Monthly Archives: August 2009

choices and challenges

August 31, 2009 – 10:29 am

So I got through yesterday and last night. Now it’s time to get through today. What are today’s challenges and how can I prepare for them? The two big things about Monday, Wednesday and Friday are that I have rehab and I visit Mom. I have yet to find a good answer to the post-rehab [...]

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one day at a time

August 30, 2009 – 11:00 am

I’ve been frustrated with myself this summer. Old behaviors are so easy to fall back into during times of stress. Instead of getting better, I really have just been slipping into more old behaviors even as we all adjusted to our new reality with Mom in the nursing home and all. I can see failure [...]

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doing what matters

August 29, 2009 – 8:59 pm

All I have to do is get through tonight. Then I’ll worry about tomorrow and getting through that.

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alien

August 28, 2009 – 7:59 pm

I’ve got an umbilical hernia. I probably have had since my gallbladder surgery in 1992 but recently it’s become an issue. I woke up a couple of Saturdays ago with an egg sized alien trying to escape my belly. Eww. Apparently it’s not that big of a deal but there is a definite eww factor. [...]

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could you hand me a paddle, please?

August 26, 2009 – 7:37 pm

Over the course of the past year I have developed a series of axioms that I think are important for me in my efforts toward happiness and life in general. They live over on my sidebar where I can look at them regularly and be reminded of what they mean to me. Thing is, I [...]

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to fill or not to fill

August 21, 2009 – 9:58 am

One of the challenges of living with the lap-band is deciding when you need a fill. Or, at least it is for me. What’s a fill? How do they do it? Okay, here’s a little lap-band reminder for those coming late to the party. The actual band placement is not as neat and clean as [...]

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I want to be an 82 year old blogger

August 16, 2009 – 8:17 pm

I had run across Margaret and Helen some time ago but kind of forgot about it. Deb linked to it today on Facebook and I got pleasantly lost reading Margaret’s take on the world. It does my heart good to read an 82 year old blogger echoing my own thoughts and feelings in such a [...]

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happy birthday dad

August 15, 2009 – 3:50 pm

Over the years in the various incarnations of my blog, I think I’ve written mostly about the more unpleasant aspects of my dad. He wasn’t and isn’t a perfect man. I think he tried and I think he did a better job than his own father, but he still can be hurtful and that can [...]

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behind

August 14, 2009 – 7:01 pm

I am behind in posting. I’m behind in commenting. I’m behind on email. I’m behind on photos. I’m behind on snail mail. To be succinct… I am behind on everything. I also notice that my RSS feed is behind. My last post took 4 days to show up in my Google Reader. I’ve gotten no [...]

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52 years

August 11, 2009 – 1:00 pm

My parents’ 52nd anniversary was this Sunday. Fifty-two years is a long time. Just consider how much the world has changed since 1957. And of course I think of all that they have done and seen in those years. Mom was a bookkeeper at the Flint Journal when they met. Dad worked for the national [...]

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