The Mezzanine

So... yay. It turns out I have breast cancer.

Quite an early stage of breast cancer. And it hasn't spread or anything yet. But... yeah. That new suspicious-feeling lump in my breast is in fact cancerous, and I'm going to have to have it removed. Assuming our hospitals have enough space during the current Covid outbreak.


(Stress over "weird unidentifiable lump" has meant I've ignored my flist here for the last month. Trying to catch up now, but I'm sorry if I miss anything important.)

Excuse me while I briefly go religious and political simultaneously:

Honour physicians for their services, for the Lord created them. … The skill of physicians makes them distinguished, and in the presence of the great they are admired. … The Lord created medicines out of the earth, and the sensible will not despise them. … He gave skill to human beings that he might be glorified in his marvellous works. … My child, when you are ill, do not delay, but pray to the Lord, and he will heal you. … Then give the physician his place, for the Lord created him; do not let him leave you, for you need him. There may come a time when recovery lies in the hands of physicians, for they too pray to the Lord that he will grant them success in diagnosis and in healing, for the sake of preserving life. He who sins against his Maker will be defiant towards the physician.
Sirach 38:1–15

In other words: "Stop ignoring doctors and insisting God will heal you! God gave you doctors and medicine! What else do you want?"

Five day lockdown. Dammit.

After having had 45 elected on the day of my daughter's birth, it was nicely fitting that her fourth birthday was the day they finally called this year's election.

Kidlet Primus is now 6! Kidlet Secunda is now 4! And our house is once again overflowing with birthday cake and wrapping paper.

It's weird not having toddlers any more. A few years ago, the presents of choice were crayons and stickers. This year, it's nerf guns and lego.



In mostly unrelated news, we're now (finally) out of lockdown. Although visitors still have to be spread out, and the masks are still compulsory - which I'm actually fine with.

The kids are back at school/kinder, and starting to get their regular lives back. Although I doubt we'll go back to swimming lessons for quite a while - which is a shame, because Secunda was only just starting them, and misses them a lot. Primus, on the other hand, doesn't care at all about swimming, but has been requesting gymnastics lessons (ever since he saw a parkour video) - so we might give those a go.

Still waiting to see if church starts up again. I hope so - although it will be very odd having stuff scheduled on Sunday mornings again.

Haven't got anything major to post, but I thought I'd give a general update on my life...

Pandemicville

The kidlets are back at school/kinder. Otherwise everything is still cancelled. Most of that's fine, but I am desperately missing:
1) church
2) my roleplaying group


Musical Aspirations

After a lot of consideration, I have taken the plunge and bought a button accordion. When it arrives I will (briefly) be the proud owner of THREE accordions - before selling my second piano accordion. Then I just need to figure out how on earth one plays a button accordion...


Cinema and so forth

I have been watching The Good Place, and enjoying it much more than I thought I would. (Only bought the first season because I saw a five-second clip of Ted Danson smiling evilly, which greatly impressed me.)

Also, SBS has been rebroadcasting Stargate, so I'm watching that on a weekly basis as new episodes become available. I'm currently being weirded out by the early-episode differences (no ray guns, no spaceships, no Thor, no crystals), and also very annoyed by it (there is a reason my LJ has a Stargate is Annoying Me tag).

Meanwhile, my friends gifted me a Disney+ subscription. So while I am waiting for Hamilton, I'm watching all the MCU movies that I never got around to seeing. They're quite fun, for the most part.


The Kidlets

Both are lovely, charming, and delightful individuals. Both are also currently banished outside on serious time out because they are ANNOYING. School holidays have only just started, and I expect to be utterly crazy by the end of them.

I feel like Rilla at the start of the novel.

( pandemics, and so forth )