So I haven't written since my birthday and with good reason. I'd love to say it's because we have been so busy getting on with our lives and enjoying the fruits of being older, wiser and somewhat financially stable, but that's not it. It's more a case of same ole shit. There's a bunch to catch up on, my ongoing struggles to be properly assessed in terms of what's going on with my body, Mom's 90th birthday, Nanowrimo, the holiday season, the kids, blah, blah, blah. and I will do my best to back here before the end of the year and do the year in review. Right now, I'm trying to catch up on a month's worth of stuff which is hard to do when you're struggling with fatigue & anxiety from SIBO because your insurance won't cover the antibiotic you need without extra paperwork from your Dr but they don't tell you that until you call them after a week and half to see what the delay is, and your Dr has failed to get the paperwork done despite another week of checking in to see that it filed. So, yeah, that's where I'm at today. Dave is at a 2-day mandatory training that he thought he had lucked out on not having to attend earlier in the year. Christine is busy with the holiday season at Nordstrom, and Josh is enjoying his one-year relationship with Brenna, and they will be in Michigan for the Christmas holidays..ironic since Brenna's team is Michigan and they'll be here in So. Cal playing in the Rose bowl Jan 1st and had they stayed here for the holidays they may have scored tickets to the game...