After the xmas holidays, I found myself 5 lbs up from the already all-time high in weight, and with a florida vacation a vast-seeming six months away.  I figured a reasonable goal was to lose enough of the extra lbs to not have to buy a new swimsuit for the beach. After all, the three I currently own have only been worn a couple of times each. (Not ( Read more... )

I'm back in my virtual office for awhile, and I love it, but I am also very unused to the short commute.  I don't think I've been particularly productive the past couple of weeks, but I figure it's balancing out all the crazy from the earlier parts of the year.  I keep making piles of things and putting them away and making piles and dealing with ( Read more... )

This is what you get when you transplant a body part or organ (who knew Bone Marrow was an organ?) and the match is not exactly perfect and the graft (or transplanted part) fights with the host (or recipient of the graft) through the immune system.

All kinds of things can happen, from the slightly annoying to the life threatening.  In the early days ( Read more... )

I keep putting off posting because I don't think anyone really wants to read about my drama, and most of the people who need to hear about it already have.  So this post is more for record-keeping purposes ( Read more... )

posting something about the political situation in Wisconsin, something about how amazing it is to circumnavigate the square with tens of thousands of people who all feel as strongly as I do that a certain process has gone horribly wrong. But ( Read more... )

We've all been enjoying the Wii we got for xmas.  All of us do something on it almost every day.  I mostly (almost exclusively) work out in Wii Fit Plus.  Lots of balance, some yoga, some aerobics and silly stuff.  I'm very good at ski jumping and really terrible at heading soccer balls.  My center of balance was pretty darn good to begin with, and ( Read more... )

Rats, just 2 bites into lunch I broke the corner off a back tooth.  I've known this could happen for a while, for the past few months, there have been twinges whenever I chewed something hard ( Read more... )

I am so frustrated with my medical flexible spending account!  They say it's a good thing to have because you get to lower your tax burden, but it's a lie.  You end up with a burden of paperwork, and if you don't do things exactly right they suspend the "credit card" you're supposed to use, so you end up with money out of your paycheck every month ( Read more... )

Nineteen weeks ago, I set a fairly reasonable goal for myself:  lose 17 lbs in 19 weeks.  That's about a pound a week, which healthcare providers say is a healthy rate, and likely to stay off.  Right off the bat, I was hitting this goal, so I felt pretty optimistic.  Then in the middle, I started realizing I was losing the same pound every week.  I ( Read more... )

just posted at barley52  's blog - B needs company during the next 2 weeks

Hopefully, some of you can spend a little time with him.