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The old house is sold. We closed on it on October 4th. A woman about my age with her little dog bought it, and I hope they’re very happy there for a long time. I teared up as we prepared to drive away from it the last time we went there as the owners, but… Continue reading Settling back into a regular life routine

I haven’t been able to add a new post in a couple of months now. I don’t know why, nor do I know how I navigated to wherever I got to to create this one. (I am a digital moron like you have never seen before.) I don’t know if anyone will be able to… Continue reading I hope this works

Today, April 11, 2024, would have been my dad’s 63rd birthday. How old, but how young, comparatively, he would be, if he was still here. I don’t think of myself as being all that old, but come November, Justin will be the age my dad was when he died. In another couple of years, I… Continue reading Life today

Yesterday I officially saw my 4th client-owned dog for acupuncture. This owner was actually the first to schedule an appointment, but she had to push it back due to other things going on in her life. In addition to his initial consult, I also had two follow-up visits scheduled in the morning. I’m glad to… Continue reading Updates in adventures in acupuncture

One of my techs and I had a conversation last week about the amazement we sometimes have over the things that seem like they should be common knowledge that apparently aren’t. I can’t remember what triggered the conversation at this time, but today, I’m back on the same thought train. Why do people say or… Continue reading How do people think the things that they do?

Two weeks ago, I was back in Florida for the on site portion of an advanced acupuncture course. Although I still have about four hours of online lectures to listen to and a quiz to take at the end of them, I received my veterinary acupuncture certification while in person at Chi. It’s nice to… Continue reading Certified

A year in to the acupuncture journey, and we’re FINALLY getting ready to open it up to clients of the hospital. This past year at work has been one with lots of transitions, relief vets, new doctors and new techs on staff. There’s a lot of adjusting and integrating different ideas about veterinary medicine and… Continue reading It’s finally happening!

It really is overwhelming trying to figure out what exactly to do with life. I’m sure a lot of people, probably the majority of people, can relate to that feeling. My brain sometimes seems to be going a mile a minute (in circles, of course) with all of the never-ending possibilities zipping by; I can’t… Continue reading Pondering the future

OK. Not EVERYTHING. But it can seem like it. They say that negative experiences stick with you more than positive ones, and you need something like 100 good experiences to negate one bad one. Today could use a few really good things to give me some balance back. You have a rational mind that tells… Continue reading Some days, everything dies

I didn’t realize it’s been 3 months since I created a post. It’s been a somewhat busy summer, and although I’ve thought about writing several times, I knew I just didn’t have the time right then to start and finish, meaning I never started. Busyness aside, I don’t know that my head space has been… Continue reading Integrating