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Daily Prompt 12/28/23
I was raised slightly conservative and I have become more liberal over time. I am not universally liberal on everything; but I feel like we as a country have become unable to handle differences in opinion on anything and you are either conservative or liberal. (Or libertarian and have opinions on everything with no real…
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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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Boy #1…revisited
This morning started out with some tough love from me to Boy #1. I found out things I had suspected and was updated on other things that I had no idea about. Only one of these things made me feel a positive emotion. I like the idea of him being in a band. He just…
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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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Better-ish (written several days ago)
I have been allowing myself to sleep in this week so that I can recover and feel better. Last night I felt like a million bucks. This morning, not so much. Although now that I have been up for awhile, I do feel better. Boy #3 had a band concert last night that we were…
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Disgusting
I am very ill. We found out this afternoon that I have covid. Then we found out a little bit later that my wife also has it. Boy #3 was really sick over the weekend so he’s probably is getting over it. Boy #2 is tired and cranky so he’s probably fighting it off. Girl…
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Daily prompt 12/9/23
The Jetsons. I’ve loved it my entire life. I like the idea of having machines that do things automatically. I guess in a lot of ways, we can do some of that now. LIke I can make Alexa turn lights on and I have Ring to show me what’s going on in at both doors.…
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what did I do??
In the middle of the night last night I woke up with extreme pain in my arm. During the day yesterday it felt a little sore and like I couldn’t straighten it out completely. But it was just a slight problem, an annoyance. But in the middle of the night, the pain was so bad…
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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…