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Mar. 19th, 2025 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lunabee341. Fiona has walking pneumonia. Poor kiddo. :( She had a respiratory thing about three weeks ago (not COVID, flu, or strep), and it settled into her lungs. She's okay, but it breaks my heart hearing her cough.
2. About a month ago, Dylan started having an autoimmune flare up and has been experiencing fatigue so bad they are having trouble going to class and completing school work. There's some question of whether they'll be able to finish out the semester. They got tested at urgent care for mono, covid, flu, vitamin deficiencies and just basic cbc--all of which are fine, of course. We went to the GP today and got them tested for Hashimoto's, celiac, lyme, and a few other things. I'm not expecting any of these except the Hashimoto's and celiac to potentially come back positive. I hate that my 22 year old kid is going to have to figure out how to live hurting and tired all the time. I can hardly stand it and I'm 45. It's really not fair.
3. I got a pack of the Pentel Mattehop pens and they are awesome. The color is so saturated.
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An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is an enormous brick of a book--almost 800 pages--and at first it wasn't grabbing me. I was reading it in a desultory kind of way, 2 pages here and 3 pages there, and suspected it was going to take me months and months to finish as a result. The book is divided into four sections, and once I got to the end of section one and realized that each section is about the same set of events told from the perspective of a different narrator and each subsequent section reveals that the previous narrator was mistaken in some of their conclusions about those events, I was riveted. There was squealing at one point.
This takes place during Restoration England, and I think I would have enjoyed this book even more if I was more familiar with that historical time period; I'm a 19th century gal, through and through. In addition to the plot, I enjoyed reading about 17th century ideas about medicine, philosophy, and religion.
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5. From Vecna to Van Nuys (And Back Again) by EddieSpaghetti
Steve/Eddie
Is the amount of miscommunication and hiding feelings in this fic utterly ridiculous? Yes, yes, it is. Do I eat it up with a spoon anyway? Yes, yes, I do. (The fic does offer a reasonable explanation for it, though.)
2. About a month ago, Dylan started having an autoimmune flare up and has been experiencing fatigue so bad they are having trouble going to class and completing school work. There's some question of whether they'll be able to finish out the semester. They got tested at urgent care for mono, covid, flu, vitamin deficiencies and just basic cbc--all of which are fine, of course. We went to the GP today and got them tested for Hashimoto's, celiac, lyme, and a few other things. I'm not expecting any of these except the Hashimoto's and celiac to potentially come back positive. I hate that my 22 year old kid is going to have to figure out how to live hurting and tired all the time. I can hardly stand it and I'm 45. It's really not fair.
3. I got a pack of the Pentel Mattehop pens and they are awesome. The color is so saturated.
4.
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain PearsMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is an enormous brick of a book--almost 800 pages--and at first it wasn't grabbing me. I was reading it in a desultory kind of way, 2 pages here and 3 pages there, and suspected it was going to take me months and months to finish as a result. The book is divided into four sections, and once I got to the end of section one and realized that each section is about the same set of events told from the perspective of a different narrator and each subsequent section reveals that the previous narrator was mistaken in some of their conclusions about those events, I was riveted. There was squealing at one point.
This takes place during Restoration England, and I think I would have enjoyed this book even more if I was more familiar with that historical time period; I'm a 19th century gal, through and through. In addition to the plot, I enjoyed reading about 17th century ideas about medicine, philosophy, and religion.
View all my reviews
5. From Vecna to Van Nuys (And Back Again) by EddieSpaghetti
Steve/Eddie
Is the amount of miscommunication and hiding feelings in this fic utterly ridiculous? Yes, yes, it is. Do I eat it up with a spoon anyway? Yes, yes, I do. (The fic does offer a reasonable explanation for it, though.)
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Date: 2025-03-21 12:26 pm (UTC)Thank you, friend.