Fear, let it swallow you whole

June 17, 2015

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. – Tim Ferris Today was a complete shit day. The worst of the worst. I have a lot of those, but this one really got to me. Then I slammed my fingers hard, numbingly hard, in the back door. So hard it bounced off them. For a second I stood there, staring at them in disbelief. How did that just happen? When the second was up I…

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Eating Savory

Tomato Basil Scones

June 12, 2015

This afternoon I got my first set of Invisalign trays and after five hours I’m already counting down to when this is over. Did you know you have to wear these things for 22 of 24 hours a day? When I heard that all I thought was, ONLY TWO HOURS TO EAT? I think there are only two hours a day when I’m not eating. Maybe losing those five pounds won’t be so hard after all… By the time I…

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I love cats, unapologetically

June 10, 2015

Way back when my blog had a bunch of followers, I remember reading a blog conference speaker’s do’s and don’ts for building an audience on social media. The person basically said, don’t be a cat lady. Don’t post a bunch of pictures of your cat, talk about cat things or get crazy about cats. No one wants it. My heart sunk. ‘But I love cats!’, I thought. Bummer. Even though I still mentioned my cats and took pictures of them, I…

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The struggle is real, all of them

June 3, 2015

Let me begin by saying Verizon can kiss my ass. After making the decision earlier this week to set a fixed writing schedule and work for Chris, I was greeted right smack at ‘write the blog’ time with error messages from Verizon. Email is offline. Internet is online. Error messages for sending and receiving email. Email is online. Verizon says I need to open another account. Why? I didn’t change my username or password in the first place, so why am I…

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