This week is shaping up to be rather productive. After a loving pep-talk from the hubby, I decided to forcefully take back my time. Enforce my boundaries, organize my time and insist that everyone around me march to my tune.
Ok, ok – maybe not so much … but with a little help from specific people and suggestions, I managed to re-capture my time and am now working to keep hold of it. It’s easy to say: “here are my ..read more
They keep telling me that the first month is the worst. They have told me to expect up and down days. They told me to keep busy. They’re still telling me these things. It’s just about at the end of week 2, and I have to tell you that had they not mentioned that fact, I probably would not have known. Feels like he left yesterday – in terms of the pain anyway.
It was a pretty bad weekend. Weekends are ..read more
Since we haven’t been told which day exactly hubby is leaving, we sit and wait this week … wait for a phone call. One phone call that could come at any time – night or day – that will forever change our lives. It sounds dramatic, but I tell you that it is not untrue nor is it overstated. This deployment has already changed us in ways that I don’t know that I would see normally. If it were not ..read more
Lawd whoee – what a stress!
I’ll tell you this, it’s heartening to know that SO many people want to be an authority on the fyr … I’m famous! Wewt!
I apologize to those who might have been working up the courage to comment (again?) and found that comments are now closed here – the reason is a sudden upsurge in the bitch content of my life which I am trying valiantly to quell and exterminate. So far, it seems to be ..read more
For the second time in my life, (and funnily from the same source), it’s been demonstrated that no matter how much good I think I’m doing, someone else has an entirely different perspective. When I am speaking truths that need to be spoken but they aren’t ready to be heard – and probably will never be – what it results in is this: a complete and painful disconnect. So I face a choice:
Regret the time and effort and emotion given?
Or ..read more
It took me almost 2 years to visit the dentist. While the reasons for this were not all unavoidable, I have to admit to some delinquency on my part. While the move/migration was traumatic and the few months thereafter, it just seems ridiculous that it would take that long for me to finally get to a dentist.
I can offer up all sorts of excuses and reasonings, but none of it matters now. 2 years later, the dentist explained to ..read more
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This is an always reblog- I think this is the third time it’s been on my blog. The source is Ampersand by Barry Deutsch, by the way- I highly recommend reading his work. I’ve added the click-through to his political cartoon site.
~ the trees of my contentment (by Teresa Teixeira)
Tree Porn to suit my mood today. :(
