Less is more. Only speak when spoken to. Do not vent.

Decline when you can, if for self-mental health you'd rather not attend a non-mandatory anything. If pressed for a why, just say "personal."

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This week was my department's year-end "celebration" that was both a company mtg as well as "celebration."

Did not want to attend. Did not want ( Read more... )

Last night, felt tired and went to bed early, just before 10pm.

Woke up before 5:30am for no apparent reason. Still was dark. House was quiet.

Tried the anti-insomnia technique of staying in bed, eyes closed, just counting breathing cycles, willing myself to have a relaxed body, like when doing a post yoga workout, where the person just lies on ( Read more... )

Saw that acronym and explanation today. Like it!

Can relate and like to do it myself, lately. Rather be a The Lorax and be home gardening, then have to be out driving in traffic or in crowds while shopping and such.

JOMO!

parenting influenced by my own growing up experiences
Latchkey kid

When I was in elementary school, in the 1970's, I was a latchkey kid.

My parents would leave for work in the morning, before I left for school. I would eat cereal with milk, or a tortilla with cheese.

I would walk or bicycle to school by myself. And walk or bicycle home from ( Read more... )

This one is going to ramble. Emotional truths.

I used to like to think of myself as "the most successful failure that I personally knew." I was the only person I knew that didn't finish their Bachelor's, but still got to start and work in their chosen profession. Work at a Fortune500 even. A Fortune500 entertainment company that had 75years or so ( Read more... )

My little family is now the happy owner of a new Honda Pilot EX-L ( Read more... )

It was my turn to be on-call for the entire weekend.

Friday there was a major system's outage that affected massive parts of the company's network. So, instead of getting to go home early, ended up staying until 6pm.

Was paged friday night, saturday 3am, saturday 8am, saturday noon, saturday evening, saturday nite, sunday 3am, sunday morning, sunday ( Read more... )

Wife's 1998 Jeep Cherokee is out of commission again ( Read more... )