Jobless spiral (Photo credit: Steve Rhodes)
…to finally land a job.
Yes, you read that right. Ninety-eight (98) weeks, and I finally have a job. My final week on unemployment ended Saturday, December 15, 2012. I have used the entire ninety-nine (99) weeks of benefits available to me. I am beyond grateful that those benefits were there – it allowed me to continue to pay my bills and live. I sincerely wish I didn’t have to use all of those weeks, but I did. Continue reading
A friend of mine is grieving the loss of a very precious family member and she wrote about it here. I understand, as many pet owners do, what that “can’t breathe, kicked in the gut, heart-breaking” grief feels like. Boy, do I understand.
I have been offline the past few days. I’ve been busy seeing a good friend, reading, enjoying the last days of Summer on the deck, and doing a lot of personal writing. I intentionally stayed off the computer (including my phone and tablet). Was it hard? Not. At. All. We all need to find something that gives us peace of mind, this is mine. Continue reading
Wow, I can’t believe how long it has been since my last post. A lot has happened in my life over the past few months, and somewhere along the way, I’ve lost my writing mojo. Seriously. I haven’t wanted to write. Well, that’s not entirely true. I have wanted to write, but the things I have wanted to write about are considerably more personal than anything I have posted here in the past. Continue reading
I can’t believe I’m writing about cats at the one year anniversary of Shasta’s passing. I’ve said it over and over, I’m a dog person, always have been. I’m terribly allergic to cats, and having Princess in the house (most of the time), has been an interesting adventure. She’s a sweetheart, and I should be buying stock in Zyrtec.
I can’t stop smiling. Seriously.
It was a wicked Workout of the Day (WOD) and I did it all! Scaled down in reps since I’m still a beginner, I completed the entire WOD as prescribed for me. I smiled the entire drive home.
A week or so ago, I decided it was time to clean up my computer. You know, get rid of old files and documents, programs that I downloaded eons ago and never used, clean up the desktop, etc., all in an effort to maximize my computer. I was on a roll. I even cleaned out a ton of file directories, and that’s where I screwed up.
Somehow, in cleaning up the file directories, I deleted my blog folder. That folder had draft regular and guest posts, content I was writing for others, personal blog topics to write about, research for my new blog (details soon), and a ton of other things. My content spreadsheet that I created is also gone (I thought I had thrown that on the desktop. Apparently, I didn’t). I miss that spreadsheet…a lot.
I deleted it all and now I get to start from scratch. Continue reading
…unassisted with no kicking legs. Just one, clean, chin over the bar, pull-up. That’s what I told the Crossfit coach yesterday, as I prepared to do my very first Crossfit workout. That has been on the top of my personal “bucket list” for eons.
Yes, I am doing Crossfit. No, I haven’t lost my mind, although my body today is telling me that perhaps I have. I’m doing Crossfit because I want to be strong, lean and healthy. I’m at an age where strength (weight) training is crucial – plain old cardio is not going to get me strong or lean, build muscle or strengthen my bones.