Ugh. I feel like I’ve been writing this blog post for a million years. Or since mid-April. Same thing. How is it only/still May? Of 2020??? The good is … I’m feeling mighty privileged right now. Nobody in our immediate family has contracted C19 (although of course we worry for …
Since all this started, all the talk about Covid-19 and social distancing and essential businesses and who should be open or closed and what safety precautions should be taken at work, I’ve been struggling with what to say. What to tell you. I’ve been asking myself; am I essential? Should …
So. Hey. How are you doing? I’m running the gamut from totally fine to completely tharn. I’m just going to assume that you are, too? Psst — come closer, I have a secret — that’s OK. It’s OK to not feel OK right now. (It’s also OK to feel OK.) …
A year ago, I bought a new/used treadmill. New for me, bought it used at a weird used equipment sports shop that is hilariously in the same plaza as the best ice cream shop in town, haha. I didn’t really start using it on a regular basis until about April, …
Remember me talking about my fitness tracker throwdown earlier this year? Remember how I mentioned, when I got my first Leaf, that it wouldn’t sync with my phone no matter what? That I tried all of their fixes, nothing fixed it, and eventually they sent me a new one. Well. …
Lately I’ve been trying to make better choices, healthier choices (y’all know that, I’ve blogged about that before). Someone on one of the Word of Mouth boards for my town started a walking group (but it’s an early AM thing and I don’t want to give up watching Farscape with …
Like I said in Part Two (and Part One is here, if you haven’t read that), even though I bought the LetsCom tracker in November or so, I had also contemplated the Bellabeat Leaf at the same time. I went with LetsCom because it was $25 and not $100, but… …
Here’s Part One, if you missed it. Fair warning, this may grow into three posts! So, to continue; last Fall I decided I needed to make some changes. Not like “I want to lose weight and be pretty” changes, but more along the lines of I need to move it …
Hooooooo buddy, do I have a love/hate relationship with fitness trackers and apps. I mean, I’m prone to liking gadgets, anyway, and also technology… so when you can combine a gadget with an app? Sign me up! Having said that, they’re not for everyone (I can just see the look …
Y’all. Y’ALL! Did anyone get the number of that bus that hit me? I swear, I feel like ever since we moved out here I’ve been a walking bag of medical complications. Broken fingers. Broken teeth. Abscess in broken teeth. Misplacing a kidney (OK, though technically I forgot where I …
Sunday I had a “fun” hangover (it’s when instead of too much booze you’ve had too much FUN the day before, and you’re exhausted and unmotivated) and then Monday morning I had to do all the social media stuff for the week for HaldeCraft that I usually do on Sunday …
Oh. Mah. Gawd, y’all. THIS STORY. This is going to be a long post, because if I broke it up – even into two posts that posted an hour or so apart, all y’all would be at my house with torches and pitchforks. SO. Grab a beverage, put your feet …
Need to catch up? This is the last part, Part Eight. Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five; Part Six, and Part Seven. So on Tuesday, February 11th, I got my ass up at the crack o’ dawn to shower and get ready to go have sharp …
Need to catch up? This is Part Seven. Part One; Part Two; Part Three; Part Four; Part Five; Part Six. I did a lot of this in January. It was relaxing, and fun, and made me feel like I was getting something done even when I was sick. And I …
So, what else was going on while all this was going on? A couple of days before the mammogram, I cleaned out my little library, intending to craft a little – for personal reasons, not work – in the mornings. That worked until it started to get cold – I …
Well, I didn’t intend to drag my heels on this one, but a combination of a few crafty things I was consumed with, coupled with this being my least favorite part of the story, added up together for a delay. The physical aspects of the ultrasound were not so bad …
Early in the morning, the day after Christmas, I got a phone call from the mammogram place. They had seen something they’d like to get a better look at, could I come in the following week? Again, it would be pretty early in the morning, although not as early as …
This is Part Three of this story. Here’s Part One. Here’s Part Two. There is nothing quite so lonely as going to get your very first mammogram on a cold and rainy Christmas Eve morning, at a time when you’d normally just be finishing up your first cup of coffee, …
Yeah, maybe, if you subscribe to most of today’s conventional wisdom (have your first mammogram at 40, ladies!)… even though some studies now are saying that if you don’t have a history of breast cancer in your family, and if you don’t have reason to worry, you can wait until …
First off, I’m fine. I have benign heterogeneously dense breasts, which are also asymmetrical, which basically means that instead of mostly fat in my breasts I have dense tissue, which is hard to see through, and they’re not matchy-matchy with each other. Go figure, I am not a Supermodel with factory …
