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Super Bowl Sunday in Life
Jan 20, 2025 Inauguration Day and MLK day. A better writer than I could write 10 thousand words on that subject alone, but I can only come up with its weird. I spent the day doing a bit of ...
As The Cat Hair Blows in Life
Well, the first few weeks of retirement have been a shit show or should I say a snow show. My part of Missouri had about two feet of snow last week which entirely stopped the city from functio...
Like Sand In The Catbox in Life
I was curious the other day about what the average life span of a white female in the United States was, so I asked google and the answer was 80. It struck me that my mom was already 83. I had...
Like Sand In The Cat Box in Life
Only 14 more working days left. For the most part I’m excited, looking forward to retirement and traveling and more free time. On the other hand, I’m a bit sad I’ve been at my job for 37 years....
Whats Left in Books 2014
got a note on the entry about losing my grandmas death reminding me to appreciate the people and things I still Have left so I thought I would make a list to remind myself how fortunate I still ...
To Everything There Is a Season in Grandma and me
When you lay dying, I told you that everything would be okay because I read on google that was the thing to say I told you we all loved one another and would all care for one another I didn’t kn...
Like Sand in the Cat Box in Life
2-19-20 Pills taken mood great Ran 3 miles What happened to Open Diary? I was a lifetime member but when I signed in last week it said something about having to pay to be able to use the note f...
Nothing to see here in Negative Nancy
2-11-20 Pills taken mood very bad, depressed worthless This will be a short one as I just wanted to get home, feed the cats, and go to bed. I got in trouble at work today for having a negative ...
Like Sand in the Catbox in Life
Pitts taken Mood Great Exercise 7 K on the rower I’ve let a half a year go by without writing, and I’ve done nothing but gain weight, and be depressed. I’m going to start journaling again to kee...
Raining Kittens in Books 2014
Gah! Kitten season is in full force. I can’t remember what part of the kitty chronicles I left of in so I’ll start at the beginning. It started in February when I took in a mama cat with 7 kit...
Like Sand In The Cat Box in Life
Pills taken Appointment with trainer Saw Angie for the first time since Monday and had to admit that I had not been working out or eating right since Monday. Angie had a good point. I can conti...
Best Books in Books 2014
Best book I read in 2019 so far Beartown by Fredrik Bakman The book explores the hopes that bring a small community together and the secrets that tear it apart. Best book I read in 2018 A Heart ...
A Rainy Day In May in Life
You may also remember when last we spoke that I started a weight loss journey in 2015 and lost 130 pounds. I went from 281 to 150….. For a hot minute. My Dr said it would not be possible for m...
Letter To The Dead in NPE (Non Parental Event)
Dear Man Who Raised Me First off thanks for stepping in and being a hero for my mom in marrying her despite knowing she was pregnant with another man’s child. Thanks for loving my mother and bro...
Dark Days in Negative Nancy
I took a Ancestry DNA test in April so I could make some progress on some of my dead ends in my family tree. For a long time I thought the man who raised me was not my biological father, but my ...
True Confessions in Negative Nancy
Back in the days when I weighed 281 pounds and my diabetes was out of control and I was in a crippling depression that left me basically only able to do what was required of me to hold down a jo...
Like Sand In The Cat Box in Life
I had a lovely day today. I only had to work six hours and the work was interesting but not to difficult. Much better than yesterday in which I had very time consuming issues that didn’t result...
To Everything There Is A Season in Life
I’m going to try to get back into the habit of writing in my diary again. I’m having electric problems in my house, and I know I’ve had an electrician out here before but for the life of me I c...
Meowy Monday in Life
July 19, 2014 Some of my readers suggested the problem was my piriformis muscle and it could be since I’m bad about stretching after a work out. angie has done myofascial release and taught me...
7-13-14 Another buzy weekend. Gina, Kenny, me, Lainie, Gina’s brothers and their families plus Gina’s best friend and her family all went to the Royals game Friday. We had a good time. I enj...
Feline Friday in Books 2014
Thursday July 3, 2014 Progress not perfection moment of the day. I made tons of bad choices today so I was really struggling to come up with a progress so I dashed into the bathroom and flosse...
Weighty Wednesday in Life
Tuesday July 1, 2014 Goals for July Do 1 mile at 6.0 on the treadmill by the end of the month. Lose between ¼ to ½ pound a week Get in at least 70 grams of protein every day 3 push ups b...
Meowy Monday in Life
Saturday June 28, 2014 I had a buzy day Saturday, I ran in the Firecracker Five K at Blue River Community College. I was hoping to set a personal best 5K time but didn't realize the race was ...
A reader wanted to know if mom understood why I didn't call home on Fathers Day. That would assume I told her the real reason. I just said I forgot. I think if I had told her I didn't want t...
Funday Sunday in Life
Goals for the rest of June I've been kind of lax lately on goal setting. My only goals for this month was to maintain my weigh loss and go out with friends and family more. Well most days in...
