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My aunt returned from her trip to Japan last Thursday. She was only gone a little over a week and yet, now that she’s back, I’m having a hard time adjusting.
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I don’t want to complain but I must vent in some fashion. Bear with me!
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Recently, I realized something, that I’ve known both my biological father and my stepfather for 5 years each. That would mean, of my entire life, there’s only been 10 years when I had two parents.
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In relates to last week’s Monday Thoughts, I think my S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder) is starting to set in, and it’s worse than before because unlike prior years, I feel like I have absolutely nothing to look forward to this year like nothing in the next 2 or 3 months.
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I have been in quite a bit of meetings at work lately since I’m helping to integrate a piece of software into the current accounting software to help automate a task. Last week, as I was trying to hold a meeting, with my door closed, my mom was talking loudly with my aunt right outside my door to the point where I had to excuse and mute myself and tell her to pipe down. Afterwards, she told me she thought I was talking to myself and got angry at me.
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Well, September came and went just like that.
I bid the 32nd year of my existence farewell and ushered in the 33rd year in as plain of a fashion as possible – by going to work and celebrated it with a simple rice paper veggie roll from the local grocery store for lunch. It was delicious and felt like just what I was needing.
As much as I wanted September to be a quiet, steady month, it was nothing like that. Work was incredibly busy with loads of emails in each of the four (some days five) mailboxes I monitored. There were days where it was impossible to fit every task into an 8-hour day without me wanting to scream into my pillow.
The third week of September had to be the longest week of my life as so many things piled into Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The back surgery my mom’s been waiting for was finally done on the 18th of September. That was also the day I attended my first live soccer match. I never like soccer as a sport but I discovered the reason when I went to the game. It was the commentary and the ads that turned me off of the sport when I watched it on TV. It’s less boring and more exciting when watching in person.
My mom was discharged the next day. After spending a week on the living room’s sofa bed, I returned to her bed upstairs. After just a week, I have given up trying to take care of her. It’s just about impossible to take care of someone who doesn’t want to be taken care of. She complained of me hurting her before I even touched her, she criticized my cooking, saying it taste like her cooking, and she tried to find fault in everything. I was surprised I hadn’t lost my temper.
I ended the month of September with my annual eye exam. The ophthalmologist recommended I follow up every 6 months since I’ve been on my hydroxychloroquine medication for more than 5 years. So now, I have one more doctor to add to my list. As usual, I got my pupils dilated and I lost my ability to read for approximately 3 hours. I couldn’t even read the numbers on my car’s dashboard on the way home. Thankfully, I wasn’t speeding.
The biggest event in October has to be getting my braces off and that’s happening on Halloween. I’m so excited! Two years and nearly 5 months, I’ve had my braces on and now they are coming off.
October might also been a month of harvest in the garden. I’m planning to harvest the sweet potatoes in the next 2 weeks and the apples from the apple tree before the month ends.
My usual first frost is around the 27th of October but this year, it’s hard to say because we are currently experiencing record high temperatures for this time of year. I mean, I’m still in shorts when I should be in sweatpants, so that should be saying something.
I’m also hoping to harvest two more cantaloupes from the garden, hopefully those will have enough time to ripen.
It looks like October will be another busy month.
I lost two of my tallest sunflowers over the weekend.
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I got angry last night.
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Well, it was more like a mouse but I like rat better.
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I’ve been wanting to write this post for a few weeks now but I could never find the time to gather my thoughts before sleep took over. I’m writing this to release my thoughts onto a page since I don’t have anyone to talk to about this.
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It seems like spring is coming later and later each year, although judging from the pictures from last March, it appears this March has been a little better than the last.
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As much as I’ve been looking forward to March, I had almost forgotten that yesterday was the last day of February and today is the first day of March.
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I cannot believe I’m writing this but I feel optimistic and good about February.
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I have been writing a post to welcome each new month since 2022 and will continue this tradition in 2024.
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