Category: Real Life
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Standing in the Middle
The internet is a hotbed right now. Everyone is angry. I was angry last week. The week before I was in denial.. and before that.. grieving for what I thought America was Now I know what America is. Hurting. We are hurting. All of us. Honestly, we’ve not been One Nation, Indivisible for a long…
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Shouting into the Crowd
Things have been a bit … different here in the United States and they’ve been kinda tense for a while. I’m not going to get into politics. I’m going to get into headlines. We have become a Nation of snippets. I got a real eye opener the other day. I don’t talk about it much…
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What do you do when you don’t care about winning?
When I was in high school, I had to be the best at everything (except gym… we’re not going to talk about that). I had to be the smartest. I had to be the quickest. I had to be pretty and have perfect hair. I had to get 100% on everything. Looking back on that…
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Things I would like to ignore
That nagging pain in my hip that never ending mess… over there –> my lack of stamina grocery shopping meal planning Things I can’t afford to ignore See above.
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Old Songs Part 3- The Last Day
Sunday was bitter sweet. It was the end.. but it was still great. I had my last shifts to work in the morning. You know, I enjoyed them but I sort of felt like I missed out some things while I was working but at the same time, I got to see things I wouldn’t…
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Old Songs Part 2: The First half of Saturday
I started off Saturday working a shift in the booth at the Main Gate View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pirate Jeni 🧿🇵🇸 (@piratejeni) It all went pretty well, except that I charged someone 25 cents instead of 25 dollars on their credit card. But I made it up with another charge…
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Old Songs: Part 1 – The Friday Warm Up.
I spent the past weekend in Altamont, NY at Old Songs Festival. I had been to Old Songs before but I’d never stayed for the whole thing and I certainly never stayed when it rained. I know… crazy wimpy, right? Let me clue you in on something else. I’m kind of a cheapskate, too. See,…
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Seventeen going on Eighteen
As I’m writing this, I’m sitting on a bus with a gaggle of 18 year olds and thinking, man… was I ever that young? Yes, absolutely. Holy crap, yes. And for as much as I really thought that I was awkward and dorky, I’ve recently gotten some actual video proof that I was also kind…
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Let your kidneys hang from your earlobes
I tried a new yoga studio tonight. Bad things happened. I’m sitting here trying not to have a full on panic attack, eyes leaking, hands shaking… can barely see what I’m typing but I need to get this out. I don’t like strangers touching me. I don’t like hugging people that I don’t know. I’m…