Category: Ramblings
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Spring is Here and So is the Existential Dread
Never experienced 80 degree weather in April before, but here we are. As the air warms so does the stress of life. Through the winter, we hunker down, keep stock of what we have to survive off of, and plan for the warmer days. This is good in theory but difficult when you never get…
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WTF 2025
Hi. Hello. How are you? It’s been almost a year since my last post reflecting on “how wild 2024 was” but the old me had no idea what a shit storm 2025 was about to go down. I lost my father very unexpectedly in January. Then my soul dog, Sly, in February. Then my best…
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Little Things: Routine
In trying to stay true to my first ever list of New Year’s resolution, one of which writing something everyday, if I feel that there may be something remotely close to being good enough to share, I will. I want to talk about routines and how the lack of one gives me almost as much…
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April Fools
Of course my second-first day of college would fall on April Fools, a holiday rooted in hoaxes and pranks. Being able to shift my career path and go to a “real” school (sorry Penn Foster) is a privilege I do not take for granted, but the imposter syndrome is already rearing its nasty face. What…
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Letting Go
I recently stumbled across a folder with a bunch of my creative writing assignments from high school. While most are cringe, there were a few that impressed me. Bellow is one titled “Letting Go” and was written as part of our eulogy study. My childhood beagle Sally, passed away from lymphoma a few years before…
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VICTORIA CANADA
NOVEMBER 2023 BLACK BALL FERRY PORT ANGELES, WA (Photo By: Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News) With the husband back home for the month, we wanted to take a trip and have a night to ourselves. My mother was gracious enough to stay with the kids at our house for our weekend trip. We had each been…
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October TBR
Spooky season calls for spooky books! Here are my creepy reads from my TBR list that I hope to get through this month! If you have any other creepy/horror book recommendations, let me know! A collection of short stories by the King of horror and spook. I have read the first one, Autopsy Room Four…
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Commitment Issues With Books
Only once have I ever not finished a book I was reading with no intention of ever picking it back up. However, I have abandoned a few for years. The book in question, was a book a friend of mine’s dad had written. He was self-published and had under 30 sales in a few years.…
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Quarter-Life Crisis?
Do you ever wonder about life like Carrie Bradshaw, dream to look like Mortitia Addams, fear like Stephen King, and love like Jane Austin? What happens when all of the aspects of your life collide and clash like a fatal land slide? Akin to most people with ADD, the endless hobby hopping is one thing,…
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How 5.5” Ruined My Day
The fact that this is the first post since the D-Day post, should say something. We are on month four since he departed the country and the first mental break has hit. It is always the smallest things that breaks the damn holding back the big. Home projects are one of the ways I have…
Everything With Nothing 