Category: Life
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Better-ish (written several days ago)
I have been allowing myself to sleep in this week so that I can recover and feel better. Last night I felt like a million bucks. This morning, not so much. Although now that I have been up for awhile, I do feel better. Boy #3 had a band concert last night that we were…
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Disgusting
I am very ill. We found out this afternoon that I have covid. Then we found out a little bit later that my wife also has it. Boy #3 was really sick over the weekend so he’s probably is getting over it. Boy #2 is tired and cranky so he’s probably fighting it off. Girl…
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what did I do??
In the middle of the night last night I woke up with extreme pain in my arm. During the day yesterday it felt a little sore and like I couldn’t straighten it out completely. But it was just a slight problem, an annoyance. But in the middle of the night, the pain was so bad…
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Daily Prompt 12/8/23
I could do less thinking. Not intellectual thinking, but catastrophizing thinking. It’s so easy to get caught up in thinking about the worst thing that could happen and then everything spirals down from there. I try really hard not to get stuck in that worst case scenario game, but sometimes my brain does not care…
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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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Daily Prompt 12/1/23
I’m not vegan or vegetarian, so I do eat meat. I don’t view eating meat as some kind of weird flex either. I can’t stand seeing people act like they’re asserting some kind of dominance over animals by eating meat. That being said, I don’t enjoy eating red meat all the time. I know some…
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Rounding out November in STYLE
It’s been a rough week in our house. Thanksgiving Day was a marvelous feast thanks to my wife’s amazing cooking. We relaxed, watched the parade in the morning, and I was on top of the clean up all afternoon. We were ahead and everything went really well. Then Friday happened…My wife and Girl set out…