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18 Feb 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Namae
I lost 0,5kg this week. That is a little over 1lb. The more I think about it, the more irrationally angry it makes me. I will elaborated by making a somewhat detailed list of my food intake for the last week: 3 bags of microwave popcorn. 150gr of Ma...
17 Feb 2024 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
In the spring of 1993, my husband left his then current job to take another job 1,850 miles away. At the time he was working for a minicomputer company in Massachusetts. His leaving for another job was probably a good decision since the company he wo...
12 Feb 2024 6 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
Nothern hemisphere life at this time of year can be challenging. Even though I do not live in snow-covered climes, winter for me is hard. Snow makes everything look beautiful, clean and fresh. In the south, it's overcast, gray and dull. The trees are...
3 Feb 2024 8 minute read 1 comment 7th Decade Redhead
If you follow this blog, you may have noticed that I went 'dark' for a week or so. My husband and I went on a planned road trip to visit my daughter and her boyfriend (they cohabitate, and yes, I'm fine with it). She had recently been made a partner...
28 Jan 2024 3 minute read 1 comment Namae
Some random Sunday morning, some time ago, I was walking around a small park with my dog. She was smelling the trees and trying to scare some pigeons when an off leash dog came to greet us. My guess is that this other dog was maybe some kind of pit b...
22 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
The thumbnail photo above was one my husband took of me back in 2014. I am about to attempt my first, and only, to this day, officially timed running event. It was a Color Me Rad 5K race in Houston, Texas. My friends and work colleagues talked (nagge...
21 Jan 2024 4 minute read 1 comment Namae
Lunch time. A delicious smell finds its way through the house. I go to the kitchen and ask how longer it will take for lunch to be ready. "I'm really hungry!". "You're not hungry" was the common answer. "You just want to eat. Do you know the differen...
20 Jan 2024 13 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
A few days ago, I was sitting here in my jammies and fuzzy socks, a usual occurrence for a cold (14F) morning in Texas. We don't get these cold snaps very often. Our town is not prepared to deal with snow and ice, so when we get them, we are told to...
17 Jan 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
I was talking to my sister the other day, and she was reminiscing about our sibling therapy sessions last summer. The extraordinarily rainy weather last summer gave us a lot of time to sit around and talk. Many revelations came to light. There were t...
16 Jan 2024 8 minute read 0 comments 7th Decade Redhead
"I wish I could more like you. You always walk with such confidence..." Huh?.... This was something that was spoken to me about 15 years ago. I never really forgot it. It Easter Sunday at a church service, back in the day when our family were regul...
