It’s 8pm on Saturday, and I’m squeezing this post in to keep my weekly blog streak going. I haven’t missed a week since January 2025, and I’m not going to start now.
My ultimate goal is to post on Wednesdays, but my week runs Sunday through Saturday, so as long as I get a post in within that range, I’m happy. I like the accountability of it.
I don’t have much energy to process or write right now, but I wanted to pop in to keep up with my weekly goal.
Classes start Monday, and I’ve been battling some back/neck pain, digestive issues, and sleep issues.
I’ve still made it to the gym every day this week, mostly doing physical therapy-style workouts just to keep my back and neck moving. It helps so much.
OMG, I just realized I didn’t share my weightlifting competition from this past weekend! I did great!! WAY better than I expected, and it was such a boost of confidence.
This is what I shared on IG:
I’m not sure what is happening, but time seems to be flying by at warp speed.
I’m back on contract at the college this week, and I’m just trying to stay on top of my active projects and class prep.
Tomorrow I’m giving a presentation on how bad teaching hurts good teachers, and it’s really my way of venting about the current culture of education. I feel stuck between student apathy and a system that doesn’t seem to care about actually educating them. It’s stressful, exhausting, and somewhat scary.
But you know what, I refuse to let work infiltrate every aspect of my life, so enough about that!
I don’t have much in me today, and I feel a little out of sorts. Work has been ramping up as I prepare for the start of fall classes. I did get a little painting and a little guitar in, but not with the consistency I’d like.
It’s our family’s beach week, even though we’re only going for a long weekend this year.
As parents of older kids, it’s hard to plan an entire week when all four of us have our own schedules and responsibilities. Not to mention, it’s quite expensive to rent a beach house these days, so this year we decided to just do a long weekend.
I am back from Mexico, revived, refreshed, and ready to go!
It was a great trip with some of my favorite people. I am grateful for friends who were willing to travel with me to celebrate my birthday.
I mean, look at us…
This may be a little overzealous or even cliché, but I’m going for it. My 50th birthday is on Friday, and before I head out of town to celebrate, I just wanted to write because, well, I’m a writer, and that, right there, is where I am going to start these random thoughts that have been swimming in my head.
It’s been two weeks since I did a goal check-in, so I’m looking forward to revisiting them. It helps ground me like nothing else does, especially during the summer when I’m all over the place.
I am simply popping in tonight to keep up my weekly blogging streak. I have not missed a week since January 2025, and I don’t want to give up on it now. So here I am!
It’s been a crazy week that kicked off with our air conditioning bombing during the latest heat wave.
The first website I published was in grad school in the late ’90s.
Yes, I am that old.
My first personal site was launched in 2005 when I created a family website to blog about my first pregnancy. That site snowballed into a weight-loss blog with a recipe-site spinoff, a yearly conference I hosted for bloggers, and even a small travel blog I managed with a friend.