Grief time

I've spent the better part of the past 3 months grieving the death of my Dad. I've noticed two different phenomena as it relates to time: Time slows WAY THE F*CK DOWN, basically to a crawl, when you're grieving. I can now see a little countdown clock in just about every memory of my Dad. …

Oops

Welp. I did it again, I forgot about blogging. I don't even have to go back and check various archives to know that 3+ years is my longest break from blogging. At this point I guess one could say that I've quit blogging altogether, but yet.... here I am. Something gave me the idea to …

Returning to “normal,” whatever that looks like

Well it's just me, back for another week of keeping it real. I'm not going to lie (this is my blog that about 4 people read, why would I?), last week was a major struggle. As much as having all of the prior week off from work helped, getting back to work was really hard and …

Aftermath

Well, it's been a week since we learned that our little grain of rice-sized baby was no more (the official medical term in my chart is "spontaneous abortion" and my God is that horrible). Of the 3 options for passing the "productions of conception" through my system that were presented to me, I opted for …

Missed

This is definitely not the follow-up to the last post that I was planning to write, but life has other plans sometimes. There's something very significant that I left out of the prior update out of caution, which it turns out I was right to be taking.  ***** While out with friends for dinner before …

Life in the time of COVID-19, parts 5-?

Welp, so much for regular updates during this sh*tstorm of a pandemic! I tried. It's barely been 3 months (I've definitely done worse on unintentional blogging hiatuses) so let me see if I can catch us up. Not surprisingly I stopped having time for blogging because things got busy with the house, moving, Ohio re-opening, …

Life in the time of COVID-19, part 4

Thus begins the 7th week of COVID-related self-isolating/social distancing/things still not being remotely normal. Sigh. ***** Workouts have been good. I added 2 boxing classes last week for a total of 8 workouts! Adding PR challenges definitely helped snap me out of my "woe is me, working out at home sucks" funk. I mean, it …

Life in the time of COVID-19, part 3

Well, here we are, already halfway through April. Does anyone else feel like time just kind of stopped over the past few weeks? We're already through our fifth week of self-isolation. On the one hand, days kind of drag by slowly. On the other, it's all been a blur of boring sameness with nothing exciting …

Life in the time of COVID-19, part 2

I've been hearing reports that Ohio isn't supposed to hit the peak of this virus until mid-May, and Terry just told me Virginia's stay-at-home order was issued to last through June so... seems like this will become a recurring series for now! ***** First and foremost, Happy Birthday to my Dad today! He's turning 73. …

Life in the time of COVID-19, part 1

I read recently that historians are urging people to keep diaries/journals of what life is like right now, and surely future generations will want to read my very important thoughts about life in the time of Coronavirus. ***** I have to admit that I was not taking this seriously right away. Anyone else? I think a …