I'm excited to announce that I've decided to get bifocals. I needed them a year and a half ago, but didn't want to spend the money. Since then my eyes have gotten worse, so it's time. I want the old-fashioned bifocals with the line, so I can appear properly middle...
Disclaimer: since I've become properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia and obsession with food and weight. It's sad to me now. Previous post on fatness. The ten pounds I put on between Mother's Day and Father's Day has finally started to...
Today I am 45 years old! I'm very happy about this because I've been looking forward to 45 for a long time. In my 20s, I found life to be challenging and confusing, and I figured 45 was a good age to expect to have found some balance and confidence. It just sounded...
How many people reading this have been the ex-girlfriend, attending the wedding of a former boyfriend? How often does it happen and how much time usually goes by between the end of the former relationship and the wedding? In this case, 18 years. Yes, we kept in touch...
December is my favorite month. I've been telling people that and I'm stunned by their response. Each person has replied, "Why?" I don't understand this question. We are neck-deep in Christmas decorations, Christmas music, Christmas goodies, Christmas parties and...
I'm very grateful to have a job, and a job I actually like.
Disclaimer: since I became properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia and self-hatred and obsession with food and weight. It's sad. I'm grateful for Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming (EMDR)....
I'm grateful for the ad campaign of a Chicago girls school called Regina Dominican. They use posters like this that always give me a boost.
1. Sleeping in. 2. Yoga stretches. 3. Warm bowl of oatmeal with fruit, nuts and spices. 4. Water. 5. Walking without pain. 6. Crunching through ice and salt. 7. A nap. 8. Olive oil. 9. A hug. 10. Lights on our tree.
Cranky Pumpkin (I made this for work this past week)That's my gratuitious cake photo for the month. It was devil's food inside.Last March I blogged about a goals group I started so I could have help with my 2009 resolutions. It started out great, with nine women...
I've been one of those people who looks at new year's resolutions with disdain. Why bother with a pointless cliche that never works? Well, it turns out that new year's resolutions actually do work. According to research I recently heard about on National Public Radio:...
Has it been 12 days since I last blogged? That's terrible.I don't know why working 37.5 hours a week as a waitress left me so much more time to blog than working 37.5 hours a week as an office worker, but I guess it did. Or maybe my level of unhappiness kept me...
It turns out that having my friends sign the back of my driver's license four years ago, to witness that I want to be an organ donor, is now worthless. If I want to at least be useful AFTER my death, I have to re-register online. As an Illinois resident, you now need...