Squeeee!!

OMG. I just went to get my snail mail, and what do I find? ::squeeeeee!!::

Thank you so much to bear, snarkhunter, medee6040, jenniferjames, and minnesota_anne! Massage and foot massage!! Wheee!!

You guys are amazing :) :) :)

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Whee. Just finished playing our third game (third adventure) of D&D with the boys. Justin likes it, but Daniel is absolutely enchanted. Chris thinks we should post a notice at our local comic book shop seeing if any other local kids are interested in joining us for D&D on weekends.

We're such geeks. And so very proud of it ;)

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The geekdom continues, with... Drabble on request!

Leave a comment here with a drabble request, pairing or character-based. Give me one line of dialogue to be written in a drabble/ficlet (100-500 words). After you comment, put this meme in your own journal (if you want).

What I could do well:
Law & Order
The X-Files (sorry, only up to the Mulder years)
Queer As Folk (USA)
Homicide: Life on the Street

Anything else, I am not confident enough to try.

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Spent some time with at Amit and Jeea's house yesterday. My god their little one is cute. She's all big dark eyes and curly black hair, and a high little voice.

Good visit, albeit kind of sad. Jeea lost her dad several years ago, Amit lost his two months ago and I lost my mother a week ago. So the conversation naturally drifted towards the rather morbid. But in a good way, not in a "buck up and be strong" kind of way. And I have to say, as tough as it is dealing with my mother's death... at least I was prepared. Both Amit and Jeea lost their dads from one day to the next. A hell of a lot harder to cope with, I'd say.

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OK weekend, overall. I have a ton of e-mails, cards, letters, and phone calls to return, but I think I'll make myself a list and start going through them one by one rather than just stressing about an unknown number.

And it's been a good weekend, family-wise. Spent some good quality time together, walking in the woods, playing D&D, etc. Spent some good time with Chris' dad and his girlfriend, and Chris' brother and sister-in-law. Went with Guy to the Cancer ward, to drop off my mother's funeral bouquets. It felt like a very gentle coming-down kind of time.

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Also getting ready to go to Spanish camp, which starts tomorrow. I sure hope the kids like it as much as Daniel liked it last year.

( To Do List: )

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Here's the song that we played in the middle of my mom's funeral. It's one of the first songs I remember singing as a child.

( Gracias a la Vida, by Violeta Parra )