Life With Boys

Recovery draft — partial original survives. 10 years. 10 years? 10 years! Today Matt and I celebrate 10 official years together! What do I remember from our wedding day? How hard my friends and family worked to make the day such a success. My Dad deciding to trim his nose hairs five minutes before the… Continue reading

Didn’t realize I hadn’t posted in a bit — I have a reason though — I’ve been trapped on memory lane. You see in April when I went to help my Dad get ready for his garage sale I gathered up all the negatives and slides I could find and sent them in to ScanCafe… Continue reading

Cousin Byron has been in from Vancouver this past weekend and the short visit was filled with activity — lunch at Beaver Dam, swimming, St. Louis Science Center and of course a Cardinals game (where much junk food was consumed by all). Continue reading

Did you know 1 in 3 people has depression? I could put suffers from depression, but I hate that. Went off Imipramine due to dryness of mucous membranes to the point of bloody noses and weight gain. It also wasn’t helping. I was in a pretty dark place. And it didn’t help that it was… Continue reading

Recovering from surgery has pros and cons … Cons … I was intubated during surgery and turns out my throat, well actually my uvula (the hangy down thing in the back of your throat) was so swollen it was touching my tongue. I’m now on a lot of steroids to get things back in order.… Continue reading

Recovered original email — July 24, 2008. Body preserved verbatim. Hello – I’ve been busy! I’m making/decorating purses for us. I have rhinestone letters that we can use to put our names in the middle of the crowns. I’m so excited. D- PS — Read my blog http://wakethedinosaurs.blogspot.com/ Original attached photographs DSC06077.JPG — close-up of… Continue reading

Got home about 10 a.m. — sleeping off the drugs. Will post more later. Continue reading

Just FYI — I’m having a planned surgery tomorrow morning to repair a hernia. (It’s an incisional hernia from my gallbladder operation in 05 — I thought it was scar tissue — it’s not.) I’m actually looking forward to being off work for a week. And not being able to lift anything for 6 weeks… Continue reading

Recovered original email — July 17, 2008. Body preserved verbatim. The sisters of Pi Kappa Yamma and the Kiss My Tiara Chapter of the Sweet Potato Queens cordially invite you to join our humble organizations. As a woman of fun-loving character we have determined you are precisely the type of women we need to represent… Continue reading

From an enewletter I get … THE PRICE OF GAS VERSUS PRINTER INK All these examples do NOT imply that gasoline is cheap; they just illustrate how high some prices are …. Puts prices in perspective. Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 … $10.32 per gallonLipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 … $9.52 per gallonGatorade 20… Continue reading