My rebellion of the weekend was to order cards. Not business cards because I currently have no fixed business. Instead, I have ordered 100 free cards with my name and contact information and two of the things I do for pleasure and money- writer and Jewish educator. For the past 22 years, my card case has carried cards that define me rather ( Read more... )

I finally got some Ambien for the sleep problems and the difference in mood and temper after 4 nights of 7 straight hours of sleep is astonishing and gratifying. Off to see another specialist on Monday to see if there is more to be tweaked amongst the meds. Middle age - what a kick in the shorts ( Read more... )

I took a group of girls on retreat with 60 kids from 4 other temples up at a semi-local URJ camp. In March, in the Poconos. We put the kids on the bus and I was elected to drive the chase car. Anyone who has ever done this kind of work knows you need ONE working vehicle on-site for the semi-inevitable kidney-stone in your chaperones, asthma or ( Read more... )

Yes, middle age crisis has come just a touch early for Janis (actually, the fucker is right on time).

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I finally got back to the gym today after spending a week or better with this cold snuffling through me ( Read more... )

Mom & Dad's house sold today. It hasn't netted a lot of money but i am glad I didn't walk away, as I was tempted to in the beginning. And the middle and parts of the end. At least this was not left a total disaster for someone else to clean up, which was kind of my parents' M.O. in general. Or, if you choose to look at it another way, I still ( Read more... )

Last night one of my high school kids, whose mother is a friend, showed up for class with her boyfriend in tow. Boyfriend looked like a squirrel might take him down in a fight, wore lots of emo black and had dangly bits pierced through whatever. He is named "Beau", of all things, and was perfectly adorable, from his little dyed black ends to his ( Read more... )

We were supposed to drive up to NE to be with friends but we are both sick. Bleh. Not a good thing to bring to one house with an elderly and cherished friend nor to the other house where the friend is already hellishly sick. Besides, my head keeps spinning from vertigo that is so icky I can hear my eyeballs moving in my head ( Read more... )

BFF#1's cousin/ward died extremely suddenly - diagnosed Thursday, dead on Monday, poor guy - and his funeral was today. 2.5 hour drive to pick her and her Mom up at the airport out on Long Island, then the funeral. Out in a huge Jewish cemetery in the cold wind and general sadness with all of us coughing and sneezing and shivering, me with a rotten ( Read more... )