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Annette Fix 📖✍🏼
@annettefix.bsky.social
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Memoirist | Experiences Enthusiast | Squirrel Wrestler | Dog Mom | GenX Bog Witch | Blue Dot | Ally | ENTJ | Discover more 👉🏼 https://linktr.ee/annettefix
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@judithk6.bsky.social You’ll like this mod list. bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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“I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."

Karma, poetic justice, and irony will be attending Kirk’s service. May he rest in the way he has earned. 🪦
September 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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“Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks.” 🤔 Maybe people should start shooting all of the “not real officers” that are kidnapping people…
August 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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🛼 Day 1 🛼 I skated. Without my pup beside me, the joy I hoped I’d feel was colorless. 😔 #blackandwhite
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The Inner Conversation
"I Should Be Further Along"

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You know that voice. The one that shows up when you're scrolling through LinkedIn at 11pm, watching people half your age announce their promotions. The one that whispers when you look at your bank account, your relationship status, your career trajectory. “You should be further along.” I heard it again last Tuesday—that familiar punch to the gut. The math started immediately: if I had made different choices five years ago, if I hadn't gone travelling, if I'd been more strategic, more disciplined, more... something. But I have a sneaking suspicion about this particular mental terrorist: it's not really about being behind. It's about the myth that progress is linear. We've bought into this idea that life is a ladder everyone climbs at the same pace and there's some cosmic scoreboard keeping track. But life isn't linear. It's more like a spiral staircase in an old house—sometimes you're going up, sometimes you circle back to where you thought you'd already been, and sometimes you discover rooms you didn't know existed. The "further along" voice assumes there's one path, one timeline, one definition of success. It ignores everything you can't quantify: • the resilience you built during that difficult year • the compassion you developed through struggle • the boundaries you learned to set • the relationships that deepened when you stopped performing and started being real By society's standards, you may feel "behind.” Your timeline is not their timeline. Your ‘behind’ is not actually behind—it's exactly where you are. And where you are is the only place you can start from. The next time that voice shows up, instead of asking, "Where should I be?" ask "What am I learning right now?" Progress isn't always forward. Sometimes it's deeper. Sometimes it's wider. Sometimes it's just staying still long enough to see clearly. You're not behind. You're becoming. 💫
August 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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🌈 🐕 FINAL PUPDATE: This was our last pic together last Thursday. A peek into every morning, waking up with my sweet boy beside me for the last 9 years.

Pal’s story in image ALT text.

#mypal #rainbowbridge #dogsofbluesky #dogsky #staffie #cancersucks
Monday and Tuesday this week, Pal had 5 grand mal seizures. The last one Tuesday/Wednesday at 1am was the worst. That morning, he no longer knew his name or understood any of the words of our daily life. I don’t know if his whining breaths and restlessness were from disorientation or pain, or both. I promised him on our cancer journey over the last 8 years that I would never let him suffer. You may have seen a video I posted a couple of weeks ago of Pal doing zoomies at the beach and being his always-joyful self. I thought we were winning his mast cell cancer fight. Until we lost. 💔 Now, there’s a huge hole where my heart used to be. Since the start of the pandemic, Pal has been beside me 24/7 for the last 5 years. He’s been my everything everywhere all at once. If he couldn’t go somewhere, I didn’t go. I went on our downtown and beach walk late last night. It was familiar and comforting, and equally heartbreaking and pointless. And now, I’m not sure what to do with myself. I will make a tribute video of our wonderful life and all the joy Pal gave me with his whole heart and sweet spirit, but not yet. I just can’t. 💔
August 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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“We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don't you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don't your eyes seek out the things you want?”

#filmsky 📽️🍿
August 18, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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Dinner is allllmost ready. 🍽️

#WFPB #foodsky #fitover50
August 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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#MusicChallenge
#WrongAnswersOnly
8/14 - 🚨 Alert 🚨
She was Tubthumping when it happened…

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Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
YouTube video by ChumbawambaVEVO
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August 15, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Starting Monday with a club line cha-cha flashback. IYKYK 🎶💃🏼

Dancing in the kitchen is my love language. 💞

#musicsky #keithsweat

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I Want Her
YouTube video by Keith Sweat - Topic
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August 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Pal’s still got alllll the zoomies, even at 11 yo with mast cell cancer.

#crazydoglady #mypal #sundayfunday #staffie #dogsky #dogsofbluesky #rescuedogsrock #cancerstrong #huntingtonbeach
July 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Dog beach with my best boy. #crazydoglady #mypal #sundayfunday #staffie #dogsky #dogsofbluesky #rescuedogsrock #cancerstrong #huntingtonbeach
July 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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To all lens friends—
@withtheopticals.bsky.com
has a great #Photography #Challenge every day called
#ShowMeSomething

Today is #BlackandWhite

Nothing is more #Moody than a toddler. Including moments of #Joy
July 9, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Flights of fancy. 🪁

#BlueSkyMonday #JuneSea #shore
#photography #beachlife #huntingtonbeach #kites
July 1, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Ready to play. 🏐
#BlueSkyMonday #MinimalMonday
#Photography #beachlife #huntingtonbeach
#volleyball
June 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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A couple more pics of my day at the beach with my best boy. #GetOutside #beachlife #dogsky #dogsofbluesky #staffie #mypal #rescuedogsrock #adoptdontshop
June 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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I didn’t make it to the beach for #GetOutside yesterday, but I’m definitely on it today. 😎 #Bluesky #beachlife
June 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I don’t live in an ICE-targeted neighborhood, but here’s an idea: Coordinate with supportive neighbors. Mask up and everyone rush the terrorists’ cars when they try to kidnap someone. Puncture all the tires and then all scatter, so no one is going anywhere without flatbed tow trucks. #resistance
a woman in a suit is standing in front of a door and looking at the camera
ALT: a woman in a suit is standing in front of a door and looking at the camera
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June 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Happy to celebrate and support. 🖤 #Juneteenth #FreedomDay
June 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Here comes the sun, and I say
It's all right
Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here

🎶 #NinaSimone #musicsky
youtu.be/T9gMsdNQSUM?...

#slavaukraini 🌻

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekYforYellow
#bloomscrolling #sunflower #photography
June 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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30+ years pass so quickly!
👦🏻👱🏼‍♀️/🧔🏻‍♂️👵🏻

I’m so proud of the amazing human (and photographer) my son has become. 💕

You may often see me post his professional #portrait #commercial #celebrity images
www.jaredfixphoto.com

And #wedding images
www.theweddingbear.com

#photography
#HumansOfBlueSky
June 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I love seeing all the diverse images from my son’s #Hollywood archives. 😍

Like this portrait session he shot with the theatrical heavy metal band singer from Voodoo Kungfu vibing with pornstar Karma X.

www.jaredfixphoto.com

#portrait #photography #musicsky #voodookungfu
June 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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🌈 Happy Pride Month❣️ Sending cyber mom hugs to the folx who never received them IRL. 🤗 Live bold! You are loved! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #LGBTQIA+ #ally
June 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Shipwrecked
On this island of mine
Where I sit alone
After crashing ashore.
Dashed against the rocks
By decisions to leave
Everyone behind.
No one is coming
To look for this place
Where I sit alone
On this island of mine.

#stunday #photography #poetry #writersky #avoidantattachment
June 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” ~ Jean de La Bruyère

#resistance #SensoryArt #Hope #bokeh #photography #mobilephotography
May 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Dancing in the dark. A nod to 9 1/2 Weeks for inspiration.

Elizabeth: How did you know? How did you know I'd respond to you the way I have?

John: I saw myself in you.

#LightAndShadow
#BlueSkyArtShow
#photography #mobilephotography #moviesky #moviequotes
May 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM