General post on life and writing.

Okay, public post about this: My mother is in the hospital with two broken shoulders. The short of it is that she fell Sunday night at home and landed wrong. At the moment, surgery is not on the table, but her shoulders have been immobilized and she'll be going to a rehabilitation facility Wednesday or Thursday. For how long, I don't know, but apart from being in pain and unable to use her arms, she's fine. I'm going to try to drive down to SC to see her this weekend since she'll be in a more permanent place then. I'd already be there were it not for very tight finances and a powerful need to look for a job to help make finances not so tight.

ETA: And thanks to those of you who've left messages on LJ and DW. I meant to respond to them last night, but I'm never very good in these situations and then I end up coming off as ungrateful and... Yeah, uh, in other words: Thank you and sorry this isn't more personal.

In spite of the stress, I'm writing, mostly because it's a nice distraction. "Homesick (Part 3)" (AU Selene/Ballari, NC-17) will go up, hopefully before Friday, and then I'll finish another story, which will also be filtered though it is in a very different vein than "Homesick." Very different. I'd like to have both done before I go down to SC, but if not, the latter one will be finished when I get back. "Homesick" has to go up since it's my tamingthemuse prompt.

Sam's off work yesterday and today, so he's here with me for at least another night. I'm glad he is, because in all honesty I was not doing well last night. I will be on WoW for tonight's Tavern Night. Believe me when I say it'll be nice to have that.

I'm probably going back to bed (only had about four hours of sleep at this point). I've left a message with the nurse so they can call me if Mom's up to talking, or just so I can receive updates once Mom has approved them.