Tag: sober
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Day Eighty-One
Hello August! Moment of truth-I haven’t been to the gerbil gym in at least a month and a half. I am, and have been, acutely aware that in not working out, my mood be suffering. Along with the cold, dark days. The endless repetition…all contributing factors to a month(ish) of funk. But, it’s August. New…
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Day Seventy-Nine
After the excitement of finding my missing sock on Friday morning, I bundled back up and headed back over to the Berg Field Center (BFC) at the proper meetup time. I’m not going to lie, I ventured across town with much more enthusiasm the second time around, the found lost sock was seriously a BFD.…
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Day Seventy-Eight
It’s my second day off (we get one two-day weekend a month) and I did not hurkle durkle today. I was going to-that was the plan as of yesterday, but I checked my email before I went to sleep and there was news in my inbox. There was a break in the weather which allowed…
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Day Seventy-Seven
When I started toying with the idea of wintering, I was having lots of little conversations about it with people who had wintered and summered before. They all said winter was their favorite and I would agree. It’s a much better life down here during the winter. The conversation that sticks out is the most…
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Day Seventy-Five
The Castle Rock trip was postponed, again. It was -70F out on the ice shelf…so while I can’t wait to see the sky from out there, I was not sad to miss that level of cold. It’s -33F here in town and with the wind chill -54F. Cold, dark and windy. In other not so…
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Day Seventy-Four
Ain’t got no words today. I slept in til the last possible moment of being able to get any work done that needed to be completed before the store opened. I grabbed a very quick lunch. The topic of discussion at the lunch table was the weekend premier of the Barbie & Oppenheimer films, neither…
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Day Seventy-Three
The extra cold, cold streak continues. We dipped in and out of a condition two today. It was -31F and with the wind chill -59F. My face was pretty much instantly wind burned when I stepped outside. Brrrr. When it is this cold out it’s typically pretty chilly inside too. I had a space heater…
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Day Seventy-One
You know how we all have that voice that lives in our head? Like the one you are hearing right now, as you read these words. I don’t know about ya’ll, but that voice can be so exhausting. Sometimes I hear it and I am like damn, that is good stuff, you need to write…
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Day Sixty-Eight
I started writing this post last night after my weekly yoga class and as of last night it began, Big day today!…but turns out it was just a normal day instead. Last summer, in the months leading up to heading down here, there were lots of Zoom calls with various departments and management teams across…
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Day Sixty-One
The days are kind of starting to really blur together and time is going by so quickly. Knowing that the season is coming to an end, I’ve started getting a little anxious about redeploying. My supervisor back in the States reached out with my off-ice date earlier today. October 16th. I arrived on October 17th…
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