Category: The Real Me
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Odds and Ends
It’s been a nutty couple of weeks but it seems to be settling down now. Boy #3 is done with cross country, Girl is done with soccer and just has lacrosse now, and Boy #2 got his first choice college visit out of the way. Boy #1 seems to be struggling a bit at college,…
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Struggling
There’s a lot going on around me and there’s even more going on in my head. If I’m being honest, I’d have to say that I’m not exactly ok. I’m not really depressed or down. I am just not really into anything right now. I’m going through the motions of life mostly. I feel numb…
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Can’t FOcus
No matter what I do this week, I cannot find my focus AT ALL. Even right now, as I’m writing, I feel so foggy and like I’m not even in my own brain. I have a list of things to do and I can only open it to add more items. But I can’t get…
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Figuring it all out
My dad. He’s like a crazy puzzle. He is actually pretty crazy himself. I’ve never known anyone else who needs attention as much or is as selfish as my father. Every conversation with him is a one-sided, him blasting you with information, an old story, or some other dull explanation of a basic thing that…
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Perspective change
I have discovered in the last year that just about anything can look terrible to you when you are looking at the bad side of things. Or sometimes all it takes is a little reframing to realize that you are thinking too much about the negatives of a situation and not considering the positives at…
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Daily Prompt 9/11/23
I wish I had learned that it’s not important to get the last word in much earlier in life. As a child I ALWAYS had to get the last word in. And this continued through my teen years and into adulthood. But in the last 5 years, I have learned that it’s actually not all…
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Daily Prompt 9/8/23
Yes and no. I used to hold grudges against everyone for anything they did that felt bad to me. I am trying to heal and work through those grudges because they mostly hurt me in the long run. But honestly, I think the grudge I will never let go of is the boy who pushed…
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Daily Prompt 8/29/23
I blog because writing is therapeutic for me. I sort so many things out while I write and think things through. I chose blogging as the format for this type of writing because I was not yet ready to share myself with my real world. The idea of anonymously putting myself out there seemed so…