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EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 17h

What a week, and it’s only Wednesday. I’ve run the gamut from food canning, housekeeping, obsessive travel prep, caregiving planning, a 500 mile drive, process flow auditing, late team dinner, several self help podcasts, financial planning initiation, birthday wishes, and a job interview invitation😱

EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 1d

*Doesn’t listen

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EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh mine doesn’t either. Now I just figure she won’t, and if she does, then it’s a bonus 🙋🏽‍♀️

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EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 2d

Are you a walk out the door and go traveler or a I need all my stuff what’s my style vibe clean the house take out the trash extra shoes all the meds leave a light on traveler?
I think you can tell who I am.
Hate travel.

EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 2d

I have friends who had 2 cats - Dick York and Dick Sargent.
Then they got a kitten.
His name is Little Dickey.

🤭

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EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 3d

Good to hear. I’m thinking about a kitten. I have bonded rescues who are 14 and 8, and I’m hoping 8 would take to it.

EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 3d

*keeps checking email for a response to resume, even on a Sunday.

Translation: guess I really might want this.
😳

EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 4d

I’m trending in this direction!

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EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 4d

After 31y at the same place, I I sent a resume last night. I’m overqualified and will lose money and vaca. But I won’t have to travel, WITH my boss😳, which is where my current job is heading. I hate travel, it doesn’t fit with my fam, and gives me extreme #anxiety.

#career #worklifebalance

EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 5d

Dang!

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

Officials said they discovered tens of thousands of stolen Lego pieces at a California home this week. They arrested a man who was charged with, among things, organized retail theft and conspiracy to commit a felony.

Police Break Up Lego Theft Ring, Recovering Hundreds of Beheaded Figurines

Officials said they had discovered tens of thousands of Lego pieces at a California home and arrested a man who trafficked in the stolen collectibles.

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EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 5d

I came from a working class family, and I work in manufacturing with the working class. Should have known, but I didn’t, that many of my kids friend’s families with working parents have weekly housekeepers and rarely cook.

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EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, cat, for opening my door to screaming loud QVC at 4am.
#eldercare

EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 5d

Once it hits 9pm, the dishes can wait till tomorrow.

#SelfCare

EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 5d

Had to find work supplies and submit an expense report, which takes 2 weeks to fulfill. I let it sit on my credit card.
2 weeks, credit score went down 4 points. 😠

Same thing happened when I signed up for auto pay at Kohls.

1. Pay credit cards off daily
2. Let work pay work.

EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 5d

That bewitching hour when you remembered you forgot to go to the packie. ☹️
🍷

*liquor store in Massachusetts

EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 5d

BIG lifetime management projects this weekend folks.
BIG.

EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 5d

I love this. I’m glad you recognized the moment. It’s all you can do.

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EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 6d

Shhhhhh.
Mighta networked with a colleague about a job opportunity.
Might consider a pay cut in favor of quality of life.
Might be crazy.

#worklifebalance
#career
#legacy

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EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 6d

The past few months, I’ve been getting a #gelmanicure. Embarrassed at the vanity, but they truly help me not spend hours intense stress picking and fixing, to the point of damage, even to my teeth.
Aside from the arthritis, they are damn perfect! 👌 💅🏻
#SelfCare
#manicure

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EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 6d

So much anxiety, so little time.

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EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 10d

A bunch of friends are retired or retiring, my kids are all set, my body is not in great shape, my work is demanding more, several people I know have died young, and I have plenty of projects, some even income generating.
So I’m hiring a financial advisor to figure out when I can retire 👏🏻

EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 11d

I HAVE DEFIED ALL LAWS OF COOKING:
I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY SMOKED A TURKEY BREAST ON A GAS GRILL, NOT A SMOKER, AND ITS FANTASTIC!

#IAmSparticus
#barbecue
#smoker
#Weber
#turkey
#smokedturkey

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EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 12d

You get a tramadol, and I get a tramadol, we all get a tramadol!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
#anxiety
#fibromyalgia
#caregiving
#selfcare

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EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 12d

7am #anxiety on a Saturday.

I’ve accepted the plan.
I’ve made the best of the plan.
I HAVE.

HOW
MUCH
LONGER???
😫😫😫

#caregiving
#eldercare

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EllerslieOfTheWind @ellerslieofthewind.bsky.social · 13d

1982. A hs classmate keeps singing this song, from soap opera GH, while fidgeting with this enormous class ring of her boyfriend, which she wrapped with yards of yarn to keep it on her finger. Idk why it struck me at the time. I still remember, clear as day.

10y later, I married him.
#memories

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