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You guys probably don't get that reference, but I'll explain. It's a reference from Jeopardy!, which I watch every day that it airs. Not on the weekends though, obviously. I was in pain for most of today so I didn't walk. Then when I woke up from my muscle relaxer/neuropathy induced sleep (they a...

Things are finally back to normal again after 3 weeks of my husband's grandma living with us. Yesterday we brought her to the assisted living home and it was really nice and a little weird. Today is kind of weird too but starting to feel more normal again, I have a million and one things to…

If I'm being completely honest, I hate my life, and myself right now. See, I have Cerebral Palsy, and while I'm not nearly as bad as some others who have the same disability, I do have my limitations. One of the biggest is not being able to go anywhere whenever i damn well please.  And…

I return to work in 22 minutes but I'd like to share a vignette from an hour ago. I drove to my parents house to eat and do laundry, like any college kid does. I walked up to the door, laundry in hand, and paused at the door momentarily to listen to my mother play…

Wow, Open Diary. Hello old friend. It's been 8 years ... 8 years. It's a lifetime in terms of changes to my world. 8 years ago, I was 28 with no kids. Today, I'm 36 with 4 children. My wife and I are in our 12th year of marriage. Oh, the things I didn't know…

February 4th 2018, 1:30Pm Home, Bradford Delightful! My diary is reclaimed and I just posted my first entry. Time to make another one to add to the backlog. After not receiving a reply to my initial request to reclaim my diary, I sent another email and received a response about an hour later sayi...

Hello OD community! OD is back and it brings me a sense of home, of warmth that I haven't felt anywhere else. I was an avid OD user 16 years ago. I began writtig back when I was in college, away from home, different country, different friends and I was lonely, very lonely and depressed.…

January 27th 2018, 10:07Pm Home, Bradford. Wonderful to see OpenDiary is back online. I am only hopeful that my request to access my old diary goes well so that this entry, along with my previous two, may see the light of day. I sent off my request last night and have not heard back yet,…

If you're still here, I appreciate it, truly. 😍 If you're new here, hey there. 🤓 I was terrified of making people mad until about 4 months ago...stick with me...or don't, it's your life 💁 "And should she choose to be a Mother one day, be my eyes, Lord, that I may see her, lying on a blanket…