September 20th, 2011 -- Posted in pain / disability, people suck |
… why having disabilities turns your life all topsy-turvy and affects every little corner of it!
Reason #12,004,561: The pervasive need for us to have all of our “info” at our fingertips at all moments of the day.
This is not a problem for people who can easily make many trips up and down their stairs at home during the day. For me, the reality is, I lose access to a portion of things that I may need for the entire time I’m awake (which portion depends on where I am!). Other than a trip down in the morning and a trip up at bedtime, I do 1 more trip up and back during the day and that’s usually IT.
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September 15th, 2011 -- Posted in family, life as a mom, scrappy / stampy |
This blog post may seem a little late, but the last of our teacher cards were only delivered this month, so I’d say it seems about even!
My son’s cards went out to his teachers on time (at the end of June), but my daughter, who was greatly opposed to the idea of appreciation cards or gifts (apparently this is just “not done” at the middle school level), left them in her bag where they suffered water damage at an end-of-the-year pool party…
They were then found later in the summer, rescued from the enveloppes (which had to be tossed), repackaged, and given directly to the office at the beginning of the new school year. I had compromised by not adding gift cards to the coffee stores inside but this year I may be less inclined to agree to any plans proposed by such an unreliable letter-carrier.
Thankfully, these pics of the cards were taken before the water damage…
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August 26th, 2011 -- Posted in knitty/stitchy |
My stash has multiplied considerable… But I totally couldn’t help it! I went to my very first local yarn store “tent sale” and the prices were just phenomenal!! And I think it was a great way to celebrate my approximate one-year “anniversary” of learning how to knit!
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I even had to buy a new storage bin to accomodate all these balls of yarn. Brings back memories of helping my grand-mother with her stash – tucked in her basement in big rubber totes. Wish I’d started this hobby before she started all of her moving so that I could have inherited her tools and supplies! Oh well, I guess I am the type of person who likes to slowly build a complete tool kit anyways. And the shopping is a part of the fun of a new hobby!
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