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
This time of year is always a little hard for me. The holidays are over. It’s cold. While the days are getting longer, it is still dark relatively early. I go from having my kids around back to the empty nest. There’s not a lot to look forward to until the days are longer and … More Fighting the Midwinter/Pandemic Blues
A while back I wrote about how my sleep pattern was off after a trip and how much I needed sleep. I’m now having the exact opposite problem. Now that I’m not staying up too late watching baseball, I tend to go up to my bedroom earlier than normal. I generally try to read for … More Too Much Sleep
It’s a beautiful morning, but all I want to do is go back to bed. I got plenty of sleep last night. It’s not a physical tired thing. it’s a “I really can’t face the real world today” thing. I won’t go back to bed. Instead, I am up and dressed and heading off to … More One of Those Mornings
Here I am again. Monday morning with an overwhelming sense of melancholy about having to leave the house. Another Monday morning with no blog post ideas. I saw on Twitter a discussion of how far in advance people schedule blog posts. There are people out there who have weeks worth of blog posts done and … More Monday Again
Readers of this space will know that I have struggled recently with coping with life in general. I’ve always had periods where I struggled with anxiety and worry. I’ve had down moods, but I always just coped with it, powered through and moved on. The last few years, I’ve found it harder and harder to … More Taking a Step
As a bonus post today a share of two posts that reflect how I’m feeling right now. It is a particularly bad mental health day for me today and I still have 45 minutes before I clock into work. This has been a long week and it’s only Wednesday. Dreams of Running Away https://theycallmetater.com/2018/01/05/dreams-of-running-away/ In … More Running or Walking Away
I recently watched 28 Days Later. At the beginning of the movie the main character wakes from a coma to discover he missed the zombie apocalypse. After that, on Twitter, I saw a conversation where someone mentioned they would like to be like Rip Van Winkle and sleep until all of this is over. I … More Ready to Rip Van Winkle
Labor Day weekend is over. My kids are both living about 40 minutes away from my house now. The days are getting shorter. I have no work holidays until November. I assume there will be no handing out candy on Halloween. I have no idea what Christmas will look like. I’ve given up on my … More What Now?
I have been thinking about this post this morning. I wrote a few years ago about how hard it is to be a blogger when you are boring. It’s even harder now when you are not only boring, but you also don’t even do the few things you used to do. My kids are both … More It’s Hard to Be a Blogger When You’re Boring
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