Sometimes it’s really nice to have more than one park to play in…more than one place to write. I have been digging through my old archives, and I found some recipes that I used to have on the web, years ago. I’m thinking that it would be fun to save some of my 15-minute soup lunch recipes on the web, too, so that I can find them, again. Anyway, I uploaded three of my gluten-free dessert recipes to My Kitchen.

April is poetry month, and I have not decided whether I really want to write a poem for each day. Didn’t make it for November, but I came close. If I don’t get one for each day, perhaps I will upload all of them at once to a dedicated “Poetry Month” page. Take some of the pressure off, to write one every day.

My youngest sister is doing well and should be ready to go home, soon. Our mother will undoubtedly feel much more relaxed, once that happens. She was right, evidently, when she said that one never quits being “Mother.” It never ceases to amaze me that so many people are willing and able to commit to parenthood and see it through for almost all of their adult lives. What a calling!

I’ve uploaded a page of photos taken in my home town, mostly older ones. Still hoping to get to family pictures, this spring. Putting some up for my mother on her site has inspired me.

I am so very pleased that I finally have a computer to replace my old laptop, which has suffered greatly over the past few years. Especially, I missed the “x” key, which Samantha jumped on, just a few months after we brought her home, and broke entirely. The nice thing about tax refund time is having all the resources gathered together at once, enabling one to address the larger or more costly lacks in one’s life.

My list included notebook computer, replacement battery for the old Lenovo, a winter parka or hooded coat, shoes (my having worn out and tossed away all but my “funeral” shoes), a frying pan and covered wok, and undergarments. I’ve now purchased all but two of the categories on my list, and I am pleased.

I am surprised by how much larger the notebook computer seems. The keys are large, and there is a real keypad, for a change. I had missed that on both the netbook and laptop. Not that they’ve all come home to roost, mind you! UPS tracker shows my battery as wandering the streets of Salt Lake City, looking for eastern North Dakota.

It’s odd, though, what one will do without for the sake of immediate convenience. Priorities are not always as one might expect.

RL has intervened, but only for a little while longer.

Much too much work, this week, and one mild and one severe fragrance/ chemical exposure. I am hopeful that I will catch up on the poems, but I am going to catch up on my sleep, first. Lulled to sleep by the sounds of surf and puppy dog snores.