Fri 28 Aug 2009
Too long!
Well, I was riding my bike around the other day and I was thinking I ought to make a real update - on what life is like here. I showed pictures of the house, that looks pretty much the same only more lived in and homey.
I’m really wishing I had work, but I don’t think I’m trying hard enough. I need to start Monday making the search like a full-time job it itself.
We walk a lot. Since Porter doesn’t have a bike yet, if we go somewhere together we walk or walk and take the bus. A few weeks ago we went to see a movie, but we knew there were no buses coming back towards town after the movie was over, so we walked the four miles home. I would think I’d be losing weight or something, but for whatever reason I’m not! When I take the bus partway to work and ride all the way home, I ride about 10 miles. When I go to Walmart, it’s about 6 miles, I think.
We go to the library a fair amount. I get stuck there! Even if I only plan to spend a few minutes, I get stuck. I always go to the floor with non-fiction. I have spent probably 20 minutes on the fiction floor. They have books on all sorts of things. Right now I have three Thai cookbooks out.
Porter cooks…incredible food! I have married one of the best cooks I know of. I made chicken according to his directions and it turned out better than any chicken I’ve made in my life.
There’s a fair-sized park 3 blocks from here that we go to often. There are usually people there playing frisbee on the field, wanna-be jugglers on the little mound to the side, and a lot of times people are on most of the benches. (But we usually manage to find one 
Posted by Bonnie under Uncategorized
August 29th, 2009 at 8:00 am
Great blog Bonnie.
Thanks
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:20 pm
thanks for the update! i know finding jobs in Eugene is horrendous, but have you tried chain stores yet? Won’t pay much but it’ll help with the bills. Costco is the best in that regard, I think, and you’d enjoy working there (it would be parttime, because they have a policy of half parttimers and half fulltimers, and all the fulltimers come from within…but you still can get over 30 hours).
[oh, and i've found that the body tends to maintain the right weight for itself... i could only lose weight when i was under huge stress. and now that i'm pregnant, it's kinda been fun watching it take care of itself. Recently I gained 10 pounds in a month, which made my midwife rather stern and tell me to only only only gain a pound a week from now on, and walk every day, and do this and that and on and on... I told her it was simply the baby (which my uterus growth proved), and privately determined I would not weigh myself but simply follow my body's needs. Sure enough, when I came back in two weeks, the growth spurt had ended and I had only gained 1/2 pound in 2 weeks.
It was neat to see how our bodies are very individual and well able to take care of themselves if we do right by them. 
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September 3rd, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Hi Bonnie.
We miss you here in MA. I hope you find a job so you guys can get a car. Bicycles will not do in the winter. I would like to keep in touch with you. Is Porter working?
Ginger
September 5th, 2009 at 2:31 am
Thanks, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Thanks for the advice, Mary.
Ginger, can you send me an email, or leave your email address here? That’s probably the best way to communicate for me
September 6th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
So aren’t you going to share with us the delicious chicken recipe?? I am going to try the chicken enchiladas, but are you talking about a different chicken recipe Porter makes?
Heather
(you probably don’t know me from ND, and I only know of the famous Macdonald family through all the ND homeschooler friends, so I have followed your blog for 2-3 years now