Thanks so much for the encouraging words. I appreciate the way you spread your positivity around!

My boyfriend of 6 years broke up with me the first weekend in March. It was unexpected and felt like an emotional drive-by shooting. I spent a week crying, feeling crappy, and working my support system. This week, I felt better and was able to run, do yoga, and make it to work every day.

Hands down, boxers have THE cutest butts. No question. Especially the pups!! <3 Great name, too. <3

yesterday i got my septum pierced after wanting to pierce my nose for twenty years (it was also the only thing i can ever remember my parents— dad who was almost totally absent— agreeing on and forbidding so hahahahaha 🖕🏻😁🖕🏻)— i actually look prettier? like i’m generally pleasing enough to the eye but it really…

Thanks. We plebes tend to be viewed as slightly less than human by certain upper management, so it was a nice change of pace.

Carbs are the devil. 

OMG OMG OMG! Yay you!!! That is so incredible. And Yay Archie’s awesome backside LOL!

One day at cardiac rehab I had the best blood pressure of everyone in the room! 

At work, I caught an issue with a company partner and told the relevant team how to handle it. They freaked, it got run WAY up the chain, and the response was... handle it like AD said. The powers that be actually thanked me for 1) catching and flagging the issue, and 2) not getting pissed at the team for acting like…

I knuckled down on my journaling this week; having taken some inspiration from a podcast, I employed a few tips from blogging/journaling websites. The hardest part now, I’m finding, is finding somewhere I can write uninterrupted.

A woman not affiliated with my work place called because her mother is dying and she needed some help with practicalities. She kept apologizing too. I told her she had nothing to apologize for, with me she could feel all her feelings and it was a safe space. She started to cry, said it was the first time she had, and…

Pupper butt!

That’s awesome! Congrats on the potential chapter offer, that’s exciting! I ran four miles every morning this week, those twelve mile runs when I start training for the half marathon will fall before me! 

Hellooooo, Archibald! :-))))

Thank you! I’m hoping so, too. I’m a bit nervous about training starting tomorrow -- only because it’s a much bigger place than my previous gig -- but it will definitely be good to get a paying gig again, especially as I’m STILL waiting on any payments to come through from unemployment...

So sorry about your ring and may I recommend that you get a pro or an experienced student to fix it rather than trying to d.i.y..

I just want to boop his little nose!! So cute!!

I finally got a new job! A very cool one, at a kind of famously cool place!

I’d hesitate to try on anything that delicate! If you do attempt the solder yourself, I wish you luck. Otherwise, my mom has broken her ring before and the repairs weren’t too pricey.

The cuteness! Who’s a cutie? You are, doggo.