I've been recognizing signs of stress and anxiety in my body and I'm trying to manage it by making some changes; green tea instead of daily coffee (*sob*), water instead of pop, some herbal supplements, nightly exercise in some form instead of being a couch potato, taking moments to pause before starting another clinic visit or before I enter a ( Read more... )

My thoughts are scattered and words are few.  It's been a busy week and it went by much too fast; my mom leaves in the morning :-(   Then, it's back to reality - school work (BIG TIME, I'm so behind), parenting, grad details, preparing for scrapbook weekend, etc.

Maybe tomorrow I'll find more words to say, but for now I'll leave only this:

( It was a good week )

Tonight, while it was -28C, Kim and I went out with some of her classmates to do the first half of a bottle drive as a grad fundraiser.  There were several cars and we were out for 2.5 hours but didn't even finish the east side of town.  In our van alone, we brought back three loads of bottles to the recycling center to sort, and tomorrow the (much ( Read more... )