rambling personal update

[Guest guest]

I left the house and the sun was shining and I thought I should take

my warmer coat and looked and couldnt find it. Said Ok, should be OK

weather, forget the warmer coat because my next option was the " really

warm " coat. (you've got to live in Portland to understand why a

person needs 4 coats).

So I leave and try to go for a walk and it just keeps getting colder!

I come home and it snowed at my house while I was gone. Snowed! I

was only 7 miles away and it snowed at my house while i was gone. I

froze myself and it took me 3 hours to get warm again.

I have learned my lesson and will leave the " really warm " coat in the

car from now on. The pond in my car was not much help either. Spent

$350 to not get my car fixed and they acted like I was out of line

that it wasn't really fixed. I hate car repair places. I guess

everyone out there is driving around with an inch of water on the

floor of their car and i'm the only one complaining just to be difficult.

So both my cars are on the fritz and I get too cold excerising

outside. And it's such a hassle taking the kid to the gym so i

haven't lost any more weight and i'm a little frustrated by that and

too disorganized to get it together.

The good news is, that I made it onto the placement list for the job I

am applying for and I'm really excited about that. It's a really

great job and an important job, so I think I would feel pretty useful

doing this job and I have all the skills for it. The only bummer is

that I will have to work nights for at least the first year, and this

job is so worth doing that.

Sorry for not posting details about the job, but I dont want to go

into it on the internet.

As for the Portland weather, I have a little story that you all will

like. I'm sure many areas have weather like this, but it's so

Portland and why I and most people I know have so many coats.

It was the first day of spring in 1995 or 1996, I was laying there and

it started pouring. So much for my yard work. The apartment complex

let me have a little spot to plant wildflowers and I wanted to get to

work. Then all of a sudden the rain sounds funny and i look out the

window and it's snowing like mad. Ok, snow now. So the kids are all

running outside and making snowballs and having a grand old time and

the wind shifts again. And it starts clearing off. Next thing we

know it is sunny out and the high for the day was 69. Warmer on the

other side of town where there wasn't any snow. Someone called the

local disc jockey and told him it was snowing and he thought they were

yanking his leg. Luckily the news verified it later that night. But it

was really weird being only a small percentage of people to actually

see the snow and a lot of people wouldnt believe it even though the

news said it was so.

So anyway, i'm up too late and wishing I hadn't sold my treadmill and

thinking maybe i'd like an elliptical and wondering if i'd really use

it anymore than i used that treadmill.. but then because of my vertigo

the treadmill made me dizzy which is one reason why I didn't use it

much, but then continually finding 50 pound computer monitors on it

didn't help either....

I hope everyone is well and not getting stressed by the Holiday Prep.

We've got a low key Christmas morning with relatives and no formal

family dinner this year.

laurie