• Things that are making me happy (part 10)

    Indifference about my job. I have found that I really enjoy my new job when I’m there, but when I come home, I don’t care much about it and that is making me so happy! I’m going on two months of this new job and at first, there was a great deal of excitement about…

  • Daily Prompt Response—Grown Up???

    When was the first time you really felt like a grown up (if ever)? I put question marks after “grown up” in the title of this post because I’m 42 years old and I really don’t think I’ve ever felt truly grown up. I have done grown up things and I have had grown up…

  • End the GD Stigma!

    My husband is off in the mountains of North Carolina right now. His job requires him to go out there and do work-related things among the horrific devastation. I could write a whole post about what is happening in my state right now, but I mention my husband because while he is out there doing…

  • Daily Prompt Response—#1 Priority

    What’s your #1 priority tomorrow? My #1 priority depends on what part of the day we’re talking about. From 8:00-5:00, my #1 priority is being at work and getting through my to-do list there. After work, my priority is being at home. I don’t know what that will entail…probably finding something to eat for dinner,…

  • Words of wisdom to get you through…

    Sometimes I go through the camera roll on my phone and just scroll through the pictures. I have a few years of pictures on my phone and at some point I’ll upload them to Shutterfly and make a photo book to be printed so I still have the pictures but can delete them off my…

  • Anxiety is a funny thing…

    And I say that because I’ve struggled with it for a really long time. Most notably, the past two years of grad school and my year as a school principal made me feel anxiety nearly all the time. I hated it then and now that I have a wonderful new job and have put those…

  • Oh the memories!!

    From a young age, I have wanted to be a writer. But I also wanted to be a teacher. Because teaching was a guaranteed career, as in, I wouldn’t have to struggle to get published in order to have a paycheck, I followed the path to being a teacher. I compromised though and told myself…

  • Daily Prompt Response—Best Advice

    What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? I never personally received this advice, but I kind of did. This advice came from a fictional t.v. mom on the show “Life Goes On” (told you I was a 90s kid). Her daughter Becca was over-analyzing some situation with her boyfriend or something else teen…

  • The Loss of Lucid Dreams

    I had always heard of the term “lucid dream”, yet I never really knew what a lucid dream was. As it turns out, I had been having lucid dreams for almost 20 years and now I’m not. When I would write in my journal about dreams that I had, I would always refer to them…

  • Things that are making me happy (part 8)

    The absence of the Sunday Scaries! As of August 15th, I have a new job. I’m still working in a school, but not a school that I’m used to. Whereas I have taught and led a school for students in grades prekindergarten to 8th grade for my entire career, I am now working at a…