The Squirrel's Nest

Got a message from Jax that lured me back to make a post.  I'm primarily living over in LiveJournal now, but also have a Xanga that I check most days, and I also just started on the MediFast program, so am blogging over there as well.  I'm 2 classes away from completing my Masters degree, both kids are still doing soccer and are also doing Young Marines, and I'm working in the training dept of a software company and really liking it there.  Umm...I think that's it?  Hope you all are well!

I'm posting this because I know of no other way to deliver this message...Hollywood Farm Girl, should you see this, should you Google for your name, should you somehow wander across this blog...

 

I read your post today and wished I had a way to encourage you, to tell you to keep posting openly, to let you know that I'm surely not the only one out here whose heart swells with each semi-cryptic post and who wishes we knew each other personally.  Not everyone out here is a vulture.  Not by a long shot. 

 

For obvious reasons, you've not enabled comments, nor provided your email address, so it is with a wish-on-a-star that I leave this message.  Perhaps one day you will stumble across this and know that you and yours are not alone.

 

:)

 

And also, unrelated to the above message, but reminded by it:  Last week I saw EIGHT turkey vultures circling a radio tower near my work building.  This morning, one of the turkey vultures was sunning itself with spread wings on top of the building.  I'm glad warmer weather has returned, because I missed seeing these crazy birds.  :)

A coworker and I were talking about the super-volcanoes that supposedly lie under the US and are supposedly going to erupt within the 10 years, and one of them is supposedly right underneath us here in the midwest.  That made me think that we'd be hit off-guard and would be covered in lava before we even knew what to do, and that then thousands of years later, we might be unearthed and the people of the future would have to try to figure out what our poses indicated.  You know, like the people of Vesuvius?

 

I decided right then and there, that when I get covered in lava, I am SO going to strike a walk-like-an-Egyptian pose.

 

Figure THAT one out, people of the future.

It's been forever since I've updated here, and I'm sorry about that.  Life's just been busy and crazy, and I have a couple of other blogs that I keep up with, so this one fell out of date.  :p

 

The HAM is back, something I'm thrilled to death about...I'll add her Space link to my list, so go check her out.

 

I'm still plugging away at LA Weight Loss...down about 10 pounds since I joined.  It's slow, but at least I am losing, and hopefully the slow pace will help it all to stay off.

 

I got all signed up for grad school, and my classes start on Monday.  Eek.  Not sure I'm ready for tons of required reading again, heh.  But it should be fun.  Work's work...more of the usual...though I did volunteer to lead a training class at some point.  That will be cool.  I miss doing training.

 

Chris and the kids are all doing well...Chris's bday is on Saturday (yay) and Brenna's taking the SAT test that morning as well.  She's only in 7th grade, but was recommended to take it just so she'd have an idea of what to expect when the real time to take it comes a few years down the road.  Wish her luck!

 

The holidays were good...nothing crazily wild to post about them this year.

 

*thinks*

 

It feels weird to be posting here again.  I hope I can keep it up.  :)  Drop me a comment if you read this, so I'll know who all still comes around.  :)

For whatever reason, whenever I start a new diet or eating plan, that's ALL I can think about for posting topics.  I've been on LAWL now for 1 week, and have lost 4.4 pounds.  Woohoo!  :D  I won't bore you all with the details of this, but will post my progress from time to time.

 

Anyway, work's work, and home is good, but busy, and Brenna's still praticing with the awesome soccer team, so life is good.  :)  I'm still kickin', just haven't been super-posty much.  Hope you all have a great weekend!