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The Day To Day Ramblings

by Joie. De. Vivre.

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February 14, 2014

The Longest Winter

Struggling lately to find words I can share in a public forum - not my private books or my Friends Only books but my bigger, more open, more vulnerable, more out there books for All The Eyes to s...


January 28, 2014

Farewell OD

I found out yesterday about Open Diary officially shutting down. As important as that place has been to me for the last ten years, I have to say a large part of my reaction was relief. Relief tha...


January 24, 2014

Freedom

I visited with a close friend today and got to meet her newborn baby boy. He was so cute and sleepy and snuggly. She seemed to appreciate the chance to have two free arms for a few hours & I ...


January 16, 2014

Survey time!

A random survey because I don't have much else to say. :) Who is your favorite person to travel with? Definitely Rob. I have lived in the same 10 square miles my entire life and am easily overwh...


January 08, 2014

The Sweetest

A few weeks ago Rob came home from work heavy shouldered, sad & withdrawn. Over dinner I asked him what was wrong and he proceeded to tell me he had been told he would need to fire one of his...


January 04, 2014

3 AM Thankfuls

I'm currently wide awake at 3 AM, too uncomfortable from a pinched nerve in my neck & a pulled muscle in my back to sleep. No position is comfortable & despite muscle relaxers & ibupr...


December 31, 2013

To 2014

For 2014 I want to both be harder on myself and more gentle. I want to hold myself to a higher standard but cut myself more slack. I want to challenge myself to be greater but accept my own human...


December 24, 2013

Happy Holidays!

Hello, Proseboxians! I hope this season finds each of you surrounded by love and laughter, the people you adore the most, the foods that fill you up in body and spirit and the time to step back,...


December 20, 2013

New Moms

Hello Proseboxians! I just finished my big work stretch and am now diving face first into an eight day stretch off, full of couch and puppy and sleep (oh glorious sleep!) and oh.so.many family an...


December 01, 2013

Chin Up, Buttercup

I had a dream last night that I came here and I wrote a long entry about how I couldn't write here anymore because too many people were pregnant or just had a baby or were raising young children ...


November 04, 2013

The Beginning of November

Hello again! I meant to drop in and write once or twice over the weekend but I worked 12 hour shifts Friday, Saturday and Sunday and that left very little time for anything social. I did manage ...


October 31, 2013

October 31st

Today is so gray and rainy and October-y. The leaves are sticking to everything and there's a breeze and other than the uncharacteristic temps in the 60s, it is mid-autumn through and through aro...


October 30, 2013

Sleeping In

I wake up at 5 AM six days of the week, either to get to work by 7 AM or to get to the gym by 6 AM to meet my sister before her work day begins. Today, my friends, was that amazing and sacred '7t...


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Random thoughts - nothing substantial, just whatever falls out of my fingers :)