Yay, SNS! (Please ungrey me!)

I GOT THE JOB. I GOT THE JOB. I GOT THE JOB!!!!! We just have to make it through March and we will be OK. I am about a week out from being able to reclaim unemployment but I am not sure how that will work. I am assuming I won’t qualify but I am going to try. I did a modest means application but you have to be working…

More intriguing yet are the bottle cisterns made by some long dead masonry genius out of handmade brick. One is pristine, and holds water. The Aged P tells me federal troops watered their horses there during the Civil War. I’ve found many Minie balls on site as a kid, I thought they were just big dumb bullets.

Thank you!

I bought a tiny house. It’ll be delivered in 2 weeks. Monday, the bulldozer guy. It’s on an ancestral piece of land with ancient cedars, and an old Civil War trace that goes back to the river. Been doing some sleuthing and found foundations of old log cabin. Found an arrowhead. I’ve cut shit tons of blackberries by…

Just get him a Cary Grant biography and take pictures of Archibald reading it. It doesn’t get more inspiring than that, does it?

I had a pre-interview visit at a place I am desperate to work at and it was amazing. I spent 24 hours there as it’s by the sea and I have a couple of old friends there. I walked on the beach for hours in the sun with one of them and stayed with the other and the whole 24 hours was heavenly.

Thank you <3 I’ve been doing fairly well, but looking down basically a month of no gym due to travel and will struggle to eat as healthy because of visiting/going out with friends and family. But it should be fine :P And I’m excited with work!

i managed to survive the flu (and tamiflu— helps but is kind of rough in the tummy) which suuuuucked; i saw my new psychiatrist who switched me from ritalin to concerta and i’m currently in withdrawal between the slightly lowered dosage and the change in formulation (hence why i am also awake at 3am) but i think it’ll…

Archibald is an awesome choice!

I cleaned out and organized the closet in my office. It has been staring me in the face for weeks, and I owned it today. 

GO YOU!

Thank you. She and my therapist keep reminding me that recovery isn’t a straight road but a twisting path up a mountain. It’s just, ugh, I’ve been here so many times before. Still, I'm having much less self loathing than I did last time I relapsed so that’s progress. 

I got an email from my director, my boss’s boss’s boss, aka my great gran boss as I refer to him, praising the hard work I did on closing one of our almost 3 dozen audit issues. The ceo of our very very large organization was copied on it. I’m just a peon and normally someone at that level wouldn’t even know my name. I…

Thank you so much!

Congrats on the seminar and the book idea!

For me it was discovering the healing power of a lullaby with some of the kitties at my shelter. I talked about it in my Shelter Cat Update.

Just tiny achievements, like finding that a shop vac works better as the household vac than the upright did (hard to get under beds with that one), and finally, finally putting up the pictures of my husband’s finished beadwork (he’d finished them a couple months ago at least but I just kept being distracted by life):

On one day I had an appointment with my cardiologist, a mammogram, and a Brazilian wax, and I did all three! Plus, the cardiologist told me that I didn't have to stop HRT, which the doctors at the hospital where I was a patient had discontinued, as a precaution regarding heart health. I DID NOT want to stop HRT, since…

Did you decide on a name yet?