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Armchair Gym Sociology

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Today was a special day in my gym. The SportFit Laurel is already pretty “for the people” in the sense that every time I am in there it’s like an episode of a mid-90s kids show trying to prove it’s diverse enough. Old folks! Young folks! Kids! Multiple languages, all different abilities, and everyone is […]

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Get Up And Back, I’m Right On Track

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Thank you, Breakfast Club – not the movie. The 80s band. Does anyone else remember that song or is it just me? I was telling my friends Christie and Megan at lunch today that it’s been a while since I got that queue-full feeling in my head. Like if I have one more detail to […]

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Revisiting My Hospital Stay

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…from a future Nursing student perspective. I keep thinking about what one tech said to me as she was poking around for a vein to take blood. I had asked her, like I asked every single human in scrubs who entered my room because I was trapped in bed and shameless, where she went to […]

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Out of the Frying Pan and into the Hospital

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Well, it seems that events have conspired to thwart my November daily posting goals. Friday, during my first day back at work after bronchitis, I started to have sharp abdominal pains. I knew what it was right away, because it’s just not something you forget easily. And I saw it all playing out just like […]

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Stop. No really, stop.

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This is what my body ended up saying to me yesterday. I tried to go for a walk in the fresh air, which was lovely. I tried to keep moving a bit, put some laundry away, so my muscles would not completely lose any strength they ever had. I was doing great, albeit coughing. Then […]

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A Little Property Damage & Updates

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This evening I drove up to the local Chipotle and saw this. I don’t know, maybe something shorted out inside the sign. But it looks like it exploded. Likely it is old news, as I don’t get down that way very often! In other news, which you probably know from other sources, I slam-dunked the […]

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Kim vs. Gym: Rematch, Malfunctioning Cat Weiners

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Last week I signed up with a gym again for the first time in a decade. Last time went really poorly and they got lots of my money and I never went. This time I have a buddy and a better grasp of time management and money management and far less invested in what other […]

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Beyond Thunderdome

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I had big plans for this past weekend. We’d have Christmas, I’d get a new tattoo, I’d see my friend Becki who hasn’t been on this coast in a decade. Then I’d settle in and enjoy my homey home. Big plans. But when I woke up on Friday viral menaces had decided a whole different […]

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MHP-yay!

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It’s not all that often that I find out that Federal law has actually touched my life in a concrete way. Last week I was feeling downtrodden when I was looking at my new insurance information (our company moved to a different parent blah blah) because it looked like I would be losing my mental […]

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