Day in the Life
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Constant Anxiety
I am struggling. I find my teeth are hurting from constant grinding. When I am not grinding them, I’m holding my jaw so tight while concentrating on not allowing my teeth to touch each other, that it’s starting to make my jaw hurt. I just finished day 5 at work. That may not seem like Continue reading
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More Improvement with a Random Review on the Side
Today, I progressed with cleaning up my house by cleaning out my dining area and the tops of my cabinets in my living room. I have found that when you have a toddler that can’t certain items for safety’s sake, it becomes very easy to let things pile up in high places. Such as those Continue reading
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Patio Reclamation
Today was weird. Our weather was supposed to be up to 90°F. It apparently did get above that, followed up by a random thunderstorm and severe weather warning. Once the storm had passed, the temperature dropped down into the 70’s. It was time to seize my moment (bonus points if you get the reference)! I Continue reading
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Weekend Plans
My very short workweek is over. Which is good. I’m a Dispatcher for emergency first responders. I manage a radio channel and take 911 emergency calls simultaneously. When you take vacations from this job, like I did with my 12 days off, it’s a struggle to get back into the swing of things. It’s like Continue reading
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Vacation Blues
As my 12 days of freedom winds to a close (I work in a little over 2 hours), I lay here missing Massachusetts all over again. I’m fortunate in that I only have tonight’s 12 hour shift and tomorrow’s 4 hour shift until my next weekend, but that doesn’t make me miss Mass any less. Continue reading
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Confrontation: No thank you!
Well, the conversation went well with the dog sitter. For background, the 17 year old that was watching our dogs while we were out of town last week had multiple kids over, one of which stayed the night. Her boyfriend. We have this one dog, he doesn’t like new people. He gets angry and aggressive. Continue reading
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Dad’s Day: Just Another Day
My husband’s Father’s Day was rather uneventful. That’s what happens when you’re broke. That damned airfare really messed with our finances. I’m not used to purchasing for 3 people. Anyways, we ended up at In N Out. The entire meal was more mediocre than usual. I had what was supposed to be a chocolate milkshake. Continue reading
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In Stitches
I didn’t make it to the craft store for yarn, as originally planned. Instead I opted to work on something I already had. A cross stitch. I have several started and several other kits/patterns ready to start. I decided on a small kit and started stitching. It felt good. I got a decent amount done Continue reading
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Time to Hit the Ground, Running or Otherwise.
Okay. So two days later, I’m finally feeling fully rested after returning home from Massachusetts. The airports/plane really drains the energy out of you. It didn’t help that there was a damn mouse running around us at Logan. I was so afraid my kid would see it and start chasing it. Gross. Anyways, I have Continue reading
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Back to Reality: Post Vacation Stress
This life is crazy and the ups and downs are difficult to take. Yesterday, we got back in town early. Everything was good until we started to decompress. My husband and I ended up in an argument. It was no surprise given we were coming down from vacation cloud 9. Ultimately we worked through our Continue reading
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