Keeping resolutions....

Aren't we all just lousy at this... but here on June 25...only 6 months before Christmas.... I am reflecting back on the resolutions I have made and broken over the years.

I am stuck..... my body likes being at this weight for some weird reason.... no it is not my ideal body weight...if it was I would have no complaints.... when I gain even a pound I feel it,... but I cannot move below this without angst.....I need to get a move on though....the gym is the place to make the move.... and grrrr...lack of energy keeps me from that endeavor....of course sleep would help....I did break down and get a prescription for Ambien...I do not like the idea of needing meds... I know...sometimes it is what we need.it doesn't make me weak or any of that.... maybe a few days of Ambien and I can just get reset....

back to resolutions...
2009 I thought I made two I could keep....

one I am doing well at... A book a month....

so far:

Loving Frank...... LOVED IT .... growing up in the shadow of one of FLW greatest architecture churches the Greek Orthodox Church in Milwaukee.... I found it fascinating. And an interesting way to read/write a book....based on LOTS of facts...but total fiction....those of you in Madison...it is a MUST READ....

Breakfast with Buddha...interesting, so so

Eat, Love, Pray....personally... not a fan.... I think Liz G is way to self absorbed for her own good. It took me forever to finish this. I put it done and read other books in between finishing. I enjoyed the part in Indonesia... but Italy, India..... shes full of it.... I don't buy that she was really on a journey to find herself.... she was on a journey to find her next man. She succeeded...good for her....but own up to what your personal journey is really about. I don't get this " I need to check out for a year to 'find myself'"...oh but it is really easy to do when some publisher is giving you a huge advance to fund it.....like I said..not a fan.

Total waste of Make up... fun beach read.... this is a Sex in the City wanna be. not near the wit or insight of Candace Bushnell... but not horrid

The Shack......ya gotta read it if you were raised Christian.

Better.....Required reading for everyone who works in health care. I adore Atul Gawande...and both his books and many of his New Yorker articles should be required reading and are the REAL stuff of what medical Journal clubs should be about!

Water for Elephants....delightful !! The fastest read of the year... really..a page turner that I could not put down......

My next is Still Alice .... and whatever else peeks my interest....

so seven books...six months I am doing well....

Knitting...oh well.... I still have six months. I need to find a few Saturday mornings to follow through and take classes. I will do this. This is a promise to myself.

I am otherwise not doing so well. The never ending list of things to do seems overwhelming. and no one to help...not even with the littlest of details.... it is crazy....
but I have decided to try to let go.

Ted allowed me to indulge some of what I never realized was a bit of true Libra/Virgo..... I hate not having the house in perfect working order.... but waiting for new furniture, painting, carpet cleaning, trying to decide on a furnace..... and then I go and invite ten people to dinner Friday night...what was I thinking !!!
and..... I have to try to get all the perfect touches for the dinner.... all the right mixers and cocktails.... dinner.... they get Wisconsin Brat Spa !!!but I still have table on the couches....
then ..just try to be a Libra and make a decision..... aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

But....I am going to Rent this week with friends that I have not previously gone out with.... good for me..... and I am driving to Reno to meet Rowdy Madsen ( he is my great grandson) for the fourth of July.


Fireworks await!!!!!!!!!

Ferntucky

After the national media reported extensive flooding of Fernley NV, we were so relieved to hear that our loved ones who transplanted themselves there last spring are safe and dry !! Our heart goes out to those families affected by that devastating event , but once again breathe a sigh of relief that we are not making arrangements for helping family. That is now two major flood areas that have come close to loved ones and they have escaped harm.... maybe the luck has changed! :)

Here, the rain continues, with promises of 3 feet of snow in the cascades by tomorrow night. Enough already !! No wonder places we are so familiar with are flooding. A spring thaw with rain are real threats to the city of Portland. Heavy wet snow is what set up the scene for the floods of '96. We live in a "safe zone".... one of the dams on the Columbia would have to break before our home was flooded, and work site high on a hill....but mud slides and trees falling in saturated soil are always a concern.

Here I am the queen of gloom and rain.... not really....
but I need to get out of the house.... I haven't ventured out further than the deck since Saturday morning.... and here it is 48 hour later.
It's RSV season, and I am certain that I have it again..... when I have a work load that involves 8-10 patients in isolation for "viral respiratory diseases"....I am assured to get it. No matter how good I wash my hands, there is always that emergency that takes me in a room unprotected....and with these dripping vent circuits more than ever I hate taking them apart on these kids. But by the time I get there.... too late, the nurses have broken the system and the wet bugs are being aerosolized everywhere.... arghhhhhh....at least it is just a low level snotty head cold in me. The man was sick first.... probably the same thing, but he is always down longer and harder than me. I am off to the gym soon... we'll see if he joins me.

Projects remain stagnant.... gotta get some work done TODAY !!! and a bit of work around the house too...not to mention returning the camera and a few other projects once the retail experience can start today.

Ciao....