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Yesterday I felt like I was sweating balls all day.  My co-worker and the husband of one of the attorneys spent four hours moving boxes in and our of our storage unit.  In those four hours I drank four 16 ounce bottles of water and never felt the need to pee because I just sweat it out.  Worse though was that I forgot to bring...

I can’t really say I truly live in the “sticks” but it’s the sticks from where we moved from.  Oak Park is a bustling town, houses are close together and the last house I lived in was on a pretty busy street.  I can still see Tony’s expression when we were sitting in the living room and could hear the cars and motorcycles go by,...

It’s funny how just a random sentence in someone’s blog post can stop you in your tracks and make you take a look at your life and what kind of effort you are putting into it.  My long time blog friend Shelley posted yesterday about cleaning out her closets and used that as an analogy of how putting stuff in her closet was like adding...

Both Hannah and Jacob had to work over the weekend so I had a lot of alone time.  It was actually nice to be able to blast my music and not have to walk on tip toes in the morning because they weren’t sleeping!  I have a bit more traveling coming up – next weekend I’ll be back in Virginia for another family reunion, the...

Yesterday was definitely a perfect example of living the #wycwyc lifestyle.  I thought I was going to be moving boxes for four hours yesterday, so I wanted something filling, but that had protein, and well, I got a McDonald’s sausage McMuffin with egg.  I know not the healthiest thing to eat in the world but I knew it would keep me full and fueled and...

I am absolutely loving our weather lately.  Cool mornings, the last couple days it’s been low humidity and in the low 70s.  My perfect weather – I just need it to be like that every day in Chicago, okay?  That’s not too much to ask, right? Sadly I had to go to work early yesterday so I didn’t get to enjoy the weather on a...

When I do a Sam’s Club run for work, I invariably find shit I want and throw it in the cart.  While I drool over the box of 24 apple fritters, luckily right next to all the baked goodness is the two pack of Thomas Light Mutli-Grain muffins.  100 calories, 8 grams of fiber = love.  You all know I loves me a savory breakfast...

Tony and I had our first appointment at the Mayo Clinic.  It’s hard to fathom how different my life is just 365 days later – not even – Tony died 141 days after our first visit.  I try to go back and read my blog posts from that time, but it’s still too hard.  I second guess our decisions, wonder what the outcome would have...

Hey guys – Happy Monday!  This post is going to be really quick because it’s stormy and I shouldn’t have the computer on – good thing I can type 120 words a minute! For the record, I had no mojo on Saturday to move at all.  But, as luck would have it, I scored a pair of Saucony shoes at my local thrift store for...

I have a picture of Tony and I on our night stand.  He’s got a super goofy look on his face, and most mornings when I wake up, put on my glasses, that’s the first thing I see and it makes me smile.  Yesterday?  Just tears.  I mentioned on my 101 Days of Summer Challengers email and facebook thread that grief is like a sucker...