Real Life Update

[quidditchgrrl]

Things here have been going great, much improved in the past two weeks or so. I'm having an endoscopy on Thursday and a gastric emptying study on the 26th. I hope they figure this shit out soon. I want to eat real food and not have to worry about it either coming up or making me feel like shit for six hours. The gastric motility drug I'm on now is helping, but it should come with a Warning: Coma label. Sleep schedule has been off as well. Went to bed at midnight, woke up at 4 am, and am just beginning to wind down now ( about 6:30). Good thing I don't have to be at work until 1. I wonder if the strange sleep patterns have anything to do with my decreased caffeine consumption. Hm.

When I was 18 I had my palm read by and old Chinese lady who told me I had one of the luckiest palms she'd ever interpreted. Maybe it's a self-fulfilling prophecy, but I'm convinced she's right. I'm also a Rabbit, which is the luckiest of all the Chinese signs.

Honeybunch and I have been putting off marriage for...about forever five years. We were officially engaged in November 2002, and have been procrastinating ever since.

Well, the date has been set: November 6, 2004. We're getting married at the Masonic Temple my Rainbow Assembly meets at. I really wanted to get married here (used to be the downtown Temple) in this room, but the prices were a little *snort* out of range.

Honeybunch is now cut out of most of the plans, since he's argued about nearly everything I've brought up to him. Pfft.

So, I'm worrying like hell how I'm going to pay for a nice wedding. My dad isn't going to be able to put forth much of anything financially, Andy is broke (why is another post), and he won't ask his parents to help us out (although they would, and I know they'll be upset if we need the money and don't ask them for any).

Then help arrives in the form of my 401K investment payout from Battelle. *sigh* I now have enough money to have a decent wedding, what a relief.

And like a good Rainbow Girl, I have a theme, colors, poem, motto, etc, etc, etc. So far I have favors ordered (fortune cookies and bell place card holders), the unity candle holder...

damn, this shit is really boring, sorry. :-|

Anyway, work = good. I finally got a schedule going for desk rotations, everyone knows where they are supposed to be, with whom, and for how long. Things are looking up, thankfully. Performance evaluations are on schedule, shelves look decent, I'm happy. Change in schedule - I'm closing on Mondays and Thursdays - not so good, as it screws up my spinning classes. Now I have to try to maintain speed and coordination at 9 am Saturday mornings. Uh-huh. :-P

Went to Dayton Saturday to celebrate hastyent's birthday at a local Irish pub. Good food, good time. And I got to meet Friggin' Bernie (TM), who is a rather nice guy. Didn't see him frig once. [/lame joke]

Writing going okay. Have been picking at tons of unfinished stuff - a Remus/Tonks for blackdracaena, that damned Draco/Hermione bunny - but no closer to completion on anything. Blef.



I thought about doing the fandom friends thing for the month, but I didn't want to offend anyone if they were left out. I also realized that I don't know a whole lot about some of the people on my flist.

Tell me about you. Where are you all from? Some of you don't list your geographic location in your info. Why are you in fandom? Why did you decide to friend me (or not friend me, if you're randomly reading this)? I'd love to know, to have a more personal feel for you as people/fandomers.

Ah, finally tired. Drop me a line, you all!

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[poconell.livejournal.com]

I first met you at the Potterotica Y!Group. You wrote good smut and left everyone constructive reviews. I actually exchanged a few e-mails with you when Alexandra took a break from the fandom, but I never clued in to who you were on LJ, till you posted on Lea's journal.

You are funny, and cool, and delightfully naughty! That's why I friended you! :P