Yup.
That is my current state of mind. I would like to come here all sunny and upbeat, but I’m simply not able right now.
 I think world-weariness describes it best, actually. I am feeling overcome and overtaken by reality today. I SO wish that I could be funny and encouraging and inspiring and all those lovely [...]

Rain! And coooold rain, at that! Yep. I wore no panty hose and did wear open toed shoes. You’d think I’d be old enough to know better, eh? Desperate for spring, you say? Oh, I am. I AM! I find this so depressing and hardly want to set foot out of doors although I have [...]

So do you see the glass as half empty or half full? With me, it depends. I’m sometimes an optimist and sometimes a pessimist. Mercurial swings in outlook, depending on how things are going in general, I suppose.
Had a good day yesterday - talked to DD30 at @ 9:30 in the AM; their flight came [...]

Yesterday was stress central, trying to get a proposal out that we had determined we would wait on until their next deadline for submissions in July, but the powers-that-be changed their minds at the last moment and decided we should go for the earlier deadline, which was yesterday. I was informed of this Tuesday night [...]

Okay. Last night DH and I made pictures of how we visualize ourselves looking when we are thin. I went to the virtual model website and put my head on a 140 pound body dressed in slinky black capris and a little black V-necked, sleeveless top with a chain belt at the waist. DH put [...]

Nice - really SO nice to have an extra day to the weekend! Yesterday was perfect. Went over to feed DD’s cats, of course, and then back home & DH & I went to hunt down a grinder for our flax seed (well, for the flax seed we were going to buy, that is). Found [...]

Yesterday certainly flew by. Went & fed DD’s cats, and then headed over to the Audubon Society’s walking & hiking trail, which is only five minutes or less from our house, and I never even knew about it until my DD (whose house we are now living in the other side of) appeared on a [...]

St. Peter don’t you call me, ‘cuz I can’t go…….anybody remember that old tune? Well, birthday has come and gone, and I don’t seem to be any worse for the wear. Looks like I’ll make it awhile longer. My lil’ kiddoes called me from Venice Beach to say Happy Birthday, and they sounded like they [...]

Orchids! What a beautiful surprise from my son and his significant other!!! They were delivered to me at my office! I feel downright queenly! My birthday isn’t until tomorrow, and tomorrow he and my DD30, who will have arrived out there in L.A. at 6:00 tonight (their time; 9:00 ours) will be calling by prearrangement [...]

What I like about this picture is the way it shows I’ve come a good long way, and still have some traveling time ahead of me. The years do start piling on with a certain heaviness after a while. Especially when the youngest of your children is 26, which isn’t a baby anymore by a [...]