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Juvenile Rheumatiod Arthritis relapse

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Submitted by Anhata on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 11:51am.

DD's JRA has flared up again, her foot is hurting, causing limping, and her knee is swollen.--read more


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Woo Hoo! Goodbye size 24, hello size 22!

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Submitted by Anhata on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 6:59pm.

Well, the pounds keep melting off! I went to landsend.com a couple weeks ago to buy two new swimsuits for the summer and found, much to my surprise, I was now a size 22!--read more


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Pre-Adoption Training

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Submitted by Anhata on Sun, 05/04/2008 - 9:11pm.

DH and I have completed the Pre-Adoption Training Classes and have the Certificates to show it! Here's what mine says:

(my name) has completed 12 hours of Special Needs Pre-Adoption Training on:--read more


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Call me SAHM

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Submitted by Anhata on Fri, 05/02/2008 - 9:34am.

Yesterday was my last day at work, I'm officially a SAHM again. This is mostly due to the fact that I was terrible at the job and miserable about it.--read more


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Woo Hoo! Goodbye Size 26, Hello, Size 24!

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Submitted by Anhata on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 5:41pm.

I've been slowly and steadily loosing weight since last fall and I've now reached my first major benchmark, I've gone down a whole size!--read more


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wading through our stuff

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Submitted by Anhata on Mon, 02/11/2008 - 3:06pm.

Well, we've been mucking out the front bedroom, it's fairly empty in there right now, but most of the stuff that was in there is now in the dining room or in the living room.--read more


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"Answering the Call", or, Foster Adopt Update #1

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Submitted by Anhata on Fri, 02/08/2008 - 6:11pm.

Well, I got the introductory packets of information from the AdoptUSKids organization and from the Boy--read more


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adoption and life and OMG!

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Submitted by Anhata on Tue, 02/05/2008 - 8:54pm.

So, DH and I have decided to get the ball rolling to adopt a child (or two). We've talked about it for over a year and we're ready to start the process.--read more


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Candlemas

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Quicken This!

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Submitted by Anhata on Thu, 01/31/2008 - 5:43pm.

I've been slowly emerging from my funk this winter and one of the things that I now feel like I can cope with is our finances.--read more


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Time wasters for snowy mornings

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Submitted by Anhata on Mon, 01/28/2008 - 9:02am.

So, there was a sprinkling of snow last night, thus, naturally, the greater Portland Metro Area is having fits. "ICE on the ROAD!--Save yourselves!" And DD's school is on a two hour delay. --read more


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An (almost) everything, including the kitchen sink, blog

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Submitted by Anhata on Mon, 01/21/2008 - 11:34pm.

There's a lot, so I'll bullet point. (Just now learned how to do this in HTML for this post, impressive, non?)--read more


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Freedom! Freedom! Talkin' 'bout Freedom!

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Submitted by Anhata on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 10:00pm.

I cannot express my joy as I type this from the cozy comfort of the nook in my kitchen!--read more


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If you haven't got your health....and I don't...

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Submitted by Anhata on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 10:18pm.

I went to see the Homeopath that I've been taking DD to for the past two years for my own health consultation.--read more


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All work and no play

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Submitted by Anhata on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 8:56pm.

Or, very little play, anyway.

Since I started work in July I've not had a lot of down time. I've got a lot of unread email, unswept floors, unvacuumed carpets, and a neglected garden.--read more


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Kitchen Sink Blog...

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Submitted by Anhata on Thu, 06/21/2007 - 10:50pm.

Let's see, I've been wallowing around in Dental Hell for what feels like months, painting and doing home improvements like mad before the upcoming visits by my mother and my MIL & FIL in July, and not--read more


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Wish me luck

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Submitted by Anhata on Wed, 06/06/2007 - 11:47am.

I just had a very good job interview this morning, and I'm reeeeealy hoping I'll get it.--read more



Job Interview--think good thoughts for me

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Submitted by Anhata on Mon, 05/07/2007 - 4:31pm.

I've got a job interview tomorrow (Tuesday) morning for a phone sales rep postition.--read more



Springtime in the Yarden, part Deux

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FO--Dolly Poncho

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This is how studly my DH is:

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Springtime in the Yarden!

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Gonna Hafta Vent

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Happy 14th Anniversary to us!

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Mending Wall cont'd

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Christmas, 1914

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Submitted by Anhata on Fri, 12/22/2006 - 8:29pm.

Christmas Eve in 1914, by Mike Harding

Stars were burning, burning bright
And all along the Western Front
Guns were lying still and quiet.
Men lay dozing in the trenches,
In the cold and in the dark, --read more


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Temporarily Out of Stock

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Submitted by Anhata on Sun, 12/17/2006 - 11:48pm.

a phrase I used often this past week, the last week of my temp job taking phone orders for a mail order catalog.

Also, I feel temporarily out-of-it because I've been three weeks away from my usual haunts, routine, and habits.--read more


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Thanksgiving prep

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Submitted by Anhata on Fri, 11/17/2006 - 12:41pm.

I'm going to be working Sunday through Wednesday training for the temp job, so I'm making all my dinner preps for Thanksgiving today.

I'm ordering a fresh bird and all the pies from the grocery store, DH will pick those up on Tuesday.--read more


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Temp job

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Submitted by Anhata on Thu, 11/16/2006 - 2:37pm.

I've got a temp job, contigent on passing background checks, at a call center for a catalog company.

I'll be spending an insane amount of time on the light rail train to and from work, but the plus side on that is that I'll undoubtedly get all my holiday knitting done that way.--read more


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And The Wall came tumbling down

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Submitted by Anhata on Thu, 11/09/2006 - 7:28pm.

Seventeen years ago today I watched, stunned and hardly believing my eyes, the news reports on TV pour in about The Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Second generation cold war kid that I was, I never thought I'd see the day. Just the year before East German officials stated that the wall would stand for a hundred years.--read more


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