Not again…


Yesterday was a very bad day. I got a text from my boss that I would only be working until 1pm. I thought that was peculiar; maybe it had to do with the snow coming in the weather forecast for the area that I was working in. But something seemed off… I had a meeting…

Is self care an excuse to avoid responsibilities?


Self care is a topic that I have talked about a few times on this blog, but a situation that happened on Sunday sparked this very question about me in my own life. Do I use self care or mental health days as an excuse or a reason to miss out on work, school studies,…

Birthday Weekend


I have been celebrating my birthday since Friday, February 5th. My actual birthday was yesterday, the 6th of February and now I’m winding things down, trying to get ready for normalcy once again. For the past decade, my birthday has fallen on Super Bowl weekend, so my birthday has always come in second to everyone’s…