My own personal Mercury in Retrograde continues.  I seem to be unable to communicate clearly with a handful of the important people in my life.  This has been going on for several weeks, and shows no sign of letting up.  I hate to see how this will go when the next ACTUAL Mercury Retrograde arrives. *sigh*

It was a interesting day.  Not really in the fortune cookie sense, but still...I did have a fun time a The Shop, and even got some good work done there.  My evening was wonderful!  T and I are celebrating 13 years of marriage as of tomorrow, and we went out tonight to see Harry Potter 6 and have dinner in honor of the occasion.  Thank you, Sweetie!

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It was an interesting day.  I'm tired.  We had a discussion group at our house tonight which was interesting.  One thing about Poly folk is that we are often interested in a wide variety of topics.  Consequently, the meetings some wander off on tangents not necessarily directly poly related.  That's okay: it makes for interesting discussions.  ( Read more... )

It was amazing yesterday to watch as the wonderful 1-800-Got-Junk folks cleared away the ENORMOUS pile of trash, junk, etc., that we compiled over the last few weeks.  What a wonderful, light feeling it was to realize how big our back yard really is without all that *stuff*; it was upon completion of the clearing that I realized how long it had ( Read more... )

Running saved my life... or at least my sanity.  At one point, I was looking at having to medicate for depression.  I started running, and running allowed me to take control of my blood sugar.  I did not need medication - I needed structure and discipline, in that order.  The structure gave me the safety to build the discipline.

Then it all fell ( Read more... )

It was the first day back at The Shop today.  It went pretty well, though I did end up spending the entirety of the day in the office.  Running a business is often full of paperwork, paperwork, and more paperwork, but it's okay.  I end up feeling quite good when the papers relatively under control.

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Happy Fourth of July!

I was able to dig all the bikes out of the bike storage shed and have now filled all the tires up with again.  Happily, none of them appear to have sprung any leaks!  Best of all, my hybrid bike fits the nice $30 bike trainer that I bought perfectly, especially after propped the front wheel up a bit.  (I was sliding off the ( Read more... )

I am having a quite lovely vacation.  Today, we went up to Berkeley to collect Ru from swim camp, and got to watch her team in their cheer competition as well as her swim on the mini-meet that they always hold on the last day.  She looked quite good.  Lunch was at the Emeryville Public Market, which is always fun.  On the way home we collected our ( Read more... )

"Let there be, let there always be neverending light
Let there be, let there always be neverending light"

These are the last two lines of  Perpetual, the last song played at the VNV Nation concert last night.

And the last line Ronan sang actually went like this,

"Let yourselves be,
Let yourselves be
Neverending Light."

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The day has been pleasant, despite the heat. punkmom , T, and I spent the early afternoon quietly reading/knitting.  All of us headed out to Target to do some shopping and enjoy their air conditioning for a while as the afternoon heated up.  One of the cool things we scored were new dishes.  We were quite ready to move to matching dishes for a while, and ( Read more... )