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St. P's in These Foolish Things
Well, we made it to Friday. Just gotta get through this day…finishing up a big presentation that I will give at noon. And the rest of the day will be putting out fires that have started as we m...
Weekdays in These Foolish Things
The day didn’t get much better yesterday. The only thing I could do was take deep breaths and take things one step at a time. Just like every day. I will say that at one point in the day I fel...
Wednesday Shit...or, The Usual. in These Foolish Things
I have 10 minutes to tap out an entry. I’m in desperate need of a mental health day. Literally every morning after I wake up and usually during my morning workout routine, I wonder about what ki...
Disaster Averted in These Foolish Things
First off, OMG thank you for the brilliant, smart, caring words, you guys. I guess I was thinking that if my entries aren’t peppered with scandal and intrigue, kissing boys or RADs or drinking c...
New Day - New Week in These Foolish Things
Annnnnd it’s Monday. Once again, the weekend was much too short. We’re back in the office and back at the grind. It’s busy…the week before the big trade show, and we’ve got potential investors ...
That Escalated Quickly in These Foolish Things
The Milestone Trip to Italy is booked for Memorial Day Weekend. I am so, so excited I can hardly stand it! Rome! Florence! Tuscany…here we come! Maria has booked our hotels - 4 nights in Flore...
SCANDAL! in These Foolish Things
Wow, you guys. Do you remember when I went to France last year? I did all of my research for months and created what I thought was an itinerary for the coolest trip ever? Well, in my joy to pl...
Quick Thoughts in These Foolish Things
As I’m trying to journal every day this week, I’m going to try to tap out a quick entry before my next meeting. I’m annoyed by everything today and I need to figure out how to get over it. I ha...
RADless in These Foolish Things
You guys, I can’t for the LIFE of me, get a guy to get excited about going out with me! I wrote yesterday about getting stuff done in the morning because I was going to be meeting a guy on a dog-...
Whole Life Challenge - Journaling Week in These Foolish Things
As part of my Whole Life Challenge (I’m on week 7 of the 8 week challenge), we get a weekly lifestyle challenge. One week we were supposed to meditate, one week we would write three goals for our...
Friday Five: Dilemmas and Questions in These Foolish Things
Going to need to write much, much more about this, but I had meeting #2 with the potential new company and the guy who is my friend - who I’d be working with directly in an office here in town....
Writing it Off/Out in These Foolish Things
No word from The Tree in a couple of days now. So weird. He’s in and then out. This is too much trouble. This relationship is clearly not bearing fruit. Appears the juice is not worth the ...
Not Sure. in These Foolish Things
Not sure, not sure. Usually I can tell when a guy is really into me. By The Tree’s persistence to see me, he seems into me - yet there’s something nagging going on in the background. He seems ...
Leafing Through... in These Foolish Things
Yesterday, as I was leaving the office, I sent a text to The Tree just to let him know I was thinking about him. Since he’s been back in my life (ha, the last few days), he’s actually put in a l...
Planting the Seed, Again. in These Foolish Things
You guys are going to razz me, but guess what I did last night? I went out with The Tree. Yes, the guy who can’t seem to stick with a plan actually made a plan with me on Sunday (to go to dinner...
100% Free and Clear in These Foolish Things
…and now it’s Monday and somehow I feel a little bit better than yesterday, even though: My apartment situation kind of sucks now. The dufases at the apartment building that’s situated on the...
Pre-Valentine Blues. *UPDATE in These Foolish Things
I had a bit of a setback this past week with regards to moving forward with my life and the fact that I’m not partnered up. For some reason (maybe it was because I mentioned him in my last entry...
Eight is Great in These Foolish Things
I’ve lost 6 lbs so far on the Whole Life Challenge plan. I mostly think it’s because I weighed myself the morning after my pre-challenge binge (I’m guessing added 3 lbs of just pure “bad stuff...
RAD: The Oversleeper in These Foolish Things
Name: The Oversleeper (TOS) Age: Though his profile says he’s 51, he referred to being 57 and not looking his age over and over again. Status: Says he’s divorced three years, but photos I found o...
Friday Five in These Foolish Things
The stress levels at work are off the charts. I have no fewer than FOUR highly diva-like personalities I’m dealing with on a daily basis, and all of their crises have to get resolved in the ne...
Let Love Rule in These Foolish Things
I had no idea what to expect regarding Monday night’s inter-faith vigil in support of immigration and that was planned at a monument that just happens to be on the block where I live. But I thou...
Terrifying Thought in These Foolish Things
This morning on my drive into work I realized that I haven’t felt so terrified for our country and our safety and well-being since 9/11. It’s a familiar feeling of being trapped on an island jus...
LLD in These Foolish Things
Lovely Leah’s daughter (let’s call her LLD just to keep it simple): Tuesday night I went up to Lovely’s house. They were all away at a candle light vigil that LLD’s friends had put together. I...
Missed Voice Mails in These Foolish Things
I somehow missed a phone call on Friday. It was from my dad. He was calling to tell me that one of his good friends passed away. This guy was also one of my favorite friends of my parents’. O...
Alternative Facts in These Foolish Things
You guys, I’m really and truly concerned for our country if the biggest thing the President is concerned about is who’s crowd was bigger. It’s like a contest of penis sizes and the country is no...