Now What?!

By Dee Last updated: Thu May 29, 2008 10:12am PDT
  • Job Burnout?

    By Dee, on Thu May 29, 2008 10:12am PDT

    I am an office manager of a busy insurance office.  I have so much responsibility on me and I have been here for over 10 years...I rarely get to take my vacation time.  Over the past couple of years, my personal life has had much stress and I have had some health issues because of... Read More »

  • A Long, Restful Weekend

    By Dee, on Sat May 24, 2008 4:19pm PDT

    When last we were together, my daughter and her husband were just coming in for a visit from Hawaii - where my son-in-law is just back from Iraq and they will finish out his contract as a Marine there until the summer of 2009.  Well...I just put them on the plane back to Hawaii yesterday... Read More »

  • Home From Iraq!!

    By Dee, on Thu May 1, 2008 9:06am PDT

    My daughter and her husband are coming home from Hawaii and I am picking them up from the airport in the morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!You know he's a Marine - just back from Iraq - and they've been getting settled in Hawaii, buying all the furniture and having fun with all... Read More »

  • Insert Primal Scream Here...

    By Dee, on Tue Apr 29, 2008 4:17pm PDT

    Idiots to the left of me...morons to the right.Yes, it's been one of those days.I hate my job, I hate my job, I hate my job!Wait...NO...honestly, I hate the actions of one dumb--- in this office - who I want to fire tomorrow.My fantasy:  I'll call him in my office first thing... Read More »

  • The Parent Trap

    By Dee, on Sat Apr 26, 2008 12:32pm PDT

    "Your dad's had a terrible stroke.  They don't think he'll live."  That's what I woke up to when the phone rang about a year and a half ago.  It was a little after 6am...I should have already been up.Daddy was in great health...never smoked, didn't drink... Read More »

  • My Birthday Massage

    By Dee, on Fri Apr 25, 2008 4:51pm PDT

    Pain...WAY down deep in my back.  That's what I endure most days.  Went to the doctor, he gave me pain pills that made me goofy and tired.  So, I take Tylenol and rest on a heating pad at night watching TV.My daughter had given me a gift certificate for a massage at a dayspa here... Read More »

  • A Lovely Day...Tomorrow

    By Dee, on Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:54pm PDT

    Click!!!    That's the last sound I heard this morning before it became apparent that this would not be "my day".  Actually, it started before that...but I was still in that "it's a great day" state of ignorance that often hits me in the early hours before... Read More »

  • A Quiet House

    By Dee, on Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:47pm PDT

    Silence...I used to pray for it when my girls were little.  There was so much screaming and laughing and running and arguing and crying, then laughing again...I felt it today.  The silence that I longed for so long ago.  A week ago, my older daughter got on a plane... Read More »

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I'm going through that awkward stage...you know, when the kids don't really need you anymore, but the aging parents do...