Category: backstory

  • 2021-01-18 Happy Blog-A-Versary!! 💃💃🎉

    2021-01-18 Happy Blog-A-Versary!! 💃💃🎉

    2017-01-15 –> Now. Four years (+ a few days).. Yo!.. That’s a good freaking run!!  (Spoiler Alert, this recap could get long. If stats are your thing and you want to skip the drunk trainwreck intro, scroll to the end, but don’t forget to click “like” before you leave. 😉) In January 2017 I decided…

  • 2021-01-17 Reminiscing With My Daughter About My Daughter

    2021-01-17 Reminiscing With My Daughter About My Daughter

    Day 2 waking up with cringe-worthy cramps. But.. I’m not going to let it keep me down today. I can do better. I have a little time to collect my thoughts and get my act together. Yesterday I may have “let go” and tried not to let my mood control the day. I may not…

  • 2020-12-26 Soooo Ready

    2020-12-26 Soooo Ready

    Having recently run out of episodes of my favorite, albeit old news, comedy series on Hulu, The Mindy Project, I had stopped watching anything altogether.  It was the one show I watched alone. You know, folding laundry or eating lunch by myself on weekdays. All the other shows we watch, we watch as a couple…

  • 2020-12-23 Missing Christmas

    2020-12-23 Missing Christmas

    Today I’m thinking about how in life, sometimes, not always, you get what you give.  There have been times in my life where I apparently had nothing but time. Scrapbooks, photo albums, hand crafted Christmas cards, and all manner of hand written letters. Who remembers hand written letters? What a wonderful thing to go to…

  • 2020-12-17 One Way to Save a Life

    2020-12-17 One Way to Save a Life

    It’s December 17 again. I see the calendar and think, “This day again.” We all have them. A day in time, a date on the calendar we recognize immediately, a date that takes us back to the past. We may have several, but for me, December 17 will always be a day that gives me…

  • 2020-12-01 4AM Thoughts About Yesterday

    Trigger warning: this post is about death. I know it’s only 4:30AM but there’s no way I’m laying in my bed for 3 hours thinking about the implications of my dad’s wife dying. I’ve barely had time to process her diagnosis let alone the lack of prognosis and how she could have progressed from seeing…

  • 2020-11-26 Rock Out With Your Turkey Out

    2020-11-26 Rock Out With Your Turkey Out

    I’m cooking the traditional today, for the 3 or so other people who also live here and want to partake. 3 people with picky palates and tummies and are used to getting exactly what they want and when. Today.. at the Castle, I’m making it all about me. I’m cooking food that I like to…

  • 2020-11-09 Advantages of Overcast Day

    2020-11-09 Advantages of Overcast Day

    Today I’m going to wear lounge clothes all day. Enjoy the darkness a rainy day brings. Sit on my couch doing all that needs done nestled with my favorite blanket and pillows. I’ve got plenty to do there, until 3PM when I need to leave to pick my son up from school. The weekend was…