I have long term goals around healthy eating, exercise, and weight loss. Ultimately, I want to maintain healthy eating habits, exercise daily, and get down to around 140-150 lbs. Shorter term goals include exercising (in some way) at least 5 times a week, watching calories (& learning other nutrition stuff to watch, as well as new dishes/foods to ( Read more... )

I know that I am outgoing and upbeat (generally), so it's sometimes difficult for people to understand that I am actually on that cusp between introvert and extrovert. I enjoy spending time with others, but I need to be alone (or with just one or two people I am very close with) to recharge. Hence, my times of "hermitting". This can make it a ( Read more... )

It's time for a new semester. This week classes started at one of the schools I teach at. Next week, classes start at the other school I teach at. It's very exciting and I still have a lot to do to be ready. But I think it's going to be a good, albeit busy, semester ( Read more... )

This summer, I'm going to learn how to garden! I've either fallen in love with flowers or rediscovered a love for them. I keep wanting flowers & plants, but I, to put it kindly, don't have a green thumb. But, dammit, I think I'm ready to learn! Any gardening friends here?

Oral surgeon visit over (1 week follow up appt). Stitches removed. Every thing looks good, according to the oral surgeon. I can even start eating crunchy food again in a week.

I realized today that while I do take a lot of pictures of myself and the pets (I don't take as many of Chelle, he isn't overly fond of having his picture taken), I actually have a lot of pictures that are of the "still-life" variety - pictures of my journals, or my yarn projects, or of flowers or of other nature-oriented scenes. I guess I like ( Read more... )

Surgery went well, I think. Daddy is making sure my recovery is as comfortable as it can be. I am a very lucky girl. Thank you, DaddyChelle.

I have surgery today at 11am. Please send good thoughts my way.

So, I've been battling tooth pain for over a month now. It took the original dentist two weeks to get me in (and I had already waited two weeks to call at that point). That was May 7th. They sent me off for a consulation with an endodontist (which was May 14, and I learned that no, a root canal was not possible, because the tooth was too far gone ( Read more... )

May 8th marks 5 years since Chelle and I first met. Every day I remain grateful for this fact, and for the direction our lives have taken us. I would never had guessed on that day that we would be where we are now. But now I can't imagine any other outcome. As they say in Bali, we were never not coming here. We just didn't know it then ( Read more... )