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hello there, long time no updates...
what is new...

the kiddo just turned 16, that makes me feel really really old...   I am playing LotRO these days although i don't  play very often.  hmm wow, such a long time and there really are no updates :)  everything is running pretty smoothly same as usual

I decided on Feb 22nd that I am going to run a marathon. (I am not currently in any shape to even watch a marathon, so i have a long way to go :P) I am currently doing a run/walk training program to build up to a solid half hour run and will work my way up from there, I am planning a 5k in Aug and from there we will see how it goes, if i am not ready in 2007, there is always 2008. On another note, we got Goblet of Fire on DVD today wooO!!!

Current Mood: tired

Christmas shopping is nearly done! We cheated and sent money to our sisters so they can shop for the nieces and nephews, sneaky, huh? Mother in law started shipping us boxes of stuff weeks ago, as this is our first christmas away from here in the 18 years we have been together. Most of the kids shopping we were able to do on-line, and we aren't really doing much for each other this year, moving to sunny california was our present :P
The kid only has one more week of school before a 2 week break, I am only working until the 22nd and will then be off until after the New Year. That will be a nice little break, we can take in some of the local attractions during the week when it is less crazy. One of the kids gifts is to "Dine with Shamu" at Seaworld, that should be fun.

hope all that read this have a great holiday season.

Current Mood: crappy

I am so psyched to see this movie, this has been a great year for movies for me, Batman Returns, Serenity, HP, now Narnia, i hardly know what to do with myself! I just finished reading all the Chronicles books in preparation.

This is too cool

Well, mosey on over to bloodymary.sneakycamel.net and check out the link to 'Laurie's Death' that is my nearly famous kid :) Feel free to actually go see the movie if it is in your neck of the woods. Soon we will be living Beverly Hills and swimming in the cement pond!

Pate is back in a regular room finally, and is tube free. Even the O2 tube is gone. My sister reports that he is in good spirits and joking around.
Good news all around :)

Current Mood: happy

what the hell has happened to this year??
So Pate is still in ICU but has been moved from the critical care portion to the regular ICU, they took him off the ventilator on Friday, and that has gone well, i guess. It is hard to keep up with the current details from so far away. my big sister has been up there with him all week and other family members have visited off & on. They did discover an ulcer, and took care of that and think that might have some to do with the blood pressure/internal bleeding that was leaving them stymied.
I may slip back out there over Christmas week depending on how he is doing and the weather. i have the week off from work anyway so if i can get reasonable tickets that would work out oK.

Current Mood: distressed

7:30pm:
Mom just called. Pate is back in ICU. they moved him to rehab and his BP dropped again. She is heading to the hospital now (2hr drive) and will hopefully fill me in on more details when she gets there. A crapp(ier)than usual day at work sliding right down to a crappy evening... I have vacation time to take, but work is not going to be happy about giving them to me, and we really don't have the cash for more plane tickets so I am gonna sit here in Hell and think happy happy thoughts...
I'll update here when I have more info... probably in a few hours.
8:30pm:
Just got an emaiil from my uncle.  he says he talked to mom &  reports that  Grama, my aunt, my mom AND my big sister are all heading to the hospital.  more later.

Current Mood: (but it's a farce)

Well, thank goodness I am home, i can finally play WoW on a better connection than my mom's 21k dial up, but at least she let me get logged in and create my character and such. so now I am 12th level on Medivh (East Coast) and will have an undead on Doomhammer eventually.

In other news, my sister called about noon this morning, Pate was out of recovery and had been moved to a different room than he had been in while I was there. He is pretty down from her account, and must stay flat of his back for quite for a few days with no sitting up or even elevating his bed. hopefully they got it right this time, the man is almost 80 freaking years old and does NOT need to need to have gone through 3 'procedures in less than 2 weeks.

My gramdmother (who is also in very poor health) is worried about what they will do when he comes home as is everyone else. my mom & sister have been bearing the brunt of their care with some help from one of my aunts. but even though the aunt lives next door and mom & sis live over 5 miles away, pate and gramma call them when they need something, even if it is just a phone call to reorder their meds or something equally simple.

SO! He seems to be doing well considering, and he hates the food... we have no idea when he will be released at this point.. so we will just have to keep the good thoughts flowing and what will be will be :)

UPDATE:  Spoke with my sister this evening, she says that the doctor feels very confident about the immediate results of this mornings procedure.  My sister will be going back up Monday morning and will update me then as Pate can't even really sit up to take a phone call  for a few days.

Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: Christmas tunes

Woo!! i am home!!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone

unfortunately i had a voicemail waiting when i got home that Pate is going in tomorrow at 6am for yet ANOTHER procedure, apparently Tuesday's patch job did not do the trick and as of this afternoon he is again (still?)  leaking spinal fluid .  My mom  & sister are both going up tomorrow when they get off their shift at the nursing home at 7:30.  should be able to get to the hospital by  9 or 9:30 and hopefully he will be in recovery by then.

OK, zdraco , how is this for more often :P

I am at my parents house typing on her archaic dial up connection (OMG!) and on her computer because i couldn't guess her password to set up her dial up connection on my laptop. Her dial up account is the only local number ISP in her area, so when she gets home from work (she does the night shift in a nursing home) I will get the PW so i can at least type on my laptop and check my email without the web interface...

Anyway! I took a cab from the airport straight to the hospital yesterday and we spent the day there, my older sister, her youngest son, who is 9 and the kid who is 12 & I. We were there from about 10am til 5pm. My grampa (who I will probably refer to as Pate for the rest of this story) seemed to improve exponentially throughout the day. He was harassing the nurses and everyone else in the room by the time we headed out (it was still a 2.5+ hr drive to my moms). It looks like he will stay in the hospital through friday and then be moved to rehab before he gets to come home, a lot of that is because he lives in the middle of nowhere, getting to rehab regularly would not really be an option unless he just stays at the hospital for it.

My youngest uncle and his oldest also came up to the hospital to visit with Pate, me & the kid, since they won't be making it to the country until Friday when i am heading back home. It was nice to get to see them, especially my cousin as i haven't seen him in many years.

Now that i have seen Pate and know he is doing all right, i can relax and enjoy the visit with the rest of the family. I will be seeing him again Monday and then again Fri morning before we fly out.

Hope everyone has a great turkey day!

PS the kids were so well behaved after sitting in the hospital bored out of their minds for hours(better than the grown ups I think)

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: random TV cartoon noise in the background

Looks like we are heading to the hills tomorrow morning, my grandfather is doing better, back in a regular room from ICU.  he should get to go home Monday.  I am hoping to catch a Ragged Blade  production (directed by the nearly famous Rob Shipman) Saturday night before heading to the boondocks.  But that will depend on transportation and whether may gramma feels like spending the night in town or wants to head home.  Either way, we are staying for a week, just the kid & I ... we couldn't get a kennel set up on such short notice so  we can't all go :(

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: the quiet babble of my co-workers

Well, i was looking forward to a few days off with not much to do, and then a few more days of nonstop WOW. 
Looks like i will be heading 'home'  this weekend anway :(   my grandfather had major surgery yesterday on his back, and as of last night when i went to bed, he was doing great, and the docs expected him to go home as early as Saturday, but last night he went into ICU because his blood pressure and oxygen levels were tolow. 
Still awaiting a fresh update from my mom, but am getting ready to hit the submit button on the OH too exensive plane tickets.

/sigh

Current Mood: worried
Current Music: Country Radio

I have been asked to post more often, i figure twice a year is more often than the past so i will give it a shot :P

Thanksgiving... we usually go visit my parents and extended family for Thanksgiving, but this year we just can't justify the ticket prices the airlines insist we should pay... so we will be hanging around the house for 9 days, playing WoW as soon as the servers are up, and getting some preliminary packing done.
We are hoping to get all the stuff we know we won't need before we move, photos keepsakes that kind of thing boxed up and out of the way, so we can have a good idea of what is going.
Still no firm date for the move, we are hoping to go in February, but won't really know for a few weeks yet, but the more ready we are when we get the word, the quicker we will be in SD.
As we are driving cross country when the time comes, we are hoping to do some drive by visiting as we go. more information will be forthcoming regarding that as the dates are actually generalized and then finalized.

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: None

The weather sucks... I am sick of rain, and I want a real summer.

just 3 consecutive days of no rain would be LOVELY

Current Mood: crappy