Leaving “Home,” Part 2

Alternate post title:
If You Thought Yesterday’s Post was New-Agey and Weird, You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet!
Consider yourself warned, LOL.
So, getting what I’m afraid of, simply because I’m afraid of it.  And then being somehow, in some weird way, ok with that, even though I HATE it, because it’s what I’m used to.  Recognizing that it’s [...]

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Leaving “Home,” Part 1

Extrapolating from yesterday’s post about not trying to fit into other people’s labels . . .
Sometimes my brain needs to percolate for a while about things before I really know what I think.  It’s strange, and often inconvenient, but I have a tendency to take everything at face value, and only later does it occur [...]

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So Much to Say, So Little . . . er . . . Space?

Ok, I might be back to posting daily over the next few days here because there has been a LOT percolating in my brain, but I’m starting with this:
Who do you want to be?
I’m a big believer that as a general rule, we become what we identify ourselves as – not the other way around.  Now, [...]

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Scheduling my life

At different times in my life, I have scheduled myself down to the minute.  Sometimes I did it because I was JUST THAT COMPULSIVE, but other times I did it because (oddly enough) it was the only way I got to take a break from my super-busy-ness without feeling guilty about not doing whatever it [...]

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Remember to Breathe

Deeeeeeep breaths.  In for the count of 3, hold for the count of 3, out for the count of 3.  Repeat.  Again.  Again.  Again.
I’m exhausted.  Not physically so much as mentally.  Things are crazy-busy around here, not just at work, but at home, too.  I’m taking my neighbors and their kids to Disneyland this weekend [...]

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Too much stuff.

My day yesterday:
6:30am: Leave for work
7:00am: Arrive at work
5:30pm: Leave work
5:45: Stop at market
6:30: Get home
6:45: Throw laundry in
6:50-7:15-ish: Exercise
7:15: Change Laundry over
7:15-7:30: Sweep floors
7:30-8:00: Pay bills
8:00: Put laundry away
8:15: Clean out personal email queue
9:00: Check work emails, clean those out (since I have NEW ONES since 5:30, when I left work)
9:30: Make lunch for tomorrow
9:45: Wonder [...]

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All right, everybody, listen up!

I have no idea who this person is.  I never read her blog until I found her (post-plane-crash) through this post by Sue.  And to be honest, I don’t read it even now, although it looks good.  (I just haven’t gotten around to adding it to my blogroll yet.)
But Sue is putting together a book of [...]

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The funny thing about my disordered eating . . .

Now, I have to preface this by saying that disordered eating is NOT the same as an Eating Disorder.  I know it sounds like semantics, but the former is MUCH easier to “get over” than the latter.  For the record, when I was in college, I considered myself a disordered eater, even though my calorie [...]

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Autumn is coming . . .

And I’m so happy.  I love the beginning of summer, but the last days just kill me.  The temperatures in the high nineties (sometimes even the low 100’s) – it’s just too hot.  But the last few days there’s been fog in the morning, and the temperature has dropped abruptly to the mid-80s, which feels [...]

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Go, Bucky, GO!!

That’s what my sister and I say to each other when one of us is thinking about something seemingly simple for a leeeeetle teeny bit too long: “Oh, I see that hamster in your brain, running on its wheel.  Go, Bucky, GO!!”  Over years of use we’ve shortened it to just, ”Go, Bucky, GO!!”  Yeah.  We’re [...]

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