Category Archives: Personal
Around saying Goodbye Grandma G
Aside: Some of this will repeat from my weekly Twitter wrap up, but I wanted to make sure people knew what was going on. 11/9/2010: Grandma G passed at around 3pm today. I’m sad & I miss the woman I knew as a child. For the last 7 yrs I’ve expected each to be our [...]
Shredding History
So as part of my sort & shred adventure, I’m getting down to the last of my backlog of papers. As of now, I have only to go through the papers that were in my desk before it was donated. Yesterday I was shredding papers that were going on 10+ years old. Some of them [...]
Productive Helper
I have a love/hate relationship with Wednesdays. I hate getting up early in order to take conference calls with the team in China. I spend most of the day dragging around trying to wake up. Today was worse, I had to miss my nap in order to take a second call with China, that lasted [...]
10% Less of Me
Since August 2009 I’ve been really trying to lose my weight, I’ve had 2 intermediate weight loss goals. Lose 10% of my body weight weigh under 200lbs In April, I started ETL/Health programs. I was really happy to find that I was already following an eating program (Low GI foods) that fell within Level 2 [...]
B-Day 2010
I started celebrating my birthday a little early this year. Friday I had lunch with a friend from work. I spent the weekend with GWJers at the Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Virginia. I had a great time, got lots of sun and came home with a bumper crop of freckles. After work on Monday, I joined [...]
Dreaming
I woke up on morning last week and suddenly realized two things. I just woke up from a dream where I was almost naked at work. I remembered a dream for the second time in my life. Since my previous experience with remembered dreams explains why I’m uncomfortable with clowns, I should probably be thankful [...]
Letters Unsent
Sometimes a letter unsent can be the a good way to explore frustration. Today I wrote one that left me exhausted. I’ve been tasked to write another. I think I’ll wait a few days before really working on it.
A New Start
I said goodbye this week to the therapist that I’d been seeing for over 4 years. GK was exactly what I needed from a therapist for this time and our last talk was nice. He’s invited me back should I come to need that. He’s been my barometer against general depression for a while now. [...]