Category: Daily Life

At some point you just have to come to grips with the fact that you will never matter to others as much as they matter to you

After all the chaos, I am returning to chanting

The outpouring of love and offers of assistance during Evan’s plight touches our hearts. The doctors are pleased with Evan’s progress but are having him stay another 24-48 hours. Evan is quite done with it all and would like to go home today.

A good friend has been counseling me on accepting offers of help. He has encouraged me to publish my Buy Me a Coffee link.

Our physical needs are met. I joked about needing a massage and someone has arranged that! Cathy wants our sidewalk finished so grab your shovels! 😉

Evan and I were supposed to be taking this past week and next week to make repairs on his car for his return trip. A beloved friend has offered to get the car to a mechanic to make it roadworthy and assist with some of the cost of repairs. If you would like to lighten his burden or help with our unplanned travel expenses, please see the Buy Me a Coffee link below. Thank you all! Each of you have already helped us through this trying time.

If you wish to help financially, this is my Buy Me a Coffee link: https://buymeacoffee.com/djuggler

“Overcomplicated it”

There are days that I cannot help but wonder if choosing sobriety wasn’t the biggest mistake of my life

You must be perfect all the time. Anything less is unacceptable.

I slept with earplugs in last night. Woke several times thinking I’d lost my hearing.

I looked at my watch this morning to see the temperature was 17°. I’m thrilled to say I didn’t even think about Fahrenheit. Without a conversion, no math, no thinking about the other temperature, I just knew what 17°C means for my comfort. Also without math I instinctively knew it to be 65°F…but I didn’t need to think about it that way because Celsius now has meaning to me like learning a new language eventually just becomes natural.

I cleaned my desk last night and not only do I feel more focused, I feel more relaxed.

Ask a ninja is back!

We interrupt this day to see if I can find a desk under all the stuff that has been accumulating upon it

Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion in head without math 92% accuracy

In the chaos that is the collapse of the United States, we feel the pressure to prepare for the coming recession. We are limited in time, and money, and space. I want to be growing food but don’t have a greenhouse. I want to be ready to taken in people into my home but we are out of space. I want to be able to have potable water on hand, and generate my own power, and have plenty of food in storage but I don’t have the means.

I will do what I can with what little I have. I will be calculating in my planning. We will survive.