This was my first day back to work in over two weeks. It was great to get away from work for a little while and spend some time with the family for the holidays. I also got to spend my birthday with my parents and sister, which hasn’t happened in over maybe twelve years? My husband and I have spent a lot of time living overseas with the Air Force, so when we got the opportunity to be able to…
Having a birthday on New Year’s can certainly put your life in perspective, especially when you miscalculate how old you are going to be and discover you are going to be older than you thought. (yes, that did happen this year) Not mentioning any numbers, but what I found really stressful is that I thought that I had at least one more year to enact my “plan.” You know, when you think that you are going to have A,…
Take a quick walk with me on the wild side here. It’s fun…trust me. Just close your eyes and join me on the path of awesome and crazy. I think everyone has a little bit of that interesting something that makes them different from everyone else. It was at dinner tonight with some friends that I realized that there is a bit more to me than maybe normal. *smile* I’ll just admit it here – I like cards that…
Winter in Texas, especially north central Texas, can be a little intimidating. I thought it was really interesting to see when my family first moved here from Northern Japan, how intense it can be when there is an expectation of snow or sleet. There is a mad panic here that I hadn’t seen before and honestly never considered when you come from a place where the average snow fall on a given day is around six inches. So, despite the…
This morning, as I’m sitting on my bed on my laptop, cautiously holding my head a certain way to avoid having my curlers fall out of my hair, my daughter sitting besides me half in and half out of her clothes for the day (she’s busy watching TV and that can obviously distract her from the urgent matter of her getting dressed and ready for the day), a millipede, a pretty long one from that, decided that it would take…