Today it snowed. And snowed...and..well, you get the point. Then the wind picked up and blew not only the falling snow around but the snow that was already on the ground around too, resulting in a white-out situation. I can't see the cars parked across the street. I can't see my own trashcan..! So, we've all been cooped up in the house together....all day......and I think that I am losing my sanity. My total repertoire of words today has been: "stop it" "leave your brother alone...
Jake, my youngest has been learning about nouns, verbs etc, in school recently. We sat down this afternoon to watch 'The Italian Job' together, and Shea asked me what kind of movie it was. "Action I do believe" I said. "Oh!" says Jake "Does that mean it has a lot of verbs in it? 'Cause those are action words, ya know" (at this point I had to leave the room with my hand over my mouth, trying to stifle the giggles)
Jake, my youngest has been learning about nouns, verbs etc, in school recently. We sat down this afternoon to watch 'The Italian Job' together, and Shea asked me what kind of movie it was. "Action I do believe" I said. "Oh!" says Jake "Does that mean it has a lot of verbs in it? 'Cause those are action words, ya know" (at this point I had to leave the room with my hand over my mouth, trying to stifle the giggles)
Dave and I had a monster fight last night, that somehow carried over to this morning. I hate fighting at the best of times, but when we're thousands of miles apart it really sucks. We have a habit of hanging up on each other when we're getting angry, which seems like a good idea at the time but only serves to infuriate the person on the other end and inevitably leads to disintegration of patience and childish, tit-for-tat behaviour. He hadn't really done anything wrong, but what he did ...
Ok, Smartaz made a comment earlier about Renee Zellweger being a little on the lean side. I agreed, and it led me thinking about other painfully skinny women in the media. Lara Flynn Boyle immediately comes to mind, as do Courtney Cox Arquette, Jennifer Aniston, Calista 'I turn sideways and disappear' Flockhart (although she has gained a few lbs recently), Debra Messing (pre-pregnancy)...I know there are more, I just can't think of them right now! So, what's the deal? I think they all ...
I've had this discussion with Dave and my friend Rob over the past couple of days..which prompted me to write about it. The first year is NOT the hardest. They're all hard, to varying degrees, because, I think, the relationship is constantly changing and evolving so you have to change and evolve too...or is that that because you're changing and evolving, your relationship has too as well? Either way, each year doesn't neccessarily get easier, just different. The wedding ceremony ...
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Someone has been praying for me. I can feel it. It's not something I can totally explain.....but recently (as in the past couple of days) I've had this amazing feeling of peace, of tranquility... despite everything that's going on right now. I at first thought that it was the Dao, that I had found my Dao again...but that's not it, there's something more. I really can't explain it...all I can say is that I KNOW someone has been praying for me. I don't know HOW I know this; I just ...
I did it. I defended my personal space. I had written a blog a week or so ago about my need for distance between me and people I don't know, and some of the responses I got suggested that the next time I felt like I was being invaded I should defend my space. So I did. I was at the airport this morning, waiting for my friend Jim to arrive. I was at the gate, and became actuely aware of a very large young man standing about a foot behind me breathing heavily. I moved. He followed. ...
Well, the opinions are in. It's not cancer. I have fybrocystic breast disease. My body's breast tissue likes to clump together and make knots, lumps bumps etc, etc. There isn't any treatment for it, it's just one of those things you live with. The lump I have now, however, would probably be better off being removed. I have an appointment with a surgeon on March 3rd to discuss and schedule to take lump out and biopsy it. Sometimes there can be microscopic changes that, although they'...
My left boob has been touched and looked at and discussed by more people than I care to think about in the last couple of days...and there's more of the same in store today. Today I get to go lay it on a little plate and have it squished almost flat so the radiologist can take an X-ray....a boob in a vice, if you will. Then I'll go down the hallway and have someone else I don't know squirt some cold jelly on it and scan it with the ultrasound gadget. Everyone will take measurements and d...
...Vegemite and cheese sandwiches! Thanks, Muggaz!
Let's see... Rolling Rock Green Light Low Carb beer....yummy! Pickled onions (the really big ones, not those wussy silverskin things) Vegemite or Marmite on toast Old English Bulldogs (getting one when we move to the UK later this year) NYPD Blue (more specifically, Sipowitz and the character's progression throughout the series) My new glasses (if I knew how to post a pic I'd be able to show you all...) Taking a hot bath after dark with the drapes open so I can look at the...
Well, lump ISN'T a cyst. But we don't know what it IS. I was fine until the doc got her tape measure out and started mapping lump's dimensions..then I burst into tears. I think it was because up until then I had thought that it was all a figment of my imagination, and seeing her manipulate it made it real somehow. The official opinion so far is that I have a 4cm by 4cm mass in my left breast. She was very gentle, and said that we should get a diagnostic mammogram and an ultraso...
Today is the day that I get a preliminary idea of what this lump in my breast might be. I'm not scared anymore. I thought about it all weekend, running every scenario I could imagine through my head, until I finally got myself into an almost zen state over it. It is whatever it is, and i will deal with whatever it is accordingly. It may be nothing, or it may be something. Either way, I will deal with whatever comes and I will press on. That's all there is to it. No point in worry...