Oh my Lord, this could have been me a couple of weeks ago:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2160372.ece

Ahhhh... it's so nice to finally get caught up on payroll and get my raise. My work took a hit when the economy tanked and since we're a non-profit, it was like... well, what can you do besides stick it out and have faith? Well, that's paid off, and we're in a much better place financially with the start of a new year. Christmas was very small ( Read more... )

The gardening bug has struck early this year. I've transferred most of my energies from the kitchen re-model plans to the backyard project. Scott's the one who has to make the cabinets, and he just hasn't the time to devote to them lately, so I figured I'd expend my energies to re-doing the backyard for now and make it my goal to finish by late ( Read more... )

Scott and I tore down the ugly-as-butt shed in our backyard today. It felt nice.

http://highdel.com/2009/January/01-11-09.php

Kidneys doing good now. Not quite looking forward to the three more doctors appointments I have before me in the next 10 days, but I'm eager to figure out what's wrong with my system ( Read more... )

Am rebounding from a scary weekend with a kidney infection ( Read more... )

It's been a week and a half since I've been in the office, what with a nasty cold and stomach bug, and then Christmas. Thankfully, it's just me and Dr. Matthews, so I'm able to get things crossed off my to-do list in peace, with non-Christmas radio playing in the background ( Read more... )

1.       When did you last have a mid-day nap? On the plane coming back from Washington on Thursday.

2.       When did you last have milk and cookies? Ich. I don’t drink milk. So, probably last time I dunked an Oreo in milk was when I was 5, right before I gulped a lumpy glass of milk that heralded the end of my milk-drinking days. But last time I ( Read more... )

Whew! I'm exhausted!

A half-day on Wednesday allowed me to go home early and get some cookin' done for Thanksgiving, and leave room for going with Scott to pick up a Christmas tree and decorate it. My mom gave me one of the artificial trees that stood on the alter when we got married, but Scott prefers real trees. So we put the smaller fake tree in ( Read more... )

I really enjoyed myself this weekend on the Gateway ladies retreat. The camp we were at was hardly a camp at all-- so beautiful, new, clean, and luxurious! It's owned and run by Fellowship Church, and probably taking into consideration we were all ladies in our 20s and not junior high aged kids, the staff served us so graciously in so many ways-- ( Read more... )