Category: Memories
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Daily Prompt 3/25/23
When I was 5, I wanted to be a bus driver. I loved the bus! The city bus drove in front of my babysitter’s house all day and I wanted to sit on her porch and watch for the bus. I had my own little bus toy and I would play with it on her…
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Rolling with the Punches
The only thing constant in life is change. Everything changes eventually. Seasons, people, jobs, weather, sports teams, politics, fashion trends, even what sports count as Olympic sports. So why do we all hate change so much, even though we experience it at some level every day? I wish I knew. All I do know is…
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Daily Prompt 3/23/23
This is a funny question, only because I don’t have a job currently. But of course technology changed my job while I was in the military. I was in the Air Force, the most technologically advanced branch. And over 20 years technology is going to change significantly. For us backend flyers, it was computer upgrades…
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Daily Prompt 3/22/23
How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals? Never. It’s painful to admit that. I have been programmed to never say no. As a child, I always said no. In fact, my parents used to often joke about how my first three words were Dada, cookie, and no. I…
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Daily Prompt 3/19/23
Who was your most influential teacher? Why? This is really tough because I’ve been fortunate enough to have so many awesome teachers in my younger years. There’s my incredible kindergarten teacher that was so loving and understanding of small children at school for the first time. My second grade teacher really loved me but I…
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Daily Prompt 3/15/23
What was the best compliment you’ve received? The best compliment I ever received was from a person who didn’t like me very much. We had a couple run-ins at a previous base and then he became the squadron commander at a deployed unit I left just as he was arriving. The combat flying crew I…
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Hard conversations
Tomorrow I am going to have that super serious conversation with the ex. I have already drafted my list of concerns and points I need to make. I actually feel really good about this conversation. Although I plan to use some of the same language from the healthy relationships program my dad and I did…
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Daily Prompt 3/10/23
What makes you most anxious? This question taps into some of my most vulnerable areas. But I haven’t been in the business of hiding from vulnerability when I blog, so I will share. I am most anxious about losing the people closest to me. When Boy #2 was young, I used to dream about him…
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Daily Prompt 3/5/23
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. Dear Self, I bet you never thought you could live this long, did you? How do you feel? Is getting old as bad as Grandma said it would be? Haha, I wish we could’ve done this the other way around, with you telling me what to do and…
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Priorities
There are possible developments on the the horizon that may challenge me. I guess that’s true of anyone, at any given time though. I have struggled in the past with prioritizing things properly. Like always putting myself last or putting work before my family at the wrong times. It feels like I’m looking at another…