Day in the Life

Taking a little break from our series…..

By request from a WordPress friend (& because I’m secretly a little behind on my normal posts, shh!), here’s a day in my life – it’s probably gonna be more like interstitial journaling with extreme commentary. Hopefully it’ll be a least a little entertaining, lol! I tried to pick as normal of a day as possible… so I probably should’ve picked yesterday cuz now I’ve got a couple things thrown at us to work around. But that’s ok, so long as nobody in this house’s moods go too far sideways 😆

Anyways… Buckle up, it’s gonna be a long one!!! 🤣

Friday, June 19 2026

• Woke up at 7:30. Said “fuck no, can’t make me” & fell back to sleep.
• Woke up at 8:15 with an Interrupters song stuck in my head. Not even sure which one. Went downstairs & said good morning to the cat (she gets lonely when I don’t pass out on the couch all night.) Looked at my phone while my brain came online – saw a slightly interesting article on Reddit written before Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown came out (one of my favorite Green Day albums), and checked in on a debate in a local Facebook group about a confusing intersection cuz apparently I need something to get pissed off about first thing in the morning 😆…

• Got my lime water, opened the curtains & windows, & set myself up in my office – laptop on & background lo-fi on TV; Capacities & Notion. Started writing this thing 😉. Started my morning routine…
  • One reminder from yesterday : “Meaning is hiding inside ordinary moments that receive extraordinary attention.”
  • Last year : “I’ll Stand By You”
• Went through my “inbox” of random tasks that came up throughout yesterday & organized all the shit I gotta do today, including homeschool plans & tidying up the homeschool cart – Realized I gotta file away their portfolios cuz we’ve technically started next year’s work.
• Read today’s passage in The Daily Stoic & it’s accompanying journal :
  • Focus on one foot in front of the other, especially when the big picture is too big
    • How can I better keep myself in the present moment? Mindfulness reminders – look around & take it in.
• Read for a few minutes in “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern : “People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to.” I’m probably about halfway through this book, & I’m really enjoying the mystical journey it’s taken. It’s quite lovely hehe.
• I hear a woodpecker, so I’m distracted by looking out the office window. I’m eternally grateful for all the nature outside my house – I only live on about an acre, but it’s very private & full of fauna. On any given day, I’m visited by chipmunks, that damned red squirrel, a family of bunnies (most who have been named by Bubby “Cupcake”, “Mini Cooper”, “Poindexter”), a mom & baby deer, chipmunks, a groundhog, and so on. Right now all I see through the sunshine shimmering through the trees is a 5 foot bouncey ball & Hubby’s new Roger Rabbit “Bugatti” golf cart (more on that another time). And scaffolding & ladders & shit cuz hubby & his friend have been working on the house (since I’ve been gently & graciously nagging him for almost 10 fucking years!)
• Wrote in my journal for a bit. Just a moment about what the plans ideas are for the day, and then some reflection on essentialism…cuz I tend to romanticize the idea of essentialism, and then overcomplicate anything I possibly can.
• Read a passage in a book I just got, “Awaken Every Day : 365 Buddhist Reflections” by Thubten Chodron. “Our actions leave ‘seeds’ on our mindstream, invisible potentials that can bring results in terms of what we experience in this & future lives – our habitual thoughts & behaviors and the environment & circumstances of our life.” Not too sure how deeply I agree with reincarnation, but interesting to ponder regardless.
• Set up my workout plan for the day – I use a Notion database to rotate through the zillion videos I’ve saved over the past couple years so I don’t get too bored. Smoked half a Camel 99 (yeah, shuddup), tidied the house & little, & got to it.
  • Not trying to justify a shitty habit, just saying – I found that I appreciate the hedonism of a good cigarette as much as the excuse to get outside & enjoy some nature without tiny humans screaming & running around. Otherwise I’d probably never even see the groundhog (or that bastard squirrel!)
  • Took some pictures while I was out there…

• So… 20 minute full body workout with 3 lb weights (during which my entire skeleton snapped crackled & popped), 15 minute arm workout with 5 lb weights (I’ve been cursed with bingo wings), 5 minutes yoga (just about threw my neck out), 5 minutes Qi gong (never tried this one before, never gonna again LOL – my scoliosis can’t handle it!), & 5 minutes meditation (super unproductive). Then I pulled a card from my new “Buddha Wisdom” oracle deck : “Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” Ain’t that the truth. 💚
• Got myself some cherries, milk, & Allegra. Posted my “quote of the day” on Facebook, Bluesky, & Substack, and watched a YouTube video in my endless “Watch Later” list – today’s video happened to be
  NotebookLM Will Change How You Learn – Here’s Why!. I didn’t have time to finish it, but I’ve played around with NLM a bit, & it can be super useful (especially for product manuals!!!)
• Checked in with ChatGPT cuz we’re doing a reflection experiment to see if it can help me …keep my head out of my ass? I have it ask me a set of questions twice a day, & help me work through anything it deems worth noting. It’s been surprisingly useful so far 😁
  • “Earlier in your blogging journey, a lot of your questions were:
    • What should I write?
    • How do I grow?
    • What should my brand be?
    Lately the questions feel more like:
    • What am I noticing?
    • What am I learning?
    • How do I express this clearly?
    That’s a sign of something maturing.” Agreed. 😆
• Got myself tidied up for the day. We’re not going anywhere, so I’m not about to go all “curls & contacts” today 😆

• And that’s my ridiculous but fulfilling morning routine. It’s what keeps me from getting murderous halfway through the day. Usually.
• Went out for another half a smoke. There was a giant stormy cloud above the house, but blue skies all around. Usually, it’s the opposite – we’re in a bubble of good weather. During the winter, outside of about a mile radius of my house, they’ll be getting Lake Effect snow. Here? Fluffy sparkles. I guess my hearthcraft works 😉 While I was out there, I saw “Alvin”, the baby chipmunk – he likes playing with the baby bunnies hehe. (Thought to myself the other day – “I’m like fuckin’ Snow White with a tan & a cigarette!” 😅)
• Onto the “focus time” of my day. Normally I put on some tunes, but I’m trying to get through some other bloated YouTube playlists, so I’m playing some “Witchy” videos in the background (that’s about as much witchcraft as I practice these days!) Friday’s “focus time” is reserved for a review of my “interstitial journaling” notes from the past week, to see if there’s anything worth noting. FUCK! I forgot my granddaughter is supposed to be coming over soon. I was really hoping hubby would be up in time. Shittles! ….. I went through it pretty quickly so there wasn’t a whole lot of discernment, but this is where a lot of my blog post ideas, personal journaling prompts, etc come from (feel free to skip if it’s overwhelming, which I’m sure it is lol) :
  • Still on about the Facebook group post about the stupid lane merge thing (this was from Sunday LOL)
    • Gemini basically says I’m right, but also that insurance companies would deem an accident 50/50 liability basically because people shouldn’t drive like assholes lol
  • “Magic is found in all the little moments. A campfire is still fire.”
  • Things insist on my attention often because they feel the most alive.
  • challenge, opportunities, subtraction
  • Leatherworking = patience + restraint
  • I am my own deity, my own religion, my own philosophy.
    • ✨I don’t worship myself, but no better outlook on spirituality, in my opinion.
      • It’s self confidence, self love, goddess energy, compassion, resilience, intelligence, an open mind, grace
  • “Awaken Every Day” – “‘Three poisons’ : ignorance, attachment, & animosity” : Ignorance to reality causes attachment, & attachment causes animosity (repelling from the unpleasant)
    • Detachment from suffering
      • ✨…can be a slippery slope. You have to let yourself feel some suffering. Not only because it’s good for your character, & not only because emotions are a beautiful part of being human, & not only because repressed shit festers until it’s seething.
  • ✨ How can I help people? What problems can I solve? Or maybe just help ease? What problems am I dealing with?
  • “In these seemingly small moments, you’re teaching your children one of life’s most important lessons: how to respond when things don’t go as planned.” – Daily Dad
    • “The wise don’t fly off the handle. They don’t say the first thought that enters their mind. They pause. They reflect. They choose their response.”
    • “They inherit your responses.”
    • “emotions are to be felt, but not always acted upon”
  • “the artist is the child who refused
    to stop believing in imaginary friends,
    so they grew up and became one…
    for every lonely soul who needed a mirror
    to say: me too.” – Chris Sexton
  • “Daily Stoic” – “No shame in needing help”
    • Where do I need help? Who can I ask for it? (*This is definitely something I struggle with!)
  • Report from PCP : “alignment & degenerative changes, L5 slightly onto S1”
    • ✨”Degenerative “ is a disconcerting word…
  • Sage insight : “Connection doesn’t have to feel easy to be worthwhile.”
    • ✨Even if it’s inconvenient or anxiety inducing, it’s often worthwhile to connect anyway
  • “Live so fully and intentionally that when death comes, it feels like a completion rather than an interruption.” – Darius Foroux, quoting Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche
    • “even death becomes part of their life, not just something that happens to them.”
    • “’The man consummating his life dies his death triumphantly, surrounded by men filled with hope and making solemn vows.’ Surrounded by men filled with hope. That image has stayed with me. He’s describing someone whose life inspired others to be better.”
      • ✨To live better
      • ✨I hope I inspire others to live better, & more fully, with my blog
    • “’In your death, your spirit and your virtue should still glow like a sunset glows around the earth'”
  • Chris Sexton : “play is spiritual cardio.”
    • “your comfort zone got you on a leash
      and you keep calling it peace.”
    • “throw your heart at life
      like a wild florist.
      whatever blooms, blooms.
      whatever dies becomes fertilizer.”
  • Awaken Every Day – Stop licking honey off a razorblade (re attachment)
    • ✨ I fucking love how edgy this quote is, lol. It’s true – the honey is sweet, but if you’re cutting your tongue the whole time, what’s the point?
      • So, is there any honey ultimately shredding my soul right now? I’d say my daydreaming, but I don’t think that’s entirely true.
  • Some days, “better than nothing” is discipline enough ❤️
    • ✨ So long as it doesn’t consistently replace actual discipline
  • Life is all about self discipline – parenting, marriage, everything
• Reading that over made my brain hurt… 😵‍💫
• Then I went back through my entries to capture all the daily highlights in a “Hobonichi Weeks”-style planner I keep for my husband – it’s colorful, includes pictures, & is exploding with memories by the end of the year. His birthday is right before New Year’s Eve, so it turns out to be an awesome birthday gift ☺
• And just as I headed into the second part of my day, a thunderstorm rolled in. I love thunderstorms – they’re so exciting!! ⛈ A nice reminder that even mother nature lets shit build up & needs to let it rip sometimes 😉 Put all the stuff in my digital planner into my analog system thing that I have going on, and out of the office I went…
• It fuckin HAILED!! Stood on the porch & watched buckets of rain & ice pelt the shit out of my car, peering at the blue sky in the distance LOL. Then I saw some poor bastard riding his bike 🤣 (I feel bad, but he should’ve seen it coming!) (My pics won’t load…)
• Well, apparently my granddaughter isn’t coming today – my step daughter told hubby, but he was still in bed anyway LOL. At least I had a few extra minutes of peace & quiet to enjoy the thunder trailing off in the distance. It only lasted maybe 10 minutes, but it seemed like an apocalypse! I live in a very “don’t like the weather? wait 5 minutes!” climate. (Unless it’s Lake Effect snow season. Then maybe wait a couple days 😜)
• Scratch that, it came back. Icy marbles everywhere. And blue skies all around.
• All the monsters got up. Hubby’s still on about Nancy Guthrie; he made them omelettes while I got their milk, fruit, Zyrtec, vitamins, & hair brushes. Bubby put on Lucas the Spider, Lia counted her money. I made myself a salad with spinach, banana peppers, green olives, feta, quinoa, & leftover chicken meatloaf. 😋 Made some coffee. Went through my social media…nothing impressive 😆
• The kids swam in their plushie cave while I put laundry away. Checked the mail & threw some sycamore branches out of the driveway.
• Hubby went to clean in the garage for our party tomorrow (God help us if it rains, omfg). I did school with the girls…and half their plushies. Booboo worked on a painting project for Father’s Day while I helped Bubby. So help me God, if I hear “67” one more time… Bubby’s doing kindergarten, so she worked on counting to 20, vowel sounds, & writing the letter “R”. Then they switched. Bubby did some painting while I worked with Booboo, who’s technically in second grade now but we’re still finishing up some 1st grade work 🤫 – she worked on spelling “-et” words, “one”, & “the”; then read a poem & a short story. Nothing will test patience better than homeschooling children. I am absolutely certain of this. Booboo got frustrated during reading & barked so loud in my ear I could’ve thrown her clear across the room. I didn’t. But I could’ve. Break time 😅 Bubby finished her paintings & played (educational stuff) on my tablet. Booboo likes “Adventure” & “Dreams” by Bensound, apparently (so do I hehe). Back to school – she had to read her typed scene description to me so I could draw it & see if she described it well, addition & subtraction.

Ran & hid for a few minutes while the girls worked on their Father’s Day cards lol. I love this time of day cuz I put prisms in the sunniest window of the house & so the living room fills with little rainbows ☺️😍

• Got the girls’ allowances. I give them $1 each for every year on the planet, then divide it into 4 – “rent” (savings lol), “gifts” (for other people), “donate” (Booboo was elated to donate $100 to our local Children’s Hospital ☺️), & “spend” (so they don’t ask me for shit when we’re out lol!)
• Picked mulberries with Booboo. She named a couple of bunnies “Cherry” & “Pineapple” ☺️ Then she chased a chipmunk because hubby’s mad at the chipmunks for making a home under the hood of the skoolie
• Hubby asked the girls if they wanted to go in the hot tub. Booboo had a fit because Bubby brought her her clogs. (Can’t wait til they’re teenagers – Pray for us!! 😅)
• Made out a check for hubby’s 46th highschool reunion. Yes, 46th. They buried a time capsule back then & are opening it at the reunion 😛
• Printed some worksheets for school.
• They went in the hot tub. I started dinner early cuz I wanted to make rainbow pasta salad for the tie dye party ☺️ If anyone’s curious, this is the “recipe” I used for the rainbow pasta. Then I got sidetracked for about 15 minutes cuz hubby needed me to watch the girls. For dinner, I made pesto shrimp fettuccine 😋 Usually I make a salad with dinner, but my back was fucked by the time I finished the other shit. Did dishes in the meantime.
• Started laundry. Took Allegra. Ate & watched Expedition Files. Checked in with a couple people about the party tomorrow.

• Finished the pasta salad. Put leftovers away. Did more dishes – realized I was clenching my teeth cuz my back hurt so bad, so took some Motrin 😬 I hate taking Motrin – I’ve never had a problem with it, & I’d like to keep it that way. Usually I’d sneak in some leatherworking or digital designs, but I just can’t even tonight. 😴
• Hit the bowl once (it helped my back immensely!), yelled at the red squirrel in the garage, brushed my teeth & took a shower. Listened to Rockabilly Radio on Pandora – it plays everything from Reverend Horton Heat to Stray Cats to “Louie Louie” by The Kingsmen. I grew up listening to 50’s music when I was a kid (& disco LOL, & Nat King Cole).
• Went in my office for a few minutes to write in my journal. The children decided to join me with their notebooks & it was adorable as hell 🥰 We listened to lo fi & passed notes to each other. ❤️

• Got some trail mix & sat on the couch with hubby to watch Black Mirror. He made ice for tomorrow. I like this show, cuz it’s like a modern Twilight Zone, but I can’t usually focus on anything by the end of the day.
• Finished my evening routine… Updated my digital planner, read most of an interesting Amy Landino article, checked Facebook for memes, played Coin Master with Bubby, & pigged out on Harvest Snaps. Bubby requested a pickle. Then Booboo requested a pickle. Wegmans pickles are pretty decent. 😆
• Laid down on the couch. Hubby rubbed my feet while he watched Virgin River – he’s such a sweetie 🥰 Read a couple more articles. Went crosseyed. Passed the fuck out. 😴

And there ya have it. Hope your brain didn’t melt 😉

Til next week – Stay real, stay loud, & rock the fuck on!! 💚