Welcome to my rabbit hole of chaos

My life is a three ring circus of family, food, and animals.  Crazy is as crazy does.

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Omg...the dog has wicked gas, she’s smoking me out. I might have to go sleep on the couch.

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Left Mexico today after visiting family. Said goodbye to all the cheese, all the bakeries, all the family that I won’t see for another year. I’ve never lived there, but I always feel like I leave a part of myself there when I leave.

Already had Starbucks, and I’m not even home. I’m ashamed of myself. It was delicious.

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Someone needs to make an emoji stuffing cake in its mouth.

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It’s so healing to wake up in a silent house and silently make your own coffee or tea and enjoy the beautifully intricate fullness of the morning silence while remaining calm and collected and unbothered by all outer and inner noise and it’s so low-key elevating and pacifying to rejoice in the silent atmosphere of your own house and just silently block the rest of the world…it’s a slice of heaven

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I would like to experience this some day.

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Realized I didn’t drink any water today! Drank about 2 quarts of water and promptly went to bed. I’ve gotten up use the loo 4 times, and I haven’t even fallen asleep yet.

And then, just as I am drifting off : I forgot to move the damn elf! *fuuuuuuck* may as well pee one more time.

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The bees like to drink at the pool. Amazingly, my kids have no fear of them. They spend the first ten minutes in the pool rescuing drowning bees, and then they do their thing. They have never been stung.

[wilwheaton]

Just turned 40 two weeks ago. You’ve been complaining about the aches and pains - tell me it’s not all downhill from here! There has to be *something* positive, right? Right? Lie to me Wil - lie to me! =)

Oh yeah, you’re totally NOT going to wake up with weird muscle aches that make no sense at all. You’re NEVER going to throw your back out just by standing up. You’ll ALWAYS be able to play with your kids, grandkids, and small relatives, for as long as you want to without getting exhausted. Oh, and EVERYTHING YOU CARE ABOUT WILL BE TOTALLY RELEVANT TO THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS so you can carry on conversations with 20-somethings and NEVER feel like you’re from another planet.

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Good lies. I like these, I'm going to save them to read again and again.

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I counted calories today, and stayed within my budget. Part of me feels like: " yay me!! Way to go!" And the other part responds with: "you suck, we're hungry"

[sarahbethyoga]

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Is it ok to get up and eat cookies if you can't sleep? Asking for another insomniac

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My laundry room looks like someone made a very poor attempt to clean up a murder scene. Kid apparently sliced her finger while trying to cut up a lime. She tried to take care of it herself, but accepted help when she saw how much it was bleeding.

I also found a bottle of mustard outside on the top rung of a lader no one bothered to put away. ?? I guess the mess in the laundry room shouldn't surprise me.

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I feel like my life has a life/will of its own, and I'm just along for the ride. In some ways I'm ok with this. But in some ways I feel like I've stopped trying, and that's scary. I feel like this fattened complacency is going to bite me in the ass any day now.

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I have reached critical mass. Contemplating eating a salad for lunch.

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My family and my best friend and her family recently relocated to a new city together, and we decided to share a house for the first year to help each family fare better financially. One of the best decisions we've ever made, as far as I'm concerned (maybe she feels differently!) We shared a house in our 20s, when we were single and childless. This experience isn't terribly different honestly. We're best friends and now there is a second generation of best friends, it makes my heart swell! The biggest difference: instead of going out for drinks at 10pm, we eat brownies and have drinks on our porch at 8:30pm. And go to bed at 10:30pm.

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I have reached my limit.  6 months working toward a moving an entire family across the state.  We are effectively living in both places now, both houses in their own state of limbo.  It’s maddening.  I am almost finished, with the first stage... I don’t even know how many stages there are at this point.  I am just about done packing, now I have to wait for the heavy lifters to come, and then I have to come back and clean out what’s left.  Then the house needs repairs, thankfully, I can not make those repairs!  It was very exciting at the beginning.  And now that I am almost done packing, it’s getting exciting again, but I am so very, very, tired. I can not make myself moderate my eating.  I shouldn’t say “I can’t.”  I tell my kid to take responsibility for her actions every day.  I have not moderated my eating.  I am the only one that can do it.  And I have not.  I need to.  I will.

I need to get my shit together- but there is just so so much of it.  And it feels as if it’s actual shit that I have to gather up and organize- that’s how much I don’t want to do it.  But sometimes we have to gather up shit.  

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This is what it’s all about and it has never been about anything else 

[soclwrkrinmotion-deactivated201]

@lifeunfolding look!!

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weeee, baby elephants!!!!

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I am on the treadmill. Step one complete. I have turned it on, my feet and legs are moving. Today is officially a success.