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1. I have been very off the airwaves lately. Life seems very full and busy and I'm tired all the time. I would say I'm looking forward to spring, but with the seasons the way they are, who knows when that might be!
2. On the bright side, I have a holiday booked for the end of April - a week in the Norfolk Broads. We're all getting together as a family to celebrate my Dad's 65th, which is that week, and we figured that end April/early May was just as likely (or not likely) to be warm and sunny as July/August, so why not, since we're no longer tied to school holidays.
3. Aunty Marj's funeral went well. Everyone was given a long-stemmed rose to take home, because Marj used to say that flowers are for the living, not the dead. It's still going strong, a week later. I wasn't too sad at the funeral until I talked to Aunty Marion, my granddad's youngest sister. Marion grew up with 9 brothers and sisters and now the only one left is Ivy, who is riddled with dementia. Marion was so very close to Marj, all their lives. It's hit her hard.
4. In happier news, my Aunty Lel (actual aunt, rather than great-aunt like the above) is now making real progress at last, after three weeks in intensive care. She had the tracheostomy taken out of her throat on Wednesday, but they haven't stitched up the hole, only covered it up with gauze, so she has to put her fingers over the hole if she wants to talk. The trouble with that is that she does like to wave her hands around when she talks, so keeps forgetting and letting go and suddenly her voice disappears and she's got weird breathy noises coming from her neck! One day she will be back home and well and we will be laughing about the time she used to fart through her throat...
5. I have too many projects on the go. I can't decide which to focus on!
6. I am very sad that Leverage was cancelled. I really loved that show and the characters. The finale was fantastic, though.
7. Season 8 of Supernatural has me almost on the verge of breaking up with the show. I'm very sad about that, too, because I loved that show so very much, once upon a time, but it just isn't what it used to be.
8. Have just completed an epic re-watch of HBO's Rome. Still stunning. And an epic re-watch of Firefly. Still so much love.
9. Am currently re-watching Game of Thrones season 1. I can follow the various storylines so much more clearly second time around, now that I know who all the characters are. I got so confused the first time, I couldn't keep track of anyone!
10. Also still watching and re-watching Classic Doctor Who like whoa. Because who needs free time, anyway?
11. Went to see The Hobbit and thoroughly enjoyed it. It kills me that Gandalf spends the entire film counting dwarfs, like an exasperated schoolteacher leading a field trip. Also re-watched The Fellowship of the Ring and found myself wondering what it might have been like if instead of three films, the trilogy had been adapted into a TV series, like Game of Thrones...
12. Am no longer seeing Mr Boyfriend - not as a boyfriend, anyway, we're still hanging out as friends. Mutual agreement. He's really nice and all, but that spark just wasn't there - I like him, but I don't fancy him. I think we both feel much happier now we've had that conversation.
2. On the bright side, I have a holiday booked for the end of April - a week in the Norfolk Broads. We're all getting together as a family to celebrate my Dad's 65th, which is that week, and we figured that end April/early May was just as likely (or not likely) to be warm and sunny as July/August, so why not, since we're no longer tied to school holidays.
3. Aunty Marj's funeral went well. Everyone was given a long-stemmed rose to take home, because Marj used to say that flowers are for the living, not the dead. It's still going strong, a week later. I wasn't too sad at the funeral until I talked to Aunty Marion, my granddad's youngest sister. Marion grew up with 9 brothers and sisters and now the only one left is Ivy, who is riddled with dementia. Marion was so very close to Marj, all their lives. It's hit her hard.
4. In happier news, my Aunty Lel (actual aunt, rather than great-aunt like the above) is now making real progress at last, after three weeks in intensive care. She had the tracheostomy taken out of her throat on Wednesday, but they haven't stitched up the hole, only covered it up with gauze, so she has to put her fingers over the hole if she wants to talk. The trouble with that is that she does like to wave her hands around when she talks, so keeps forgetting and letting go and suddenly her voice disappears and she's got weird breathy noises coming from her neck! One day she will be back home and well and we will be laughing about the time she used to fart through her throat...
5. I have too many projects on the go. I can't decide which to focus on!
6. I am very sad that Leverage was cancelled. I really loved that show and the characters. The finale was fantastic, though.
7. Season 8 of Supernatural has me almost on the verge of breaking up with the show. I'm very sad about that, too, because I loved that show so very much, once upon a time, but it just isn't what it used to be.
8. Have just completed an epic re-watch of HBO's Rome. Still stunning. And an epic re-watch of Firefly. Still so much love.
9. Am currently re-watching Game of Thrones season 1. I can follow the various storylines so much more clearly second time around, now that I know who all the characters are. I got so confused the first time, I couldn't keep track of anyone!
10. Also still watching and re-watching Classic Doctor Who like whoa. Because who needs free time, anyway?
11. Went to see The Hobbit and thoroughly enjoyed it. It kills me that Gandalf spends the entire film counting dwarfs, like an exasperated schoolteacher leading a field trip. Also re-watched The Fellowship of the Ring and found myself wondering what it might have been like if instead of three films, the trilogy had been adapted into a TV series, like Game of Thrones...
12. Am no longer seeing Mr Boyfriend - not as a boyfriend, anyway, we're still hanging out as friends. Mutual agreement. He's really nice and all, but that spark just wasn't there - I like him, but I don't fancy him. I think we both feel much happier now we've had that conversation.
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My aunt has had some kind of e-coli infection that went to her lungs and kidneys, causing acute respiratory distress syndrome, which was what kept her in intensive care for so long (three weeks of respiratory support via intubation and tracheostomy). But she also has a lot of long-standing health problems that make her intensely vulnerable to any kind of infection. She's been terribly frail ever since her last serious illness 2 years ago, when she developed some super-rare bacterial infection called nocardia that caused six huge abscesses to develop in her brain, so this was absolutely the last thing she needed. I'm just really glad she seems so much better already, now that she's out of intensive care at last - hopefully she'll continue to recover quickly now. :)