I'm somewhat reflective this birthday.  This year has pretty much sucked so far and 37 feels like a non-birthday.  And I'm still trying to build up the momentum that I felt at the beginning of the year.  But I don't feel bad.  Yeah, I'm approaching 40 and I still don't have my life together, but apart from the occasional sense of panic, I feel ok.  My health is finally back to being close to normal.  I'm definitely healing.  And life just moves along. 

We hung out with friends this weekend, and I got to celebrate my birthday without really trying. I piggy-backed another birthday party, but it was nice without being over-involved or me having to be the center of attention.  We also spent a the better part of saturday making macarons for the first time.  It was certainly an experience, one I've been wanting to try for some time.  Very time consuming, and they didn't really turn out correctly, but they still were delicious.

Been heavily into Gaiman recently.  I finished Absolute Sandmans 3 and 4.  I just fall into these books.  And I still can't believe how intricately constructed the story is.  I also received Crazy hair and The Eternals TPB which I've already devoured and I just finished Endless Nights. Eternals really revists some of the Sandman themes. 

I'm also trying to finish up The Dancing Wu Li Masters and I'm about a third into Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which is really not at all what I was expecting, but I'm really enjoying it.  Musically, things are rather hit and miss.

I've been dieting recently and it is going ok.  I'm trying to get off enough weight before August so that I'm comfortable in my kilt at the Interceltic Festival.

So that's my day.  I have class to give this afternoon, and then we'll be meeting at T's mom's to eat together.

I got this from someone last night, Facebook, or a blog. I don't remember.

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Thanks for all the support, everyone.  Nothing philosophical to say today.  We are all just getting by.  The biopsy results came back and confirmed a Sarcoidosis.  T and family are doing ok.  Still difficult to wrap our heads around this all. 

We are headed out for a week with T's sister in the Manche.  A well deserved breath of air.

Here's my Frankenstein photo

The scar is looking better now that the stitches are gone.

Heard the new Tori song.  First impression:  I can't get past her "pronunciation".  Ok, a little used to be cute, but now she has to deform every word.  It almost makes me not want to listen to her.  And the fashion victim stuff? Luckily I'm not sitting and waiting for Tori to put out music anymore.