So, Monday, what can I say about Monday, here we are, working, trying to keep things as ‘normal’ as we can while leaving the house only when we must. Our roommate, Erin is using the game room table for work (most people would use this area as a dining room, but that is just wasting…
So it has been very weird recently. TP shortages, bottled water shortages. Our entire household of 4 adults is either work or school from home. We have plenty of food in the house (and plenty of TP as we buy in bulk and just got a shipment in Jan (thank you toilet paper gods)), we…
i vividly remember my first migraine headache. i was 6 years old, on the bus home from first grade. i thought i was actually dying. when i got home and told my mom (since she definitely wondered why i got off the bus sobbing) turns out this was totally normal (for our family) both my…
I was lucky enough to spend Thanksgiving ‘back home’ with my parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews and a random of assortment of other family and friends. Had a chance to visit with cousins i have not seen since before we moved from Missouri in 1986, and catch up with others i see somewhat…
I spent the morning watching Sherlock Holmes, while hooked up to a machine that takes my blood out of one arm and removes the platelets and then send the red cells and plasma, etc. back in the other arm. It takes close to 2 hours most times but the results are a bag of platelets that…
I will tell you something not a lot of people know… my big sister and I had a very very big fight a few years before she died
OK, after a little more thought and not having been blindsided by the loss of another loved one (extended family, but family still). i have decided to offer 2014 a second chance at a review… i still conclude that 2014 offered more than its fair share of unpleasantness compared to past years, i lost my…
i was going to try and write a coherent and thoughtful post about both the good and bad things that happened this year to commemorate my ‘new’ blog but the more i sit here trying to put it together the more i am dwelling on the bad/sad things that i went through this year. 2014…
my husband and i have recently started bike riding again, we have both mountain/trail bikes and hybrid road bikes. a friend who is a much more active rider talked us into signing up for a 26 mile casual ride in downton san diego called Bike the Bay. to say we are unprepared for that ride…