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Please excuse us while we are under remodel.

I arrived home from work just before 6 p.m. and spent several minutes fighting with my stupid garage door that has decided it only wants to work about every other time I hit the damn button. Stupid technology hates me. After I finally got my tired ass in the house, I made this dinner: 1 [...]

My blog entry will be very brief. This is a great day for civil rights and I am so happy for this huge step toward justice for all people.

I have been swimming every day this week. Not really swimming as much as water aerobics. With weights. So yeah, I am on gramma’s work-out routine. But it’s something. And I must be doing a good job because I’m sore. Everywhere. My eyebrows are sore. I may have sprained an ear lobe. Why does exercise [...]

OK, stupid blog entry title because there’s really no option, I think, to forget a portion of a person. But I did forget someone today. We are hosting a workshop for high school kids at my office this week. On Monday the kids were on a field trip. Tuesday was their first day in the [...]

Since Amber’s comment yesterday I’ve been thinking about potato salad. Not like non-stop obsession or anything. Not like I am dreaming about singing spuds dancing into a vat of dressing as cheese and bacon bits rain down on them. That would be weird. But I have been thinking that in addition to my plans to [...]

I am home from work this morning waiting for some dude to repair our riding lawnmower. I know. Push mowing is more exercise. But we have a big yard. And it’s uphill. Both ways. And the riding lawnmower has a cupholder for a cold beer. And… I know. Shut up. Any old hoo, I got [...]

Today will be the first warm, sunny day in what has indeed been a long, cold lonely winter. By warm, I mean above 40. But we will take what we get around here. There will be grilling tonight. Oh yeah, that’s right. Grilling adds SO MUCH fantastic flavor without adding calories. Don’t know if it [...]

Three weeks ago I hacked a chunk out of my thumb while cooking. The injury required a tetanus shot and took six stitched to make it stop bleeding. It hurt like a son-of-a-bitch, some days throbbing all the way up to my elbow. It was a simple mistake, a nasty little accident. A flesh wound, [...]

Today marks one week of living with hypertension. And I have not been very successful at doing any of the things I need to do help lower my numbers. Have I reduced my caffeine intake? Barely. Have I reduced my salt intake? Not really. Have I had eight servings of whole grains and 10 servings [...]