Category: people watching
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Daily Prompt 1/8/24
Ok, I’ve had this idea for a long and I’m not sure it’s crazy but I think it would actually be awesome. It would be a business for people who moved to a new area and needed someone to set up all their utilities, register kids for school, find doctors, dentists, and other things, and…
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Hate or Fear
WIth Ohio House Bill (HB) 68 being hot in the news lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about why it’s such a big deal around the world these past few years. I remember the Caitlyn Jenner stuff in 2015 and the bathroom bill stuff around the same time, maybe a little later. And suddenly here…
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New Year’s Eve/Welcome 2024
It’s almost my year! I still have that feeling that 2024 is my year! 2023 had its ups and downs, but I definitely have felt so much personal growth this year. I was able to enforce boundaries in person with people, and I learned so much about my relationship with my father and how I…
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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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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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Household Labor
I started watching this documentary about the division of household labor and how men tend to overestimate their contribution while women underestimate how much they do. It pissed me off for a ton of reasons, but mostly because I’ve seen it exactly as described as a child and as an adult. I’ve lived it from…
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Family Drama
There’s been a lot going on for awhile with the ex’s parents and their youngest child, who turned 40 this year. This child was content to be kind when she needed her mother to watch her children during the day. This child has always been blunt and rude and sometimes made trouble in public for…
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My favorite places
Yesterday I arrived at one of my most favorite places in the US. Washington, DC! I was once deployed to this area for 7 months to support the defense of the National Capital Region back in 2011. It was a great experience where I lived at a hotel and worked a goofy schedule that gave…