SOC Sunday-Where I live

I live in a county just outside the Nation’s Capital.  My husbands job brought us here after he left Active Duty.  The plan was to stay only five years. We had arrived during a big snowstorm, and I had not only never seen that much snow, but had never lived anywhere further north than Georgia.  We had a five year plan, we’ve been here eleven.
There is so much to do and see here, from museums that are FREE, to concerts, Independent movies, lectures, etc..  We live in a very affluent county, with the top charter school in the nation, but there is still poverty and people in need.  My kids go to school with a varied student body from many different nations. 
I like the house I live in.  We spent one day looking at probably fourteen houses and this one was the one that had the least that needed to be fixed.  It’s been work, but we have made it the home we love, although my girls would tell you that they’d rather be living in a BIGGER house!!!!

This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…

• Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
• Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
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SOC Sunday-Prime of our life!

Today’s (Optional) Writing Prompt for Stream of consciousness Sunday is "Have you reached the prime of your life? What do you want to be your legacy?"  I'm going to try and tackle this prompt, but know that I worked two-twelve hour shifts, one of which was after daylight savings time-I am exhausted! I've just had dinner and a big glass of wine, and I'm thoroughly disappointed to find that it isn't 7pm when I got home, but actually 8pm-I hadn't changed the clock in the car.  So here goes!


I think that we reach the prime of of our life on a daily basis.  Yes, it's those little tasks, or challenges that we accomplish on a daily basis that has us reaching our prime.  If we look at the small or large successes (I lost my train of thought) that we accomplish on a daily basis as monumental successes then we won't be looking at others achievements and wondering why we aren't doing  X, Y, or Z, feeling totally useless and depressed.  We can save the world in our little communities, or homes.  Yes, it's great to want to save the WORLD, but how daunting...SAVE THE WORLD!.  Let's look at how we taught our child to read, taught our teen to drive or how we talked to the kids about basic sex education...educating them to be smart, well-rounded and educated individuals that will then turn and save the world in their little communities.  Let's look at how we volunteer with Meals on Wheels to provide nutritious meals for those who are home bound, or how we teach adults who can't read how to read.   WE do so much and will do more.  What we do is our daily 'prime of our life'




This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…

Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
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Link up your post below.
Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

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SOC Sunday-Loving Hands

They hesitantly walk into the room.  They have never been in this room before.  I greet them with a smile, introduce myself, and go over our plan for today.  He takes him out of the isollete.  His hands are three times bigger than his head.  He awkwardly tries to hold him in his lap while trying to give him the bottle.  He is left handed, it looks awkward the way he his trying to hold him and the bottle.  She looks on lovingly, trying not to step in and ruin the moment.  I walk over and give him different ways to position the bottle, he is relieved, the new technique isn’t as awkward.  She is relieved not to have had to tell him how to do it.  I’m relieved that the simple tip has worked.  .  I see their heads joined lovingly taking him in. I walk away saying to myself ‘this is why I love my job!’

  
This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…

• Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
• Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post.
• Link up your post below.
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

SOC Sunday-“Can I ask you a question…”

Yesterday at the girls dance competition there was a gentleman sitting behind me and to the right who had a prosthetic leg.  I couldn’t take my eyes off him.  He was sitting with his prosthetic leg across his other leg and at one point he was rotating his  leg around 360 degrees!  Those of us sitting around him chuckled as he was doing that, I was fascinated.  As a nurse, I wanted to ask him all kinds of questions regarding his leg.  I hesitated, but finally got the nerve up to ask him.  I learned something new, that there is phantom pain and phantom sensation.  He says that sometimes he will feel an itch near his shin, he’ll be scratching away and look up to see people staring at him quizzically wondering ‘why is that guy scratching his metal let'?.  I also found out from his friend, (who it turns out was in the same places I was stationed as an Army nurse, and had her baby at the same hospital I had my youngest….we just never knew each other then!), that before he lost his leg he had been injured with a bullet to his neck area, needing reconstructive surgery.  After the surgery he returned to his unit and before the unit was set to return home, he lost his leg.  I'm so glad I took the time and had the courage to not only ask my questions but thank that soldier for his heroic service to our country!




This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…

• Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
• Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post.
• Link up your post below.
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

SOC Sunday-NOT venting

Today I was going to write about venting.  Venting, and how when you vent, in my opinion, it tends to escalate whatever it is your venting about..depending on what that is.  For example, if I’m venting about how crazy my co-worker irritates me, am I doing it so the other person I’m venting to will think ill of that person as well.  Will my irritation escalate and send me to vent to others?  OK, yes, someone  drove me a little nutty last  week.  I was ready to text my friend F. to let her know so she could commiserate and agree with me on how nutty this person really is.  I took a deep breath and thought, does F. really need me to inundate her with more negativity.  Let’s stop the negativity rollercoaster.  So I didn’t vent to F.  I did vent to The Big Guy, but he’s an impartial party, he listened, commented where it needed and you know what…I felt so much better.  OK, so this doesn’t make any sense……I don’t think I put  my thoughts into words as well as I was hoping to…!

This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…

• Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
• Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post.
• Link up your post below.
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

SOC Sunday--STOP Whinning

I have this friend at work who 'tells it like it is'!  I wish I could be like that, I wish I could 'tell it like it is' and say what is on my mind about the way that you are behaving.  But no, I don't, I keep quiet, walk away and then vent in my head or to someone else.  "Why does so and so have to whine and complain so much?"  Why can't I 'tell it like it is' to that person, to their face?  Here it is, if I could I would say the following to that person:  "Stop whinning and complaining! Really!  If you don't like it so much then go to 'boss' with ideas on how to change what you don't like.  You have a choice.  Keep complianing and be unhappy, or do something about it...generate ideas on how to fix the problem, move on or leave.  Really!  You would be so much happier, and so would everybody else?"  There I said it, to you, my friends, not to the person who needs to hear it.  Better than nothing?!  Practice for when I will say it in person? 

This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…

• Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
• Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post.
• Link up your post below.
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

SOC Sunday-Refuge

Work, good or bad, in home or out, is good for what it provides. A social outlet, food on the table, whatever work gives you it’s good as long as you have a refuge to turn to after the day of work ends…I know I’m rambling. Good day at work, good crew, sweet babies, tough parents, terrible doctor who forgot his manners, but all in all a good day.  Drive home uneventful, actually not that much traffic.  I ‘m heading home to the ones I love.  Dog barking excitedly giving me that smile that is only a Chessie smile.  Looking forward to watching and critiquing the gowns wore by the starts.  dinner is eaten, spaghetti and wine.  On the tv…Never Say Never, the Justin Bieber story…Bieber fever!!  OMG!


 This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…

• Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
• Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post.
• Link up your post below.
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.

SOC Sunday-On My Mind

This saying has been on my mind lately “There but for the grace of God, go I”.  I did some research as to do the origin of that quote, and wasn’t able to find much.  But it’s on my mind a lot lately afater a friend shared her plight.  A friend. who by all looks lives likes us..middle class, her and her husband both work, two kids, is going through a crisis.  The kind of crisis that we have been seeing on the news lately.  I want to help, because not only is she a friend, but I see myself in her situation.  It could have been my family in the same situation, but there for the grace of God.  I also want to help and help in such a way that I don’t expect anything in return, or feel that she is obligated to me.  I keep saying this little prayer “ Lord, help me help my friend without expecting anything in return”.



This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…

• Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
• Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
• Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
• Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post.
• Link up your post below.
• Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love