The Enchanter

It's my 35th Birthday.

What's new? I don't use this journal much, but I thought I should check in and share all the good things there are to share.

Fall of 2008 Neal and I moved to Vancouver, WA.

Neal and I got married in February 2009 and declared bankruptcy. Ah, the housing bubble.

We moved to Portland in May 2009 and I started Graduate school in June of that year. It took three years part time, but now I have a Masters in Social Work as of June 2012.

I got pregnant and on May 4, 2013, I had the most beautiful baby boy, Milo Gregory Bailey



So I'd say life is pretty good.

If you need me, I'm over on Facebook primarily. Good day, happy fall!

I'm in Salem, OR today to stand up for rights. Mine and other women, but also men. We deserve the right as humans to have healthcare and access to birth control to decide how our lives will be as adults. It isn't fair to be targeted for legislation restricting my choice around when or if I have a family, and taking care of my health in the mean time through regular medical care. I stand for human rights.

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Q tips - a gross habit?

I like sticking them in my ears and digging around. Really deep. It's a bad habit, because your doctor and the box of Q tips tells you not to do it, but I still stick it all the way in my ear canal. I get itchy and just want to dig and scratch the itch. I'm sure it's not good for me and I am probably damaging my ears. I'm trying to cut it down to just every few days instead of once a day. My ears don't feel so worn out taking a break.

Anyway, trying to be better.

Twitter. It's an easy check-out from what is happening right in front of you. Especially with there being so many things to read each day. I'm going to avoid checking Twitter when I need to be talking with people I have in front of me. In crowds and when work needs to get done, Twitter isn't as important as you right there.

Picking up that coffee mug.

I listen to a lot of podcasts, and one that I have a love/hate relationship with is Adam Carolla. He is at times very opinionated, but I like one of his rants about accountability. When you drive in your car, and at the end of the day you have your coffee mug rolling around in the passenger seat foot well, rather than say I'm tired and leave it, pick it up, put it away, take care of it.

So I am doing this. Pick up my clothes and put them in the laundry rather than the floor. clean up my dishes rather than leave them in the sink. try to do as I go so that my mess doesn't get bigger and more unmanageable.

I have a lot of weird energy now that grad school is nearly over.

So I'm going to try this thing:





{Take the 100 Things challenge!}


I think I will do: 100 small life changes I am making to be a better person.

cleaned up my friends list a bit. some I just read elsewhere, mostly that. Anyway, I'm preparing for work tomorrow, and school starts back up on Tuesday, so it's back in the thick of things.

I've discovered how poorly I deal with stress. I have a bunch of work that I'm trying to catch up on, but I'm also trying to repair the damage crazy does to relationships. Neal and I go strong, but sometimes I think he doesn't want to tolerate me in this state even though he does.

I play a lot of facebook games and spend time on twitter. Not much time for things, or I don't make the time.

I'm going to try and stay sane this quarter, I say that every quarter. Usually by the end I'm done in. Happy New Year, one to be watched.

I don't really read here or post here much anymore. Little changes over time lead to different habits. It's 2011. I'm happy to be this side of it.

School started back up on Tuesday. I've been back from Vacation for a week, and tomorrow I'm off to Richland for the weekend to see family. I'm feeling surreal.

I'm back from vacation. got in at 12:30 last night.

I'll post more once I sleep and unpack.