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Well, I'm starting to pack my room so we can be outta here by the end of the month.
I hate the new house. I'm sorry, but I do. It's like...there's anything and everything counting against it. Well, I have a place to sleep and it's not going to fall to pieces in the immediate future. Everything else is just awful. I don't know why we picked it and I can't wait to get out of it, and we haven't even moved in yet. The house feels so restricting. I'm someone who likes space, and there's anything BUT space in this house. But hey, at least is has a dishwasher!
I think I might cry.
I hate the new house. I'm sorry, but I do. It's like...there's anything and everything counting against it. Well, I have a place to sleep and it's not going to fall to pieces in the immediate future. Everything else is just awful. I don't know why we picked it and I can't wait to get out of it, and we haven't even moved in yet. The house feels so restricting. I'm someone who likes space, and there's anything BUT space in this house. But hey, at least is has a dishwasher!
I think I might cry.
I'm sorry, I remember when my Mom sold the house I grew up in. I lived there for 22 years, I cried a lot. Try to make the space you have for yourself your own. Decorate it like you like and just try to make it as comfortable as possible. I don't know if it's a temporary move for your family but they are there and that's a great thing.
Went to a very nice art show at my kids school today. You can buy your child's artwork for 10 dollars, in a frame,it's very nice, so I bought both. I was going to buy both in the frame even if they were scribbles. But they look really nice. My Daughter did a self picture. She used construction paper, it's cute, she kind of looks like a little piggy, but it's really cute. I'm hanging them on the wall. I have a lot of their art on the wall.
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Things I have learned lately-
Oh snap, typing on a keyboard is pretty weird, not having done so since...wow, two months ago. Nice to know that typing is like riding a bike. I mean, it isn't, not at all, you don't have to pedal while you type...just...ok, yeah, so anyway...
Right right, things I've learned. Yes.
Stories mutate further and further from the truth at an alarming rate. Sometimes the story gets all skewed two or three people down the line, sometimes the first person to pass it on messes it up- it's always best just to go right to the source if there's something going on that leads you to want to speculate or assume things.
I've been kinda really like a spineless jellyfish (is that completely redundant or what?) for a very, very long time.
It's not all that difficult to just NOT be a spineless jellyfish. Who knew?
Three flights of stairs are killer when you've got two small children and a big load of groceries.
I'm not ashamed to admit I make mistakes, that I don't always do the right thing, that I may even completely ignore the right thing and go for something I know is wrong. I live and learn. I screw up, realize I've been an idiot, and go forward. I think, a lot of times, people expect me to be embarrassed about the choices I make- particularly the ones they don't agree with, or don't understand the reasons behind...and when I'm not...I don't know. I've completely lost my train of thought because my 15 month-old is standing beside me playing peek-a-boo with the computer screen.
Anyway, the most important thing I've learned recently is that I am not responsible for other people. Not for what they do, or say, or feel. I can't "make" anyone feel/not feel something. Just as nobody else is responsible for my feelings or actions but me.
Also, life without internet is...full of canvas and paint.
The end?
Oh snap, typing on a keyboard is pretty weird, not having done so since...wow, two months ago. Nice to know that typing is like riding a bike. I mean, it isn't, not at all, you don't have to pedal while you type...just...ok, yeah, so anyway...
Right right, things I've learned. Yes.
Stories mutate further and further from the truth at an alarming rate. Sometimes the story gets all skewed two or three people down the line, sometimes the first person to pass it on messes it up- it's always best just to go right to the source if there's something going on that leads you to want to speculate or assume things.
I've been kinda really like a spineless jellyfish (is that completely redundant or what?) for a very, very long time.
It's not all that difficult to just NOT be a spineless jellyfish. Who knew?
Three flights of stairs are killer when you've got two small children and a big load of groceries.
I'm not ashamed to admit I make mistakes, that I don't always do the right thing, that I may even completely ignore the right thing and go for something I know is wrong. I live and learn. I screw up, realize I've been an idiot, and go forward. I think, a lot of times, people expect me to be embarrassed about the choices I make- particularly the ones they don't agree with, or don't understand the reasons behind...and when I'm not...I don't know. I've completely lost my train of thought because my 15 month-old is standing beside me playing peek-a-boo with the computer screen.
Anyway, the most important thing I've learned recently is that I am not responsible for other people. Not for what they do, or say, or feel. I can't "make" anyone feel/not feel something. Just as nobody else is responsible for my feelings or actions but me.
Also, life without internet is...full of canvas and paint.
The end?
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I went for a jog last night (yes, learnt my lesson about jogging in the dark) and ended up tripping, twisting my ankle and gracelessly sliding in to the pavement. I lay down for awhile, comprehending what just happened before slowly sitting up. I felt the blood dripping down my knee and my elbow, and slowly began to pick the rocks out of my fingers. My ankle was raging with pain, and usually I suck it up and macho my way out of it, but I just didn't feel like being tough at all last night. I didn't want to take it like a man, I really wished someone was there to help me. Realising that the situation was I didn't have my phone on me, I started to cry. And I don't cry in public if I can help it.
I then hobbled the last 2kms (1.24 miles) home, nearly the whole time praying and speaking over my ankle to heal, and at some point my tears of pain turned to tears of prayer for the Lord to make His presence felt and close to me because I was feeling sorry for myself. He was there, and at some point I had the strength to walk at a fast pace the last bit of the way home.
A part of me wants to continue complaining about how much my ankle hurts, but a deeper part of me wants to see it miraculously healed. If you could pray for that miracle, that would be great!
I then hobbled the last 2kms (1.24 miles) home, nearly the whole time praying and speaking over my ankle to heal, and at some point my tears of pain turned to tears of prayer for the Lord to make His presence felt and close to me because I was feeling sorry for myself. He was there, and at some point I had the strength to walk at a fast pace the last bit of the way home.
A part of me wants to continue complaining about how much my ankle hurts, but a deeper part of me wants to see it miraculously healed. If you could pray for that miracle, that would be great!
Oh boy, ouch. I will pray for your healing. I broke my ankle last year. I thought I had sprained it, but after I had X-Ray's done I got the news and I started to cry. The Doctor and my Husband kind of looked at me like, OK, what do we do now. I never broke anything I had no idea what was to come. I was scared and I didn't know what else to do at that moment. So I do know that fear and pain. I hope the pain heals soon for you.
