Wellbeing

Enter

Today was the first morning at the new office. My office is cool. It’s a little far from my peeps down the hall and around a corner, but a little walking will do me good. The movers are behind but we had some wicked thunderstorms yesterday afternoon/evening, so I’m back at the home office this afternoon. I can’t help myself when there’s stuff to be done and my neck tells me…
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Kitchen Sink

Exit

I looked up on my way out the door this afternoon. There’s an exit sign pointing to the parking lot as you leave my office. “Tomorrow will be the last time I look up at that sign.” I thought to myself. Tomorrow will be my last day at work in Clearwater. I’ve worked there since the fall of 1996. Seventeen years wouldn’t give a lot of folks pause, but if you were to…
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Beth

What's so special about today?

Today is Monday, July 15th, 2013. Our first born child, a little girl we named Elizabeth Ann, was born on Tuesday, July 15th, 1997. Maybe you’re not a math person… and that’s ok. Not everyone is, so I’ll do it for you (eventually). Caveat: my knowing has nothing to do with math and everything to do with said little girl (who’s not so little anymore) asking the…
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Wellbeing

Conquering Gyro

I’ve got a million Gyro jokes and puns this morning… just so you know. I’m still suffering from the defeat to last night’s dinner at the hands of an under-dog Gyro. Strike that. I already don’t like the word association with dog and Gyro, considering the way I feel. And yet, this morning I woke up before my alarm and started my neck stretches, exercises, and early…
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Wellbeing

Leaving my comfort zone?

I’ve been sitting on this post for a couple weeks. Cheryl and I have discussed this at length, but I’ve waited to put this up until after her big day. I didn’t want her dealing with this, any more than she already would have been, when she was already going to be stressed talking to the folks at the home office in Tallahassee. – – – It’s easy to see life…
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Wellbeing

Maybe it's better I didn't know

Who knows what kind of anxiety I could have built up if I’d known. Until Friday I had an umbilical hernia. I preferred this name to the more common “belly-button hernia.” Until Friday night I thought the surgery to repair it would be nothing – no more harmful than its silly sounding common name. I have a couple days under my belt now, and holy shit on a popsicle stick, it…
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Family and Friends

There's something about nineteen

It’s not just today, but it is today in particular. This is the point in this post where I start making a little sense. I was nineteen years old when I started dating my wife. To be clear, we weren’t married at the time. Unless a third party arranges a marriage, folks don’t typically date their spouse. The husband and wife part came later for me and mine. Folks often hear this…
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Beth

When questions get harder

Beth wanted advice on a homework assignment for a writing class she’s taking at college this semester. Her professor wants the class to come up with two topics for a possible upcoming assignment: write a persuasive essay taking a side of an issue relevant today. I thought to myself, “yeah sure, possible. Like it’s possible I might take another breath before the end of the…
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Family and Friends

Someone's birthday

I’m hoping you’ll read this one, even If you ignore most of my posts. Tomorrow is Cheryl’s birthday. She’s not going to get what she deserves because it’s impossible to quantify. She’s not going to get what she’s worth because everything is beyond my means. Instead, she’s going to get up and do what she does every Friday: wake up, take the kids to…
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Computer

Dating myself

First, a little background. HANDS OFF THOSE MICE! I’ll keep it quick. Beth is a smart, 15 year old kid who has been using computers at home for most of those 15 years. When she was a little over one we bought an original iMac. ‘Twas the day after Thanksgiving (in 1998) and all through the store, folks were swinging mice like weapons, crying the holiday motto: MORE! Then, like now…
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