Jesse and I are madly shopping for house... nothing perfect yet. I know we shouldn't be looking for perfect, but by "perfect" I mean meets the majority of our criteria - like not too far from my work, square footage, garage, updated kitchens and bathrooms, yard size, quiet street, etc. We've seen many places that are close... but nothing that takes the cake. One last week was a perfect house, but the yard left quite a bit to be desired - like it was small and drained toward the house (not ideal). We're trying to be patient but it's frustrating. Saturday we looked at a place up in the mountains (only 20-30 minutes from my work) that we LOVE but it's small, and old, on a small lot... but we love it. It's surrounded by mountains and is a cute mountain cabin/cottage. We're talking a lot about it. Yesterday I was sure we wanted it. Today I don't know... I-70 closes often, ski traffic...
I made macaroni and cheese last night. Well actually penne and cheese, and the penne was gluten-free made from brown rice. It was good and I'm still stuffed.
March 29, 2010
March 28, 2010
Dear Mom
Dear Mom,
I want to tell you that I REGISTERED for the 50-mile Challenge Walk again this fall! For you. I sent an e-mail to the family telling them about is, and Lauri registered to join me! It's September 24-26 in San Diego. I can't wait! Some friends and former colleagues from San Diego are going to join me as well. This is the e-mail I sent:
For the second time, I will walk 50 miles in three days in Mom’s honor. As you know, I took this Challenge last fall, and the experience was absolutely life-changing. It wasn’t easy – but that’s the point. Multiple sclerosis has made life difficult for Mom and our family for over 20 years, and I’m fighting back. In three days and 50 miles I will DO SOMETHING about MS.
Want to join me? Each Walker must raise $2,500 which (also) isn’t easy... plus flights to San Diego. But taking the Challenge with me and raising the money means that you’ll enjoy an all-inclusive weekend (two nights at the Marriott [no camping!], all food, drink & entertainment), you’ll become part of an amazing group of people who have all accepted the same Challenge, and we will cross the finish line arm-in-arm.
It's the Challenge Walk from Carlsbad to downtown San Diego (coastline all the way!), September 24-26. I’m giving you plenty of time to think about it and – if you decide to join – fundraise and train. Read about the team http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/karinskids. If you are interested, please register in March OR May and put my name in as the referrer - I'll get $100 credit to my fundraising when you surpass $250 (I'll share it with you)!
If you are not able to walk with me, please consider supporting me with a donation http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/beth and I’ll keep you updated on my training and fundraising progress.
Love,
Beth
http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/karinskids
P.S. If 50 miles on foot is a bit much, check out http://www.walkms.org/ for a shorter walk near you (usually NO fundraising minimum) or get on your bike and start training for a ride near you http://www.bikems.org/.
Several family members made donations - I understand if they can't walk with me. We all do what we can. Lauri will start fundraising soon I'm sure - you'll have to think if you want to donate to us both!? I'm coming to see you this weekend; just booked my car. We're supposed to have 70-degree weather this week and I hope to find the same when I arrive there! Looking forward to seeing you and the grandparents.
Love,
Beth
I want to tell you that I REGISTERED for the 50-mile Challenge Walk again this fall! For you. I sent an e-mail to the family telling them about is, and Lauri registered to join me! It's September 24-26 in San Diego. I can't wait! Some friends and former colleagues from San Diego are going to join me as well. This is the e-mail I sent:
For the second time, I will walk 50 miles in three days in Mom’s honor. As you know, I took this Challenge last fall, and the experience was absolutely life-changing. It wasn’t easy – but that’s the point. Multiple sclerosis has made life difficult for Mom and our family for over 20 years, and I’m fighting back. In three days and 50 miles I will DO SOMETHING about MS.
Want to join me? Each Walker must raise $2,500 which (also) isn’t easy... plus flights to San Diego. But taking the Challenge with me and raising the money means that you’ll enjoy an all-inclusive weekend (two nights at the Marriott [no camping!], all food, drink & entertainment), you’ll become part of an amazing group of people who have all accepted the same Challenge, and we will cross the finish line arm-in-arm.
It's the Challenge Walk from Carlsbad to downtown San Diego (coastline all the way!), September 24-26. I’m giving you plenty of time to think about it and – if you decide to join – fundraise and train. Read about the team http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/karinskids. If you are interested, please register in March OR May and put my name in as the referrer - I'll get $100 credit to my fundraising when you surpass $250 (I'll share it with you)!
If you are not able to walk with me, please consider supporting me with a donation http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/beth and I’ll keep you updated on my training and fundraising progress.
Love,
Beth
http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/karinskids
P.S. If 50 miles on foot is a bit much, check out http://www.walkms.org/ for a shorter walk near you (usually NO fundraising minimum) or get on your bike and start training for a ride near you http://www.bikems.org/.
Several family members made donations - I understand if they can't walk with me. We all do what we can. Lauri will start fundraising soon I'm sure - you'll have to think if you want to donate to us both!? I'm coming to see you this weekend; just booked my car. We're supposed to have 70-degree weather this week and I hope to find the same when I arrive there! Looking forward to seeing you and the grandparents.
Love,
Beth
March 17, 2010
birthday patty's
Domo was awesome - crazy cool environment with yummy food! Weird sushi... and curry that I'm sure had flour in it and breading on all the seafood (not great for my gluten-intolerance but it didn't make me sick). Tonight we had boiled mashed meal: corned beef, potatoes, onion, carrots and cabbage in the crockpot which we converted to colcannon and added cheese. Lots of cheese. Jesse had Murphy's and me Jamesons. Stuffed. Especially after lunch today with Todd - walked down to Spicy Pickle. What a gorgeous day! Near 70 degrees today and tomorrow and then forecast for snow this Friday.
Looked at a ton more listings for houses tonight, hopeful that at least one we tour this weekend will be THE ONE. Or at least sort of the one. I have mixed feelings because I love our little house right now and it would be fun to ride bikes to old S. Pearl this summer... especially with the time change we actually have evenings now! The sun is setting much further north on the horizon than it was when we moved here in the dead of December.
Looked at a ton more listings for houses tonight, hopeful that at least one we tour this weekend will be THE ONE. Or at least sort of the one. I have mixed feelings because I love our little house right now and it would be fun to ride bikes to old S. Pearl this summer... especially with the time change we actually have evenings now! The sun is setting much further north on the horizon than it was when we moved here in the dead of December.
March 15, 2010
unresponsive
For my birthday we went to a wine bar downtown – the Wine Loft. It was really pricey and they had very little that either Jesse or I can eat… so we just had wine and cheese and then picked up Swing Thai takeout on the way home. Tonight we’re trying Domo for Jesse’s birthday. Supposedly country-style Japanese which I'm hopeful has many pescatarian and gluten-free options. Loving daylight savings time so far – a beautiful day Saturday and then a nice long Sunday.
Yesterday we went house hunting; walked through 11 places. Half of them had definitely had pros… but the cons overrode the pros. One place I really liked, but Jesse didn’t – it did have an in-ground concrete hot tub that worried both of us, and some water damage on the front eaves.
Social media and online strategy is really ramping up here! Personnel guidelines are hopefully not too far out – and they’re really more encouragement than rules. Searching for an expert partner, starting a secret Facebook group for internal communications of the newly-forming social media team, hosting two calls later this week to talk it all through.
Got an e-mail a bit ago from my aunt that said my grandparents even considered my mom to be “almost unresponsive” which is bold because they usually say “tired, but doing pretty good” when they describe her. She was nearly unresponsive when I saw her last. She just kept dozing off. I hope that when she sleeps, it's peaceful. I need to call my grandparents; haven’t talked to them for ages. Was looking at booking a flight to the Midwest to see Mom and them, but need to wait until Jesse finds out what’s going to happen with his knee – this Friday at the surgeon’s office. Speaking of which I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow with a new guy… nervous. I hope he has all my records and has browsed through them so I don’t have to spend the whole time describing my history. But I’ll do it if I have to!
Yesterday we went house hunting; walked through 11 places. Half of them had definitely had pros… but the cons overrode the pros. One place I really liked, but Jesse didn’t – it did have an in-ground concrete hot tub that worried both of us, and some water damage on the front eaves.
Social media and online strategy is really ramping up here! Personnel guidelines are hopefully not too far out – and they’re really more encouragement than rules. Searching for an expert partner, starting a secret Facebook group for internal communications of the newly-forming social media team, hosting two calls later this week to talk it all through.
Got an e-mail a bit ago from my aunt that said my grandparents even considered my mom to be “almost unresponsive” which is bold because they usually say “tired, but doing pretty good” when they describe her. She was nearly unresponsive when I saw her last. She just kept dozing off. I hope that when she sleeps, it's peaceful. I need to call my grandparents; haven’t talked to them for ages. Was looking at booking a flight to the Midwest to see Mom and them, but need to wait until Jesse finds out what’s going to happen with his knee – this Friday at the surgeon’s office. Speaking of which I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow with a new guy… nervous. I hope he has all my records and has browsed through them so I don’t have to spend the whole time describing my history. But I’ll do it if I have to!
March 10, 2010
time gets away
Time gets away from me – more than a week since my last post!
Last Wednesday night we flew to Orange County (it was a much more involved process than just those eight words considering we had to get a wheelchair for Jesse and his crutches), got the in-laws’ Jeep and drove to San Diego. My brother John was supposed to be there but he got delayed and spent the night in Denver (not at my house, the airline actually put him up in a hotel). Thursday morning after John got in, we started to work on his Jeep, changing the oil, installing the back seat and then had sushi for lunch! At the place where the sushi floats around on little boats and you just take what you want. In the afternoon I saw Jana – love her! And then went to ladies night at Leia’s with Debbie and got to see Lyn and Sarah too.
Friday morning I got up and went to OB for a run - my first run since I left California. It was beautiful... and nostalgic... and the ocean is amazing.
Then we drove to the desert (by the Salton Sea) and found camp where three of our friends who drove down from the Bay area had spent the night before. It was perfect weather, perfect campsite – and people just kept rolling in. Jesse’s parents and their friends, James from San Diego, Dan and Lyn with Dan’s dad, Jason from Ocean Beach, John and Carly, Alex and Lisa and their daughter Olivia… I’m probably missing someone. All in all seems like there were nearly 20 of us with 10+ off-road vehicles. We set up camp, started a fire, cooked our suppers and then went off-roading in the dark!
The whole weekend was basically the same deal… off-roading. FUN! But different this year because Jesse can’t drive with his bum leg. Which I was trying to call a “gimp leg” (not very nice, I know) but it came out limp game. So we’ve been talking about “Jesse and his limp game” for more than a week now. ANYWAY apparently I’m pretty darn good at highly technical off-road driving! I’m very strategic, since for the past eight-ish years I’ve only gotten to do the strategy part (as a passenger). Jesse's parents' little gold Jeep (named Jean) is awesome, and I made some of the inexperienced drivers look silly - not intentionally, just by virtue of my strategic driving. Ah, the tomboy in me was yelling so I had to let it out.
I didn't get my crappy Mexican food fix though. Neither JV's nor Nati's on the agenda. Next time!
Sunday evening we flew back to Denver, getting in late. And then Monday was my birthday.
Last Wednesday night we flew to Orange County (it was a much more involved process than just those eight words considering we had to get a wheelchair for Jesse and his crutches), got the in-laws’ Jeep and drove to San Diego. My brother John was supposed to be there but he got delayed and spent the night in Denver (not at my house, the airline actually put him up in a hotel). Thursday morning after John got in, we started to work on his Jeep, changing the oil, installing the back seat and then had sushi for lunch! At the place where the sushi floats around on little boats and you just take what you want. In the afternoon I saw Jana – love her! And then went to ladies night at Leia’s with Debbie and got to see Lyn and Sarah too.
Friday morning I got up and went to OB for a run - my first run since I left California. It was beautiful... and nostalgic... and the ocean is amazing.
Then we drove to the desert (by the Salton Sea) and found camp where three of our friends who drove down from the Bay area had spent the night before. It was perfect weather, perfect campsite – and people just kept rolling in. Jesse’s parents and their friends, James from San Diego, Dan and Lyn with Dan’s dad, Jason from Ocean Beach, John and Carly, Alex and Lisa and their daughter Olivia… I’m probably missing someone. All in all seems like there were nearly 20 of us with 10+ off-road vehicles. We set up camp, started a fire, cooked our suppers and then went off-roading in the dark!
I didn't get my crappy Mexican food fix though. Neither JV's nor Nati's on the agenda. Next time!
Sunday evening we flew back to Denver, getting in late. And then Monday was my birthday.
March 02, 2010
already?
The weekend... a friend stayed with us. Jesse blew his knee out before snowboarding (yes, before). I looked at 10 houses, one of which I liked.
Then yesterday Jesse had a doctor appointment and an MRI (of which the results are not good). He is on crutches sort of indefinitely. No more boarding this season. I wonder about backpacking in June at Rocky Mountain National Park - doubtful at best.
And I had a dinner at Rioja for We Keep Moving which is going to turn out great!
And somehow it became March. Which is good because: my birthday, daylight savings time starts, first day of spring... and a cute random photo of Lila.
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