Category: backstory

  • 2019-08-31 Autumn Declarations 🍂🍅🌼 and Life Proclamations

    2019-08-31 Autumn Declarations 🍂🍅🌼 and Life Proclamations

    I woke at 7:22am after sleeping for a solid 8 hours and 55 minutes. That’s the most I’ve slept in months, my average hovering at about 6.5. I feel great. Not just good, but great. Well, well now. Despite a few bumps, August was a success. I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be, tip-toes, tipping…

  • 2019-09-11 Hung Over Sunday Status

    2019-09-11 Hung Over Sunday Status

    We had a shindig at the house last night and I’m feeling it this morning. Jim has a lot of relatives and so when we have a family gathering, it’s a pretty good size crew. No representation from my side. My one brother and one of my sisters live in Colorado and my other sister…

  • 2019-07-04 Great Day for a Ride! 🚲☀️🇺🇸

    2019-07-04 Great Day for a Ride! 🚲☀️🇺🇸

    Seriously though.. I have no idea if it’s going to be a good day for a ride today or not. Our internet took a dive this week and I don’t have a data plan that supports apps and browsing and all that good stuff so I’m sort of stalled out on multiple fronts. It’s my…

  • 2019-06-17 The One About Marriage – Part 2

    2019-06-17 The One About Marriage – Part 2

    It’s Monday and the weekend went by too fast. We had a house full of teenagers again this go-round and it feels like I spent the entire weekend cleaning the kitchen and doing dishes. I don’t want this to turn into a rant but I just feel like I’ve gotta get it out. Every single…

  • 2019-06-07 The One About Marriage – Part 1

    2019-06-07 The One About Marriage – Part 1

    It’s been about 9 and a half months since my love proposed to me. It was a beautiful setting, the green space outside of the location we met for the first time. It was a warm day and though the sun was shining, there were isolated showers. He started giving what sounded like a speech…

  • 2019-06-04 An Amalgamation of Nugatory Thoughts

    2019-06-04 An Amalgamation of Nugatory Thoughts

    Last Friday I sat outside in a chair in the shade on my back patio trying to turn the day’s blog post which was wrought with emotion into a poem. In doing so I ended up with a poem and about a dozen bites on my neck and left arm from some unseen spider or…

  • 2019-05-12 Chicago and The Road Home

    Our stay here was brief and as uneventful as it could be given the circumstances. My “mystery” sickness is better this morning and I forced down a bowl of oatmeal to prove it. If I had to guess what the hell happened yesterday I would say that it was a mix of a bad migraine…

  • 2019-05-09 PMS and Bad Poetry

    About a week ago I was freaking out because my Fitbit was reporting that my period was like 5 days late. Crazy thoughts go through one’s mind in times like that. I found myself thinking about what it would be like to start over. Another bundle of joy, diapers, Halloween costume creations, and 18 more…