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I've been overweight for like the past 20 years (I blame the boys - after I quit nursing Davey, I gained weight like crazy and then just never dropped it) but I've been relatively healthly with it. Last year, with the severe anemia and having to nap if I walked up/down the stairs and stuff, was miserable. I am genuinely excited to be able to do things like park at the back of the parking lot at the grocery store and take the stairs instead of the elevator and carry the dog/cat food in from the car on my own. Still overweight though. Well insulated for winter, I guess, but I've been having insane hot flashes and I don't even want to imagine what the summer is going to do to me.

Recs:

Perfect by Reioka
Marvel || Dum-E, Tony Stark || 1234
Everything Tony has ever given life to has been perfect. Dum-E knows this, because Tony said so.
Super cute short Dum-E fic

Let Toretto Be Toretto by astolat
Fast & Furious || Brian O'Conner/Dominic Toretto, Letty Ortiz/Dominic Toretto, Brian O'Conner/Letty Ortiz/Dominic Toretto || 7784
A different kind of race.
AU where Dom is running for president, Letty is his wife, and Brian is on their security detail.

On the Value of Clear Communication by withershins
Hockey RPF || Sidney Crosby/Alexander Ovechkin || 4871
Five times the Penguins assumed Sid was dating Geno, and one time the Capitals knew otherwise.

Eye of the Tiger by tielan
Calvin & Hobbes || Calvin/Susie, Calvin & Hobbes || 2318
Calvin isn't sure about this business of passing Hobbes on. However, it may not be up to him.

a home for every season by dirgewithoutmusic
Chronicles of Narnia, LotR || Eowyn & Susan Pevensie, Eowyn/Faramir, Susan Pevensie & Treebeard || 4042
Let’s talk about a Susan who never moved on, who buried her family in English soil and spent the rest of her life trying to find her way home. She did not believe lions were kind, but she always remembered a bow in her schoolgirl hands.
She looked in every old wardrobe she came across. It was casual, everyday– the first day in a new lecture hall, she checked the back of the coat closet. Friends had her over for Christmas dinner and she excused herself to go the bathroom, checked every cabinet and closet, and then headed back in for pudding. She went home with a cute boy she met in a smoky little pub and she checked his wardrobe before she headed home the next morning, heels in hand.
She also went to college, got a political science degree she had to fight for. She got a byline in the local paper, a few ladies’ magazines, then a larger regional publication.
She had mimosa brunches with friends. She read detective novels, never touched fantasy, and finally one day she stepped through an old stone archway barely thinking about it and–-
She was standing in a treeless plain, all yellow grass and blue blue skies.
(Susan Pevensie goes to Middle Earth)

This is so good that I don't even have words.
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So there's been a lot going on, and it's got me in my head and a bit messed up, so I keep putting off writing about it. Spent the weekend of my birthday in the hospital. Had gone for routine bloodwork, and the next morning while I was preparing to leave for Pittsburgh, my dr office called first thing and told me to go straight to the ER. My hemoglobin level was at 6.5, when it's supposed to be at or above an 11 or 12. I've been anemic for a while, but never that low. So, lots of blood work and waiting around and whatnot, got a blood transfusion and an iron transfusion. My hemoglobin was up to 7.4 when I left the hospital. (It was 8.7 when I was at hematology two weeks ago and 9.1 yesterday.) No visible bleeding, so I got a referral to hematology, gastro, and ob/gyn. But it's got me in a bad headspace, between missing my Pittsburgh weekend, thinking about the bills I'm already racking up, and knowing the number of phone calls this is going to entail. Plus, everyone asking me how I am, which is emotionally exhausting.

Someone hit Davey's car yesterday. Apparently this old guy missed his turn so he stopped and backed up in the middle of the road and ran right into the front of the challenger. Davey is so upset, obviously, even though the damage is minor.

This morning, Miranda passed out in the hallway at home and had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. This happens sometimes, and the drs have yet to figure out why.

Mom is not doing well. I keep trying to convince my siblings that they need to get over here and spend time with her. She wants to keep working until January (when she'll be eligible for retirement) but I'm trying to convince her that she can stop now, or at the end of the summer at the latest.

The boys and I (and their girlfriends) went to see F9 the other night. It was so ridiculous, not that I expected anything else, but seeing the F&F movies at the theater is a tradition for us. (Leah and Miranda have never seen any of the others, but they didn't want to be left out.) I've missed the movies.

Recs:

I recently finished The Line That Held Us by David Joy and American Dirt by Jeannine Cummins, and thoroughly recommend both.

Epiphany by Minxie
Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1 || Cameron Mitchell/John Sheppard || 20k
It takes months, but John finally has an epiphany.
I have this marked to rec so apparently I really liked it. BDSM

Links:

Alabama Coal Miners Are Striking for Their Lives

The Cocaine Kings of the Pittsburgh Pirates

Grandmother of Juneteenth celebrates federal holiday -- but there is still more work to do

Her Kind of Blue: Joni Mitchell's Masterpiece at 50

Jaccob Slavin Recognized for Elite and Gentlemanly Play

A Lobster Diver in Cape Cod Says a Humpback Whale Scooped Him Up and Spat Him Out

T.J. Osborne Talks Brothers Osborne, Coming Out, and 'Younger Me'

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