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It's been a hard week. I've been practicing a lot of unintentional avoidance of my feelings and my stress and anxiety that are related to going into a new work situation. The job is a good one,...

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Well, it is official - I am employed again! I can't remember how much I wrote about in the last entry, but about two weeks ago I was asked to travel to Columbus (about 2.5 hours away) for a seco...

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I'm having some bad vibes about the CVS interviews. Everything in me tells me that if I go, it's going to be a waste of time and I will hate the job. I don't know. It seems really hard to me...

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I've had two more developments on the job hunting front this week. One call from the company I was offered a position with in June, but had to turn down. A store that's an hour away wants me to...

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I heard from a former coworker that my old boss (the one I trained under) is coming back to my old store again. I'm not sure why, or for how long, but the crazy incompetent manager who was leadi...

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My mental outlook is much better today...something about the bright sunshine and kittens romping through the house kind of makes it impossible to get too down. I'm still frustrated on the job ...

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...but I feel like I'm not getting any oxygen past the two ton elephant sitting on my chest. Its not so bad during the day. At least then I have the kids, tv, books, whatever, to distract me. ...

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Aaron and I decided to turn down the job offer. I'm disappointed, because it was a fabulous opportunity for me, professionally, but we just didn't have the financial cushion to allow us to make ...

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So. I finally received a decision at the end of this six week interview process I've been traveling. It is a good news/bad news kind of thing, and not at ALL what I was expecting. They decided...

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Tonight is one of those rare nights when I crave a social setting, when I would love to be having coffee or dinner with friends. It doesn't happen often at all, so I'm kind of sad I can't take ad...

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Today has been rough. It's been a week since my surgery, and in some ways I feel worse now than I did directly after. Thanks to my medication, I'm tired all day long. I try not to take the pai...

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I'm very seriously considering shutting down my business. For the past few weeks, as much as I've been able to sit back and think about it, it just doesn't bring me joy anymore. The thought of ...

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My job interview was this morning. Objectively, I think it went amazingly well. The HR recruiter and I get on fabulously, and had lots to talk about. The interview itself was around two hours ...

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For the past two days I've been sorting through every thing in this house, setting aside things for a yard sale and tossing things that are broken, stained, etc. We've been living in this house ...

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Sometime I feel like there are two separate people living in my head, similar enough that I recognize them as "me," but with different aspirations, different styles, even different tastes and con...

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I've just spent the evening making two batches of soap, one batch of unscented coconut milk, and one batch of Orange and Tea Tree. I made my very first batch last week, and it went nearly perfe...

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I'm not feeling well today. I woke up with an inflammation flare up in my teeth, which always leads to pain and the swallowing of multiple ibuprofen throughout the day, if not an out and out kno...

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I was awake half the night with tooth problems. My teeth have been bad for years (too many years of no dental insurance, plus a healthy dental phobia caused by a sadistic dentist when I was 10 y...

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This is shaping up to be a depressing week. For the past month, I've been working so hard to grow my business and to start the kind of momentum that will build and eventually lead to the kind ...

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I've never been one to be plagued with "womanly problems," but I noticed that in the past year I definitely get more cranky and melancholy around that time of the month. Must be the changes of a...

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I've discovered in the past couple of weeks that I can be happy with so much less than I'm accustomed to. Aaron and have really embraced the ideas of simplicity and self-sufficiency and we are w...

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I did something pretty crazy last week. I quit the retail management job I've had for almost five years to strike out on my own and make it as a portrait/glamour photographer. I thought that ...

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I was scheduled to work a 14 hours shift today, but when I couldn't get my car out of the driveway due to the ice/snow/slush/mud...well, I got an unscheduled morning off. I may still have to go ...

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I said I wasn't going to do it, but here I am. I have to be honest, the loss of Open Diary has really affected me. I didn't expect it to quite so much; I hadn't been writing much over there rec...

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