When I was a student at the University of Kentucky I worked at the library. One semester, I was one of the first to arrive and I would enter the library before it opened. There were always grad students there waiting to get in as soon as we opened and they would sometimes try to … More Bloganuary 24: Write About a Dream You Remember
The last couple of days have not been great. The one good thing about the daily “What’s on TV” posts is that it gives me one thing to post that takes little thought. It was hard to get motivated to write anything else today, but I thought it would be better for me if I … More A Recipe for Bad Mental Health
Most nights I don’t remember my dreams. Sometimes I wake up feeling unsettled and I assume it was from a dream but I have no recall of the dream itself. Some mornings I wak up with the dream clearly in my head. Today is one of those days and it is lingering. In the dream, … More More Fun With Dreams
I have had my laptop open for an hour. I’ve started and trashed several posts. I can’t seem to get the words out. I am only reading it fits and starts. It could be the book. It could be me. It could be both. I can’t settle my mind enough to do more than barely … More The Funk Continues
I guess there will be at last one more post before my hiatus. I’m still home for one more day. Today is the day before travel day. For me, this is the worst day if no airports are involved(airport stress makes travel day the worst). It would be nice to think that a drive to … More The Day Before
We are leaving to visit family Thursday. I always have a little stress when we travel even if it just a drive like this time. Here are things that have added to this stress to make it almost unbearable. Typing this real quick on my iPad. I guarantee there will be multiple mistakes. I don’t … More Stress On Top of Stress
I know I’ve mentioned here before that sometimes I have days where I wake up with a lingering sense of unease or impending doom. When that happens, it is very hard to do much that takes any level of brain power. Today is one of those days. I woke up with a lingering anxiety. It’s … More A General Sense of Unease
When anxiety lies and tells me no one wants to read my blog so I should just give up. … More Blogging and Anxiety
I am now in week two of my new reality. I am still figuring out what this new reality looks like. One thing I have noticed is that my thought process when it comes to productivity is flawed in a few ways. One of those ways is how my brain sees time. Most of my … More Changing the Clock in My Head
I am now over a month past my last day at my job. I didn’t have to spend a lot of time adjusting to things at first. Two days after my last day both of my kids came home for the holidays. We then had Christmas and New Year’s to distract me. My son went … More Adjustment Anxiety
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