I am at my highest weight ever. Even higher than during my pre-eclampsia pregnancy, when I was elephantine with retained water. I know it is all relative and some people face much greater health challenges than I do, but for me this is not good. Physically, I am having palpitations and stomach troubles and [...]

I am so tired. Work is taking so much out of me I can barely move when I finally do make it home. Forget about walking. Forget about thinking.
I know I have not been eating entirely healthily but the volume is certainly decreased. My survival solution right now is: ok, this is not nutritious but [...]

Felt like spring today and I did ’spring things.’  I cleaned the car - it is a combo car - people in the front, dog in the back. When he was a puppy he chewed all the rear seatbelts and the window handles off, so I just ceded him the territory.  I am not ferrying [...]

I posted a pix of one of my favourite places. It’s a beach about 45 minutes from my house. I like it because it is beautiful and lonely. It is about 6 km from end-to-end, but that wasn’t possible today because a few creeks are very high with the rain and snowmelt and are cutting [...]

Yay. It is cleaning lady day. I love Thursdays.  I get to come home to a clean house. I never had this service when my kids lived with me - what would have been the point? Even now with Son #1 in house that ‘Thursday aura’ sometimes expires before I even get home in the [...]