Adoption Day

I adopted two older cats today.

This is Rose. She's 6-years-old and LOVES attention.

This is my other new adoptee, Pete.

He's 9-years-old, a little shy, and enjoys attention and licking the tuna can.

Three a.m.

 

SpongeBob Shoes

I'm pretty sure I need these.

Jury Duty

 

Tommy!

Squeeeee. They're so cute and they were only $25!

Sweaty Demons

 

Turn it Up

 

Crafty Boy

Spending my afternoon altering oversized 'boy-cut' t-shirts to fit me.

Metal Mama

 

Blast From the Past - Girl Scouts Project

Found these clippings recently. So fun to see what I was a part of back then. I loved being a Girl Scout. We had a lot of fun in my troup.

So Over Snow

The roads weren't the worst they've been, but they weren't great. The tops I got was just under 50 mph. I found a car to get behind and just followed their lead. Slow down, speed up, whatever. I just wasn't passing anyone. The passing lane was worse. It's always worse. Made it only 15 minutes late to work.

Wall Talk

 

Back to Blogging

For the past 3 or 4 days, I've been getting things cleaned up here on the blog.  As my final stop in the blog-o-sphere, Circa 1975 has been awhile in the making.  I've blogged here there and everywhere since August 2005 (before that, I was building personal websites and playing around with HTML).  I've had this blog set up for awhile now (at least a few years) but had only processed about half of the posts I imported from all of my other blog archives.  I've been busy... finishing up undergrad and starting graduate school.  Now nearing the end of my last summer semester in the counseling program and getting a daily reprieve from the symptoms (compulsive food and exercise behaviors, anxiety, and procrastination) of my illness, I felt a spark to start creating again.  So, I had to get my blog posts cleaned up and processed.

It's been an amazing process to go back through all of these old posts.  There are so many memories, both good and bad, here.  I kept them all.  There were a few things that I lost, like a few handfuls of Keek videos, which can't be recovered in any way.  That's a little sad.  That's what happens with new social media start-ups though.  Here one day, gone the next.  It's a reminder that I should back up everything.

Now, to fill in the spaces where I wasn't heavily blogging, I'm going back through my Facebook memories and pulling information from there to post here.  Once moved, I'm deleting my old Facebook memories.  I really want this to be the one place that I keep a journal of everything.  One day, I hope to share this with my daughter and husband.  But for now, it's just me and anyone who stops by to read.

I'm also starting to clean up and organize all of my digital photos.  I've been able to add some photos to old blog posts.  As I process the photos, I will add more.  I may backdate some just for posterity's sake.  If a photo is from 2000, I think it's a little odd to post it in 2019.  I wouldn't do that in a physical journal.  So, why do it here.

Now, I must pull myself away from this very fun project and finish up an assignment due tomorrow.

Walking to End Alzheimer's

 

Walking to End Alzheimer's

I'm only $25 away from my second level goal of $300!

Walking to End Alzheimer's

O.V.E.R.

My summer semester is now O.V.E.R.!!!! I just finished the last sentence of this 10 page paper!

Cute Vintage Hotpads

Some cute vintage-y hot pads from yesterday's thrifting.

Weird Felted Purse

Check out this homemade felted purse (made out of a wool sweater) that I found thrifting this afternoon. It's so weird. I love it!

Illinois Mission of Mercy 2018

I volunteered at the Illinois Mission of Mercy today.

I'm not a dental professional, but the internship I have that pays for my graduate school tuition is at the state division of oral health (I wanted to do something very different than counseling for my internship).

It was a bonus that I could count my volunteer hours as a part of my work day since it's oral health related.

Because I'm not a dental professional, I volunteered in hospitality.  So, when other volunteers got hungry or thirsty, they would come down and get a snack or drink.  I kept things cleaned and well stocked.

Below is a video from the 2016 MOM.

I could go into a long rant about dental disparities.

I'll just say that we wouldn't need programs like this, and people wouldn't have to wait years for dental care, if changes were made at all levels.