What's everyone up to right now?

[Angrboda]

Peppermint tea. The instructions for my coffee maker are far from clear.

[Fireball]

Got a text last night from my youngest niece. Her second child is due in January and they just learned that Baby Boy will be born with a heart defect and will require surgery anywhere from one week to six month after birth, depending. Her doctors are highly confident that the defect is a minor one, easily correctable, and the little man should have no long-term effects.

Still…

Boru

I can see that that is pretty unnerving. Hoping for expert medical help!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Got a text last night from my youngest niece. Her second child is due in January and they just learned that Baby Boy will be born with a heart defect and will require surgery anywhere from one week to six month after birth, depending. Her doctors are highly confident that the defect is a minor one, easily correctable, and the little man should have no long-term effects.

Still…

Boru

I can see that that is pretty unnerving. Hoping for expert medical help!

She’s having the baby and the baby’s having the surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital - best in the UK and one of the best in the world.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I threw out my old coffee maker.  I kept thinking that maybe, if I just plugged it in one more time, it would start working again.  It's hard for me to let go of anything.  It reminded me of a time in high school when, as always, I was frustrated by the clutter and my mom's hoarding, and thought it would be okay if I just threw out stuff that was obviously broken and useless.  So I hauled out a trash can worth of stuff.  At two A.M. that night, I found my mom hauling everything that I'd thrown out back inside.  Worthless shit like broken tennis rackets and things with missing pieces.  I had a lot of anger about her behaviors at the time.  You'd think with all that anger, I'd grow up to be different.  In some superficial ways, I am.  But while nobody was looking, I absorbed all her values, attitudes about saving money, and loss, and all the things that drove her behavior.  In many ways, I'm just like her.

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STOP COPYING ME!!

Boru

[Angrboda]

I'm having trouble getting the tea-making pod on my coffee maker to work properly. That's the main reason I bought this model. I'll try some more before returning it.

[Angrboda]

Washing dishes so that I'll have room to cook later. My new 10.5" cast-iron skillet from Walmart arrived, but I haven't unboxed it yet. I bought it primarily because it was cheap at $10. But also because my experience with carbon steel has renewed my interest in cast-iron. I still don't like the awkwardness and weight of 12" plain or enameled, but a 10" sounds more manageable.

I'm expecting to have some meds delivered tonight, but I have no clue when that's going to happen. Hopefully not while I'm preparing dinner. I have to be at the hospital at 8:30 A.M. on Wednesday, so I don't want to stay up tonight.

[Angrboda]

Selecting my weapons for tonight's melee.

[Paraselene]

Selecting my weapons for tonight's melee.

*hides*

[Angrboda]

Several medical tests today. No caffeine before a heart stress test I just finished the MRI, and have an hour plus wait before the stress test.

[Paraselene]

Getting some Spider-Man gaming in before I have to get ready for work. I like swinging through the city.