Category: The Real Me
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Daily Prompt 12/29/23
First of all, this seems like a super silly question. The most important question about starting a sports team would be where’s the funding coming from and oh, I don’t know, WHAT SPORT it would be! And also, am I joining an established league or is the entire league new and also what level? Like…
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Taylor Swift, Swifties, and their enemies
I have to start with this…I have casually listened to T-Swift for years. I was behind the times in more recent years, but I never really found myself annoyed with her or with any really negative opinion of her. I remember the Kanye mess in 2009 and my older two were really annoyed by her…
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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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A mistake that really could’ve hurt
I made a huge mistake this morning while taking my morning meds. I have three pill sorters because I have morning medicine, night medicine, and right before bed medicine. I’ve had two of three for awhile now and they were a little gross. So I bought more. I filled them yesterday like I always do,…
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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 12/8/23
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…