Tag: travel journal
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Day Seventy-Six
This is a little late. I am in a rut for the words. The rinse and repeat cycle is in full swing. It’s my day off and I am lounging as usual. I went down to the galley five minutes before lunch ended to grab a plate of food. I wore a ball cap since…
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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-Two
What a difference a day makes. Today was such a better day than yesterday. I actually smiled today, haha. Often. No longer feeling lowkey homicidal, I was also super productive in the stockroom of the store. I mentioned yesterday’s grumpiness to someone and they shrugged and said, ‘angry August is upon us’. It’ll be interesting…
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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 Seventy
Seventy days of entries. I don’t know how I feel about that. It hasn’t been easy, but it has been a journey. It’s given me a responsibility that I didn’t fully understand when I initially committed to the project. There have been days were I thought I couldn’t do it. Days where I had nothing…
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Day Sixty-Nine
Wahhhhh. Today I am whiney. I am grumpy. I am tired. I am bored. I am restless. Irritable. Discontent. Lol. Funny, not funny. Even the hallways are annoying me today. The smallness of this space. Walking in the same circles. Seeing the same faces. Hearing the same voices. Eating the same food. Watch out for…
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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-Seven
Eek! I had the best aurora experience after lunch today. One of the firefighters stopped by the store and asked if I’d seen them, when I said I had not, he said they are doing their thing right out the front door. So, I threw my big red on, asked him to watch the store…
The Whole Wide World 