Xavier walked to school today--2 miles.  I wrote an eamil to hims homeroom teacher asking her if she would please let me know he got there.  he did. I think we will be doing that again. that child loves to walk as long as he has a destination ( Read more... )

Wednesday.  I didn't make it to the fair last weekend.  I was going to take Xavier on Friday.  Thursday night I had money to go the fair, Friday morning, the gas bill had gone through and I didn't have tha tmoney any more.  Xavier said "Will you get paid again before the fari is over?" yes, dear I will.  Well, then we can go then!  He is such a ( Read more... )

At Toastmasters this morning, I made up my whole speech on the spot.

One of the feedback forms said "It  seemed a bit scripted."

for serious?

15 year ago today , I met Djymm and sushi and can you believe--15 years??

10 years ago today:I was about to travel to Wyoming with my sister, two year old olivia and two month old Xavier
5 years ago today:It was
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10 years ago today:I was traveling through Wyoming with SXBFJ who didn't believe me when I told him that the last fast food he would see until Montana was in Riverton. boy was he happy to see that Burger King in West Yellowstone. I was anxious to get back to Ames because I was moving to Michigan as soon as we got back.

5 years ago today:It was
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See, it wasn't that long.  It just seemed like that long because Nebraska is 400 miles long and we had to drive all the way across it ( Read more... )

my father is sitting at the dining room table reading, I think with his hearing aides out as he does not respond when you talk to him.  Xavier is eating a whole apple (thank god grandma asked before cutting it up for him) Olivia is helping grandma make applesauce and I wandered away because my face hurts from gritting my teeth and since my teeth ( Read more... )

So, here we are.  I'm in the office of the Wyoming Food for Thought project, borrowiing half of my nefew's computer.  Half the screen is my entry and the other half is rescue bots ( Read more... )

Wyoming in exhausting.  My mother paid my bankruptcy lawyer and said "I would like you to come visit soon" here I am.
I went to the only AA meeting in town.  it was, odd, at best, but as is the thing with Recovery meetings, there was still something for m to take away.

I'm here, an here we remain till Friday.

More later?

This seems to be one of those months when my body says I should bleed, my calendar says I should bleed, but it just doesn't bleeding arrive ( Read more... )