Our week has been a rough one so far. Saturday, there was a horrible storm that knocked off a bunch of the boards on our front fence. It could've been worse though - the town just a 20 minute drive from us had a TORNADO that really messed things up. Yes, a real tornado. In coastal California. Sunday, we didn't get to the tree place on time, and the ( Read more... )

I’m having a downer kind of day, I think.  It’s not that anything bad happened - it was a pretty productive workday, no drama on the home/friend/work fronts, and I got enough sleep last night, so none of that is causing this malaise. I think it’s more of a burnout caused by thinking about how much I worked through last weekend, and this weekend is ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel conflicted about who I am and what I stand for. On one hand, I go out and feed raw peanuts to the squirrels outside my window, who even have their own little nut house now to keep them in. On the other, I heard our power outage was due to a crow hitting a transformer, and instantly fell into dark humor, doing my best comical ( Read more... )

This morning, I was sorting all my various medications into the weekly dispenser, and looked at my freshly-refilled heart medications (2 of them), just realizing I will likely have some left over after the heart surgery. It took a hot minute, letting it sink in that these medications (which I've taken over 20 years) will no longer be part of my ( Read more... )

The short list:

1. I had enough cash in the bank for a full tank of gas and groceries for the week.
2. I got a cute, easy to care for pink polka dot plant at an office gift exchange.
3. I remembered to bring Advil today, so that stabbing headache I had at noon is already fading away.
4. I found out one of my most irritating co-workers is retiring in 2025. ( Read more... )

Getting excited about tomorrow with the family. I'm way behind on the cleaning, mostly due to swelling/arthritis pain issues, but I should get it mostly finished by tonight. Picking up my eldest after work, and headed home to get the cranberry sauce and apple pie started. My middle child is still fighting a cold, so she's officially off anything ( Read more... )

Ok yes, that was depression in my last post, and I am doing better now. Sorry, I get that way sometimes. Had a good visit with my mom last weekend, before the holidays. Played some Boggle, and introduced her to the movie "Wicked Little Letters", which she enjoyed immensely. She joked that she had some new four letter words to use for Boggle now, ( Read more... )

To be honest, I’m feeling a little less-than-functional today. I know I’ve been riding pretty hard the last few weeks, but this last week was really just non-stop stressors, and it’s left me feeling pretty hollow inside. I think the real crux of it was last night, when my mom’s group went to the vigil for those US Transgender people who lost their ( Read more... )

On the good side, I got home from my trip ok. The Social Security office finally received the paperwork they need, I finally spoke face to face with my dad's oncologist and found out there's a program that may remove the hefty co-pay on his cancer treatments, so started the paperwork going on that. And traffic wasn't bad. All good things ( Read more... )

How is everyone doing? I know if you're in the U.S., it's starting to feel like the end of the world, and people are just generally more stressed, angry and unstable all around (or at least they are here in my neck of the woods). I've been focusing on some of the more dysfunctional local politics, but I feel like I might be doing so as a ( Read more... )