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,...
View ArticleNeed 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...
View ArticleLightening 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleClearing 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticlePattern 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...
View ArticleArticle 1
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...
View ArticleSlapped
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...
View ArticleHere 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...
View ArticleI 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...
View ArticleStart 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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