fighting my demons (DW version)

Seventeen years ago, on an icy afternoon, in our beloved acoustic music venue Passim, Greg and I pledged to love, honor, and cherish each other until death did us part, and then we had one hell of a party. It hasn't always been easy, and it hasn't always been fun, but it has been worth it to share my life with him.

Happy anniversary to me and to Greg!

I'm not doing well using my DW/LJ, but maybe looking at it as a good way to keep up with exercising will help.

Sunday, 7/31, I rode to Arlington Center on the bike path and then home again - not sure how long that took, since my watch stopped, but I'll estimate 25 minutes.

Monday, same ride as Sunday.

Tuesday, I rode to the exit to The Music Emporium on the bike path and then home again - fifty minutes in heavy air - hard work.

Wednesday,same ride and time as Tuesday - easier riding with lighter air.

Thursday, no ride - walked to Davis Square to take out money - twenty-five minutes in sandals *g*, also did twenty minutes moving/walking/dancing while watching TV - forty-five minutes total.

Friday, today - rode to Lexington Center on the bike path and back again - one hour and twenty minutes with a five-minute rest for a snack and water at Lexington Center - a very good ride, hard work, but good work.

I hope to keep riding, although probably not every day, into late fall. It feels good to do!

Thanks to celli for pointing this out to me. :-)

THE YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL MEME

Here's my thread.

Day 13 of sick (the flu, then bronchitis). Greg is better now, thank goodness (he got sick the day before me). I'm better, not coughing so much and getting my taste back - not really my appetite, but at some point I'll have to want food instead of just eating what I can because I know that I need food to live. I miss exercising, and I miss having energy. Still, could be worse - I was able to see a doctor and get treatment and antibiotics, and that's a blessing.

Not looking for sympathy. Just documenting this so that I don't forget.

2010 had some excellent moments - 2 SAMWs, a lot of good knitting, NIECES!, and a part-time, seasonal JOB!!! (and more that I'm not remembering now, I'm sure) - and I look forward to 2011, to see what I'll do next. It's exciting. I hope that all of you get what you want in 2011 and are happy with it. :-)

Greg and I went out to a lavish and excellent dinner at the Harvest tonight, and I suspect that we'll open some champagne soon, but I have inventory tomorrow morning at the yarn store at which I work, so I'd better get myself to bed before too long. I keep thinking of the Count from Sesame Street and smiling. I shall count tomorrow (although to myself, of course - I will not be the only one there counting!).

Go Michigan State! We won today in our basketball game, and with luck we'll win in our bowl game!

So before Greg and I head off to Week 2 on Sunday, it might be good to write down what I loved about Week 1. :-)

*happy faces of friends from last year and friends from this year
*Lorraine's Morning Song class, in which I learned more songs
*Ben's Mandolin Primer class, that Greg and I took together, a good thing, because I would have quit without him - too hard at the beginning! But Greg helped me work at the songs Ben wanted us to learn by ear, and I got enough of them down, and earned the Most Improved Student Overnight Award *g*
*Greg playing "Louise" superbly at John's open mike on Sunday night
*Greg playing his own composition "The Step Up Waltz" Thursday night at the student concert with Martin Grosswendt (fiddle) and Ben Pearce (mandolin) backing him up
*dinner at the Coe House Wednesday night even though we had a tornado warning
*me singing "Silver Dagger" a capella in A even though I'd planned to do with with chords in G *wry grin*
*so many wonderful compliments about my performance!
*ICE CREAM EVERY DAY
*knitting a whole shawl out of Noro Silk Garden and blocking it on the floor and a wool blanket (well, trying to *g*)
*loaning my dulcimer Ophelia to Kriss so that she could take Lorraine's dulcimer class and I could take the mandolin class and not be tempted to drop out for dulcimer
*Kriss giving me wonderful green earrings her father had made as a thank-you gift for the loan of Ophelia
*walking the Labyrinth with Greg Sunday afternoon and again Wednesday (might have been by myself - not sure - not enough sleep to keep good memories of everything) and definitely again Saturday morning before we left - wonderful walking mediation and centering
*love and hugs, not just from Greg - from other dear friends
*excellent musicians (Bennett and John and Ben and Cliff and dearest Martin and Danny) playing my beautiful Tippin sea guitar and having only wonderful things to say (prime comment from Cliff - "I had sex with your guitar" - followed by sincere compliments)
*afternoon fifteen-minute power naps with the beach towel draped over the window to keep out the bright, bright sunshine
*MUSIC! LOTS OF WONDERFUL MUSIC!

OK, I've run out of coherence - more later, maybe. *g* I had so much fun. I'm glad that we decided to fork over the money and go back for Week 2. It'll be an adventure, and goodness knows, we need another vacation. :-)

I look to post more on Dreamwidth and Insane Journal than LJ or JF (which I think no one reads me on, but if so, let me know, please?) from now on. I have codes for Dreamwidth, if anyone wants them. Posts may be friends locked on DW and IJ. Life is weird now. I'm hanging on, though, so don't worry, OK? I need not to worry that people are worrying, if that makes sense, but then nothing makes sense that much. I have Greg, though, so I'll be all right. I refuse to let The Bastard win. I REFUSE.

It looks as though I'm going to need to buy a DVD recorder/VCR combo so that I can transfer my tapes to DVD, so I need recs of which are good to buy, o wise friends list. I checked on Amazon.com, but wow, no one likes anything there. *sigh* Help, please?

That result makes me smile. :-)

Greg put in a new router Monday (so December 7), and we bought the two-year extended warranty from Micro Center, so we're covered for three whole years. Wow. We'll see how long it lasts. The last one made it over two years (installed end of May 2007, went December 6, 2009).

Thanks to agentxpdble, mareen, and xkatjafx for the snowflake cookies and to tinnean for the fancy hot chocolate. :-)

ETA: Oh! Happy anniversary to me and Greg! Fifteen years married - go us!

I said goodbye to the house in which I grew up and was abused by my father, walked around, went to my favorite place to hide and play, remembered the good stuff. May this make my life easier, yes, please, yes, PLEASE.

Then I bought a Cookie Monster stuffed toy to sleep with. So OK, NOT doing that well after all, but that's how it goes, right? Yeah, that's how it goes.