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Insomnia kicking my ass

I’ve written before about my struggles with insomnia. I’ve always attributed my insomnia to a few factors: Having divorced when my kids were ages 10 months and 2, as a single mom, in those earlier years – I didn’t sleep much at night. I was always up with one, or both of them, cuz it was just me As a Registered Nurse for the past 15 years – sleep was a priceless commodity. Starting with …

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Lesson Learned

Ok. Yea. Tip: When you walk into your workout room at home, sit down on the BowFlex with the intention of doing your AB workout — just make sure to check the weights because some FOOL (pointing finger at that guy I’m marrying in 5.5 months) didn’t take the weights off the damn machine. Ow.

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Work

So, I’m sitting here working all day long. Just working my fingers to the bone, ya know? Getting lots and lots accomplished – just truckin’ right along. Then, I break for coffee. Mmmmm….Coooffeeeee. I come back into my office and sit down. I set my coffee cup on my desk.. and it tips. Now, having ruined MANY a keyboard over the years to full cups of coffee – I immediately panic. Unlike usual, I don’t …

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A Conversation With Me

Just a few notes while I’m thinking about certain things… ..Drama? I don’t do it, period. I don’t involve myself with it. I avoid it as much as humanly possible. If I see it coming round the corner, I politely extricate myself from the given situation, if it’s possible. I say ‘if it’s possible’ because I do have two teenagers in the house which does lead to some unavoidable drama in ones life. But other …

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Cilantro

I had mentioned last month that I had a very smelly Christmas. Having recieved quite a lot of smelly stuff from Chris and the kids – – candles, incense, potpouri and assorted lotions n’ stuff. I heart smelly things! Well, as long as they smell GOOD! One of the items I recieved was this thing called a Reed Diffuser. It’s interesting – you insert these reeds into a bottle of liquid and it smells up …

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