Thinking about a lot of things the last week or so, and it's been a good, healthy, creative sort of process. To be clear, I am not especially creative. Where other people may throw splashy colors of paint at the wall and it somehow looks amazing, I use a ruler, draw straight lines, create geographic…
Coping with past histories
M and I have been married nearly 20 years, together for more than 25. A long shared history. However, we both had lives, friendships, relationships before we became a couple. Like everyone else. Not so stark difference with us is that vast majority of my friends pre-M have become part of the fabric of our…
Houseguest
In general, M and I try hard to be gracious hosts. Apparently our hospitality extends to the feathered in our midst. M rescued this baby bird from the heat on Tuesday. This is the second such rescue this year, the first, Birdy Bird, resulted in a tragic and untimely death of unknown causes. Not for…
Training #78 – Bang the drum all day
Monday morning, training with J. Today was all about new warm-ups and very ab/core focused. A lot of stuff I have done before or already on a List somewhere, with a few new goodies thrown into the mix. Super excited about this. While it seems like a "light" day in terms of working hard at…
Zoom, zoom, zoom went the Saturday
Less than a week away from the wedding, and things this shit is getting real! But thankfully I have other stuff to download about today, other than wedding shopping, etc. Of course, my other themes - diet and exercise - loom large right now. I feel like it's cresting to a new transitional something and once…
Shopping, dropping, not again soon-ing
Yesterday was all about wedding shopping. For M. And it was not fun for either of us, but since G and K's wedding is now less than 2 weeks away, it had to be done. As in most things, M and I have wildly different tastes. But in this case as well, we had wildly…
Losing my stuff
Titling this post "Losing my shit" would have been more appropriate, but I am trying to be considerate of those who are not quite as salty as I am in my language habits. Most of the time, I think I am pretty rational and organized. Then again, most of the time I seem to spend…
Good things this week thus far
While I recognize it's only Tuesday, I had a bit of a morning this morning followed by some lumpy-bumpy issues with work. The morning events were nothing serious - actually, it was all me just being ridiculous - yet even knowing that does not lessen the impact on the situation or the emotions. And I…
Emotional confusion
I have had a fair number of thoughts and posts pinging and ponging about in my head. But I have been flat out way too busy with work to write them all down. From a few sentences in various post starts in my drafts folders I have a sense of my feelings being all over…
Rare bears
I had lunch with gal pals today and it was so much fun. We had to reschedule from Saturday because there is a new grand baby and while she really, Really, REALLY wanted to have dinner with us, there is a new grand baby. Even those without children of their own, and me without any…
