Chaotic Ramblings

Yes, I know I haven't posted here in a small forever but now I have a very good reason for crowing to the hills.

After trying for almost a year, I'm proud to announce....

I'm pregnant!!!!

*grins* The home pregnancy test popped positive and I'm going to make an appointment today for the official OB/GYN confirmation.

And here's a Christmas treat for those that didn't know this was out.....

Okay this summer's been crazy and Fall's not looking like it's gonna slow down any.

First up, we had a fight with FEMA and our morgage company over flood insurace, basically if we needed it or not. Seems FEMA redid the floodmaps in our are and we somehow got shifted. So that was a fight and a half, running all over God's Green Earth to get that settled.

Then, one of our fuse boxes started to sizzle (something my dad caught when he was over helping with a "Honey Do" list I had). Then one of the walls in our office stopped working, taking the overhead light with it. So we had the electricians out and they were nice enough to replace our fuse box, then fix the wall (which wasn't fixed with the fuse box replacement) plus two other electrical problems (one was the lamp that hangs over the staircase needed the bulbs replaced. I didn't know if it was bulbs or electrical 'cause I couldn't reach it.)

Then, A gets a tire punctured. Not once, but twice! So the first time it was replaced but the second it's got something similar to a "fix a flat" in it.

And the fun since April has been interesting...

( Cut for blatant female body issues )

So after talking with A, we decided we're going to give it the good old college try before bringing any docs in on it. And if it doesn't work, then we will probably accept that kids won't be part of our lives other than furry ones.

The Case of the Deceased Daimyo

Someone on one of my lists suggested publishing the book on Smashwords.Com for those that don't have a Kindle (although Amazon.Com does have free Kindle software). So, after a long week, we at Phoenix & Feline Stories LLC are proud to announce our book is avaialble in different formats! From RTF and HTTL to software compatable for Nook and IPads.....

As everyone is aware, there was a disaster in Japan (a place close to many a yaoi girl's heart). My friend, Phoenix, and I have decided to help them out the only way we could. By putting pen to paper. We wrote a book, a Victorian age romantic mystery with a supernatural twist, and are offering it for $3 with the proceeds to go to the Happy Hearts Fund, a charity we both feel has its head and heart in the right place.

So, without further aeu, we at Phoenix & Feline Stories, LLC is pleasued - and quite proud - to introduce to you the first of a series of books (Yes, series. There are more being written/edited as we speak): The Case of the Deceased Daimyo. So please donate your Starbucks coffee today and help us help the children in natural disaster areas.

EDIT: I have been informed that there isn't really much of a blurb for the book so here's a better one:

When a diplomat from Japan is murdered by an apparently supernatural creature, Father Leia St. Croix of the Vatican is dispatched to investigate. Also investigating this strange murder are two shinigami, Death Gods, who take an interest in the 'Father' during the course of the investigation. With two very attractive spirits interested in her, how can a half vampire/half succubae concentrate on the murder?

Well, the doctors ran tests and diagnosed the seizures as epilepsy. Gave him medicine to beon ofor two years and sent him home with his parents. Said that if he went two years without any seizures, then he could get off the medicine. IF he had any seizures, the two years started over again from the time of the seizures.

This morning I get amn e-mail from my mother in law saying he's back in children's hospital because he's been having more seizures. They've been lasting less than a minute, but he's still having them after doubling the dosage of medicine. The doc doesn't want them to giv him too much medicine 'cause then he'd be sleeping more and not getting the interaction he needs to "grow up healthy". *rolls eyes* Unfortunately, they also can't keep doubling the dosage in the hopes of controlling the seizures.

The docs haven't found anything medically to show why the seizures are happening. All that they know is that the seizures are traveling from the right side of the brain to the left. At first, one of the nurses or techs mentioned something about some "abnormalities on both sides of the brain", but the neurologist didn't mention anything about that. The speculation is whomever told my sister-in-law and her husband that were referring to the strange brain waves that were causing the seizures.

Well, that's about all the news I have so far. Right now, it's a wait and see on information but I'll let y'all know when I get anything.

Well, little Ian went in for an MRI and apparently the seizures started on the right side of the brain and traveled to the left. The doc has pretty much declared it epilepsy and put him on medicine for two years. If he doesn't have a seizure in those two years, they'll take him of the medicine and see what happens. If he does, the two years start over from that day. The doc gave my sister-in-law and her hubby a video to watch and howo to get in touch with the Epilepsy Foundation for more information.

Nothing else has been said and since he's home from the hospital, we're all hoping no news is good news. So at this point, it's a Wait and See sorta situation, but I thank you all for your prayers and good vibes.

My five month old nephew is in the hospital. Again. He's been having seizures. Several of them. He started monday, and my parents-in-laws (who were sitting him at the time) rushed him to Children's Medical. He was fine yesterday, then had two this morning.

They haven't found anything wrong with him so far. But the seizures are getting worse.

Please keep him in your thoughts, and/or prayer equivalents. I'd really like a chance to spoil this kid for years to come.

I am competing in NaNoWriMo for the fourth straight year.

Okay, y'all remember when I took my computer in for a virus and it was like a week and a half before I got it back?

Well, apparently I now have a Trojan:DOS/Alureon.A in my system and everytime my anti-virus contains and removes it before rebooting, it finds it again after the reboot.

*sighs* SO it looks like it's gonna be back into the shop and I hope they give me some sort of break 'cause they were suppose to *stop* this sort of thing..... after all, they're the ones that redid my antivirus and such.

ANd now I can't connect to the 'Net 'cause of this. *growls*

EDIT: Well, turns out the Trojan was in my boot dirive and the computer place was going to charge me again to get everything fixed. *snorts* I called my dad - who works on computers for a living - and he's rebuilding the system for me. DOn't worry, everything important like my stories and music was saved on my new external harddrive (It was on sale for $80). *Grins* I'm thinking of calling it "Phoenix Down".