Well, my first attempt at helping people in need wasn't met with much enthusiasm. The families I wrote about here are very thankful though for the donations that came from people who didn't let the cynicism of our current society keep them from trying to help someone who needed it ( Read more... )

The first person I'm going to tell you about today has four kids. Her husband has lost a huge amount of job hours and his check this week was less than $100 by the time taxes etc were taken out. She has still not received her check and it's very likely that she won't receive it until after Christmas. That check was meant to buy gifts for her ( Read more... )

Let's see...

Today, I:

- baked chocolate chip cookies
- made English muffins from scratch
- had a great time in yoga class

Do those count?

:)

• One-legged crow pose (eka pada bakasana) in yoga class. I felt SO SOLID, by far the most competent I felt today at anything.
• I got a new purse/bag thing in the mail, so tomorrow I get to carry something new around, and they put a pre-packaged cookie in it! Made me smile.
• The Christmas tree smells nice.

• A lovely couple out jogging on Mass Ave this morning in matching, sleek, red and black runners' outfits.
• A girl (college-age?) walking toward the grocery store with two reusable cloth shopping bags in her hand.
• This new icon I made late last night. 1upcake is my new favorite word for a cute little good thing of any sort.

Yesterday:

1) M&G said they'd come to my birthday party. Yay, it wasn't insane to buy 10 tickets! Nine are now spoken for.
2) The increase / decrease sampler here. What a great idea. I want to knit that.
3) I finished all my NASM reading for the week, and now it won't hang over my head all weekend.

Today so far:

1) Thunderstorms!

1) I found my gray hoodie that was lost! It had fallen behind the couch. I still wonder how. But for a while it seemed like I was losing a lot of things, so starting to find some of those things is really nice ( Read more... )

1) Yesenia did it! Yayyyy, that's my first Kiva loan to be completely paid back! She did it on time, too. You go, woman. Looks like Salima, the charcoal seller, will be next in a couple of months ( Read more... )

I squatted more than my usual weight today! 145 lb... squee. I get excited every time I go over 140, since I so rarely alter my lifting routine.

I made two new LJ friends.

I can't seem to connect remotely to my desktop at work -- haha, yay, I'm free to finish up chores at home instead. :)

1. My lab partner and I had a good time joking around in lab. We make the best of it ( Read more... )