• Blogmas,  Busy,  Christmas,  Holidays,  Stress

    Blogmas Day 13: Hugging my Spirit Animal, and Giving up the Videos for most of December!

    Highlight of my day! My secret Santa gave me a sloth. I recently declared and embraced the sloth as my spirit animal, slow and steady, methodical! I absolutely love this! It’s so soft and cuddly. And the smile is so cute! What a perfect gift! And the chill out message is totally spot on. I’m actually taking it to heart too. I developed a tummy ache. NOT diverticulitis. But just a tummy ache in the middle of my stomach. It got worse and worse and acetaminophen didn’t help. Nothing sharp but just a dull ache. I wasn’t sure I could drive home but I did it. I had to pretend…

  • Blogmas,  Busy,  Christmas,  Holidays

    Blogmas Day 12: The one With Godiva and Coffee

    Let’s see: 1. Payroll is done and that makes the week sweet enough. 2. An office mate passed out Godiva chocolate candies. I had two! I saved it for later. Later was “about 20 minutes” lol! With coffee. 3. After work I went to Walmart. Finished my Secret Santa shopping that got cut short on Sunday. And finished getting George’s stocking stuffers. 4. Got a call from Mom that Aunt Martha and Uncle Ken arrived. Yay. 5. Discovered that gluten for sure makes my tummy tum swell up. Had a beer and breaded fish. Not saying that is my problem but it was very noticeable and I don’t like that…

  • Christmas,  Family,  Holidays,  Productivity,  Stress,  To Do List

    Sloth Christmas Ornament & an Overwhelming Time of Year

    Isn’t he cute? My spirit animal. Slow and steady she goes. It is somewhat comforting to know that one can move forward – even if slowly. So I decided on a whim last night to do Blogmas again.It starts tomorrow on Dec 1. It won’t be long and well thought out, but it’ll be something even if only a photo. Or a few daily thoughts. Surely we can do this. So expect something from me every day. Even if small. I actually am kinda starting it early by doing today’s blog. But we won’t call it Blogmas until tomorrow! I would love to do Vlogmas, but that would be a…