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Lots of Unspoken Curse Words Today
Let me allow this picture to tell you you everything you need to know about the day I’m having: It is currently 12:30 pm. I’m on my lunch break at home. Usually when my break is over at 1:00, I go back to work. Not today. The yoga pants and slippers mean that I’m not… →
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What Doesn’t Kill You
What was the hardest personal goal you’ve set for yourself? I can answer this question with one word…survive. I don’t really set goals for myself, as silly as that sounds. In 2019 I decided I was going to run a half marathon and got pretty close to accomplishing that goal. Covid cancelled the race before… →
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In the Blink of a Year (part 1–the “before”)
Given today’s prompt about habits that bring you joy, here’s another one that I thought of. I really enjoy scrolling through the pictures on my phone. I take a lot of pictures and screenshots of things that I like, or speak to me in some way. I have pictures on my phone going back to… →
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I Do What I Want
What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being? Health and well-being today, huh? Well, I can tell you what I don’t do, and that is simply this: I don’t do what I don’t want to do. And I try to drink enough water. Plus I take a multivitamin every day now. After… →
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Sarah: Unplugged
How do you know when it’s time to unplug? What do you do to make it happen? O.k., so now the prompt writers are apparently reading minds??? I was literally just thinking about this early this morning. This upcoming Monday will kick off the summer kids program that I supervise. Hundreds of kids attending about… →
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Anxiety Sucks and It Lies
I feel that one more post this weekend is important. On my crusade to bring awareness to mental health issues and end the stigma, I think it’s important for people to know the reality of the various aspects of mental illness. Anxiety being one of them. I take anti-anxiety medicine. My therapist is teaching me… →
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Me? A Break?
Do I need a break? I say that with a little smile on my face. Honey, this is my break. If this question had come up exactly one year ago, the list of what I needed a break from would have been long. I needed a break from grad school–the classes every week, the short-term… →
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Daily Prompt Response—Work in Progress
What have you been working on? I’m a crafter, so I could answer this question by discussing the various knitting and crochet projects that I have been working on lately. But they’re not exciting me right now. In fact, I haven’t really worked on them much lately. I could say that I have been working… →
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The ending I deserve
I have discovered that I’m like a kid when it comes to movies. I can watch the same movie every day and not get tired of it. This is not a recent discovery either. The fact that the movie “You’ve Got Mail” only feels right to watch on a Saturday is a tribute to the… →
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Interesting side effect
Tonight, my husband and I had an interesting conversation over dinner. We talked about a variety of typical husband and wife things…our days at work, how my eye appointment went, general topics. I brought up the fact that I had woken up last night with a terribly upset stomach. Something I ate did not sit… →