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Daily Prompt 12/24
Are you a good judge of character? Yes and no. Yes when I am in a good place and I feel comfortable in who I am and what I am doing. No when I am desperate and don’t want to be alone, or I think I need some form of validation. When I first started…
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Great Sadness
My father texted me this morning to tell me that his sister, my aunt passed away last night. Ugh. There are so many layers to this. My father’s family of origin has been one of those topics I don’t really like to talk or even think about. His mother was a narcissistic, lying, dramatic bitch.…
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Daily Prompt 12/23
When are you most happy? I am most happy when I am relaxed, watching something I really enjoy on tv or listening to music that I love, surrounded by my wife and happy kids. There’s no cleaning to do, or anything pressing I have to be thinking about or planning for. We do these great…
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Kentucky, coming and going
Yesterday we had to take the kids halfway to FL to send them off with their other parent. 7 hours there, and 8 hours back, a little rain both ways, but nothing too terrible. What was the strangest part is all the packing they had to do and how we had to make sure we…
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Daily Prompt 12/21
List your top 5 grocery store items. Haha, this is the best, most eloquently timed daily prompt ever. I am supposed to head out to the grocery store any time now. In fact, I meant to go earlier but now it’s built up to this weird anxious thing it really doesn’t need to be. I…
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When the words don’t come to me
I feel a way today. About myself, my past, my future, who I really am. But I can’t put words to it. It feels like there’s this longing in me for something that will never happen. For a life that I’ve already been robbed of. I feel this deep, defining sadness about living a lie…
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Daily Prompt 12/20
Talk about your father or a father figure in your life. My father has been a frequent subject here for most of the time I have been blogging. Our relationship has never been what I wanted and needed but I do believe he does the very best he can do. I know he was under…
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Daily Prompt 12/19
Is your life today like what you pictured a year ago? This is another good question! Yes, it does look very similar to what I had pictured a year ago, especially because all the stuff with the VA came through. I wasn’t really expecting that so soon. I initially put my claim in almost a…
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You don’t owe anyone a thing
I took two days off from writing. The first day was hard. I didn’t really have anything to say, we were busy most of Saturday anyway, and by the time I remembered that I didn’t even do the daily prompt, it was late and I needed to do a bunch of other things before bedtime.…
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Daily Prompt 12/16
Tell us one thing you hope people never say about you… I like this daily prompt a lot. This is a great question. I hope people never say that I don’t or didn’t care. I care so much. Maybe more than I should in some instances. Sometimes I care so much that I sacrifice myself…