Hell’s Half Acre

Jamie and Jesse are flying back to the frozen midwest today to say goodbye to Jamie’s mother.  And I am just shallow enough to be happy to hold down the Mexican fort, kids and puppy in exchange for avoiding the freezing frozieness that is the midwest in late February.  I was actually thinking, “how bad [...]

So, I have surprisingly become an early-mroning person.  Why, you ask yourself, would a perfectly sane person swap night-owl status for early-morning status?  A good question, I would answer because early-morning is quite simply an absolutely INSANE time to be awake!  All the sane people are still sleeping at o’dark-30 and only masochists get up [...]

I have been bouncing between 80 and 77 kilos since early December.  It has been driving me crazy because I *know* how much I eat and it should be low enough to continue losing weight.  So yesterday, fed up yet again, I started tracking my calories.  And um, well, I *thought* I knew what I [...]

I got about a million things done today.  Anytime I get more than two things done in one day it feels like minor miracle.  We’ve been trying to get Jesse’s tooth looked at for quite a while.  It only took a full year to get my post put in (yes, a full year) but that [...]

It got so cold tonight that we headed out in the car, cranked up the heat and blissed in the heavenly warmth issuing from the mighty diesel engine.  It was actually quite stinky but I was happy to trade stinky for warm.
I don’t know what has happened to our heat.  We had it a week [...]