So today’s fill-in-the-blank is The funniest thing that happened this week was… and, as I already told you with the Wednesday word of Laughter, I had the perfect funniest thing to share and yet it’s probably really inappropriate to share. So I will, for now, have to keep it to myself until a time when I feel it’s safe. I don’t think the person this story is about follows my blog but I also don’t want to risk it. Maybe someday I’ll just put a story in here and you won’t know where it came from… until you start to laugh and remember a time when I said what I just said.

As for the one-word for the day it is learning. We do learn something new every day. As for what I learned today, well, the dog has diarrhea. Did you know you can give a dog Pepto-Bismol, Imodium or Kaopectate? I did not. I figured they were those human meds that would harmful. But apparently not. I am a learner though, I enjoy taking correspondence courses and I enjoy learning on sites like Udemy. It’s important to keep learning.

So that’s it for today… I’ll see you back here tomorrow!

Happy Saturday.

Today’s fill-in-the-blank is I like that I’m… well, I don’t know how to finish that right now! Took some time and how’s this… I like that I’m resilient—life has thrown curveballs, and I still show up.
Some days I show up strong, other days I show up shaky. But I’m there. I keep going. I keep trying. I keep smiling. And that’s more than enough.

Today’s one-word is Comfort. We all know, pretty much, where my comfort comes from and that’s from the trailer, writing and cuddling with my boys. I’m most UNcomfortable with change and that’s what I’m facing a lot of right now.

So, I guess that’s what I have to offer on that… how about you?

Today is a better day emotionally… I have been on a roller coaster, I’ll tell you that.

Today’s fill-in-the-blank is I’m learning to… what am I learning to do? I think a lot of what has happened is trying to teach me patience and better resilience. I say that because I don’t do well with change, I never have. Some people take change in stride… me I stress over Every. Little. Thing. So I’m going to say that I’m learning to take things in stride.

The one-word journal idea is Sunshine… That’s definitely intermittent here today. It really doesn’t seem to know what it wants to do. We had some unforcasted rain this morning, then it got sunny. It’s fairly warm but it’s very windy! Now the sky is getting darker but the sun suddenly peeks out. It’s very strange today. I can go outside in a t-shirt but not for very long. I love the sunshine and the heat though. Sunshine gives us lots of vitamin D which we all need and it helps boost the mood too. My better days tend to be sunny days!

And on that note, I’m going to grab my hoodie and take a walk because it’s mostly going to be an indoor day I think.

PS I already baked cookies!

No, that’s not the word for the day or the Positive thought. I just feel very emotional and burned out. Too much, too fast and it’s swimming around in my brain causing all kinds of anxiety!

Anyway, the fill-in-the-blank for today is… I’m good at and what I really want to say is I’m really good at burying my emotions so nobody else has to deal with them. I might tell someone I’m anxious or angry or annoyed but I don’t unbox the causes a lot of the time. I was originally going to say that I’m good at writing all kinds of wonderful things but feeling the way I do today, I think the emotions thing and keeping those boxed up is WAY better.

The one-word journal for today is Progress.

Something I wish I felt like I was making rather than feeling overwhelmed and emotional. I feel like there’s too much to do and too little time to do it in. Then I want to do even less because I want to be the turtle who pulls his head back into his shell and hides. I don’t have time for that at all and it’s crazy that nobody else is offering to help.

So while I made progress on my trilogy I didn’t make progress on anything else.

I’m now in my happy place so hopefully I can unbox some of those emotions and even do the other thing I’m good at… make a plan!

Today’s fill-in-the-blank is… People appreciate me for… I hope people appreciate me for my honesty… and if not that, my writing!

The one word journal is pretty simple! It’s simplicity… I wish life was simpler than it is! Does life have to come with all the complications and upset that it does? Probably not! I do like the simpler things. And I wish getting the things I really wish for was so much easier than it is. Don’t you? I have since my surgery in 2017 but complicated seems to keep landing on me.

I guess some of these will be short! I will add, then, that I’m moving very quickly through book three of the trilogy and I’m hoping that edits will be quick and painless and I will be able to decide how I’m going to put it all together. With soaring costs, I might just put the trilogy into a single book with either Parts or actual titles through it. What do you think?

So here are the two I’m going to work from this month. I’ll do the fill-in-the-blank and then do my best to journal from one word! This way you can do it too as I had one comment from someone saying she might just take it up too! Pick one or both to do! If you haven’t already gone on Facebook and searched for Ordinary & Happy, be sure to look them up because they have tons of these calendars and lists about food, romantic gestures, romantic songs, daily doodling ideas… Pick one or all!

For the fill-in-the-blank today… This month I’m looking forward to… this is definitely a repeat of yesterday… I’m looking forward to starting the new job on September 22!

As for one-word journalling… LOVE

Love used to be what made the world go round… and I have a very old picture on my bedroom wall with a little girl on a merry-go-round that says that. But it seems that over all these years, that has dwindled, at least as far as the world goes! I’m very happy to say that I am lucky to have the love I have in my life… my family and friends. Sometimes it’s what you make of it and other times it’s just there in all its glory coming at you and filling you with warmth!

We made it to the last day of the Gratitude journal. they didn’t come out with one like this for September… it’s a little different. There’s a morning and an evening one for that but there are others. If you’ve looked them up on Facebook then you’ll see there’s a One-Word Journal for September. If you think I should continue, let me know…

Today’s prompt is Things you’re looking forward to next month.

I promised I would finally say what happened so I will on this last day of August since I’ve got to look onward and upwards for September. I have to say, first, that my GM, after she had resigned at the end of May, told me to get out, quick. She said upper management had it in for the wellness centre and it was going to be me. On June 24th, they came into my office and accused me of allowing staff to work when they shouldn’t have been. The situation had consisted of a phone call from staff, on a Sunday afternoon, stating that THREE of them needed to go home. I stated that if THREE left it would leave only two staff and if something happened we could easily get sued for negligence. I’d never even heard of the order they’d received or what the repercussions were. I’m a nurse, not an immigration lawyer. Anyway, after being accused of this, I said I know nothing about them and I stated that I didn’t want staff, myself or the home to be sued for negligence and I was told that wasn’t a good enough excuse and I was humiliatingly escorted from the building.

Deep down, I know I didn’t do anything wrong and that I had been warned. I was going to start cleaning out my office but I figured I had until the end of that week. Honestly, it would have been easier to walk in and tell me that they had different ideas and didn’t feel I was the one to carry those forward and to get out. To lie and accuse me of such things when it was something that would have been a teachable moment more than anything, and then screw me so I couldn’t even get employment insurance makes me wonder why I even went there in the first place and I have spent two months feeling regret and often starting to reprimand myself for not seeing it or for not getting out sooner. And I know I shouldn’t, but part of it is just who I am.

So that’s what happened.

So for this new month, I’m looking forward to the new job and a fresh start but I will also say, I’m terrified! I’m scared to death of upper management and making any kind of mistake. My trust in humanity has been shaken up pretty badly. But, still, on September 22nd I will walk in there and set myself to take on a new challenge.

Have a great rest of the Labour Day weekend!

Today’s prompt… The best thing that happened in August.

Well, here we are, tomorrow is the last day of August but the calendar wants this one before tomorrow. So… here we go. Probably the best thing that happened in August was getting two job offers in less than 48 hours! And accepting one! Which is going to bring an incredible amount of change for me in a VERY short time.

Of course the other great thing that will hopefully happen today is HALLOWEEN here at the trailer! My brother will be on his way with his band and it’s just supposed to be fun all around! So I’ll have to report on that tomorrow!

Have a great and fun day!

Today’s prompt… You favourite things about this summer.

There are definitely some un-favourite moments but I do love that I got to spend more time lakeside. I got my camera out and I gave Larry the chance to, finally, after all these years, see Elvis in concert which led me down the path of opportunity when I was asked to send them my pics!

The other great part was getting to write for the Goderich Sun. I am loving it and I’m going on another adventure for them to Bayfield.

And now, just as the summer closes out… I will be starting a new job!

Now, on the flipside… it would be so MUCH BETTER if the weather had continued to cooperate through this week! Temperatures UP!

What were/are your favourite things about this summer?