April 2025
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April 30
Robin had her Cobalt sendoff for Summit tonight. Expectations for this team are so low that when they hit their routine, everyone was over the moon excited. Robin even came home saying it made her want to do cheer again. We left excited for this weekend, and I’m glad.
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April 29
Tonight was my last NAMI class. I’m always glad I have the opportunity to do this. It’s incredibly fulfilling for me. But Tuesdays are my only free night and I have missed having that night off these last two months. After this weekend, in fact, cheer will also be done. I’m going to have so…
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April 28
One of my new roses is blooming. The blossom doesn’t look as healthy as I was hoping it’d be, but maybe it just needs to establish itself a bit more first. The garden on the whole is doing pretty well. The plants are starting to fill in a little, and it looks more flush. Even…
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April 27
Today was a busy day. I woke up before dawn to run the Strides for Pride run for JASMYN. It was probably my best race yet, not for finishing time, but for how I felt while I was running. It went over a bridge, twice, which is brutal. I didn’t even attempt to run the…
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April 26
Christina had another great day of competition today. “Let It Be” won first in the category, second in the level 1 small group category, and was one of only three teams in all of level 1 that received a nomination to go to the world championships in NYC in July. She was so excited, as…
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April 25
We gave this self publishing kit to Christina for her 10th birthday. She loved the idea of it so much that she was afraid to use it in case she messed it up. She wrote a bunch of stories, but none of them seemed good enough to publish. In the end, she decided to use…
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April 24
I clocked 55 miles on the odometer today, just going back and forth between dance and tumbling. I did this after a full day of work, and then I came home and had dinner and had a Zoom meeting with my NAMI co-facilitator, took a shower, and somehow still felt like I could run around…
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April 23
Spent a few minutes in the garden after work. One of the new roses has a bud on it. The impatiens was angry that I hadn’t watered it in a few days. This amaryllis is a late bloomer, but beautiful as can be. The weather was perfect and I was jealous of our neighbor, who…
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April 22
I started running again last fall. I thought that, like other times I have gotten into running, progress would come easily over time. These last four months or so have proved me very, very wrong. I thought that by now, completing a 5k would feel relatively easy, or at least POSSIBLE. I have a race…
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April 21
I didn’t stick around for cheer tonight and instead came home to cook dinner, even though no one else was home. I got a whole 90 minutes all to myself. It was blissfully quiet. I need to do this more often.
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April 20
We had such a good Easter this year. So much better than last year, but having wisdom teeth removed would be better than last Easter. We crocheted, we had a water balloon fight, Robin made this bunny cake, we played a new game called Chicken Butt, and we had a delicious ham dinner made by…
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April 19
It was a busy day. Gym for a run this morning, then food shopping, dyeing eggs (we tried the Cool Whip method this year with marginal success), and then I went out for pizza with Lauren and Monica. While I was out, Robin and Billy baked jelly bean sugar cookies that are actually quite tasty!…
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April 18
It was kind of a slow day. The kids were off for Good Friday and I didn’t have any meetings at work. Robin and I picked out a cake and some cookies to make tomorrow for Easter dinner. Could very well end up on an episode of “Nailed It” when we’re done, but we’re gonna…
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April 17
I finished this sweater a few days ago, which I started sometime in 2023. There are so many things wrong with it, but through some miracle there are enough things right with it that I can wear it and it even looks presentable. And now I’m in the weird, uncomfortable position of having nothing to…
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April 16
It is so annoying dealing with the pharmacy. I’m going on three days without a medication after being told for days, “It’ll be ready by 11.” I can barely function right now. I’m glad this medication works, but it is ALWAYS a pain in the ass to refill. I go through this every month and…
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