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Happy with My Hair
I love my hair now! Yay, short hair!
Tired of My Hair, Part II
This is how I've started wearing my hair to work, just to get it out of my face. Boring.
Tired of My Hair, Part I
This is how my hair typically looks if I do nothing to it but comb it. Ugh.
Easter
My Easter memories are of wanting this holiday to be as big and bright as Christmas, but it never was. Maybe part of the reason Easter has never been as big as Christmas is that Easter coincides with the spring solstice and Christmas coincides with the winter solstice...
One Minute
1. I gave blood yesterday. It took me one hour to save three lives. Have you ever saved a life? If not, get in there. If so, get in there and save some more. 2. Today we finished taking down our Christmas tree. Yes, Bob and I are big Christmas people and have to wean...
Ah, yes – Valentine’s Day
And then there's Valentine's Day. I'm a sucker for a celebration and if it includes sweets, so much the better. In the true American spirit, I mainly view it as another reason to eat stuff that's bad for you. But as a woman who was single into her 40's, I also...
Simple Things I Enjoyed Today
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.
Happy First Day of Winter!!
December is my favorite month of all. I love Christmas, but also winter is my favorite season and this is the very start of it. We have months of cold and snow and ice ahead of us! I'll state again that I was born and raised in California, but once I experienced my...
Welcome, Winter!
We didn't get much of a summer in Chicago this year. Temperatures stayed surprisingly cool through most of it and, although we got a few days that were above 85 degrees, I think most Chicagoans agree that this was a non-summer. That was particularly crappy for people...
My 43rd Birthday
Yesterday, July 24th, I turned 43. I am enjoying a middle-aged body, middle-aged loneliness and the desperate full-sprint to get some retirement savings in place when I only had a few thousand in an old 401k until I started socking it away a year ago when I got my...
Heavy Quietness
Today Chicago got several inches of snow. When I woke up this morning at 7 a.m. there were a good few inches of snow on all the cars outside and it was still snowing. It was still snowing two and a half hours later as I fought my way through unplowed streets to go...
Cupcakes
One thing I want to do more of in the new year is tell more stories. That is, write more stories, either on my blog or just on my own. They'll be mostly stories about my life, but maybe fiction, too. Anything that has a beginning, middle and end will count. Since I'm...
A Blackhawks Christmas
It's holiday season 2008, in cupcakes. Next to the pastries with the colorful wreaths and candy canes, I found this (for Bob). He says they're having a good season.
Christmas with too much free time
It’s the Christmas season when everyone’s calendar fills up with family gatherings and visiting friends and various holiday activities, plus all the Christmas shopping and/or baking and/or cooking, all on top of our usual routine of work, errands and family. What’s...