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moving through the week in bullet form
\o/ In picking up my (even messier than usual) house this morning before the sainted lady who cleans for me arrived to do the heavy lifting, I found two pairs of shoes that I've been looking for desultorily (since the last time she was at the house, of course.) Since they're my favorites, getting dressed in the morning just became so much easier. Now if I could only find my black skirt/shorts…
/o\ Maeve Binchy passed away a few days ago and my copy of A Circle of Friends is falling apart as I read it in memorium. I swore I wasn't buying any new books until the TBR pile is less of a health hazard (one of these days it's going to fall off the table and smother me while I sleep and that doesn't even begin to count the digital slush pile) but I might have to make an exception.
\o/ Amazon finally released an app that lets you stream Instant Video to an iPad, which is nice (and the streaming is free for Prime members, which is even nicer) but what is especially \o/ \o/ about it is that their library includes the second season of Downton Abbey and (for those Renner fans on my flist--you know who you are) The Unusuals, neither of which are available on Netflix Watch Instantly.
/o\ /o\ My mother is back in the hospital as of last night. For those of you new to the flist, she is a three-time cancer survivor (kidney, colon, breast, all unrelated) who has been battling through layers of complications from weird chemo interactions (seriously, she has a Patient Number in a study out of MD Anderson--she says it's her 15 minutes of fame. We say we'd rather she did something stupid on youtube, but you work with what you have, I guess.) That's an extra plus on the Amazon Instant Video, as she loves Downton and has been waiting impatiently for the second season to arrive on Netflix. (We bought her an iPad for Christmas and it was the best thing we ever did.) I talked her through downloading the app and getting signed in while she was waiting for an MRI this morning. (Yay for technology and a hospital that is fully wi-fi enabled.)
… and to end on a positive note:
\o/ \o/ It is Thursday of the second week of the creative writing camp #2 is attending, and he is still doing great. No panic attacks, no depression, no anxiety. He texted Oldest last night to say he'd finished drafting his story and liked it well enough to stop fiddling with it and send it off to be critiqued. This is so huge I can't even begin to tell you.
/o\ Maeve Binchy passed away a few days ago and my copy of A Circle of Friends is falling apart as I read it in memorium. I swore I wasn't buying any new books until the TBR pile is less of a health hazard (one of these days it's going to fall off the table and smother me while I sleep and that doesn't even begin to count the digital slush pile) but I might have to make an exception.
\o/ Amazon finally released an app that lets you stream Instant Video to an iPad, which is nice (and the streaming is free for Prime members, which is even nicer) but what is especially \o/ \o/ about it is that their library includes the second season of Downton Abbey and (for those Renner fans on my flist--you know who you are) The Unusuals, neither of which are available on Netflix Watch Instantly.
/o\ /o\ My mother is back in the hospital as of last night. For those of you new to the flist, she is a three-time cancer survivor (kidney, colon, breast, all unrelated) who has been battling through layers of complications from weird chemo interactions (seriously, she has a Patient Number in a study out of MD Anderson--she says it's her 15 minutes of fame. We say we'd rather she did something stupid on youtube, but you work with what you have, I guess.) That's an extra plus on the Amazon Instant Video, as she loves Downton and has been waiting impatiently for the second season to arrive on Netflix. (We bought her an iPad for Christmas and it was the best thing we ever did.) I talked her through downloading the app and getting signed in while she was waiting for an MRI this morning. (Yay for technology and a hospital that is fully wi-fi enabled.)
… and to end on a positive note:
\o/ \o/ It is Thursday of the second week of the creative writing camp #2 is attending, and he is still doing great. No panic attacks, no depression, no anxiety. He texted Oldest last night to say he'd finished drafting his story and liked it well enough to stop fiddling with it and send it off to be critiqued. This is so huge I can't even begin to tell you.
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I hope stuff is going okay with you--work is not dragging you under, is it? (I should sign on to twitter to check, but I never quite get around to it!)
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But great news about your son! Mine has also wrested a few good weeks out of the summer, going to tennis camp. *crosses fingers for a good year for all of us*
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I'm glad your guy got a little fun, too--it's like there's a little bit extra space to breathe and relax and you realize how very constricted everything's been.
I'm hoping my mom got a little bit of a DA fix once my dad left for the evening. At least she's not stuck there with nothing to do this time, which has happened all to often in the past. It doesn't help her brain when there's nothing to do.
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