This is a place where you can vent or rejoice in the Ups and Downs of life feel free to write as much or little as you like.

We have had some long time hard core group members here, Lisa; Kathleen; Coop; Flower

join in and hope your day goes well for you

Hello friends!!

Winter has arrived and just plain slapped us in the face! Snow on the ground and it was 14 overnight.

The only 'good' thing I can say about winter, is that because I am not outside week whacking or mowing or enjoying the beauty, it forces me inside and forces me to look at the piles of crap in here I know I have spoken often of my dissatisfaction with the clutter in here, because it is tools and home improvement stuff I just don't know how to organize it but it cuts into our usable living space and makes me unhappy gah!

on positive side, I did complete a very challenging cardio/abs workout from this great lady https://pahlabfitness.com/ today I did an almost 50 minute low impact cardio/abs. I was freezing at first in my living room but after the workout had peeled off about 4 layers of clothes and had sweat on my brow

new job is coming along good. My young (35?) co-worker is seeing that I really am there just to assist her and to try to make her life easier (that's exactly what I told her yesterday) She does talk alot about her personal life and her strife with her boyfriend, I just try to be sympathetic without listening too hard. But it is very nice to have a day 9-5 type job with weekends off! and no customer service boy do I remember the days of rude customers (and Rat B*stard bosses )

enough about me!!! hoping to hear from others

Halfway through November already!

New job is not coming along so good...the owner is trusting me with more than I am comfortable with I should NOT be trusted with making full batches of product which I think is going to happen on Monday. My stomach gets all upset at the thought. I am practicing how I am going to have to quit if there is a disaster.

Bleh!! and we have snow on the ground and I have had to shovel lots already. I am grateful that I have enough fitness from my summer of weedwhacking and constant mowing, that I'm not sore after shoveling.

getting my snow tires on my car this week, yay.

Weighed for the first time in MONTHS and I knew it, I am 10 lbs heavier than I was at this time last year, bleh!! I was on a good trend of not gaining much. But good to know the truth I guess.

Hoping to see our old friends here again!

Gray and cold November, getting the horrible familiar persistent sadness and gloom. Shitty attitude that is bad and selfish but cannot hold back, 'what is there to live for?' our boys are grown and on their own, they can go months without calling because they ARE self sufficient. and they are not parents themselves, so that empathy is not there. I get up, go to work, come home, eat, sleep, do it again. Not finding much joy anywhere. Need a kick in the pants I guess.