Category: Family
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Hope You’re Good Nephew
On February 13, 2020, my nephew took his own life. That’s a day that I’ve played over in my head like I used to play out a cassette tape when I was younger. There are a hundred what if’s that have gone through my head, but none of it will…
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Unhappy 40-something
I’m not happy and haven’t been in a while. The whole going through the motions thing has been my go to for several months, or even a few years, because that is what I can handle right now. Thinking about this now for hours before deciding to open up a…
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Live Music Is Awesome
Seeing your favorite band or live music in general is an exciting experience. Even bands that aren’t that good somehow manage to pull off a live show because the energy of an audience is contagious. Obviously if I’m paying money, I’m going to see established bands that don’t suck and…
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Something about this time of year that just trigger’s my internal buttons, all of them, and turns me into a gen-x grouchy pants. I don’t have my family, or extended family and honestly don’t mind as much anymore being around family for dinners and such as I used to. It’s…
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Got my second arm stick
I went this past Friday to get my second COVID-19 vaccination shot from the local clinic. My thoughts on this are varied and are definitely not politically motivated so anyone who has arrived to this post expecting something political can just keep going. I’m aware this subject has unfortunately become…
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Stimulating
A lot has changed since January 2020 for basically the entire world and everyone has written about it all over the Internet. I’m not doing that because I don’t need to, well, sort of. Having these large gaps between writing is a regular thing for me and it’s something I’ve…
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Newest USA Archery Level 1 Instructor
I just got the last email from USA Archery that all my pre-requisite checks were now complete. I’m officially a Level 1 Archery Instructor! I’m now qualified to teach beginning archery skills to 8-13 year old children. While not a difficult process in general, it was actually more time-consuming that…
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Family ties to technology
I didn’t have a good weekend. It rained all day Saturday and we were running around all day Sunday because it was Mother’s Day. Of course the daughter decided that Sunday would be a day she would grind against the grain of everyone else and, as much as I love…
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Derailed by the Norovirus
It’s a bad day (and weekend) when the only person to get the virus in the house was ME. No one else got it, no one else shared in my pain and all too well-known symptoms of this nasty and pointless virus that is living upon this Earth. Really, what’s…