Category: inspiration
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Daily Prompt 12/27/23
It would be a tree house with solar electricity. I love the idea of a space up in a tree, close to where the birds sing and the leaves gently blow in the breeze. I would have big, overstuffed furniture with rustic end tables. I would have to keep book storage in my actual house…
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Showing up for myself
Since I started back with my original therapist, we’ve been deep-diving into things, and lately it’s been with my parents. Mostly my father. There’s been new things this year that he’s done, and I’ve also had realizations that we are likely approaching some level of cognitive decline with him. He seems to be having “senior…
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Daily Prompt 12/7/23
There’s been many positive events so far this year! -Successfully coaching soccer and lacrosse teams -Boy #2 getting accepted at his first choice college -Girl and Boy #3 winning multiple awards last spring -Bonus parents moving here -Getting the Squatter out of the house -Top surgery last month -Getting my old awesome therapist back -Continuing…
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Excuse me, sir
Since my surgery, I have been venturing out slowly and steadily. This past weekend I had to go to the pet store to grab some hay for the guinea pig. It was later in the evening than I’ve usually gone there, so I felt a little bit of familiar worry about being out after dark.…
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Shaking off Judgment
For once in my life, I am not worried about what others think of me. I have finally reached a place where I no longer rush to judge others. I find that in “real-life” outside of the military culture I existed in for over 20 years, it’s so much easier to not judge others. The…
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Looking down, backwards, and at the mirror
I am still so unbelievably happy with my surgery results. Other than some stubborn swelling, which I understand will go down eventually and is totally normal, everything is going really well with recovery. I am still not to lift anything over 10 lbs and I need to be careful with how much I extend my…
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Feelings
I’ve been thinking a lot about feelings and how I was brought up to not feel anything except angry. When I was sad, hurt, disappointed, too happy, or anything other than angry or numb, it was wrong. Disappointment was particularly unacceptable. I remember an incident where my dad and I were supposed to go to…
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Consistency
I want to get better about blogging regularly again. I was so focused in the spring and I’m proud of how much writing I was doing. Then the squatter came and life changed. I felt like a prisoner in my own home. No one wants to be asked what they’re doing constantly or what they’ve…
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Out of sync
I’m still recovering from the surgery. The reaction rash is pretty much cleared up and now the areas where my skin turned deep red and slowly fading back to normal color. I finished the steroids on Sunday and ended up in a good bit of pain later that day. It feels like I’ve taken a…
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Top Surgery Complete!
I’m so sorry that I’ve been MIA for the past couple of weeks. I had a lot to do to prep for top surgery last Tuesday and I was on pain meds up until yesterday afternoon. I had my one week post-op appointment today and everything went well. Almost everything but I will get into…