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2019-03-12 You Don’t Get What You Don’t Ask For
After the shit-show that I experienced this past weekend, I promised myself that I was not going to sacrifice my time with my kids, or Jim, or my workout sessions anymore for work. Yeah, I’ve said that before but after yesterday, when I was called out for not doing a task yet by a teammate…
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2019-03-10 I Need a Chill Pill 💊
Warning… serious angry girl rant ahead. I mean, it has nothing to do with me being a girl but I am a girl so it is what it is. I just spent an entire fucking weekend trying to balance the management of my daughters birthday shenanigans AND busting my ass on another work deadline I…
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2019-03-07 The Big 17 🎉🎂❤️
As far as important days in my history goes, March 7th is one of the biggest for me. I woke up right around midnight, rolled myself over in bed and my water broke. I was 38 weeks pregnant with my daughter Z and not really expecting to give birth to her that day, but that’s…
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2019-03-04 Scatterbrain Monday
I dropped the kids off at school about an hour ago and have been at the gym ever since. I haven’t been able to focus long enough on any one thing to come up with something to write about. I don’t think my brain is awake yet. Which is strange because most of the time…
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2019-03-03 Just Swipe Right
Exactly one year ago today I woke up like it was any other Saturday. I quietly stretched the sleep away and snuck out of the house without disturbing my teenagers still asleep in their beds. I went to the gym and did that thing I do by starting my workout session in the sauna. Then…
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2019-03-02 Marching On
We rolled right into March. We rocked up onto our feet And put one foot in front of the other. And we went like that for a little while. *** It’s been a long winter this year and it feels even longer when everything is still covered in snow, with no sign of spring. All…
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2019-02-28 The One About Indecision
The dry sauna at my gym is open today.. huzzah!! That means I was able to start my “daily” workout routine with some time in the hot box and that, folks, is a very good thing. It’s in that temperature elevated state that the inspiration for today’s post hit me. Of course I’ve written more…
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2019-02-26 Tuesday Traffic Report – The DNA Edition
I’m about 1 month into this new routine and all I gotta say is that I must really love Jim to give up my beautiful house and move to a location where I have to drive in crazy traffic across town to get my kids to school. At this point I’ve figured out all the…
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2019-02-25 Monday Musings.. The Thinkers Curse Edition
Yeah, there are only four days left in the month and I’m staring at the list of goals I set for myself for this month and the list of to-do items I wrote out for last week and I wonder… where did all that time go? Why didn’t I get more done? If all these…
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2019-02-24 Sunday Lazy Sunday
Yesterday went by like lightning. Lightning in a freaking snowstorm that is. Some of the icicles on the house are now like 4 or 5 feet long. Wild! All in all it was a pretty productive day yesterday and the only day of the week I actually hit my step goal. It seems the thing…
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2019-02-23 Snowstorm Saturday ❄️❄️❄️
We are on the verge of yet another storm. Is that noteworthy? Is it newsworthy? All by itself the answer is no. So we are all going to be socked in again with inches of white fluff falling from the sky mixed with rain and ice and temps hovering right at freeing until the sun…
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2019-02-22 Why Poetry – The Side Dish Edition
I sat across a table from two women who used to be friends of mine. Now they are like distant cousins you feel obligated to respond to if they reach out to you and say hi. One measure of what a person means to you in your life is how much you look forward to…
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