I am instructed to update this thing. I need a post-it note or something to remind me. And a list of stuff that happened to blog about.
Meh.
Samhain (Sah-WEEEEEEN! *thwap*) was interesting. We did all the cooking and catering for a dumb supper, which is a meal held in silence so you can listen to the dead talking. We prepared a 5 course meal, starting with cucumber slices with dip, then a nice salad, miso soup, venison and beef in raspberry vinegarette with roast potato, and a brown betty for dessert. We had a big garage sized tent sorted out, everything was ready... and Bam slipped in the mud and did the splits.
So, off to ER. They checked her ankle, tentatively diagnosed a break and sent us up to L&D for monitoring. By "sent" I mean called the on-call doctor and totally DIDN'T call L&D. So they discharged us, we waited in the waiting area for 10 minutes, then they worked out they'd have to re-admit us to send us upstairs. Fail.
Long story short, baby is fine, Bam's pelvis is likely cracked, definitely overstretched, so she's ow-ow-owing around just now. Nothing can be done until the baby hatches... due in 7 days and counting.
Other recent stuff... Bam went into labor... in the middle of the night after being up all day. Got to the hospital, did all the fun, and was given the choice to walk around to speed things up or go home. Walking = no, so we went home and slept. If we'd stayed and tried to keep going, she'd have been too tired to push anyway, which sets up a c-section.
Temperatures are dropping now, so we took Catface in last night. Need to remember to get a flea collar or something for her. She's a sweet old cat, all she wanted to do was sleep and when we moved around too much on the bed trying to get settled she wandered off... to the baby's car seat. I got her out of it and retrieved the nice, soft, clean baby blanket... and she got straight back in again. Silly Catface! I had to put my coat over it to stop her and it'll all be washed again today. Moar washings.
Nan and Mumbert fly out here in 6 days now. We're looking forward to showing them around and showing them off to people. Bam won a 16x20 canvas print from UPrinting (woot!) so we're planning on taking a nice picture with everyone. Fingers crossed the baby arrives in time to be in it too, then we'll have 4 generations! woo woo! Something else more in her control than ours,
Doc says that Bam is ready to give birth, we just need the baby to trigger hormone release and stuff. I've tried bribing her with hugs, ponies and unicorns. We've tried telling her she needs to come out because her mom hurts, we've Reiki-ed, we've baby sifted, we've tried caster oil, cohosh, raspberry leaf tea and everything else we can think of. Baby is stubborn like her mother!
We've also started a "new" MMO. AO are doing a deal just now, so I resurrected my fr00b bank account and made some new toons. Currently I'm playing melee - a martial artist and a 1hb doc, both Trox. We'll see how long they last, but I'm enjoying AO not blowing up my lappie. It's very tempting to try and find $$$ to reactivate my main account and wake up W1, but I think things are going to be too busy to devote time to an MMO in the coming months. It's a nice diversion anyway :)
Also, for some reason my laptop hates me paging down. It generates random characters and increases the volume (bizarre, because Fn + page down = volume down). Bam looked stuff up and thinks it's something to do with an antivirus conflict, running 2 AV programs at once. I *do* run 2 AV programs, but one is passive (Clamwin) and the other is active (Avira). It only started in the last few weeks since I updated Avira, so I think I need to boot that out and switch to Avast. Hopefully that'll fix it, it's damn annoying!
Maybe I can update this next week when something else has happened... :P
