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Month: June 2023

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Good news and better news

Posted on June 30, 2023 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

On Wednesday I got a negative PCR test and decided I was done worrying that I was going to get COVID. A negative PCR test six days after being exposed made me f...

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Hitting bottom

Posted on June 28, 2023 by noemikjames / 3 Comments

Yesterday was a hard day. I cried in the car. On two different occasions. I was kind of a wreck. After I wrote the post on Monday evening, I did some stretching...

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Neti pot drama (and travel workout recs?)

Posted on June 26, 2023 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

So I broke my brain with a neti pot. I’m not sure what exactly I did wrong but now, when I lower my head at all, I feel a searing pain across the back of ...

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The wait

Posted on June 25, 2023 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

Lest you think, from my last post, that I’m capable of taking all this one como si nada, please know that I can’t. 48 hours in and my house is a dis...

Life

One for the books

Posted on June 23, 2023 by noemikjames / 3 Comments

Well, today was one for the books. Without my husband the afternoon was an insane game of Tetris. But I made it work! – At 2pm I left to pick up my daught...

Health & Well Being/Home/Travel

Silly me

Posted on June 23, 2023 by noemikjames / 4 Comments

I thought I’d be writing a post today about what I did and did not end up doing this week. Instead I’m writing a post about how my husband just test...

Connection/Identity/Parenting & Family

Retooling expectations

Posted on June 18, 2023 by noemikjames / 6 Comments

Yesterday was a success. The kids did great on the bike ride. They were shaky to start but they found their footing and went for it. They made it all the way to...

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Me being a curmudgeon at the start of summer

Posted on June 17, 2023 by noemikjames / 5 Comments

{I had titled this “ping pong thoughts at the start of summer” but by the end if felt I should change the title. And since the line-through-text for...

Work/Teaching

Last Day of School

Posted on June 15, 2023 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

Well, I did it. I made it to the last day of the school year. At 12:15pm today I will say goodbye to my last class of students, then go to the 8th grade brunch ...

Work/Teaching

The home stretch

Posted on June 12, 2023 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

Yesterday we threw our daughter a birthday party in the park. Make your own boba and bagels for 16 kids. We had to make pretty much everything for the boba bar ...

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