As far back as I can remember, I’ve gotten anxious if I felt that I would be abandoned. I have no idea why this is. I remember the bus driver forgetting my stop a few times when I was in first grade, and thinking that I would have to live on the bus now, and …
Category: Relationships
While You Were Sleeping
I’ve been on an extended training venture in Austin, Texas since October 29. This is the first time I’ve had an adventure that took me away for my own career. I was a welding girlfriend, then a welding wife. While it was the hardest thing, it unfortunately turned into the easiest thing. Distance is hard. …
What Happens to Liars… is
"And all I have to do is give them your name?" "Yeah, that's what they said." "Are you sure?" "That's what they told me!" I'm not going to pretend that exchange between my sister Shannon and me was verbatim, because I've lied enough already today. But it was super close to verbatim. Shannon had visited …
The Big Short
Recently, I realized I’ve been kind of lax on publicly updating the details of my life. (Mostly because who cares, right?) I mean, I remembered to put my new workplace on Facebook and LinkedIn, but not so much clean up the other details. Some “About” sections said that I still worked at/lived in other places. …
Honey, I Drowned the Kids.
Several things have changed for me personally in the last month. Josh and I, along with a bunch of our colleagues, left our former company and went to the rapidly-expanding Shine Solar. This has been the best move for us both individually and collectively, which is pretty awesome. My new job involves heading up and …
Kicking It.
This morning, I did something I’d been turning over in my mind since October…deleted Facebook. I deleted it in the way that means I didn’t delete it at all, which is to say that I just removed it from my phone. I have done that before, when the app locked up and I would delete …
Highlight Reels, or Filtered to Heaven
Something I like to tell people (because it makes me feel like a wise elder) is never to compare their everyday to someone else’s highlight reel. This is a particularly easy and dark place to access in the age of social media, with posts I call “filtered to heaven.” Not only can you airbrush the hell …
Leveling Up
Sometimes it feels like a really big miracle that I have survived for almost 42 years. Not only that I have survived, but that I have a job, that I am able to keep myself clean and fed, and especially that I can keep track of several things at once. Lately, accomplishing these small daily …
Adulting (v): to do grown up things and hold responsibilities…
So, a really great person I know requested last night that I blog more. I’m all, what are you talking about? I write this amazing blog every week for Smart Energy Solutions. Critics have called it “What blog?” and “That sounds boring.” It’s the kind of work that makes me think, “See, mom and dad? I …
The Leap Home
Ever watch Quantum Leap? Boy, I did. I’d watch it again right now if an episode happened to start up around my face and if I was oriented to time and place and if I was paying attention. That’s how much I loved it. That reminds me of the last time I watched it. I …