Monthly Archives: January 2013

Day 362 Today was a really bad sciatica/back day. The double whammy of back badness. Practically intolerable. Days like today I vow to DO SOMETHING about it. But, other than some exercises, getting a massage or downing a horsepill for pain … I … Continue reading →

Day 361 Although I’ve only been up a handful of hours today, already I’ve learned much. I’ve learned that sleeping with two dogs and a cat doesn’t help one’s sciatica in the slightest. In fact, it might exacerbate the problem. … Continue reading →

Day 360 Today I ran wild with reckless abandon. Well, staggered with reckless abandon was more like it. My back is a crunched up, twisted mess again. However nothing was going to deter me from being wild and carefree today … Continue reading →

Day 359 As much as I think I would have loved to have lived in the 1950’s … all Leave It To Beaver-esque … I probably, more like undoubtedly, would have been miserable. I don’t sleep well now … how … Continue reading →

Day 358 I am up in my office, my treetop room … thinking. When I was little there used to be a television program on that was Treetop House … a stay-at-home nursery school of sorts. It was on around … Continue reading →

Day 357 … (or as I am feeling today … Day Whatever) I am disgusted. And I only have myself to blame. And my body. And my resolve. And probably in there somewhere, even if only a little, my genetics and hormones. … Continue reading →

Day 356 I, once again, am writing this post in the wee hours of the morning. The middle of the night. Breakfast time, if I were an owl or vampire. However, if could be late afternoon. Okay, late afternoon on … Continue reading →

Day 355 It’s not every day that something new happens or that you experience a “first”. Such as a first step, first kiss, first date, first taste of escargot, first perfectly baked soufflé, first car … you get the picture. Yesterday … Continue reading →

Day 354 It’s one of those days where I’ve been fighting a nagging headache for a few days already and today the light in my office seems to be searing into my brain. Not good. So, the light goes off … Continue reading →

Day 353 I’m defining myself … or at least partially defining myself. I consider myself a foodie. But I’m not really. Not in the actual sense of that word or meaning. I like food … yes. But I’m not a gourmet … Continue reading →

Day 352 I think Oscar has the Big D. Yep … just what you’re thinking … DEMENTIA! I am thinking he’s lost his sense of smell or eyesight or  brain power as I put his food down the other day … Continue reading →

Day 351 What a difference a day makes.  Yesterday it was 51 degrees … right now we are at 12 going down to -1 by sometime tomorrow. And what a difference a mere 34 years makes! Tonight I did something … Continue reading →

Day 350 Today it was, again, Springtime in Chicagoland. I think we reached 51 degrees before the winds started blowing the warmth towards the lake. We are awaiting the “Siberian Express” to deliver the coldest air Chicago has seen in … Continue reading →

Day 349 Here we are at day 349 … I have a bit more than two weeks left of this challenge … not that I’m counting or anything. It has been a good exercise for me and let’s just say, a work … Continue reading →

Day 348 It’s past the middle of January so I can now safely put up my Valentine’s Day decorations without feeling too weird about it. Nothing like pushing the holidays/seasons a bit. I don’t care … the sooner winter ends … Continue reading →

Day 347  “If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no … Continue reading →

Day 346 There come moments in each of our days when something you hear is so ludicrous or so stupid or so awful or so whatever … that the only thing that comes to mind or out of your mouth is … Continue reading →

Day 345 I used to be a member of CPR … Colorado Pug Rescue. I was one of the transport people. When someone relinquished a dog or if a dog needed transportation across state … I’d be that person or … Continue reading →

Day 344 Well, little did I think that the rain I was so enjoying as I fell asleep last night would … due to the upper air disturbance which caused a change in the jet stream pattern allowing the Arctic air/cold front to push out the regional warmth … Continue reading →

Day 343 Unknowingly, I have moved to the NW. Or better said, the NW weather has descended on the Chicago area. Fine by me. It’s raining … again. And I am loving every pitter-patter moment. The dogs, um – not … Continue reading →

Day 342 Some days  you just have to forget everything and turn up Nat King Cole or Michael Bublé or Adele. Today was that kind of day. Nothing wrong … just a day for music. It soothes the savage beast. And … Continue reading →

Day 341 As the days slip away and we slide into the middle of January … I keep wondering when WINTER will make an appearance? Not that I want it, mind you … I’m just wondering. If the season decides … Continue reading →

Day 340 Dark and naked. Naked and dark. So seems my house and yard right now as I’ve taken down my Christmas decorations and lights. The house feels empty and already I am missing the lights and sparkle! I miss … Continue reading →

Day 339 I live with the Queen of Idiots. I have been working up at my desk for an hour or so and I have been hearing some swishing going on in my bedroom … accompanied by little yips now … Continue reading →

Day 338 Connections … I ventured outside today to put out the garbage cans for pick up tomorrow, to get my mail on the front porch and to lean out the door to let the dogs out and then back in … Continue reading →

Day 337 I’m comfortable. And that’s not good. Well, ordinarily comfort is a good thing. It’s a wonderful thing. It means life, in its many forms, is good and easy and cozy.  And I’m all for good, easy and cozy. … Continue reading →

Day 336 No sooner do I say it looks like snow … and it snows. I should have been a weather person. I was telling a friend, earlier today, that no snow is forecast, but it sure looked like snow … Continue reading →

Day 335 Ahhh, snow. Who doesn’t like those first few flakes? The glitter snow that falls from the heavens that transforms the bleak landscape into a sparkling fairyland? Who doesn’t like those big, fat, wet flakes that fall from the … Continue reading →

Day 334 My old postman called me the Catalog Queen. Since my move I have been demoted to Princess. I don’t get as many catalogs. My new postman, however, begs to differ. I still get a lot. As in a … Continue reading →

Day 333 Dorothy Hamill. If you were around in 1976 you know who I’m referring to. She is a world champion and skated her way to a gold medal in the Olympics that year. And you also know about her … Continue reading →

Day 332 Here I am on the first day of the new year … thinking of matters of the heart, matters of work, changes I’d like to make in both my life and work this year. I could fill a … Continue reading →