This probably sounds a bit dumb, but I have been in a pretty bad rut, so I tasked myself with doing two things for myself every week. And I did that this week!

It is -1 Celsius here in Paris and will go to -7 tonight brrrr hubby made chocolate coffee and I intend to burn the leaves so it will be quite fun

Congrats, I am about to brave the freezing winds to clean up leaves

I finally finished designing my company logo (I think! I at least don’t hate it! I think I can work with it for use on other things!)!

Well this week has been a shit sandwich for everyone around me and for me to a lesser extent. My car broke down, my dad checked himself into a mental institution, my neighbor died after a brief battle with cancer, a good friend/coworker got laid off from her job, and now my dog is either mysteriously injured or going…

Good timing. I’m going to fulfill a promise I just made on a previous post.

I’m 33 weeks pregnant, baby’s feet are lodged squarely under my ribs, and all I want to do right now is pop open a bottle of The Bean Pinotage and say a jolly “no need, thanks” when someone offers me a glass for it.

Things are happening in my life! I had a fractional laser used on a scar on my forehead. I currently have a major red streak on my forehead and so I am staying in this weekend. But that’s ok! It is cold and rainy so that is perfectly fine with me. The things:

Mr. Duck quit his job. Which I saw coming. What I didn’t see coming is he did it all of a sudden, without having a new job in the wings. (He hurt his rotator cuff at work, and his supervisor did jack shit about it, so.) I’m trying not to stress out about things, but that’s not easy.

That sounds gooooood.

Thanks! I was really lucky to have a husband who’s not grossed out by bodily functions and hair, which meant I got regular showers with his help, but it was just so nice to be able to do it alone. I have no idea how single people manage - my family are 300 miles away and are not the types to offer a shower or sponge…

It really is a great feeling. I let everything slide as I was stressfully searching for and beginning a tenure-track job (like nearly forty pounds of slide, aaargh it sucks to even type it!) Now I am slowly working my way back, but the first ten feels like an accomplishment. In another five-ish I will have lost 10% of…

Not really an achievement but finally got my cast off after breaking both arms at Christmas, so today I washed my own hair for the first time in 6 or so weeks :-) also flossed my teeth for the first time since, and still getting over the horror of what came out!

Thank you <3 and maybe haha. My friend who knows him better was like bad idea but idk I just can’t shake this. I’ve never had a crush this strong before I actually get them very rarely.

I’ve lost ten pounds! My clothes are fitting a bit better, and I am hopeful that I can lose another ten before summer. We’ve been eating a low glycemic index diet, and doing isometrics - it always works, why do I stop doing it?!?! - and I also feel like I have more energy and I am sleeping better. Anyway, that is my…

so my therapist is russian and she told me a story about her grandmother telling her how after wwii, it took people in the eastern bloc to thaw out and feel safe again...to stop waiting for the next bomb, the next raid, etc. she told me this because she was stressing to me the importance of letting myself settle into…

I talked to the guy I am crushing on at this party last night but then I had a huge mental death spiral and I probably won’t talk to him again so idk if that is actually progress

I’ve been at my job for three months now (which means I can start using my vacation days) and things are going really well. Also, it’s my first full time job with benefits, so it feels like a big deal to me (I got stuck in part time jobs right out of college, and then I went to grad school, so I feel like I’m too old…

Yumm! I did Keto a couple of years ago. Found a lot of good recipes on ibreatheimhhngry.com

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