sj, I hope you get to feeling better and that former coworker isn't an unpleasant person to bump into often.

If he avoids lecturing me on being a non-working drain on the system (which happened once) we should be fine.

2oz of whole wheat noodles, 3 oz of ground beef, half a bag of stir fry veggies, 2 tbs stir fry sauce, 1/2 tbs coconut oil.... very good supper, but why on earth am I still hungry?

Yum! Have I mentioned recently what a rock star TCG is for keeping me fed throughout this pregnancy? And also for having to put up with my unusually bland tastes? Tonight's dinner was roasted vegetables and polenta.

no shame in whatever people do to make an honest living.

Never could understand the urge to poke fun at someone for a laugh. It's a low down dirty rotten thing to do, but people really enjoy doing it. Take my auntie, working at the WalMart down in the valley, putting up with people who had to tell everyone they were slumming because they were "from Aspen." Bragging is a real source of entertainment for Aspenites, who obviously suck. I will not abide it. I've been known to do some talking back.

Held a few of my bird stories against the day they flew away. Dave and I were sitting around in the yard watching the hummingbird at the feeder. I knew about the nest and was thinking that was the fattest, slowest, most bloated looking hummingbird I had ever seen. Then Dave spoke up and said, "Wow! That's the fattest hummingbird I've ever seen!" I think we noticed her when she was getting ready to lay an egg. Nothing better than the instant feedback when it proves you are right.

Glad you got to get up close to the hummingbirds and it's been a treat to hear the stories.

Seems little things are making me anxious. Went out to put out trash and reycling and noticed no one else had,but htat was eariler. It got really windy so I went to pull some of the reycling back in (we have open containers) and saw that still no one had put anything out. Now I can't stop thinking i got the date wrong and my neighbors (who I rarely speak to) are going to see my trash out and think I'm dumb. Illogical but there it is.

And then there was relationship stuff. I keep reminding myself it's Tuesday so I remmeber to go to therapy tomorrow.

On the plus side I cleaned up a bit in the office. Not as much as I'd like, but an area is vacuumed, there's less clutter around and I threw out a few things I was holding on to.

Askye, I worry about stupid stuff like that all the time. I wonder what there would be room for in my brain if I didn't.

I was going to go to Urgent Care after work today, because my cough isn't going away and I think I might need a steroid inhaler, but the roads were an icy mess, and Urgent Care is at the top of a really steep hill, so I decided to wait until tomorrow.

One more day of teaching, and then going to Hawaii the next day! Well, getting to Hawaii is going to take all day. Flying from here to Chicago, then Chicago to Denver, then Denver to Hawaii. (From the airport here, the only direct flights are to Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and DC. If you want to go anywhere else, you have to connect through one of those places. Two connections was the best I could do. At least I'm going in the right direction on all of these flights. There have been a couple times when I've had to go from PA to Boston via Detroit.)

You haven't noticed it, but most of your neighbors have totally gotten mixed up about trash day at least once. Half the time it's a matter of forgetting to put the trash out to begin with. And don't forget the chaos that holidays wreak on the pick-up schedule. And then again there are the ones like me who generally rememer to put it out but can't be arsed to haul the bins back in when empty.

Hil, may your travels be safe and not made horrible by your cough, and may the sunshine do you a world of good.

If your neighbors are judging you on your trash can habits, they have much bigger problems than you do.

If you're feeling uncertain about your judgment, you can always run your thoughts by us.

I forget Trash Day all the dang time. I finally gave up trying to remember and set a weekly recurring alarm on my cellphone to remind me to take the trash out on Monday evening. I set alarms and alerts for everything because I WILL forget.

At least I'm going in the right direction on all of these flights

All flights from Salt Lake to Pittsburgh seem to have go to New York, first, and vice versa. And it's not like Pittsburgh is a small place, it's got its own international airport. You'd think International airports would talk to each other.