like it’s a goner.    So she’s getting a essentially-free-after-rebate replacement…she uses her PDA constantlty, and backs it [...]

The US has a significant honey and honeybee problem - we only produce about half the honey we consume.  Part of that is because of massive bee ailment problems, part because pollination pays better than the honey,  and the stuff that is coming into the USA is often adulterated or watered down - and in [...]

What I can mention is that the New Year’s Party was a good time, though a little frazzling.    I also spent a good deal of the day in the library with Rich Rostrom, who stayed over and was helping me with getting all of my stuff out of the closet under the stairs in the [...]

Day three of the Sissy visit: pictures at Susan’s photo-blog.
Susan:
Today was the American Girl Place shopping spree. The girls got up and showered. Dash was a happy dog since she got to shower with me and then with the girls. I poked my head in the bathroom to see if everything [...]

Actually, it’s pretty bone dry in the basement, and just laying out the stuff so it can rapidly dry seems to be making a LOT of headway.  Yeah, it’s not going to be as neat to store, but the entire idea was to scan the suckers and pitch them afterwards, so that the only copy [...]

Meredith attacking her presents on Christmas Eve.  Pictures in general are here at Susan’s photo blog, and a couple of goodies are after the cut:

From Susan’s photoblog (Sunday)  (picture links here):
Earlier tonight we picked Meredith Ellen up from the airport.  Sissy is here for the next 6 days.  We’ve got manicures and pedicures, American Girl Place tea parties, New Years Eve Parties to cram into the next 6 days.
Meredith Grace was barely able to contain her excitement in waiting [...]

The carpet fan is whirring away in the background, and I think we dodged the bullet on this one, at least as far as  It Could Have Been Worse.  The major damage that isn’t replaceable is a small stack of papers I’d set aside for scanning, which were on the floor in my office.  I’m [...]

The complete set is here at Flickr.  A sample after the cut:

This was a very odd Christmas for me; some really high points and low points. Some old traditions unexpectedly brought back, and some things mucked.  Julbord and full holiday report after the cut: