It's been a while since I posted...yes, I'm still alive!

We are now moved in to our new house. Packing drove me crazy, but the day of the move itself went fairly well. We moved little stuff in the morning, and then hired Mambo Movers to do the larger stuff in the afternoon. Best decision ever! Not only did they lug furniture down three flights of ( Read more... )

Lots of changes coming up in my life, if all goes well ( Read more... )

So yesterday, while I did my baking, (3 different sets of cookies for my family, his family, and work, so time consuming!), I decided to have my own holiday movie marathon- of Star Wars, that is! Star Wars was my religion when I was growing up. I mean the originals, not that prequel crap that came out more recently. My uncle bought me a VHS copy of ( Read more... )

I keep forgetting my last name has changed. It's kind of funny. I'll email one of my regular presenters at the library, and they will write back "Oh wait, ARE YOU MARRIED??!" and my immediate reaction is "Wait what, how do you know that?" followed by "Oh right, my email now says Mrs. G ( Read more... )

I have been dealing with a digestive system disorder off and on over the past year-- sometimes I'm well enough to drink alcohol even, and sometimes all I can take is gingerale and pretzels, if that. My doctors and I haven't quite figured it out yet. The GI believes it's IBS, but I am more inclined to think it might have something to do with the ( Read more... )

 I am doing much better these days...I am finally getting back into the world, thanks to the miracles of modern medicine and some hard work on my own part.

I read recently Anne Morrow Lindbergh's short book, "A Gift from the Sea." I read it originally because I thought it would be somewhat autobiographical. Instead, it was something much better...a ( Read more... )

The way my month has gone (health/mental health issues/totaled car but thank god we are alright), I need a reminder that I am in fact strong. This poem that popped up in my feed was perfect:

Love Letters from Helen of Troy 
by Elisabeth Hewer

you always feared god-born achilles 
the most of all your fellows.
his divinity wove him taller,
better, quicker ( Read more... )

One of my best friends from high school, David, passed away on Thanksgiving from brain cancer. The two of us had a complicated history but I choose to remember him as just that--my best friend from high school. We were both outsiders and we got each other right away. We listened to the same music, we loved the same movies. We went to everything ( Read more... )

We had to walk to school up hill both ways in the snow. Well no, not really. What we had to do was much worse. We had to read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair as summer reading. I distinctly remember sitting by the pool being absolutely traumatized by images of children cutting themselves and/or falling into vats of food and dying, or the so very ( Read more... )

And life to remind you that you don't really have it all that bad...

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