I’ll admit it right here. I’ve never had any measurable bit of athletic skill whatsoever. I’ve been known to trip over my feet. I tried tennis, basketball, dance, gymnastics, cheerleading, and was no good at any of them. I was a reasonably decent roller skater (who wasn’t in the 80’s?), but [...]

that this is how people find my site. Obviously there aren’t enough sites out there about what girls do for fun when they’re home alone. I’m sure they’re quite disappointed when they get here. Because, you know, I’m rarely home, and when I am, it’s almost never alone. And if you [...]

My life is always crazy this time of year. I work in HR at a school (OK, I actually AM HR at the school - just me), and in 3 more working days, I have 30+ new employees starting work, and the day after that, my other 220 employees come back, expecting a fresh [...]

will take over her old room! Hayley has been gone for 2 weeks (first to chorus camp, then on a plane BY HERSELF to go to Grandma’s for a week). In that time, she has turned 13, and has called home exactly twice. On her new cell phone (b-day gift from Mom [...]

Forgive me, oh great and powerful Internet, for I have sinned. It’s been 5 1/2 weeks since my last entry, and - whoops, sorry, channeling someone else’s childhood. There has been so much going on the last few weeks, all leading up to today - my last day of vacation. While you [...]

and I’m almost finally back up to speed. Short version of the long story - I was sick. Really, grossly, coughing, fevered, feeling like crap, sick. Off and on for about 2 weeks. Thursday before last, Kim guilted me into going to the doctor. Strep and flu tests both negative, [...]

In my last post, I talked about feeling good.  My mom says this cursed me, and apparently she was right.  A week and a half ago, Mark brought me home some nasty virus.  That, combined with all of the &*#@^%$ oak pollen outside right now, has conspired to make me a sick, miserable mess for [...]

For the first time in a long, long, long while, I’ve been feeling pretty good. So much that I actually got to tell my rheumatologist that I’ve been feeling good. He’s so used to seeing me when I feel like crap. Instead, I’ve been waking up (early, even on the weekends!) in [...]

I have friends at work who struggled for years with infertility issues, then finally gave up on the idea that they would ever have a baby.  After struggling with that for a while, they decided to start the steps toward adoption. There were some ups and downs on this, but about 6 weeks ago they [...]

If you read me through a reader, or allow pingbacks or trackbacks to your site, please forgive me now.  I have spent probably 9 hours in the last 2 days reformatting and moving all of my posts from the old site to the new site, and in the process, the RSS feeds are going a [...]