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Days 46 and 47: Whatever.

17 Feb 2020 atwistonlife

I was (am) still feeling down in the dumps about Valentine’s Day, and I had to keep an eye on work all weekend, and overall

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Day 41: Exercising for Emotional Strength

11 Feb 2020 atwistonlife

It feels like the Nothing is catching up to me and I’m going to fall into a depressive cycle at any moment. I’m spending my

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Day 40: The Nothing Wears Me Down

10 Feb 2020 atwistonlife

It is Monday morning. My house is clean and my body is sore. I overslept and I plan to work from home today. I dusted,

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Day 38: Light Dawns

8 Feb 2020 atwistonlife

It’s one thing to have a logical understanding of something. It’s another thing entirely to experience the emotions of that thing. And it’s yet a

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Day 35: Success and Rewards

5 Feb 2020 atwistonlife

Yesterday, I told myself if I was good and I got all my chores done I could go see Little Women tonight. I didn’t get

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Day 33: Finding Balance

3 Feb 2020 atwistonlife

Yesterday’s accomplishment was realizing I need to find balance as I fight the Nothing (which is what I’ve started calling the Spring through Summer seasonal

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Day 30: I’ll do Anything to beat depression

31 Jan 2020 atwistonlife

Yesterday’s successes include, in no particular order: Going for a walk in the (very rare for this time of year) sunshine Booking a weekend getaway

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Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present

2 Dec 2019 atwistonlife

It is Sunday evening of Thanksgiving weekend and I have a glass of eggnog heavily dosed with brandy beside me. My Christmas tree was bought

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Thanksgiving Day Diet Strategy

28 Nov 2019 atwistonlife

This is not another piece about how to maintain one’s diet through the holidays. This is a piece about saying fuck it to that nonsense.

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And thus, the holidays begin

27 Nov 2019 atwistonlife

It’s the day before Thanksgiving and all through the house, not a creature was stirring because I don’t have to do much cooking this year.

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Time change lag and executive dysfunction

8 Nov 2019 atwistonlife

TGIF. This whole week has been an endless slog through horrible exhaustion. The clocks changing seem to impact me differently than others. I don’t understand

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Winter Sleep is the Best Sleep

5 Nov 2019 atwistonlife

Holy cow, last night was the best night’s sleep I’ve had in ages. That’s one of the benefits of the clocks changing, I think. By

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Whoa… I actually completed the whole task

4 Nov 2019 atwistonlife

Yesterday the clocks changed, and I celebrated the onset of longer evenings by setting up string lights through my entryway, living room, and dining room.

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No shame in my Christmas game

3 Nov 2019 atwistonlife

The clocks have changed and the months of long, dark evenings have arrived. Some bemoan this, and really, if clocks stopped changing twice a year

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It’s Okay To Want To Feel Pretty

25 Oct 2019 atwistonlife

You want to stop spending so much. You even wrote a post about it the other day (Financial solutions and headway disorientation update). And yet

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