its gotta start somewhere

ok.. so this is what i'm gonna do.

i never get to see my friends online anymore. i have great friends that i enjoy chatting with, and visiting, and sharing all kinds of things with.. but lately i just seem to be offline when they are on or not home when they call.

to prove that
1. i have not dropped off the face of the earth
2. i am not in the witness protection program
3. i actually do know how to work the computer

i am going to start a daily (mostly daily) blog.

today is wednesday... my typical wednesdays go like this..
up at 6:30 get kids to school
class at 10
home by 1:30
grocery shop, laundry, other menial tasks... then in the evenings either teach or collapse, it varies by week.

i'm going to remind anyone that doesn't already know, i'm a horrible speller, and i refuse to take time to look up words while i'm blogging... it will just give me another excuse to avoid blogging.

i'm going to bare all here... because i suspect anyone reading this is either a real life friend, or knows me very well from online.

today i had a doctor's appointment reguarding my weightloss and fitness program i've been following. the news is good, i've lost a total of 26% of my body weight.. which seems insane, but needed to be done.

no i'm not skinny and never will be, but things are getting closer to normal for me than they have ever been before.

i'm swimming a total of about 4 hours a week, and working out another 4-5 hours in the gym. i have a personal trainer now that is helping me fine tune my program.

one thing i've noticed is.. the last time i weighed this amount, my body looked really different that it does now :| ok.. the last time i weighed what i do now... i was just in college.. so that might explain the reason.

anyway, enough about being fat..

its spring here.. we've had some amazing days so far, today is NOT one of them. its cold and rainy and windy.

bill is in toledo, ohio again today.. so that means me and the kids alone for dinner. sam has been begging for lentle soup (had it at a vegan dinner the other night that hannah made us go to) so..... i'm cooking lentle soup, it smells soooo good. i had to search for the proper spices to put in it, but i think its gonna be good.

i have two projects that i'm working on for my friends in one of my music groups.. picture projects. they are both dear friends, and i didn't think it would be a big deal at all. melonie has 3 pictures of her daughter (blurry/bad quality) that she wanted converted to b/w and colorized pink in certain places. these pictures are to go in a frame that is part of a mirror or something and put in her little girls room. i'm nearly done with that project.

my other friend, kay, has asked me to repair a picture of her and her cousins taken 50 years ago, and make a print that will fit into a frame with another picture of the same people taken just this year. the old photo is a wierd size.. square.. and the new one is of course 4x6, so i'm working on figuring out how to make them both fit into a double frame that will look good. i've done most of the repairs, and scanned the new photo... so that project is nearly done as well. i'll see them both on sunday, so i need to have them done by then.

i really don't mind doing the work for friends.. i just hope the quality is what they expected. it helps me with my photoshop skills anyway... and you all know i need the practice.

i haven't seen my friend malcolm for a while, but i did get my plane tickets all set for my visit in a few months.. markus has already got his tickets too.. so this year will be the 3rd year that we've all been able to get together for photography. its gonna be a great time.

malcolm is going to help me rent a car.... :| so watch out england, i'll be driving (hopefully on the right side of the road) in september.

my dad is feeling much better after his episodes last week, of course my mother will not keep me informed about his health, but i was able to talk to him directly. i will make a point to call him again tomorrow.

i forgot about alex's orthodonist appointment :| so now i have to reschedule it.

ok, thats about it for the post.. see? i'm alive and mostly well :P hope to talk to you all soon.