Making Ends Meet: Every Day I'm Hustlin'
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5y ago
I am a hustlin' fool these days. I have been attempting to pull myself up by my bootstraps for over five years. While I have met several milestones, I'm not nearly as far as I'd hoped. I'll try one thing for a while, then another thing for another while, then yet another thing. Nothing has ever seemed to be enough.  I tried to go back to school to be a therapist and that was sabotaged by divorce drama. SO much drama. I tried a few traditional jobs and that blew up in my face with scary abusive bosses and general bullshit that was SOOPER tRiGgErInG and threatened my mental health. NOPE. I ..read more
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Dealing With Loneliness by Taking Initiative
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5y ago
Single parenting can get verrry lonely. Even when surrounded by children, the lack of interaction with other adults can be so crazy-making! I use a mood tracker and one of the things I track is whether or not I get any substantial adult interaction on a given day. I've noticed a direct correlation between that and my mood -- if I don't get any, I feel melancholy. So obviously that had to become a priority! Sometimes, however, life gets in the way. Most of my friends are other single moms with young children, who work and/or go to school, so coordinating schedules to spend time together can be ..read more
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The Insomnia Trifecta: How I Cope
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5y ago
I wake up early. Like, really early. My alarm goes off at 5:30 a.m. on school mornings and 99% of the time, I wake right up with the first alarm. I take my crazy pills, pour my coffee (which is ready because I prepped it the night before and it turns on at 5:20), and check the weather forecast, various news, email, and social media, all while the house is still dark and quiet. It's lovely and peaceful and reminds me of the good old days when I'd putter around doing housework late at night after all the kids were asleep. Then at 6 a.m. another alarm goes off, reminding me to wake the children ..read more
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Getting Out of Debt: This is WHY
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5y ago
I'm on a spending freeze because I'm in emergency save-up mode due to an impending move. That means that right now, as a general rule, I don't buy anything that we don't truly need. But the other day I "splurged" and spent $5 on an 8x10 print of a snapshot I took of my kids a few months ago, when they were being goofy in the parking lot of a restaurant after a family dinner out (so rare!). Why? Well, that's exactly why: WHY. I am facing 2-3 years of extra-lean times while I claw my way out of this financial hole that I'm drowning in. Getting divorced was financially catastrophic for me, and w ..read more
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