but at least I got the biggest, baddest chore done--my taxes! And while I'll be paying into the Feds again this year, it's not nearly as much as last year thanks to charitable deductions. Better yet, my State refund is quite a bit larger than last year. All that means I'll have enough money to take a small vacation to California at the end of June ( Read more... )

I've decided to try and get in the habit of shopping the Farmer's Market on Saturday. The big one around the square always has the largest selection and it's a good excuse to get out of the house before I become entrenched for the weekend. It's a little over a mile walk to make it all the way around and back to the car, so I always feel semi- ( Read more... )

that comes from really getting sweaty when you're cleaning something. I did the kitchen today (every three weeks on my schedule), but didn't do the usual wipe the counters, mop the floor and call it done. Today was move EVERYTHING, the toaster, the microwave, the cannisters, the coffee pot, EVERYTHING. Got out the Works and sprayed it all down, ( Read more... )

So, I got on the scale this morning and found I'd put back on a pound and a half of the four I'd lost. Ugh. That's what I get for baking strawberry-rhubarb pie on Saturday and eating the whole damn thing myself (save for the piece I sent my dad home with Saturday night) over the weekend. What can I say, I have a sweet tooth! And I've done well with ( Read more... )

I find that it makes my grocery bill go up. Keeping stocked up with fresh fruits and veggies, and all the staples that cooking for yourself entails, gets expensive. I went grocery shopping for the first time in two weeks today and spent $120 on groceries. Insane. But I had to replace a bottle of olive oil ($5), a bottle of ground sage ($4), coffee ( Read more... )

but lately I have been obsessed with apple slices drizzled with honey and then crumbled goat cheese on top. I even made a salad with that on it for dinner last night. With a waffle.

I'm starting to think menopause is a little like pregnancy for the wierd food cravings.

are hard to hold to. The plan to exercise isn't working out so well. Yet. As in, I'm not. Yet. I hope to get myself on track here in the next week or so. Seriously. That trip to Seattle got my sleep schedule all out of whack. Once I've got myself back into an 11-7 sleep pattern, I fully intend to do all my exercising early in the morning, while it' ( Read more... )

Waaaaaahhhhh!

I spent three wonderful days in Seattle and they're all gone, now. Polar bear!

All told, though, it was a lovely experience. It's only the: it's all over, post-vacation let down speaking. It really was very, very good.

FridayThe transportation part of the trip actually went off without a hitch. ::knocks wood for all future ( Read more... )

So, I was going to go prom dress shopping, today. I even went to bed early last night (taking Benedryl for coughy lungs sure helped), so I'd have time to exercise and have breakfast, maybe even do a few chores and then get out and shop. Welllll...sorta didn't happen ( Read more... )

Saw my shrink for the last time, today. I told him about stopping the Lamictal. He was quite surprised, of course, it wasn't anything we'd discussed previously, but he seemed to handle my unilateral decision-making pretty well. We talked about the positives and negatives, the biggest positive being the complete lack of negatives that going off the ( Read more... )