I worked at the festival today and got more than 5,000 steps -- most of them right in the office, going up and down stairs. Frankly, stairs are VERY PAINFUL for me right now, aside from really wearing me out to climb ( Read more... )

The first day of June, 2016. Wow, time flies when you're having fun ( Read more... )

Sister Sue and I went to Starbucks very early today. (She had just dropped Nicole off at school.) She bought me a Venti drink (my usual coffee frap) and a pastry as a bday treat -- very sweet of her. We talked a ton about her cribbage trip and things at work ( Read more... )

I'm NOT the only person that found today ridiculously HARD and totally crazy. I think pretty much the entire Staff would agree with that, actually ( Read more... )

Yeah, yeah. I'm a broken record! But there's so much WORK to be done, and we just have to really stick to it ( Read more... )

Again, I'm tired tonight. Marilyn is, too. She's sound asleep on the sofa as I type this, poor thing. She had to deal with a lot of drama today, along with all her tons of work ( Read more... )

Marilyn and I actually got up at a decent hour today. We find it hard to do that on the weekend, as a rule. Our time off is so much about getting LOTS OF SLEEP these days ( Read more... )

I went with Marilyn to the office today. She had meetings almost all day long, including a lunch meeting. Very busy day for her ( Read more... )

I managed to write a 2,400 word inspirational fiction today for the 83rd Annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition (the deadline for submissions was today ( Read more... )

I originally started this entry at just past 7:00 p.m. It's now 8:45 and we just walked in the door from work. We're both sore and very tired. Marilyn needs to wash her hair (poor thing!!!), and I need to get right in and do the garbage and recycling (especially the dirty cat boxes). The pain in my back is worse again -- I probably need to take ( Read more... )