Category: The Real Me
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Father’s Day
Father’s Day in the US is coming up soon. I feel a way about it because 1. my father is a jerk and 2. because it feels no more appropriate to apply to me than Mother’s Day does. In a way I think they are both stupid Hallmark holidays. Mother’s Day felt really weird and…
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Updates and More
I keep jumping on, writing a post, intending to get back at blogging daily but then I don’t. I can’t really figure out why this keeps happening. I started out the year strong, but got distracted for some unknown reason. Maybe it’s just that I got really busy with kid sports and life. Maybe I…
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Shaking off the dust
It’s time for me to get back to regular writing. I do miss it, but it’s been hard to get my head back into normal routine lately. I don’t really understand why I am struggling so much with writing consistently these last few months, other than working through some pretty old trauma that hurts a…
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I disappeared
I had to disappear for awhile. Not in my “real life”, but away from my blog and from the hard things I fight in my head. I’m still not 100% over whatever it is that has been bothering me, but today I decided I was ready to come back. I am not sure if it’s…
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Daily Prompt 2/20/24
My favorite people to be around are my wife, some of my good friends, some of my wife’s coworkers, and anyone who can make me laugh until my stomach hurts. I am learning that I struggle to open up to people and I want to get better about that. I feel like part of the…
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Daily Prompt 2/7/24
My parents were fighting with my brother at my age. I was away at college and my brother was alone with them, doing drugs, drinking, and other bad things. They were working and paying a small portion of my college tuition. But mostly they were counting down until they could get my brother graduated from…
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Daily Prompt 2/3/24
Phone calls. For some dumb reason it always takes me forever to get myself in a place to make phone calls, even though I know they will be simple and not nearly as terrible as my imagination makes them out to be. Sometimes I won’t even answer calls when i get them, unless I know…
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Daily Prompt 2/2/24
Homemade pizza. I don’t do much cooking at all, but I am pretty good at making pizza. I make the dough from scratch and really enjoy it most of the time. It is a lot of work but totally worth it.
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It’s Finally February
Finally, the year of January is over! On this fine first day of February, I’ve got a lot going on. I gave myself a little break from blogging for a few days because I met my goals for January and I was a little burned out yesterday from the gecko situation. I had only planned…