Torrefaction

CCAI has sent our dossier to China.  We should find out our LID date within the next couple of months.  YEE HAW!!

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Normally I'm very sociable...but right now I really need a day in which I don't interact with anyone for at least 8 hours.

Not happening.

 

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I was going to spend this weekend writing, but instead I'm spending it wandering around trying to get my head together.  I took Wednesday off from work to get a good start for NaNoWriMo, but a family member had to have surgery that day, so I spent part of the day at the hospital and the rest of it worrying. Managed to write a 1600-word expository lump, though.  Friday evening, instead of going to the NaNo kickoff party, helped my hub get the now-recovering family member settled in at the rehab facility.

Meanwhile, a difficult life change is underway for a couple of my friends--the two friends who kept me from drowning in the turbulent emotions of my early 20's. Many years later they're still among my nearest and dearest for reasons unrelated to gratitude or obligation or any of that.  So I'm pretty focused right now on doing whatever I can to help them, and then I'm also processing my own set of emotions about the situation.  

Then there's the dossier situation.  Now that it's out of my hands I have nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs until I hear something back from someone, many moons hence.  Not a good thing.  Now instead of being able to think about my endless task list, I get to feel sorry for myself because I've spent 9 months (almost to the day) working on my adoption dossier while many, many of my friends have been producing actual babies.  One such friend brought her 3-year old daughter and 7-week old son by the office to say hello.  I held the baby and everything, it wasn't too wrenching, but...she started TTC around the same time as me, and I remember talking about how our kids would play together. Huh.  I expected that the dossier being done would inspire a celebratory mood, but that lasted about 10 minutes and it's been a big pity party since then.

So...not writing this weekend.  Not even trying.  Yesterday Hub and I went for a little one-day road trip just to spend some time together that doesn't involve taking care of someone who's unwell or doing paperwork or meeting with a notary or what have you.  Then we bought the new Lego Star Wars game for the PS2 and played it for a couple of hours before bed.  Today I'm watching DVD's of Project Runway Season 1 and cleaning up my library/study.

Tomorrow I have to work until 9 or 10 pm so I won't be writing anything at all, but Tuesday I plan to get back on track:  Try to stop eating so much sugar, try to write a couple thousand words, and try to vote some Republicans out of office.  

 

Posted by alchemist at 01:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

...we are sharing this picture of our finished Adoption dossier! Isn't it precious? 9 months (almost to the day) after starting the process, we are finished paperchasing. I snapped the picture, boxed everything up, and fedexed it to CCAI on my lunch break today. In about 2 weeks they'll be sending it (along with a translated version) to China...unless I fucked something up.

Got Chinese food for dinner tonight (of course). My fortune cookie says: Share your joys and sorrows with your family.

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