Because I’m ready to embark on the next 20-year journey of my life. My previous journey of 20-some years was for my OCD diagnosis which every day I do significantly better at properly/actually managing. I did it (with help both of the useful sort and of the taking-me-completely-in-the-wrong-direction sort). So I, looking back, I feel…… Continue reading I Have Decided to Get Ready for Graduate School
Category: Homemaking
The Trappings of Pervasive Avoidance
The battle to learn to get my “homework” done continues. From the time I was a kid just learning to feel bad about my “discolored” teeth all the way through receiving my Bachelor’s degree, I regularly got “trapped” in my head unable to choose between doing housework and doing homework (which was originally called take-home…… Continue reading The Trappings of Pervasive Avoidance
Coffee, Exercise, and Intrusive Thoughts
Reflecting on the good, the bad, and the downright weird of caffeine-induced headaches. I have a long and painful history with coffee, including a night where I shared a blow-up mattress with my sister and she woke in the middle of the night to find me silently sobbing and trying to punch the pain out…… Continue reading Coffee, Exercise, and Intrusive Thoughts
Today My Number One Distraction Will Be My Number One Priority
Though I wonder if I can really call it a distraction. Yesterday I wrote about getting the iPad 6 and Apple Pencil to take my number one productivity/OCD-management tool (journaling) from a Morning-Routines-at-Home tool to more of an All-Day-Wherever-I-Need-to-Go-and-Whatever-I-Need-to-Do tool. Now my brain is focused on getting all “afternoon” uses for the thing squared away…… Continue reading Today My Number One Distraction Will Be My Number One Priority
I’m Not Gushing About My New Toy Today, but You Can Bet Your Buttons I Will “Tomorrow”
I’m taking my journaling digital and I’m really hoping this is the last piece of the puzzle. In all my years of being a “bad” student, many accountability and reward/punishment methods were employed to get me to complete my homework. They’d last about two weeks. The first week my teacher would be there staying on…… Continue reading I’m Not Gushing About My New Toy Today, but You Can Bet Your Buttons I Will “Tomorrow”
He Left Almost a Year Ago and I’m More Than Allowed to Stop Being Hurt
My being calm and collected does not make me naive/innocent/in denial, this is what acceptance looks like. I recently had dinner with my maternal grandparents (celebrating their 55th wedding anniversary), my great aunt and her daughter, and my aunt. At one point my cousin asked if I was still with the same guy. I told…… Continue reading He Left Almost a Year Ago and I’m More Than Allowed to Stop Being Hurt
I Want to Say That I Made a Plan and God Laughed at It, But Really This Was All Me
I made the old plan before I got the new job. I had a little plan, a little path of things to be acquired without having to let any balance sit on my credit card accruing any interest whatsoever. I made this plan because there are things that need replacing and I have what I…… Continue reading I Want to Say That I Made a Plan and God Laughed at It, But Really This Was All Me