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Consider this my "Extra! Extra!" of the past couple of weeks. To, um, all my loyal readers.

News item: Got a facebook message from a woman who has done with with the Comadres. We learned that Alicia and Patricia were both maybe terminally ill. A little unclear.

News item: Will my baby nephew ever come?

News item: Hey so you know how you struggled seflessly for the human rights of your people for over 2 decades in some of the worst conditions imaginable including periods of captura and all the bells and whistles electricity water wood hoods powder metal cells horror that go with the captura of a "subversive"? You know how maybe you thought that the physical invasion of your body would be over with the Acuerdos de Paz and the years that followed and the election of a member of the FMLN party to national office? Hey, guess what? 18 years after the war officially ends, those years are going to catch up with you in the form of a disease that calls for treatments that can aptly be compared to torture. Thanks for all your work!

News item: Actually it turns out the cruel treatments may be doing what they're supposed to, although they will continue for several months and the future remains unclear. An emergency trip to El Salvador is not in the works at the moment.

News item: I'm an auntie!

News item: Oh hey there, PMS. Here to make sure I feel like I'm on an emotional roller coaster right now? Awesome. Glad you've got my back.

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Upcoming news: Wildwood 2010 - more beach-related Ultimate and debauchery than you can shake a stick at, coming up in 5 days!


Upcoming news: 2 1/2 weeks in the mountains with my immediate family. Will it be idyllic bliss? Will it be a camp horror? I suspect some of both... but mostly I'm rooting for this.

orange, periwinkle, and FUCHSIA

This whole garden thing started when I ordered a set of "easter bulbs" for super cheap. It said you could plant them up through May, which is around when I finally stopped fighting with the ivy taking over the yard enought o be able to plant them, and though they were kind of shriveled and TINY I planted them in the ground. Well, and then I got a packet of wildflower seeds and one of cosmos, and now I have a small jungle in my yard.

See those little dots of fuchsia in there? Those are the only ones from the bulb mix that did well (possibly because the cosmos devoured all the sunlight) and they're just today starting to bloom!

Aren't they just the sweetest?

Eartha Kitt

I've had this song stuck in my head for the past couple of days... finally remembered enough of the lyrics to find it. Thank goodness!