I kind of randomly found this link for a cat carrier with wheels. Of course, the whole site I'm sure is designed for lonely old cat ladies like Eric the Eternal Flame from college, but I think it'd be a whole lot easier to haul the dog around in one those, too. Heck, I used a carrier on wheels for my kids, so why not my cat or dog?

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Can you believe all the crazy-famous people dying lately? Ed, Farrah, and Michael Jackson. Of course, all kinds of people do that dying thing, but I think it struck me hard that Michael Jackson, also a Virgo, was 50. That's only 5 years away for me! It scared the crap out of me. Mike said, "Yeah, he apparently has been gearing up for his concerts in London. And you'd die of a heart attack, too, if you danced like that."

I ate my salad like a good girl, stayed away from seconds, and kept repeating to myself, "I don't want to die at 50."

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Mike has an interview tomorrow with a gaming company: good money, good bennies, lousy neighborhood (Vegas). I need to go press his suit or something. I'm a nervous wreck about it. We did manage to find the shoe bin in the garage though as a result of it, so that to me seems like a good omen. Shoes are always spiffy. I'm supposed to go to the office tomorrow morning, but I know I won't get much done if I do, so I'm going to stay home and hide aka sleep and do laundry.

Ok, so mostly sleep.

A health blog I was interested in the piece they had about tai chi in this.

Not surprisingly, an hour of exercise a day helps with sugar control, but they even used it with older folks and discovered that they had better balance when they were done. It reminded me of watching an old boyfriend of mine from college, sweating his way through Tai Chi workouts.

I've been swimming a lot and doing yoga pretty regularly, but there's no way I'm ready for Tai Chi. It requires so much knee bending I think I'd be in perfect and exquisite agony when I got all done.

So, in my hunt to find locations, ideas, etc., that help me with my diabetes, I've found a few recent sites.

The other was this health forum which looks at natural medicine approaches to health.

I used to be such a hippie and I guess I still am, so I thought I'd pass those on to you.

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As for my health generally...

I think I've been getting over some of the spinal headache stuff I had from the spinal taps in the hospital at the beginning of May.

My sugars have been up and down. I have been making it to the pool at least 3x a week with the warmer weather and it's been awesome. I do my exercise, I go to the hot tub and stretch, and I feel a lot better.

The stress stuff has been um, sucking. I don't want to go into it here, but suffice it to say it's been freaking hard as hell and if I had time to slow down enough, I'd cry like a baby for a week.

God's testing me. I just wish I'd pass the freaking test already.

Recently, many of us are stressing about our kids taking standardized tests that seem to have everything to do with our kids getting into college. I found the following vocabulary software http://www.vocaboly.com which is supposed to help kids build vocabulary for such purposes.

Additionally, Russell has been using Efofex for his math stuff. For kids on IEP's they offer free software that allows them to do math problems without dealing with handwriting. http://www.efofex.com THey literally turned around and had this back to him in 24 hours. Awesome!

I know I haven't written recently. I've been hideously busy and swamped. I promise I'll get back here soon.