Last year at the end of June I was weirded out about how far me and my fatgirls have come over the past few years, and I wondered if we would still be friends by this time this year.
Yes.
I just saw Heather a couple weeks ago and Lynn is talking about flying to Philly for my birthday (August 15th/47 shopping days left) and Heather might take the 7 hour jog north to join us.
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June 2007 found me coming to grips with the fact that I wasn't really cut out to be a mom who wants to be with the brat 24/7 but I was doing a good job at momming anyway and that's what matters in the long run. I felt like a miserable failure for quite sometime because I didn't think I had what it takes to be a Stay at Home Mom but who cares? I'm not a SaHM. I have what it takes to be good at my job and be good at parenting my child and I was able to find somewhere for him to go while I'm busy Saving the World One Family at a Time where he is loved and nurtured and happy.
I'm a SuperMom, doing it all from 9-5 and 5-9.
Suck it.
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June 2006
Forget it.
I'm not even going to read because I'm at a point where I'm ready to just let go of Year One, and all I remember about June is going back to work and getting laid off and getting my current job by some sorta universe twist and Jake starting to sleep through the night.
That's all I need to know.
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I wish I would've blogged June 2005. My last month of freedom. Well, except for July when I didn't know I was pregnant.
What?
I thought I was dying.
I figured it out eventually.
Don't judge.
16 degrees {comments}:
How I missed that you're from Philly is beyond me, but next time we're heading down there (I love it down there & look for any excuse to go - over exposure to NYC will do that to a gal, lol!), maybe we'll run into one another on purpose!
That is fun...I look forward to when I have enough blogging-time under my belt to do a similar post.
A year ago, I am certain I was saying "Man, I'm not getting any better looking"... a year later, I was right...hahaha!
I'm really gonna try to make it!
I've kept journals for the past 30 years and it is good to go back and look at them.
Since my journals are a bit more personal, I've already told family members when I die, they are being willed to a good gf who is to burn them immediately.
Hmmm...this time last year we were sweltering in a house with an a/c that decided to die on us. We bought a new unit but don't live in that house anymore. So long $3,200! Go figure.
Crap, that means I have 49 shopping days until my husband's bday. Maybe I'll put a bow on my head and call it good LOL.
I don't want to look back and see where I was in Junes past. They all suck, but get better as the years go by.
I've been doing the same thing lately, looking back over the past few years. Well, two. My writing has gotten better, which I didn't think had happened, but I'm still the same me - even considering that two years ago was pre-kid.
Fascinating. I need to do this.
Great idea -- made me look back at my June 30 post this morning in which I was having a love affair with the adirondeck chairs by hubby bought. We didn't sit in them enough this year because of the stupid mosquitos last year but I still like looking at them. They beckon (not the mosquitos). Maybe I should become smitten with some citronella. Thanks for the inspiration
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Don't worry, I had to take four pregnancy tests to believe it was real. Except mine were all positive. "THAT can't be right..." Oh, yes. Yes it can...
Bossy used to have a diary which allowed her to see the previous year's entry (two different years on opposing pages) -- it used to depress the shite out of Bossy. The end.
Since I'm still on my first run, (not a full year yet) I can't look back. BUT, I do keep journals, regular ones, with paper and pen, but one day those will have to be burned and buried.
I like this idea of how you did the looking back...
Damn, you're like a blogging veteran up in this place. I just hit 12 months and am shocked that I've stuck with it for this long. And now that I feel I'm hitting whatever passes for a rhythm in my life, I STILL have no idea how you can find the time to blog as much as you do. Can you control time?
How cool to be able to look back at yourself like this. I'm coming up on my 12 month and find that I'm overly critical of how far I did not get. Kind of silly, because who knows what to expect?
I'm grateful to be a part of this world. I've sure met some interesting and colorful people along the way!
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