I love Nicole Richie, but Your neck is not supposed to be thicker than your waist. She looks like Skeletor :/

After a month and a half on my current arthritis meds I am feeling GREAT! I don't dread getting out of bed anymore. I can wash my hair, brush my teeth, and get dressed without tears springing to my eyes or swearing under my breath. And the relief I feel from this has even helped the fibromyalgia symptoms, as well - my muscles pain is starting to ( Read more... )

Ya know how right after you get over being sick you want to 'start over'? Like, new toothbrush (you can actually give yourself your cold all over again if you don't replace your toothbrush), clean sheets and blankets, newly cleaned surroundings, new garbage bags in the garbage cans, etc. I don't know, maybe that's just me, but I like to get rid of ( Read more... )

I was just reading through my old entries from 2000. Wow, that was a long time ago! This one cracked me up ( Read more... )

I finally got a piano! I've been wanting one ever since I moved up here, but I really started thinking seriously about it a few months ago. I spent a few weeks shopping around - I think I hit every single store in the Twin Cities - and thought I had a pretty good handle on what I wanted and how much I wanted to spend.

I haven't so much as seen a ( Read more... )

Our next door neighbor threw a party on Saturday night - and by party, do I mean partyThis is the family with 4 kids in high school and college, so they're about the same ages as our parents. SUPER nice people. They had talked to Mark a while ago to make sure live music wouldn't bother us, being that our bedroom windows overlook their backyard, ( Read more... )

And I chose last night to check out Beth's new house all the way across town...driving 40 miles home through this was a real treat, lemme tell ya.

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When Mark and I moved into our new house, we didn't sell our old house - we decided to keep it and try renting it out for a while. We had lived in it for 2 years so we knew we had 3 years of no capital gains taxes, and we wanted to take advantage of the 8% average growth that the neighborhood has been seeing in prices over the last several years ( Read more... )

I think I'm going to join my neighborhood book club - the current book is Wicked, by Gregory Maguire. Looks interesting, and it would be cool to meet some more neighbors. The subdivision just opened phase 4, so it's really growing and taking on a community-like feel ( Read more... )

I just got back from another appointment at the Mayo Clinic, but this was my first time being seen at the Fibromyalgia center. I'm so thankful I got in - that waiting list is awful.

It's so frustrating - having rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia is exhausting. I want off of this ride ( Read more... )