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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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🛼 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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Dinner is allllmost ready. 🍽️

#WFPB #foodsky #fitover50
August 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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He’s LOVES go-beach-play-friends. He met a lot of ball dogs today, but none wanted to run with him. So he made his own fun.
July 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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TY! 🥰 YES it does! It’s been quite a journey. Pal’s had mast cell cancer for almost 8 years (Nov 5, 2017). He has 7 tumors now: 1 cutaneous, 6 subcutaneous. (Fortunately, none on any organs!) I’ve been treating him holistically. The 3 keys I’ve found: diet, exercise, and CBD. 🙌🏼
July 27, 2025 at 9:00 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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Inmates were initially German Jews and varied German citizens (racial, political, "career criminal" and "antisocial" inmates), later foreign forced laborers and political prisoners. (Abridged from Wikipedia. My pic from Sachsenhausen camp.)

Note: German CITIZENS. It’s already starting here.
July 2, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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It was a labor camp with a gas chamber, execution line, and medical experimentation area. Notice the blood drain in the middle of the table. There’s a body “trash” chute that lead to a basement where the bodies piled up until prisoners carried them to the pits. It smells like death there. Still.
July 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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July 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Looks familiar. This was a pic I took when I toured Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany. Welcome to AmericKKKa where red hats are the new swastikas. And “immigration reform” is the new ethnic cleansing.
July 2, 2025 at 7:15 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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Maybe after a nap in the sun. 😎
June 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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EnjoyING. We’re still here for another couple hours.
June 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I’ll be back to the grind tomorrow. Today, it’s just me and my pup doing what we love. It’s also a test run to see how he does with getting sand on his tumor. I powdered it with cornstarch to help keep the sand off. Seems to be working so far…
June 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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It’s a perfect day to relax and soak up the sun. The breeze off the ocean is nice. But not ideal if I were playing volleyball.
June 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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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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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