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What Is A Hobby?
As I’ve recently mentioned, I’ve been going through Annie F. Downs’s book, Chase The Fun and have been learning (or maybe relearning) what “fun” is. When I recently mentioned some of the things I’ve been doing that are and always have been fun to me (mainly reading and doing puzzles), multiple people decried those things…
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2 Trips In 3 Weeks
This past weekend was my grandparents’ 50th wedding anniversary. Since a surprise party fell through (mainly because money is a thing), my mom and I decided to give them our own surprise and make one of the shortest trips we’ve ever done to see them. Thankfully we spent as much time with them as we…
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Just Keep Driving
As is usually the case at the very beginning of the month, I was busy every day of the week last week and didn’t remember I was supposed to post something until last night (Sunday)… and that’s a full 24 hours after the time I want to post. Of course, going on a trip, coming…
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We got back to Kansas City yesterday evening after what ended up being one of the best 8+ hour car rides I’ve ever had with friends. So many good memories were made and I really look forward to the next time I head back to South Bend for that convention. Today was definitely “BACK TO…
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Road Trip Time
Somehow by the grace of God, I remembered that I needed to do a post for this week. Above are some of the pictures from this weekend. We still have one more day of the convention and then a travel day, but I doubt many of those events will have pictures. This week was the…
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Four Weeks Down, Eternity To Go
This week, I’m going out of town with a few friends, so I’m technically in the middle of trying to get my room ready… I’m already packed… that’s like packing for pet-sitting and I can do that literally in my sleep. It’s been almost exactly a month since I deleted the socials from my life.…
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Rekindled Passion
The past couple of nights I’ve been using my “evening energy peak” to work on fixing an old story that’s something I probably should’ve written long ago and I realized I’ve really enjoyed using my evening peak for that. So I’ve basically found a hobby that’s not watching TV or wishing I still had social…
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Three Weeks?!
Two things occurred to me about 20 minutes ago:– I forgot to post a blog yesterday– It’s been 3 weeks since I deleted social media I legitimately forget everyone else can see what other people are doing with their lives until something comes up in conversation. For example, someone made a reference to my hair…
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New Habits?
I’ve been watching these dogs— Ellie and Mabel— since Monday afternoon and I changed my bedtime habits for them since they’re what I affectionately call “old people dogs.” Although one of the dogs is about 12, the other one is less than a year old. However, their people are at the age where going to…
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A New Beginning
Today is my “check-in” day, where I tell you all about how I’m doing. After Wednesday night’s post, here’s what I learned about myself: I grieve differently over the loss of social media than I do over the loss of my father. I’ve heard it said that every loss is different, but even before I…
My Social Media-less Life
What it’s like living without the socials
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New Habits?
I’ve been watching these dogs— Ellie and Mabel— since Monday afternoon and I changed my bedtime habits for them since they’re what I affectionately call “old people dogs.” Although one of the dogs is about 12, the other one is less than a year old. However, their people are at the age where going to…
My Social Media-less Life 