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I spent a lot of today grasping for rest. Trying to get the kids distracted all at the same time so I could try to take a nap. And another nap, because one little naplet wasn’t enough. Because I’m beyond tired. And it made me kind of grumpy and yelly. Because the kids didn’t really…

If I’m honest about how I spend my time, I would actually realize that I could have done maybe 2-4x more in a given day than I actually do. The problem is not time. It is focus. It is avoidance. How much time is spend chasing dopamine, avoiding uncomfortable feelings? Today, a lot. What am…

Shockingly, my son told me, when I asked him why he didn’t hear what his mother told him to do, “I don’t like to listen. I like doing what I’m doing” If only we were that transparent with our motivations, perhaps we’d get somewhere. I’m working on creating a social media presence. It’s tedious and…

We complain over here a lot. About how our house is a mess, and our yard is a mess. To be fair, our kids are harbingers of chaos. They seem to break everything, and they don’t respect the rules. Who’s raising those kids, anyway? …. Let’s not point fingers here… The point is, all the…

I still feel super sick. I have lingering bronchitis, and it seems to be getting worse instead of better. Last night 9 year old was sick, so she was sleeping in the living room, which meant that I couldn’t sleep in the living room, so I woke up the baby with my incessant coughing, and…

I got like 4 hours of sleep last night and it was awesome. Because I’ve been getting 1-2 hours of sleep for the past couple of nights, because I can’t stop coughing, because I have the bronchitisiest bronchitis, that’s a lot of becauses, anyway, my point is, I feel a little better. But I have…

Everyone has gotten sick over here over the last few weeks. But we’re still chugging along. Much less self-pity and making it into a thing this time. But we’re a bit too much on the busy side.

I have to shop for presents for my kids. Also I have bronchitis.

Are you playing to win, or just playing around? I realized I am not really playing to win with either of my businesses. I’m still going in circles doing the least important things (pretending they’re necessary precursors). There are so many times we’re just doing things to make it look like we’re committed. If we…

I took the kids to Mass at the parish church last Friday, and they begged me to get a tag off of the giving tree at the front of the church. I reluctantly agreed- reluctant, not because I’m miserly with money, but because I’m miserly with my time, and I know that I tend to…

To me, the idea of “choosing your identity” always felt new-agey and inauthentic How can you decide who you are? You were given to yourself as a gift by God. You are who you are. When my coach kept asking me “Who are you committed to be?” and similar questions, I wasn’t really sure how…

Today was kind of rough. I tried to keep the baby on fever medicine, because yesterday his fever got kind of scary-high. Scary to me, at least, I feel like crap with a 99F fever, but husband and the boys in our family regularly get like 102, or 103F fevers and it’s not hospital-worthy or…

“What’s the place you’re coming from?” “How are you existing?” “What’s your inner stance?” I had thought that I was understanding these questions and the distinctions they’re pointing to, but now that I’m doing stuff, I’m realizing… I don’t think I am. I led a team exercise today, in which my manager did not participate…

I got some great feedback from my semi-checked-out about-to-leave colleague, who does not appreciate me challenging his cynicism directly. Basically, stop being pushy with the advice. I think this is likely good advice, and I am taking it at face value, even though I find this particular coworker to be someone in tons of need…

I spent most of today lying on the floor with the 1 year old while the 3 year old played with mud, broke into the prunes, and (we discovered much later) relocated items from the real refrigerator to the play kitchen refrigerator, which does not, in fact, keep things cold. So we had to throw…

I have been trying to write a blog post for the last half an hour as the kids fight and lose their mindcakes over countless nothings.  Time to call this (badly) done and move on to something that requires just a bit less brain function.

Today, at the Coffee Bean, I ordered something. There was a price. It said $3. The register said $3.75. I pointed this out. Instead of offering it to me at the listed price, they asked if I still wanted it. I did, but what I wanted is for them to honor their advertising. Or take…

As I was describing how Facebook hates me to a friend, I tried to log into my instagram account to get started on an ad campaign, only to have Meta hate on me some more, trying to do the exact same thing again. Somehow I convinced the platform I’m a bot or something, because it…

So I’m a business expert, because I’ve read almost 2 books on the subject.  And all (both) of the books that I have read say the same thing, more or less: find your customer, not your product. The first book presupposed a product and was elucidating the process of marketing it, but really that process…

I can’t do this because it will take too long, and there are so many items on my list. Let’s see if there’s an easier task on there. Oh no, that one looks like it will take focus, and I don’t have focus right now because there are too many items on my list. Oh…