10-9-11
10-8-11
Today was spent in bed with my enemy, migraine. Dan made a lovely dinner and by 7pm I was able to get up and have some. I also drank a glass of Kombucha and felt better after that. I haven't been imbibing in my elixir on a daily basis, so I bottled a batch and will try to drink it every day this week.
I added a slice of orange to each bottle for a new flavor.
10-2-11
My Dan is home from Wisconsin and he brought cheese curds! Oh so very wonderful to have him back safely from his bike-the-Mississippi week long trip.
9-28-11
It has been quite a while since I updated my blog. Things are ok, not to worry, but I'm busy with school and home life and a bit overwrought. My computer crashed again, hard drive failure. So, I'm not taking many photos and think I may have lost a couple months worth of pictures. Here are some recents from my iPhone.
Perimenopause is a strange beast. I am changing and do not like it. It worries me. I installed the PostSecret app on my phone and shared my biggest fear right now.
Here is the Squirt climbing out onto the roof. Scared the bejeebers out of me.
I made dough last week for a really cool circuits lab. It's called squishy circuits.
This is a sushi circuit, also called a parallel circuit.
Looking down.
Looking up.
9-16-11
Squirt and Aza studying calculus together.
Today I graded papers, cooked dinner, watched some TV, talked with the kids... Much more grading to do this weekend. Book chapter awaits my attention too.
9-15-11
The CSA share is getting small. Summer's winding down. Gave an exam today- lots of grading to do this weekend.
9-14-11
9-12-11
9-11-11
I woke up happy. It was my 38th birthday.
I was a teacher at Village School, and since we didn't start the school year until after Labor Day, we were just back in session. There was a Princess Cake from Albemarle Baking in the VS fridge. My children were ages 15, 13, and 10. Jes was in high school, Aza was with me at VS, and Squirt was at the Catholic School. I'd had a wonderful summer vacation with the highlight being a trip to Amelia Island with the extended family for my grandmother's 80th birthday. I was tan, thin, healthy, and content.
My birth father was alive and I still had hopes he would reach out to me.
I'd never had cancer and thought it impossible.
I'd never had a miscarriage, and figured that happened to "other people."
I was in a rock band.
My thyroid was in my neck and my ovaries were intact.
My marriage seemed unshakable.
I loved my job and thought it would always be mine.
My son did not have scoliosis.
I did not take any medications because I had no need for them.
My face did not hurt constantly with trigeminal neuralgia, and I'd never even heard the term.
It seems like everything changed on that day, 9-11-2001. It seems like a snowball of events were set in motion on that horrible day.
For the past 10 years I've been trying to re-claim that summer of 2001 when I was fit, tan, healthy, and content. I've been trying to unroll that snowball of bad luck, bad decisions, bad karma, and evil that had come into the world.
So, it's with great joy that I reflect on the summer of 2011 which was full of joy, reconciliation, peace and balance, health,and family unity. It's with great joy that I celebrate my 48th birthday having passed through the Decade of the Dark Night of the Soul and thrived.
No need to go back to the summer of 2001 because the fall of 2011 is looking even better. And as for those big, healing, family reunions, my grandmother's 90th birthday is next week and the reunion is in Florida. I'll be there. Not-so-tan, not-so-fit, but happy and content.
9-10-11
9-6-11
8-28-11
I love these anemones that are growing in the back. Today I submitted an article to a magazine called Women in Engineering which is published by IEEE. If accepted, it would not be a peer reviewed journal article but hopefully it would count for something.
8-27-11
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