Entries from January 2008

Erase those wrinkles!

Date January 11, 2008

I have had a bad habit of frowning when I concentrate which has caused deep furrows from the corners of my mouth down my chin. I looked in the mirror and mimicked the expressions that make them show up and have set out to quit repeating them over and over. I found out the other [...]

“Severe weather alert!” came over the intercom.

Date January 10, 2008

That was this afternoon at the hospital. The time was about 2:30 CST. I was due to leave an hour and a half later. Since I hadn’t done my shopping for the weekend, I e-mailed my boss and asked to leave at 3 and a yes came through at five minutes ’til.
It had started raining [...]

What am I doing?

Date January 9, 2008

It’s almost 9 pm and I’m nowhere near through for the day. I talked myself out of going to the Other Valley to get supplies for the rest of the week because I needed to come home and get started on downloading the Sabbath School Lessons for the older couple from church. Trouble is, I [...]

Things are not always as they appear.

Date January 8, 2008

I took an outsider’s view of the forum by looking around without signing in. It looked pretty quiet from that angle. Not many posts. Not much activity. It couldn’t be farther from the truth. The members only areas have been buzzing. Plans to travel, run marathons, trials and tribulations of cravings and detox shared. Friendships [...]

About the Beatles…

Date January 7, 2008

I was never a huge fan. They came in on Elvis’ heels and kind of usurped his popularity. I was jealous FOR him. But…there are some of their songs I like. “Yesterday” is a beautiful, haunting song and “Hey, Jude” is about as different as different can be. The one that’s been running through my [...]

Do you use Firefox?

Date January 6, 2008

If you do, may I ask WHY?? I still haven’t figured out the charm of Firefox. It’s uglier than Internet Explorer, the skins that are available make it even uglier, and I wonder why I even bother. The truth is, every few months I give in and download the latest version and install it. The [...]

Blood! Blood everywhere!

Date January 5, 2008

I scanned and uploaded the results of my blood work from 12/28/07. My doctor hasn’t commented on it yet. Since there were so many differing opinions on it last time, I’ll wait until my consult to see if I’m going to live awhile longer. The postings are for the curious who have the opinion that [...]

Happy Birthday to the Forum!

Date January 4, 2008

One year ago today, I launch Raw Food Lifestyle, a forum that encompasses all the aspects of living in a cooked food world but eating raw. It also includes some topics that will give you a belly laugh because “a merry heart doeth good like a medicine.” Much of it is public (you can read [...]

This will be short.

Date January 3, 2008

I’m feeling puny. I’m wondering if it could be partly because of the change of brand in my thyroid medication. I’ve heard that’s the main objection to taking generic instead of Synthroid.
A forum discussion about how we keep warm in winter brought about a caution re: my sleeping in a waterbed. I started doing some [...]

“Dashing through the snow”

Date January 2, 2008

In a Honda Y2K,
O’er the roads we go
Sliding all the way—hey, hey, hey!
That’s stretching it but it does make it more interesting, doesn’t it? There might have been half an inch of snow. I don’t know. It was so cold the snow was powdery and the least bit of wind took it away. It was [...]