Tom and I took a side trip while out for breakfast this weekend and drove down Route 50 a little ways to Mountwood. He hasn't been confident enough in our car to drive even the 15 minutes to there these last few months, so it was really nice to be able to do this. The snow lining all the branches and the frozen miniwaterfalls on the rocks ( Read more... )

A few things I've done to add some fun to my life in the last week:

- Added homemade spinach dip to my world - holy cow, Yum!!!
- Finally did something for me at the grocery store & got two different nom snack/easy meal frozen packages (@ $5 each - yay for budget!): pork potstickers & veggie egg rolls, both of which are decent in the healthy ( Read more... )

I just took Abby for a walk (that's one of my new fitness goals... again). We didn't go far, and we didn't go fast, but it was respectable for one of our first outings, and it was snowing, and there is about a foot of snow everywhere (including most of the street and all of the sidewalks). We walked up the street, and saw some kids sledding down ( Read more... )

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Got this from starlakittyLeave me a comment saying "A deep black cup of joe." (No, I don't know what it means either ( Read more... )

This just about sums up politics sometimes:


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I can see the positive future ahead of us. It's close and it's promising. Tom and I both are starting to feel it again - feel the energy, feel the fun, feel the freedom, of being able to DO things again. It's such a freeing sensation, and it feels so good. We're both creeping up on a positive attitude I think we thought we'd lost. I can see it in ( Read more... )

I finished all of the term stuff, the secondary term stuff, the practice exercises AND the practice reports for Lesson 3. That means that on Monday, I will be able to do the Mail-In Reports & then will be DONE with Lesson 3! WooHoo! So, hopefully, Tuesday will be Lesson 4 (of 7) for Course 4 (of 5 ( Read more... )