grania on Jan 11 2011 | Filed under: Friends, Geekdom, home sweet home, the body project, The Journey
Hi Y’all, In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m kind of taking a break from writing. There are some things going on around me that need some TLC and not to be written about, so I’m taking a break. Life is good at Casa Grania, no worries here. The holidays were excellent too. Thanks for askin’. [...]
grania on Dec 04 2010 | Filed under: home sweet home, The Journey
I love the holidays. The lights, the trees, the food, the music, the parties, family and friends, and when it’s over, I love that too, because I have enough warm memories to get me through the next couple of months of brutal arctic Chicago winters. I can’t even imagine trying to do Christmas the way [...]
grania on Nov 07 2010 | Filed under: home sweet home, The Journey
I have a large extended family. Lots of cousins, and their families. A few of us that are close are all from my mom’s side of the family. I try to make a date with one of them every few months, just so we don’t grow apart as we get older. I spent the afternoon with my oldest [...]
grania on Nov 04 2010 | Filed under: Friends, home sweet home, Randomness, The Journey
I’m taking a writing prompt off of the NaBlo site for this one: Tell us the story of a piece of jewelry you own. Where did it come from, and what does it mean to you? I wear three rings that each have a story. #1. I created a set of matching rings for minime and [...]
grania on Oct 03 2010 | Filed under: home sweet home, The Journey
This is the first weekend that I’ve stayed home in a long time. I didn’t go out at all. I’m fairly broke, so no shopping until my next paycheck, and my walking partner had other plans, so I got to exercise my inner hermit and just stay in. The weather cooperated, the chill of autumn [...]
grania on Sep 28 2010 | Filed under: Friends, home sweet home, Randomness, The Journey
In the last couple of weeks, I have Attended an awesome family party. My aunt and uncle celebrated their 60th anniversary last week. Many cousins came in from all over the country. It was so cool to see everyone. There’s so much love in our family, it’s really uplifting when everyone is in the same [...]
grania on Sep 08 2010 | Filed under: Friends, home sweet home, Randomness, the body project, The Journey
This week at work, my department is changing locations within the building. I’m one of three people on the team that are not tied to the phones so I moved my stuff today. They are moving the phone jockeys in shifts so that the phones are covered. I’m thankful that I’m already moved but it was [...]
grania on Sep 04 2010 | Filed under: Beasts, home sweet home, The Journey
How many of you remember that silly kids song to the tune of Are you Sleeping: walking walking, walking walking, hop hop hop, hop hop hop. running running running, running running running, now we stop. You can thank me for the brain worm later I went for a walk through my neighborhood this morning. I [...]
grania on Jun 20 2010 | Filed under: home sweet home, Inspiration, The Journey
It’s 2am on Father’s Day. I woke up in an/anesthesia induced sweat bath. I had a lot of it in 7 hours of surgery 11 days ago. I’ll be sweating it out for a couple more weeks if history repeats itself. They say it takes a full year for the liver to process all of the [...]
grania on Jun 15 2010 | Filed under: home sweet home, the body project
…just not moving so fast right now. The surgery was successful. My kidney will no longer kill me. YAY! The hernia repairs are pretty harsh. They’ll heal eventually though. I’ve been home for 2 days now. The pain that I expected is about 1/4 of what I have. It hurts a lot more than I [...]
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