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Build-a-weekend

Posted on March 11, 2024 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

This past weekend was a lot of prepping for the coming week. Also a lot of putting things together and taking things apart. I put together a cargo carrier for o...

Health & Well Being

I injured my knee! (And I’m trying really hard not to freak out)

Posted on February 27, 2024 by noemikjames / 6 Comments

Tonight at sparring a bigger guy jumped on my back and when I got down to throw him off, my right knee collapsed inward and I felt a horrible popping on the out...

Health & Well Being/Work/Teaching

Should I stay or should I go?

Posted on November 15, 2023 by noemikjames / 4 Comments

Go to martial arts I mean. And I really struggle with it sometimes. I am VERY good at sticking with my workout routine. I work out at least four times a week an...

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/Health & Well Being

Bummer (or on not managing disappointment well)

Posted on June 10, 2023 by noemikjames / 1 Comment

Today I was supposed to go to my first book club with a friend. I have been plowing through the book all week, trying to finish in time, I was nervous, but exci...

Health & Well Being

Not a stroke, but maybe a silent migraine?

Posted on May 31, 2023 by noemikjames / 5 Comments

I spent several hours in the ER today. A couple hours in the waiting room, and one in the actual ER. I was there because the advice nurse told me I had to go. B...

Health & Well Being/Identity

I’m so glad I didn’t quit

Posted on May 12, 2023 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

I’ve been thinking a lot about how I considered quitting martial arts, and how glad I am that I didn’t. I was thinking of quitting because it was getting hard, ...

Health & Well Being/Perimenopause

Perimenopause confirmed?

Posted on May 11, 2023 by noemikjames / 4 Comments

Actually, I think it’s not. Confirmed I mean. The perimenopause. I don’t fucking know. How exactly am I supposed to know? I rarely got my period, wi...

Health & Well Being/Self-compassion

In search of coping mechanisms

Posted on July 12, 2022 by noemikjames / 4 Comments

Today was a bad day. Not necessarily for me, but for people I care about. So naturally, I felt really bad for them. And again I was reminded that when I’m...

Health & Well Being/Travel

All the ways COVID can mess up a vacation

Posted on June 30, 2022 by noemikjames / 12 Comments

I’ve been less stressed out about COVID messing up our summer since we got it in mid-May (though BA.4 and BA.5’s dominance has chipped away at my confidence rec...

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