Today is my birthday. Hurray! I’m currently wearing new pajamas and reading Magic Below Stairs. V. nice birthday so far. Happy Voting Day for everyone who votes regular-like and not by mail. I sort of miss the excitement of Voting Day which I think should be a national holiday, but I actually love voting by …
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The Birthday Week
Everyone should celebrate their birthday for at least a week. Trying to put all of the birthday fun on the one day is just too much pressure on that day, plus, more fun over more days is just always a good idea. I am very pro-birthday (and pro-celebration, clearly), but not just birthdays for the …
Update
Sadly, I have not quite lived the dream yet. It still takes a bevy of meds and herbs, hydration, and encouraging self-talk to get me out of bed in the mornings. Then, I don’t so much pop out of bed as creep carefully. Plus, I can’t really drink tea with my insides still so messed …
My Dream
I have this dream and it’s probably going to sound super lame–I’ve been confined to the same hospital room since Tuesday except for that one thrilling trip to the ct scan, surely I had time to come up with something better. Like touring the Loire valley in France and tiptoeing through fairy tale castles or …
The View From My Window
My hospital room window faces the west hills. They’re gorgeous early in the mornings–houses dotted among the green trees with little splashes of fall color. Smoky clouds above getting lighter with a bluer and bluer background as the sun comes up. I have had a lot of nice views out of hospital rooms, though I’d …
Masterpiece in Violet
I know it hardly seems fair to discover new talents at the ripe old age of 32—surely, I should have found all of them by now and be tapped out. But I’ve discovered some new ones. 1) Growing hair. I am really quite good at this. Fingers crossed that my hair growing continues unimpeded by …
New News
In some contexts comments such as, “but, wait, there’s more,” and “good lord, those are huge,” are a good thing. Like say for jewels. Or gold nuggets. Or cookies. Not so much for cancer. We got a good close up look at my ct scans today and yikes, not sure I wanted to know what …
I Miss My Cats, I Miss My Cats
I MISS MY CATS! In the past 48 hours, not a single person has curled up on my lap and purred. No one has come running to head butt me when I get up in the morning. And absolutely no one has meowed in my face with stinky cat food breath. *sigh* Phoenix is going …
All Hell Has Broken Loose (In a Good Way)
So we’re moving. Which is super awesome and all sorts of great (goodbye barely a one-bedroom, Charlie Bucket leaky chimney and rat-sized holes in the basement!). We’re also going to Phoenix on Sunday. Which we just found out yesterday. Aaahhhhh!!!!! Friday is moving day and just as we get that last box settled on Sunday …
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Decisions, Decisions
It is SO difficult making decisions–you research, you sort, you try to make sense of things. But I am to the point where, despite the inadvisability of going out into crowded public spaces with a compromised immune system, I’m tempted to march into a purveyor of women’s undergarments and say, “Please help me. I have …