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Favorite Historical Person; Daily Prompt

Rachel Carson is my favorite historical person. Marine biologist and writer, she is a hero of mine. She noticed a significant increase in bird deaths and wrote a book called Silent Spring. She said horribly offensive things in her book, things like DDT is toxic to people and the environment, and she received huge backlash for it. There’s no question why. Commercials on TV showed people eating…

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Sometimes You Feel Despair

Friday June 20, 2025 ~~~ Day 60 This won’t be a pretty post. I’m ecstatic to celebrate day 60, but I’ve been so down and tired. I’m tired of my health becoming a full time job every summer. Yet, I feel guilty for not being grateful for having extra time to address it. And decent health insurance that allows me to see all these specialists. I’ll have a recheck appointment for the broken bone…

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Summer Healing

Wednesday June 18, 2025 ~~~ Day 58 This week has been a good week. Jules had his 1 week recheck yesterday and his eyes look great. We were able to take the cone off him and give him a bath. He’s like a new dog! I’m still blown away when I think about how disabled he was just less than two weeks ago. What a strange blip in time!!!!! Other than that, life is kind of a bummer at the moment, but my…

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Rosy 51

Wednesday, June 11, 2025 ~~~ Day 51 It’s been one hectic week! On Monday, I took my niece to school to help me and got the rest of my stuff moved to my new room and all my boxes unpacked. We got more than I expected – and it felt great to get it done. My teaching partner was there organizing her room. She took over a special ed classroom right after spring break, and mostly left it the same as…

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Big Things

Sunday June 8, 2025 ~~~ Day 48 I learned something unexpected throughout COVID. I am horribly camera shy. Up until Covid, I never HAD to make, post & send videos. I hated it and never once watched them back, the thought of it was repulsive to me. I guess I’ve always done anything possible to make myself look small. I would always disappear, if given the opportunity. I always sat in the back…

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47 Feels like Heaven

Saturday June 7, 2025 ~~~ Day 47 I was angry at my family when I woke up today, due to a compilation of undone tasks and forgotten promises. As I was going to bed last night, I started to grab a few dishes I had on my table and hubby stopped me. I was trying to juggle the items with my scooter and he offered to pick them up for me. I was dismayed to find them still on my table this morning. I…

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Grateful for Day 44

Wednesday June 4, 2025 ~~~ Day 44 I’m grateful for day 44. I’m grateful for counting days, and my resolve. Summer vacation is a blink away, and I am feeling so excited for all the healthy things. With my foot and the dog’s eyes, etc, these past couple of months have been super busy and much of my self-care routines have been on hold. When I got my foot boot and scooter, I vowed to workout my…

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Embracing Light

Sunday June 1, 2025 ~~~ Day 41 WOW, June! It sure doesn’t feel like it though. It’s been pretty cold, for the most part, and for the first time in ten years our pool was still closed on Memorial Day. One week later, and it’s still closed. I’m not mad, it’s been way too cold for water anyways. It’s felt like early October weather since around April. Today I celebrate and am grateful for 41 days…

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HAPPY 37

May 28, 2025 ~~~ Day 37 Life has a calmer vibe these most recent days. I feel happiness, and hopefulness again. This past weekend was Memorial Day weekend, which is usually SO festive and fun. I wasn’t looking forward to it at all. The weather was cold and gross, our pool isn’t opened yet, and I had to entertain my inlaws on Monday. On top of that, Jules seems more blind with each passing day.…

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Work Mom

May 23, 2025 ~~~ Day 32 Today my boss came to my school to talk to me. I got the position I wanted! 🎉🎉🎉 What’s this feeling? Why are my lips turning up? And is that a laugh? Boy it feels good to feel positive and upbeat about something!!!! I forgot how great it feels. I’m nervous too, it’s gonna be challenging, I know. There are many things about my current job that I’m super happy to say…

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High Hopes

5/22/25 ~~~ Day 31 Went out after work to a retirement party for two coworkers. I was not feeling stress or anxiety about being around alcohol & was not worried about being tempted. The girls at my table were excited to find out the drinks were free. They ordered wine. One next to me is 22 and drinking is still new & exciting. She looked at me asked me if I’m getting some. My answer was…

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May 21, 2025 ~~~ Day 30 One month- yeehaw!!! It’s crazy how fast one month can go by. I’m finally starting to feel a little bit better. I think we have an okay plan moving forward, but we don’t know if we can save the left eye, or if he’s going to be completely blind soon. If we can save it, we will try. We weren’t thinking about the left eye back on Friday when we set up the surgery to remove…

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Five Years of Tears

Tuesday, May 19, 2025 ~~~ Day 29 Back in the spring of 2020, when the world stopped and we began quarantining, I always think of a significant incident. I was downstairs, and feeling particularly overwhelmed. I remember telling hubby something like, “I just want to cry.” He said or did anything he could to talk me out of crying. I wondered why it was so bad to cry. I think I may have even…

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Doggone It

Monday May 18, 2025 ~~~ Day 28 I’ve been feeling extremely sad since I wrote on Friday. Jules is doing pretty well (all things considering). He’s been eating good and his eye is still sensitive, but it seems less painful based on his behavior. On Saturday I got so excited when he begged for our human food. It’s interesting how an irritating behavior can become so happy and exciting so…

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Freaky Friday

May 16, 2025 ~~~ Day 25 Today just kind of SUCKED. ALL of it. And it began shortly after midnight, when the tornado sirens went off, dragging me out of a decent sleep. Not once, but twice, during the 12:00 and 1:00 early morning hours. I slept okay, but had a rude awakening. My dog’s eye (which has been looking cloudy the past few weeks) had become very very unhealthy overnight. And I could…

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Day 22- The World is a Scary Place

5-13-25 ~~~ Day 22 If you want to know someone’s level of happiness, ask them their opinion of the universe. Is it a Dog eat dog world? Or a doggy dog world? Is it a terrifying, or exhilarating place to be? It’s terrifying. I’m waiting again to see a doctor. I hope I’m not here super long like last week and like my iron infusion yesterday. Annoying red tape. Need to schedule MRI, more time…

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Week Three Doesn't Bother Me

5-12-25 ~~~ Day 21 This is where it can start to get dicy. Weeks 3 and 4 can be exhausting and difficult. I haven’t been thinking about alcohol at all. Most of my thoughts are about my foot, or my health, or work or lack of work when I have to take days off. Appointments, my mind is on a lot of appointments lately. I got my first iron infusion today, and get my foot rechecked tomorrow. They…