Merry Christmas everyone!! We had a blast celebrating Jesus' birthday today. I absolutely love Christmas and spending time with family.

If you don't know anything about me, I am a red-headed brown-eyed girl who grew up in Japan. I have had arthritis since birth in multiple joints and am extremely stubborn. I have always viewed arthritis as an inconvenience that had to be ignored. Throughout my life when the pain was worst I gritted my teeth and pushed on. I adopted the Japanese mindset to "gammanshite," or persevere. That worked until last October. It was just a year ago, October 2014, that my knee started giving way whil

I have 410 e-mails in my inbox right now. All 410 are from WA and are notifications of blogs, discussions, or trainings that you all have written. All other messages have already been deleted. I feel like I am neglecting my WA family here by not reading or responding, however must beg your forgiveness as I probably won't be able to go through all 410. Do your e-mails pile up like that? I feel like I have to make a choice, whether to go through each e-mail or spend my time on my site and soc

I got two spam e-mails this morning that Gmail didn't filter. The first one had GM as the subject line and an attachment labelled Gmail. I was using my cell phone so I went ahead and opened it, figuring that if it was a virus worst case scenario I could erase my phone and start over. It was a letter claiming that I was chosen by Gmail to win $5000, and all I had to do was send my contact information and gender to the attached e-mail address. The e-mail address was Outlook, not Gmail. Gee,

I need a fairy godmother to make my wedding work. I need my own David Tutera! Never mind all of the tips and pointers I have on my website to help couples keep their weddings within budget because you have to actually have a budget in order for them to work. Want to know where my budget went? Probably not, but this is my blog so I'll tell you anyway. Last summer a family member needed a place to stay due to unexpected circumstances, so we let her stay with us. Four months later, she needed