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Teen Angst and How I Miss It
Talk About it Tuesday As I have been transcribing my journals lately, I have found myself in volume 7, which takes place in the spring of 1998. I was 15 years old and in the 10th grade then. April was particularly eventful. That month saw me sitting in the back of the school bus with… →
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Movies That Motivate
Movie/music Monday There are a few movies that I’ll watch over and over because they make me feel a certain way. For example, initially, I watched “The Devil Wears Prada” and “Working Girl”, not just because they’re good movies but because they motivated me to do school work. I usually watched them while I was… →
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An Easter Meal Prepared by All
“Something Good” Sunday While I wasn’t initially all that excited about going to my sister-in-law’s house yesterday to celebrate Easter, it turns out that my “something good” this week is from the dinner we shared. Josh and I were originally supposed to host Easter at our house, but we just have too much work still… →
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No Regrets
Screenshot Saturday I saved this on June 12, 2021. That surprised me because this feels like something I would have saved…yesterday. In 2021, particularly in June, I was on summer break after a year of teaching post-covid. Josh and I were living in the bigger of our two previous apartments and there wasn’t much on… →
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Egg-cellent Dye Job
Flashback Friday My flashback topic for today came up in my Timehop app after I had decided I’d share about it. Apparently this picture was taken five years ago today. Given that it’s Easter on Sunday, I thought I’d share my grandpa’s special method for dying eggs. He used the ordinary Paas dye kits like… →
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Refreshed and Eager
Thoughts on Mental Health Thursday I’ve said this before and it’s worth repeating…tired is an emotion. I don’t know what had me down and out the past two days. I was tired and yesterday I took a nap in the afternoon and still felt kind of out of it when Josh got home from work.… →
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Energy? What’s that?
5Ws Wednesday What was that about? Yesterday I was super tired. And today, now that I’m home from work—we had to go in to our temporary office space for some things this morning—I’m exhausted! What is that about?! My theory that a bad night of sleep on Monday night led to my sleepiness yesterday. But… →
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Not a Bad Adaptation
Talk About it Tuesday And since I didn’t talk about it on Music/movie Monday, I’m going to use today to rave about the movie “Project Hail Mary”. Josh and I went to the matinee on Sunday. We were in a theater that boasted a Dolby sound system. I thought theaters always had that, but apparently… →
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Survivors, Not Superheroes
Screenshot Saturday I captured this screenshot on June 26, 2021. Before my adult trauma started. Before my CPTSD diagnosis. I still had plenty of unhealed childhood trauma and I suspect that’s why I saved this. I recognized the effect that trauma had on me long before I sought the help of a therapist to heal… →