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Lonely Heart

So now that we have touched upon the career situation, let’s tackle the other obvious issue at hand. I am lonely. Not in the sense that I do not have plenty of friends and family who rally with me,...

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Need Versus Want

Things are a little better. It has been only a few days worth of added medication, so it cannot be that. (In fact, it’s causing some unpleasant side effects that may not allow me to continue with the...

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Lightening Up: A Meme

To lighten things up a bit, I present.. a meme. They used to be more common in my early days of blogging, and Kerri’s meme brought back some nostalgia. Four names people call me other than my real...

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The Bullying Effect

Remember what I said the other day about seeming to attract co-workers who know how to ruffle my feathers?  I sat in a meeting today where that exactly happened. Afterwards, I wanted to run away from...

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A Very Rambly Ten Years

March, 2005. The weekend before everything changed. In Wisconsin for family celebrations. Waiting on glucose tolerance test results along with an A1C. Eating a giant chocolate mint brownie and drinking...

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Clearing One’s Mind on a Sunday Evening

So, yeah, there I go again with two months between blog posts. This will be yet another rambly post, as I just let loose with what’s been happening. Life has been busy. The good kind of busy that shut...

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The Love We Deserve

A month ago, I felt like I was getting settled, like I was content. Add in some significant family news (bordering on the good), some job dissatisfaction, and one nasty hangover, and I found myself...

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Pattern Recognition

Patterns. Within the mish-mash of diagnoses of chronic conditions I have collected over the past ten years, pattern recognition is important. Whether blood glucose levels remain steady or have certain...

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This has been an eye-opening week. One where someone threw out harsh words towards someone I love on social media. (Without knowing the truths behind why that someone does what they do.) One where that...

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Slapped

Almost a month since the last post, and not much has changed. Yet everything has. It’s a long story, but what was acute tendonitis of the right knee in the fall of 2012 has now produced a new...

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Here I Go Again

Two months since the last post (broken record). I knew deep down I was drifting towards heightened anxiety and a depressive episode. I knew it. I kept busy to avoid it – watching the Cubs make a good...

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I know!!!

The last time I blogged was seventeen days before one of those phone calls giving bad news. It’s been almost seven months since that phone call, and while there’s improvement with a family member, it...

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Start All Over Again

(Written at McCarran International Airport, 2/12/2017.) At the age of 29 (well, nearly), I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. For more than ten years, I managed well with A1C levels more of that of...

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