The Beginning of Wednesday: Doing Okay

Monday, October 15, 2007

Doing Okay

I will update in greater detail when I am feeling better. I do want to take a moment to say thank you to the following people:

A special thank you to:

Aaron: for doing absolutely everything for me... and I mean everything. I could not have done this with out your support.
Heather: who stopped by with soup and salad from Panera. You're so good to me.
Mom & Dan: for the beautiful flowers.
Jim & Linda Molloy: for bringing by food and gifts to help me feel better.
Nicki: for being my proxy and for just being you.
Dad: For driving Aaron and I down to Boston, and for all the special care and gifts.
My recipient: for reminding me how precious life is and how much I should value my health. I love you and I don't even know you. I hope you are well and I am thinking of you constantly.

Forgive me if I forgot anyone... as I am sure you are all worried about me and wishing me well. When my head clears and I feel better I will post with more details and pictures. Until then, please keep me and my recipient in your prayers and thoughts. It means a lot to me to know you are reading, and caring so much.

XOXOX
Jessi

3 comments:

Nicki said...: you look wonderful, and I am so glad that I am not rich, no money in the world woudl take the place of my sessie.

Love me!; October 16, 2007 at 10:23 AM
heather said...: ok I am have a hard time watching my boys (Red Sox) have a difficult game so I have been reading your WHOLE blog to get in the loop and can I just say YOU ARE AMAZING!!!! I knew you were even in that small room when we first tried to impress Ken Bacon! I am so glad I know you....can't wait to get to know Aaron better too! Reading your thoughts of adoration toward him made me think of my Dave who too makes me coffee everyday and does the little things that bring me warmth and a sense of well-being...even after 15 years together!!!!
Your blog brings a bright spot into my day...thank you for the prvillage to peak in on your incredibly cool life!
love the hetha
PS by the time I finished writing this comment the sox hit three home runs in a row...reading your blog brought good juju to the game:-); October 16, 2007 at 10:37 PM
Jessi said...: Heather- I adore you...

To my readers... Heather and I went to Graduate School at Antioch together and, coincidently, when we were interviewed to be accepted we did small group interviews and she and I were put in the same group. We have been partners in crime ever since.

We often have "dates" at Panera because we are both fans of the place. Hence her bringing me soup from "Pannies" (my term of endearment for our beloved)

Heather- you're one of my favorite people. Thank you for being you... that's why I love you!!; October 17, 2007 at 8:33 AM

Quotes that define my life:

"Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack." -- Rudyard Kipling
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." -- Unknown
"Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it." -- E. Lutzer
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea and the music in its roar; I love not man the less, but Nature more.” -- Lord Byron
"There are times when explanations, no matter how reasonable, just don't seem to help." -- Mr. Rogers
"If you don't crack the shell, you can't eat the nut." -- Persian Proverb
"Real peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mountains we climb

+ Currently: Life
+ Magalloway Mountain: Pittsburg, NH: 3,350 ft. Fire tower @ summit
+ Uncanoonuc Mountains: Goffstown, NH; Elevation: North Peak 1,324 ft. South Peak, 1,321 ft. *Indian Translation: "woman lying down" or "breasts"*
+ Mt. Major: Alton Bay, NH: Approx 4 mi. round trip; 1,100 ft. @ summit.
+ Monument Mt., Berkshire Area, MA: Approx 3 mi. round trip; *Beautiful waterfall* 1,735 ft @ summit.
+ Welch-Dickey- Loop Trail, Waterville Valley Area: 4.4 mi. round trip; 2,605 ft. @ Welch summit, 2,734 ft. @ Dickey summit.
+ Mt. Kearsarge- Barlow Trail, Winslow State Park, Wilmot: 2.8 mi. round trip; 2,937 ft @ summit.
+ Mt. Monadnock- White Dot Trail, Jaffrey: 4.2 mi. round trip, 3,165 ft. @ summit
+ Mt. Layafette- Old Bridle Path, Franconia Notch State Park: 8 mi. round trip, 5,260 ft @ summit.
+ Mt. Cardigan- East Side Loop, Alexandria: 5.3 mi. round trip, 3,121 ft @ summit. * some of the mountain was left bare from a fire in 1855
+ Mt. Morgan & Mt. Percival- Squaw Mountains, Holderness & Center Sandwich: 5.1 mi. round trip; 2,220 & 2,212 ft. @ summit
+ Mt. Osceola- White Mountain National Forest: 6.4 mi. round trip, 4,340 ft. @ summit

Mission Statement

This blog is much like my home. When you click on my blog you cross a boundary into my world; what I would like to be a judgment free world. You’re in my house now. Don’t come in if you want to pollute my environment with negativity.

As a guest in my home would you pick apart my style, critique my furniture, or want me to spend your entire visit complaining about my life's trials and tribulations? No. The same goes for my blog. You’re a guest here. The virtual world is a "boundary" between what I am going to post here, and what goes on in my “real life.”

This is my forum. Much like if you were a guest in my house, I would scurry around cleaning up, presenting to you my best self. I do the same with my writing. You come here for a smile, an anecdote, a laugh, or a oui. You don't come here to hear about the bad parts of my life. Just because I don't post about them, doesn't mean they don't exist. That part of me just happens to be none of your business.

I choose to blog about things that make me happy, things I want to look back on and relish. I am constantly recovering (on a daily basis) from things that are unpleasant, I need no reminders via written word. That is what my diary is for. If that omission makes it appear as though my life is easy, then you are more than welcome to turn back now, don't waste your time. I have an amazing group of people who I can vent to and get feedback in regards to those matters, I don’t have an overwhelming urge to hang my dirty laundry out to dry in front of strangers.

My greatest fear about blogging is that someone, anyone, would rob me of this right. To instill in me a need to gauge my every word, for me to feel intimidated to speak, to share, or to write. I would never take that privilege, liberty, or luxury from any one person. It’s not mine to take. If you're here for the taking, I hope you come up empty.