Writing Archive

A Day Off On An Off Day

I gave myself the day off from my personal goals. A wonderful friend came in from out of town to visit and we treated ourselves to a day of more calories than you could shake a stick at. I had a crepe with strawberries, banana, nutella and walnuts for lunch with a caramel hazelnut latte. [...]

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That Second Step Is A Doozy

Today has been a pretty miserable failure as far as all of my goals have been concerned. I’ve barely recorded my food intake and most of my chores didn’t get done. I did manage to keep from raising my voice today, which was nice. I know the issue is that I didn’t take my medication [...]

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The New Regime

This transparency thing is hard. Awareness is hard. Mindfulness is hard. Only half way through the day and I’ve already raised my voice to Second. It was a knee-jerk reaction to her knocking over a pile of clean laundry I had just folded. I’m assigning myself another day of nutritional discipline for every transgression. The [...]

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Time keeps on ticking into the future

Here we are, another Sunday. A week has passed without me writing a word. This is partly due to Second having been ill all week, partly due to forgetfulness on my part. I need to really work on accountability and watchfulness this week and regular blogging will be a part of that. I need to [...]

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Sunday Night Special

Dr. Strangelove and I have a little Sunday night ritual. I strip and lie down across his lap. We talk about our week and our goals and all the other sweet stuff we need to talk about. And I get paddled for a good, long time. It’s a nice way to reconnect. It also serves [...]

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