Step Away From the Cake

 The semester finally ended yesterday. I swear this was the longest 4 days on record. It was the longest semester on record. I left school at 3:30 pm yesterday with all my grades done and everything done. I was so happy to walk away from this semester.  I didn't get up this morning until 5am. It was wonderful. It started raining around 5:30am and they were predicting that it would rain all day. For the first time in I don't even know how long, I never showered or got dressed. I've been in my pjs all day. It has been amazing. I did some resin work. I sat on the couch and watched TV. I fell asleep on the couch. I worked on resin some more. Now I'm back on the couch watching TV. It has been an amazing day. It has been raining on and off all day and I have been loving it.  A few posts ago I wrote about how I was feeling so crappy and having difficulty breathing and just generally feeling horrible. After laying around today and not doing much of anything, I'm feeling gre

 That time when I like to review the past year and set some new goals/plans for the new year.  So let's look back at last year and the things that happened.  I got my business going and I didn't quit on it. Believe me there were times when I wanted to, but I kept going and plugging along. I even took some steps to really grow it and that should all come to fruition in the coming year.  I let go of some things. I let go of the idea of taking anymore classes. I'm at the point where I am closer to the end of my career than the beginning and I think I'm done taking classes. That doesn't mean I don't want to still improve my teaching, I'm just not taking classes anymore to do that.  I didn't get as far as I'd hoped in my fitness journey. I think I'm in the right mindset to really tackle it, but yet I keep talking myself out of working out. Have to work on that some more in the new year.  The house is good. We did a ton of stuff to the backyard this ye

 Is this cold or illness or whatever the heck I have. After last week, which I posted about a few posts ago, I felt okay. Still not great. Still not my old peppy self, but definitely okay. Then Wednesday morning I had an episode of shortness of breath. All week I felt like I could not take a deep breath, but Wednesday I actually felt short of breath. Thought of getting a sub and going to the ER, but decided to ride it out. Ended the day feeling okay, the shortness of breath had gone away. So that night I decided to pull out the big guns. Vicks Vaporub. I put that all over my chest before bed. I slept really well and woke up feeling pretty darn good. Did the same thing Thursday night and woke up Friday feeling almost myself. Yay!!! Still got a little breathing thing, not shortness of breath but the feeling that I can't take a super deep breath. But I can take a deep breath, it's hard to explain. I do cough when I take a deep breath and that's annoying. But other than that I