There are those times in which the wait for the answer leaves me wondering which direction life will go in.  A followup mammogram is done and the radiologist says things appear benign and we'll keep an eye on the area.  Come back in six months.  It feels as though I am stepping off a path that I was never truly on.

I step out of the building and ( Read more... )

I've paid 20$ for another year of having the expanded LiveJournal so I suppose I should use it, even if it feels I am writing to myself (and perhaps my parents?) as my only readers. I do not seem to be as motivated to write or to attempt to be creative just now. The last semester was rather a burnout for me and school. And yet it's about to begin ( Read more... )

I have updated the links to the left side of this blog. Some I removed. Some I've added. Some I've shifted around. The links are only some of the blogs and sites I have listed in my RSS readers ( Read more... )

I love my life, my job, and am so very blessed. But sometimes I mourn - even just slightly - the loss of the life I am not living ( Read more... )

My laptop is most likely dead.  I inadvertently downloaded a virus - thinking it was an update to adobe flash.   I am not ignorant of executable files and the damage they might do.  I've been attacked in the past but this was my own fault, it seems.  I have no funds for a new laptop and a new hard drive may not even be enough to revive it ( Read more... )

I've added a few links to the left, and deleted a few I have not visited as frequently on my Bloglines. I highly recommend Bloglines to subscribe to favorite blogs. My problem is I have too many there - but that must be dealt with at another time ( Read more... )

I have a lot to get done in the month of April. And then there's more in the month of May. And then there's lots of LC exam prep that I really should be looking at now. (Exam last Monday in July - there's still time ( Read more... )

Dinner at The Melting Pot on April 1st with the birthday girl in the middle:


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I should be reading my school readings. I'm not. I have a cold and my nose is stuffy and I woke up too early and I did my online Billpay. When everyone is up and running, I need to take my niece to shop for a "retainer" for my her facial piercing and find her a couple of non-jeans maternity pants so she can report for her job orientation ( Read more... )

So there was this little staff meeting today for our department and there was a birthday celebration which involved junk food. Including tiramisu. I looked at the nutritional information and was mightily impressed. So of course I ate some. Because what if I might never, ever get to eat it again in my lifetime? So, just in case, I had some. I ( Read more... )