It did not feel like a Tuesday – it felt like much later in the week. Tonight, I took The Kid to the NWSL semi-final soccer game. This was the game to decide who the Portland Thorns would play in the finals on Saturday. It was a fun game to attend. If anyone watched on…
Category: life
One Goal Beyond
Regular readers of my blog know that this time of the year can involve soccer. Okay, most of the summer can involve me talking about soccer. Just not men’s soccer – women’s professional soccer or the NWSL. Specifically, I like to talk about the Portland Thorns which is my favorite team. This season, I must…
An Interesting Turn of Events
He had mentioned that a friend’s mom had dragged him to thrift shops, and he found he enjoyed it. Did we know of any, he asked. At the time, we mentioned we knew of a few places. Could he come along next time? Sure, we promised. Then that was that. Fast forward to last Saturday….
Cows, Meditation and Self-Care
I think this summarizes well my mental process today – trying to be meditative about this transition. Breathing – reminding myself to breathe – and at the same reminding myself to let myself feel shit – even if it isn’t shit I want to feel. My dad called me about noon today to see how…
And then there was one….
I remember reading a parenting book while I was pregnant about attachment parenting. The line that stood out was “if done right, your child will want down – want to explore – and do it because they know you will be there when they need you because you have always made them feel safe.” That…
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
Whenever I hear the opening lines of “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys”, I see my dad, bandana tied around his head, singing along at the top of his lungs. Dad raised us on a good mix of Beatles, Billy Joel, Steppenwolf, and Sly and the Family Stone to name a…
A Rough Day
Today was such a mixed bag at work. I spent the first part of my day settling down my cohorts. The middle part of my day was talking to people concerned I’m going to leave. The latter part of my day was squashing the rumors that my cohort, then I, will be fired soon. Just…
An Emotional Hangover
I feel like I have a hangover from life this week. It started off crazy – a come-to-Jesus-meeting with the staff and the owner of the company. A confrontation between my boss and a cohort during a meeting the next day. Another confrontation between my boss and the same cohort the next day during another…
A Productive Day
Today was a productive day. While I didn’t get everything I would like to get done, done – I did get some things done. Got through about 400+ photos from the kink party. I went thru and got the set to edit down to 130. I edited them all as low light requires me to…
Sleep? Who Needs Sleep?
My day started yesterday at about 6:30am. My body woke up at that time mainly because I had slept in a way that made me sore, so my body woke me up to tell me it was unhappy. I got up, took some Advil, then went back to bed because I knew today or yesterday,…
