For those of you who do not read my infertility blog, I've been starting to vlog as well. Once a month until next summer and then a little more often as we start IVF again. Here's the latest one if you're interested.

Climbing the Pomegranate Tree

I spend more time on Facebook than I do here, but because of the great diversity in political beliefs among my friends I refuse to talk about politics there. So I'm going to say it here instead because I have to get it out ( Read more... )

We went back to Camp Adair this evening. I needed a very high-energy dog to get tired without chasing a ball through a muddy field, and it would make for a good level spot for Cory to run at the same time. (You can walk along the old camp streets; they're concrete but all cracked and with moss and grass growing here and there ( Read more... )

This morning I took Linus for his morning walk. I let him go into a yard and he started peeing. Then suddenly I heard "Sir?" I looked up and an older lady was looking at me from her front door (it was her yard ( Read more... )

It always amazes me how suddenly I'm thrown headlong into autumn. I think it's because in spring I steel myself for a long hot summer and then it's over in a blink. The weather turned wet as if cued by the equinox, and though we've had some nice days since then, they have a different feel. The other day I was walking under the neighbor's gigantic ( Read more... )

solteronita and I went camping this weekend ( Read more... )

The beginning of week two didn't get off to a great start, planning-wise - I would have preferred to go to the store on the weekend but I was gone. So we got what we needed for today at lunchtime ( Read more... )

Today was kind of a mixed bag as far as emotions. It was wonderful to hang out with Nicoal and just talk about food and be all excited about it together! And then I said goodbye and went down to Salem and had lunch with Erin and her family. They eat a lot of meat and cheese and not a lot of veggies, so I felt lucky that I was there on a day that ( Read more... )

Day 6 was super easy to be raw, which I was only slightly worried about. I went up to Portland in the morning, and was worried I'd eat too much because of being around friends, but I was around Nicoal, who's vegan and loves raw food as well so I shouldn't have been quite so concerned. Heh ( Read more... )

Up a pound today. Not surprised, not unhappy. :)

Breakfast: a big orange-sized tangerine (with eighty bazillion seeds), a kiwi, and a handful of almonds.
Lunch: Plain salad and an apple with peanut butter
Snack: Dates, of course (they're almost gone now)
Dinner:


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