WillowDarkling

I was mildly sore for a day after the first shot, and quite a bit more tender for three days after the second shot, along with being really tired for two days. But I would do it again, honestly, because what I feel now is relief. 

I do have a bit of a needle phobia so I tend to tense up when I get jabs of any kind, so there’s a small chance that might have increased soreness for me. Although the nurse did tell me to relax the shoulder, not sure if it worked  

First jab, told the lady I needed a distraction… didn’t even notice it.   Second jab, I did notice it, but it was quick.

Well, yes, it only took the lava over 40 000 earthquakes in the span of 3 weeks to finish buffering, Desi  

The location is sort of in the middle of the Reykjanes peninsula, so it’s kind of midway between the capital where I live, and the little town where my parents and baby sister & family live. But thankfully, the fissure is far enough away from the towns that there is very little danger. Biggest concern at the moment is gas emissions from the fissure going over townships, so authorities are issuing warnings about keeping windows shut, and that the lava might possibly run over the road that’s on the south coast of the peninsula, connecting it to the south coast of the country. But that’s alright, because there are two other roads out of the town where my family live, so there’s no danger of people getting cut off  

But honestly, this is exciting enough that my parents (now officially both in their 60’s) ran out into their car and drove off to try and see the eruption, like about half the damned town  

I’m just glad your parents are okay. If my parents did that it’d be

Just because that’s how luck treats my family.

Fire & Ice?

Well, everyone’s afraid of Ungoliant…   

Okay, so who turned up the speakers to rock and roll?

I think mum had THE best comment today… she got a text message while talking to me on the phone, and checked it… then told me that it was the county police department announcing that because of an “intended volcanic eruption...” such and such preparations had to be made… 

I asked her “Intended? Are you sure it said intended? You sure it didn’t say possibly imminent?” 

She then admitted that possibly the message had said Imminent and not Intended volcanic eruption, and that she’d probably just forgot what it said the moment she read it… 

And that folks, is how I knew that my mother has become one with these earthquakes  

I literally cried from sheer happiness watching President Biden and Vice President Harris take their oaths of office.  

Yessss, I’m not even in the US and it was such an immediate relief once the inauguration was over and it was done. He was gone. I don’t think Biden will be perfect by any stretch of the imagination but so much damage has been done and he clearly knows that his job is to help us heal.