Man, do I miss y'all.

[constance]

This has been an absolutely shitty weekend, for various reasons. I have been busy for almost every minute of it, running errands or finishing my mother's present or working or cleaning or doing laundry or packing or making sure I have all my things organized for next week for my wham, bam, thank-you-ma'am trip, five cities in five days, rental cars and flight arrangements and East Texas freeways.

If it just were the busy-ness, and the upcoming trip, it would have been stressful but okay. It wasn't, though. My eighty-six-year-old grandmother fell on Friday and broke her hip and for two days they have been scheduling surgery and putting it off again because she is simply too frail to be put under anaesthesia. She has a fever. Her potassium levels are too low, her sodium levels are too low, her blood pressure is too low. So for the past two days we've been waiting to hear word from her surgery, and then at the last minute we hear that it's been rescheduled--and sometimes we get conflicting information from various family members, which is completely frustrating--but at least she's in no pain; they've got her so doped up with pain medications and antibiotics that it's a little surprising she's still coherent, but apparently she is.

In the confusion of hearing and waiting to hear more about my grandmother's condition, I took it upon myself to do a little maintenance and reorganization of my ipod and somehow (well, I know exactly how but I shan't bore you with that sorry tale) managed to delete about a thousand songs from my ipod and also deleted them from my hard drive, and so now I am faced with either downloading them all again--they were mostly downloaded stuff, OF COURSE THEY WERE--or begging my friends to send me care packages. So here I am begging: don't you have pity for me and my bad weekend? Surely you cannot bear to see me without the entire catalogue of the Mountain Goats or Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire. Surely you have a Modest Mouse record you've been dying to copy for someone. Well, let that someone be me and I will be your forever friend; and in return if you would like me to furnish you with something I still do have, I shall do it, forthwith and anon.

Anyway. This weekend was shitty, and I am glad it's over, but at least my mother loved her present, and at least I had some lovely food--mmmm, chicken tikka masala--and at least I am ready enough to go tripping tomorrow that all I really have left to do in the morning is shower and get dressed.

I've got some e-mail to answer, and I haven't forgotten. And I see that I have been enjoined by Laurel to do a video meme, and I shall do that too. In time. In time.

Comments

[sunkentreasure.livejournal.com]

I've got most of the Andrew Bird and all of the Modest Mouse (I think) covered. I'm not your girl for the Mountain Goats, though.

Andrew Bird:
Oh! The Grandeur!
The Swimming Hour
Weather Systems
And The Mysterious Production of Eggs

Modest Mouse:
Sad Sappy Sucker
Modest Mouse
This Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About
The Lonesome Crowded West
Building Nothing Out Of Something
The Moon And Antarctica
Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks
The Mood And Antarctica (Remastered)
Good News For People Who Love Bad News

What else do you need?

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear about your grandmother. I hope her condition stabilizes soon so that she can get through surgery successfully and be on the mend ASAP.

And wow- what perfect timing for a glitch in the ipod. I wish I had representative CDs of the bands you mentioned, because I have a CD burner and plenty of time to copy stuff. If you find you need other stuff and it matches what I've got on hand, I'm your girl.

Yay! Not that there was any question of your mom liking her gift, but it's nice to hear that she did. I thought about you this morning as I was opening my "Hapy Moethrs Dy" redolent-of-Mr-Sketch-markers cards, and wondering how the unveiling of the Hundred Letters was going.

[disdainty.livejournal.com]

I would love to send a care package of burnt CDs... though I have a feeling we don't listen to a lot of the same stuff :-< I will upload my entire playlist in winamp html playlist form for you anyway though?

[dahlia-777.livejournal.com]

I've never downloaded any music so I have nothing to send :-/.

Hug?

[l-goldenquill.livejournal.com]

I can get anything you need, but only tonight. It sounds like I ought to be twirling my handlebar mustache mysteriously, but really it's because I move out of my dorm tomorrow.

But if you get back to me tonight with what you'd like, I can get you almost anything at all.

[somniesperus.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I really hope your grandmother's okay.

I don't know if I have any music you'd possibly want! :((

[redkisskate.livejournal.com]

**sends hugs through newly developed ihug technology**

I'm sorry about the continued delay :-(