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We went with Colleen and Shawn to the Colors of the Wild exhibit at the zoo tonight. It far surpassed anything I imagined it would be and was absolutely stunning. The amount of work that went into the display is astounding. Many of the installations were interactive and/or had moving parts. I really enjoyed it.…
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Robin came with me to today’s Santa Run and I had so much fun running with her. She hasn’t been running or training, so the fact that she ran at all was awesome, and then she went and ran half a mile without stopping! We had other short intervals of running the rest of the…
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I did so much today. Went out for a run, went to the post office, picked up race materials for tomorrow’s Santa run, put up our outside Christmas lights, sent in Robin’s high school transfer request, booked our trip to Yellowstone, took Christina to dance, and went out to the Symphony. I’m glad I accidentally…
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It was a pretty quiet day. I had hoped to put up our outside Christmas lights today, but Billy didn’t sleep well and wasn’t feeling up to it. If that happens again tomorrow, I may just have to do my best to do it alone. We can’t not have our lights up! Christmas is in…
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Christina remembered she needed to bring her Secret Santa gift for dance just about when we were halfway there. She asked me to go back and get it after dropping her off, but Robin had a cheer performance at school that I couldn’t miss. Somehow I made it home despite insane rush hour traffic, got…
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I had a rough morning. Being a parent is hard. Especially when it puts you face to face with the way you treated your own parents. I found myself pitting hurt and grief against guilt and regret and it sucked. I tried to run through it and that helped, but at the end of the…
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I opted not to go out for this morning’s run due to the cold temperatures and high wind, and I’m glad. Instead I spent the day working on next year’s family calendar – an annual tradition since 2008! I also managed to go food shopping, do laundry, and make meatball subs for dinner. We’ll get…
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We went to see The Nutcracker today, which almost didn’t happen because I bought tickets to something called “The Nutcracker and Sorcerer’s Apprentice” instead. We only found out by accident because a commercial for The Nutcracker came on TV and it said it was this weekend, not next weekend like the tickets I bought. Upon…
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I have not been sleeping well for about a week now, and it’s starting to show up in what I have to give to the day. This morning’s run was much harder than it should have been, and it took me hours to recover. I had planned to put up the outside Christmas lights, but…
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Went out to dinner with some friends from cheer. It’s kind of awesome that I made more friends than Robin did at cheer. I mean, not really; the fact that Robin didn’t make any lasting friendships really speaks volumes about the toxic environment at that gym, but it’s nice someone got something out of it.…
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I have resorted to a mashup of ChatGPT translations and Magic 8 Ball responses to questions I am asked every day. It’s surprisingly satisfying. My favorite response so far is, “Concentrate and ask again.” This is in no way to say that I am better than these asinine and convoluted questions, but let’s face it.…
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I am teetering on the edge of being too productive this week. It’s not good to set these precedents. I have a good reason to back off, too, because I have not been sleeping well for a few nights now. I wake up into a half-sleep around 3 or 4am, stuck in a dream where…
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The basketball games tonight showed improvement. The girls still only scored one basket, but that’s one basket more than their last game! And the boys only lost by 15. The sportsmanship of the other teams was much better than the first night, and I appreciated that. It’s a little unfair really, because our school is…
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There comes a point where being productive becomes counterproductive, and I hit that point today. It’s ok, though, because I am excellent at inventing distractions. Honestly, though, it was a pretty quiet day, and those are nice too. I am without a project or pastime at the moment, so have spent most of my free…
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We got our biggest Christmas tree ever today, literally the first one we saw. It touches the ceiling, but it’s nice because there was actually room for all our ornaments. Only one broke this year… seems every year we lose at least one. Now it feels like Christmas.
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