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Here to recap 2022, like as though using this site is totally normal.
2022. Ok. "Bad" and "good" are not super nuanced nor mutually exclusive (life is complex!) but they're what I'm doing.
The bad was extensive enough that I really wanted to find some catharsis in putting it all down at once, and maybe even having a couple of people read it all and go, "dang."
Bad-I had a terrible ear infection, and then such an ( Read more... ) -
2017 in Review
Diving right in...
In the Spring semester, I was interning at the Guardianship Program of Dade County. Trying my awkward hand at professional dress and office work, teasing at my PTSD with trips to hospitals' psych departments, hoping not to be attacked at ILFs. Lots of annoying documentation. Those three days per week, I ate packaged salads for ( Read more... ) -
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(All 7 of us) spent 3 days camping at/attending the Florida Herbal Conference - attending classes and keynotes and bonfires, eating in the cafeteria, wandering around the marketplace they set up, connecting with old and new friends, taking SO MANY NOTES - then 1 day in adjoining hotel rooms in St Pete, swimming in the pool, walking around downtown ( Read more... ) -
2016 - written a couple of weeks ago...
It seems to be universally understood that 2016 was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. For me personally, I haven't felt so much stress and tension regularly since the year I was diagnosed with PTSD. I do have good and bad things to recap, though ( Read more... ) -
2014: Year in Review
1. What did you do in 2014 that you'd never done before?
Marched in a political protest (against Monsanto).
Put Ananda (14), Aaron (13), and Jake (9) in school.
Had all five of my kids in school at once.
Got a tattoo!
Got allergy tested, with the whole fam.
Saw a dermatologist.
Began a lifestyle of frequent injections.
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If you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done...
So, this week has been kind of a bust. Or not, depending on how you look at it. I can look back and name off the meals I cooked and the things I cleaned and the time I spent with Aaron or reading to the little kids, or the hours and hours and hours sleeping in and laying around with my illnesses. I read a book and two epic length fanfiction stories ( Read more... )