Posted in Friends & Family, Poems and Stories, Raquel on May 16th, 2009 No Comments »
This afternoon I played Ultimate Frisbee for the first time in a while, and it reminded me of this poem I wrote last year. For the record, I did a little bit better this time (oh, and had way more fun than this poem might sound like ). Maybe–hang on, weird thought–I’m actually [...]
Posted in Around Town, For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on May 11th, 2009 2 Comments »
Today Raquel and I had lunch at the Vietnamese lunch buffet that gave us so much trouble before. We talked about her surgery and the season finale of Dollhouse, about alpha males and a super secret project we’re working. You know, this and that. We’d go get more food and then talk some more. A [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on May 11th, 2009 1 Comment »
This morning I went to have a scan before surgery on Wednesday, just to confirm that the cyst hadn’t changed. To my rather great surprise, it had changed. It shrunk.
So…
I won’t be having surgery on Wednesday like I thought I would. I can eat breakfast Wednesday morning, and drink water. I can actually go [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Raquel, Thoughts on Being Womanly on May 8th, 2009 3 Comments »
Last Sunday a conversation broke out about chivalry in the context of self defense training. These kind of conversations happen at our church. (Have I mentioned that I love my church family?) It all got me thinking about when a certain family moved to Tennessee a little over a year ago, which had [...]
Posted in Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on May 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
I went to the doctor this morning. It would seem the main reason was so I could sit there while he wrote stuff down on my chart, but this is the sort of thing that needs to be done before one has surgery. I did manage to find out that he thinks it’s okay [...]
Posted in I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Raquel on May 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
They say that if you dream you’re falling it’s a sign of not feeling in control of your life, and that if you can learn to fly instead in your dreams, it’s a sign of learning to to be more in control. I don’t buy all the weird stuff people say about dreams, but [...]