Sherri Cornelius

It’s a beautiful morning, though a cold front will be coming in this afternoon, plunging us back below freezing after a day’s reprieve during which the kids played barefoot in the dirt. So let’s see…what else is going on in Blossomland…

• Maggie gets her cast off Wednesday. I imagine they’ll x-ray her first, but I don’t see any reason they’d leave it on. She’s felt no pain for a week, at least. She will have to wear the cast for her school Christmas program tomorrow. I’ll probably buy a red sock to cover the bright pink, or else I’ll buy her a pink Christmas dress to match.
• I finished up my final project for Eternal Press last night and sent it off to my managing editor. I’m absolutely certain the decision to leave is the right one for me at this time. I’ll let you know when this vampire erotic fantasy is released in February.
• That post I did about being blocked by a  friend? Well just a day or two after, one of my best friends from college reconnected with me on Facebook and salved my soul. He’s a world traveler and drifts in and out of my life every few years. I’m pretty easy to find, as I have never lived outside of Central Oklahoma.
• Can’t wait to see Avatar! But how come aliens are always shaped like us? Even down to the women having breasts? I’m sure it’s a choice between realistic speculative world-building and concessions to characters a human can identify with. You know, because if a creature has boobs our brains supply woman seamlessly, and then they can focus on other aspects of a story. But still, it bugs me.
• So far I haven’t had anybody tell me I should be linking to them, so maybe those people don’t read me anymore. Thanks to those of you who checked your links.
• I will be making bourbon balls this year, and some other goodies for our Christmas night gathering, only I’ll have white, milk AND dark chocolate coating on the bourbon balls, and maybe even actual bourbon if I can talk the hubs into going to the liquor store. Maybe he could also buy a bottle of wine

I feel like there’s so much more I could be talking about, but I’m scattered. Anything you’d like to hear more about? Wanna tell me what you’ve got going on?

Yesterday was crazy. Over the weekend, Maggie fell and hurt her arm, but other than a red spot which faded after a few minutes, it looked fine. That night it started to really hurt her, so I wrapped it up and gave her some medicine, mostly just to placate her because you probably know how big of a deal even minor injuries can be to little kids. But the next day it started to swell, she wouldn’t use it, and it was painful to the touch. Time to go to the doctor.

So the doctor said it was probably a something-or-other kind of break that kids get all the time, sent us for x-rays and prescribed a brace, which nobody had in stock. Finally went to Wal-Mart and picked up a grown-up’s wrist stabilizer, long enough to go almost to her elbow but an adjustable width. I thought it would be a good temporary measure to protect her tiny arm at school, but it works so well, we might keep it long-term, if she doesn’t need a cast. I don’t think she will.

I wish we’d gotten the brace from the doctor herself, because as we were walking to the car after our appointment, Maggie tripped and fell on her bad arm. She cried all the way to the hospital for the x-rays, during the x-rays, and all the way home. It’s an understatement to say I felt her pain. It’s hard to go about your business when your child is hurting, even when that business is the only way to make it stop eventually. The promise of ice cream helped a little, and once she had a cone in her hand she smiled again.

I’ll get the results from the x-ray back today.