Livejournal doesn't get the love that it used to - so many other things get my attention and energy these days. And truly, it's not easy to filter and edit my words to exclude my work experiences from my life. Work IS a big part of my life but I can't write about it. It reminds me of the blacked out letters that were censored when soldiers wrote ( Read more... )

The pace and pressure of this program is finally catching up with me.  I've had a stuffed up nose for a week and now with the lovely post-nasal drip, my throat is scratchy and tickly which makes me cough up yuckiness.  It's delightful.  I'm surrounded with kleenex, hot tea with lots of honey, cough drops, and a tiny pot of salt next to my nasal ( Read more... )

* clean sheets on my bed ( Read more... )

I am resisting the urge to catalogue all of the crappy stuff from the past few days.  Instead, some good things ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel like I am the raisin in a bag of chocolate chips.  Normally, I'm quite content with what I have, with my life, and the people in it but sometimes I am reminded of the things I have not.

I am not rich and thin, I don't wear designer clothes or drive an $80K truck, I don't have a cabin or an RV, and our children have never been to ( Read more... )

* for a quiet house.  For a while, anyway ( Read more... )

I've been flipping and folding laundry and watching season 1 DVD's of Mike & Molly while I scrapbook so it was ten after midnight before I realized the New Year had begun.  I've never been one to ring in the New Year with much gusto.  So.  2012?  No resolutions here, and no big plans of my own but good things will come, I know.   2011 brought good ( Read more... )

I am thankful for flea medicine, garbage bags, a vacuum cleaner, and a washing machine.

I am thankful that the dog is clean and has been freshly groomed and clipped, and no longer has stinky breath from decayed teeth.  Even the groomer commented on how good her teeth look for her age.

I am grateful that my mom went to a movie with me and several of ( Read more... )

(+) Coming home late last night to see that Jack had washed the dishes, unloaded the dishwasher and sorted laundry.  He even polished the kitchen faucet

(-) Finding a note from Julia's teacher first thing in the morning when I checked to see if she'd done her homework (she hadn't).  "Julia socializes too much and doesn't focus on her work."  No ( Read more... )

My Monday started with an early morning phone call asking me to come to work.  So, I put in another half day today and then took Charlotte to preschool.  She was so excited to be at Preschool that she actually jumped up and down and squee'd when we got there.  She's so adorable ( Read more... )