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In about 3 weeks, 8 years of fighting with insurance and hospitals will finally come to a close. In 4 days, the pagan new year happens and all the stirrings going on will be on full tilt. In 7 days I will begin the last year of my 30s. For about the last 3 months I've been in full introspective mode, not sure if it's helped me at all, but it's made ( Read more... )

Spent the day not working on the condo. But that's ok, we'll go by tomorrow and I'll spend some time on Monday, too. We've needed to stay at the house and start to unpack. Things need to find their places ( Read more... )

I guess it's just the state of affairs these days. I look out at all the things that are happening, watching what comes out of my more vocal mouths of friends and I can't help but be disappointed. One side jumps on one thing painting with a broad brush, then the other side responds with the same broad brush. I know there are those who are standing ( Read more... )

For those not on FB, my deck started rotting in late spring (what should have been early summer). At first it was just a few soft spots, then it stopped raining and went from 30F at night to 70+F during the day for several weeks. At that point, the bacteria sung a hallelujah and acted like it was the last day on the planet. The result was 2 spots ( Read more... )

Being surprised by your students taking it to the next level. We had our gymnastics "recital" today, and I had several students that I was concerned with about how they'd perform. I'm proud of them. One of them did full backbends for the first time, enough to count has having accomplished the skill. Another proved to me that she can do stuff ( ( Read more... )

Doing lots of house stuffs, mostly closets (you'd think my condo was nothing but closets with how often I'm working on one ( Read more... )

I suck at posting. I keep reading everyone's updates and keep thinking of things to post, but never do. I've had a ton of shit in my head, frustrations, stories and whatnot. Lots of things to consider ( Read more... )

So, I'm mostly done with the closet. Spent the last couple of weeks painting and installing the top rails. One wall is done, just needs to properly be divvied up so two people can use it. Then come the drawers and whatnot. Otherwise, it's quite useful now, vs the "so useless I don't want to go in it" point when I started. I need to head into the ( Read more... )

So, the weekend brought the discovery that my entertainment set-up was making the mantle fall off the wall. It's good, because I wanted to remove it and didn't know how. Bad, because it would have been nice to keep the technology out of the bedroom. I despise technology in the bedroom with a passion that beats out that thousand sun saying. The ( Read more... )