email from my Grandfather's wife, MaryHi Everyone ( Read more... )

I started up the kickboxing classes again yesterday. OMG, I was going to make it to the gym this morning, but when I woke up, my lower half was so in pain and sore that I decided to take a day off from the gym. I knew I was out of shape, but wow, not this bad. I will more than likely head into the gym after work and do some cardio on the ( Read more... )

I made $407.40 in my garage sale this weekend! Not too bad if I do say so myself! I had a swarm of people yesterday morning, and none in the first hour today, so I closed up early. My girlfriends and neighbors came in and shopped my garage on Friday night. All I have to do now is take the rest of the stuff to one of the local charities. Feels ( Read more... )

I have an appointment with my shrink today. Its been 3.5 months since I've gone in to see him. I think he will be pleased that I am still doing very well, and have not had any real anxiety attacks or major depressive episodes in a long while. I still feel anxiety when something "major" happens, but I'm now able to talk myself down rather than ( Read more... )

The local fisherman are pulling southern Californian fish out of our Alaskan waters. According to biologists the water up north has become 1-2 degrees warmer. This frightens me.

We had our first frost last night. The temp dipped into the low 30's. Time to pick the blueberries!!! YAY!

My office is completely totally utterly infested with FLIES! Yesterday within the first 20 min of work I killed over 100 flies and they still kept coming at full speed. This morning, they were so thick on the ceiling that I was able to kill multiple flies with one wack of the fly swatter ( Read more... )

I am having a large Moving Sale at my house this weekend with a "preview night" for friends. I am selling a bunch of furniture that we simply do not use, quality decor, clothing, TV, VCR, DVD player... all that schtuff. I still have to hang the curtains so none of the stuff we want to keep is showing, and I still have to bring more stuff out from ( Read more... )

I got this idea from another journal that had a pay pal donations link set up. I am a true believer in the Red Cross, as I have seen them in action when we had severe forest fires in Alaska, and I have also volunteered for Red Cross. This is a good organization ( Read more... )

To those that are in Katrina's way, I pray for you ( Read more... )