Steph B In Charge

The New Fridays…

Before the 2020 Quarantine, most people would be finishing up their work week with a long list of things to do for the weekend.  While everyone else would be looking forward to enjoying their leisure time at home for the weekend, I would be gearing up to spend the next few nights working at the hospital. This was life just 8 weeks ago. Every weekend like clockwork there was laundry, and grocery…

Restart…

You see the photo at the top of this post? What does it make you think of? It made me think of life and the beauty of nature. A very short moment then reality came back. The whole damn earth is on Quarantine, and I recently decided to restart a 2 year old blog…

After years of attempting to start this blog and get it flowing,  getting the images right, and trying to maintain valuable content, I…

Nobody told me this about being a YouTuber…

It’s Monday…😌

Awake Tea is on refill in my favorite cup. It’s the beginning of the week for some. But for people who work odd opposite schedules…It’s the end of the work week for me.

I’m marathon editing like 8 videos to upload between 2 channels on YouTube. I remember when I could barely find content to record. Once I started vlogging, I just started recording anything I could.  Let me tell…

From My IG Page!

I decided to start an Instagram page for my vlog channel. I don’t know why the idea of me starting from absolute 0 followers excites me but it does. My personal page is cool but all over the…

National Day of Unplugging

So today,  March 1, 2019, has been declared National Day of Unplugging. Today we get to unplug our phones and devices for 24 hours in order to reconnect to life. The non-digital part of our lives will reawaken our senses. In-depth conversations will be had over the dinner table, and some of us might discover that we really don’t need our devices as much as we think we do. This is what “the purge”…

I think I can safely say we are all ready for Spring to happen. If you check out my previous posts you will see how much I am over the winter months. As I type this, there is a light snow falling in Beacon. February is that month where the weather can go from a cool summer night to a blizzard within a few days. This is how I also see my present life. Things can go from warm and fuzzy one day to…

Little Me Vs. Mini-Me​

What is the deal with kids these days? I’m not talking about adolescents,  I’m talking about kids who are literally just learning how to walk upright properly and spell. The age I’m specifically referring to is age 7. What is going on in a kid’s brain at that age? The behavior that my child exhibits at this age is way more dramatic than I can remember. I talk to other moms about this and we all…

I work as an operator in a hospital. Our primary job is locating on-call staff for emergencies after hours. Basically, if someone has a medical emergency in the middle of the night, and comes to our hospital, we are the team that is responsible for getting the emergency staff to the patient’s side in a timely manner. I take my job very seriously. It’s kind of a rush to know we play an important role in saving lives. So you would think that there would be a sense of pride in my office amongst our staff, but let me tell you…

It’s like junior high school all over again. You know with the troublemaking Crystals, and the Brittanys, and Heathers…yes those bitches. You wouldn’t believe the mess that goes on in my office. None of which I am a part of because I choose to be a neutral party and not get involved with office politics.

I have personal financial obligations and college loans to repay.  I have to have income coming in. I chose to work at the hospital for the scheduling flexibility and it pays pretty decently.  I walk in, put my blinders on and work my shift. When the night’s over, I take my blinders off and leave. Simple right?

Of course not. The Young & The Restless dramatics is always on. Someone is always upset, or not being treated fairly, or not getting along, or needs to be confronted. I don’t know why, but everyone then has to weigh in on whatever the situation is. I get along with everyone so I don’t personally have issues with anyone. Some of them don’t get along with others so there is constant conflict. Is it like this at every job?

At home, I have a seven-year-old that hates math and cries every day when she has to do math homework. That energy alone is too much. My husband may call me to shoot the breeze, but then he starts yelling at people who annoy him at work and his mood is sour for the rest of the day. I have enough shit going on at home.  It can’ t be like this everywhere I go. Am I attracting this indirect disharmony?

The one place where I can count on to occasionally get a break from home is at work. It’s overnight, everyone is asleep, and no one will really miss you. But then you get to work and as soon as you walk in the door…

    We should all just be thankful we have jobs. Meaningful life-saving jobs, that pay our bills and allow us to live. Life can be hard sometimes. I have seen and been through some shit too. But I have so much more to live for and work for.  The most important aspect of my job?… It finances my expensive ass hobbies. This is where my creative juices flow.  Work to me is just work. It’s applying skill required to do a job. I try to keep my emotions out of it. Life is my family, my health, my food, what I create.  I approach work and life differently.

Every once in a while I look at these vacation pictures of my toes in the sand and my family in our SUV. I do this for visual motivation. This is what we “live” for.

  I wish everyone else would do the same thing…

I Made It To Friday

So another long ass week of gloomy cold February weather, cars getting stuck in the snow, major scheduling conflicts, kids having to be picked up early from school, coworkers notcoworking, and cakes falling apart. Yup! That was my week. Yesterday I was supposed to be in a Valentine’s type of mood, but this past week was on my nerves. Nothing I couldn’t handle, just a bunch of nonsense and…

Letter To Self…

Every year I write a journal entry to myself reflecting the past year.  Every five or so years I write an even more detailed letter to myself. A lot can change over the course of a year. At times life can take us through changes that we are not prepared for. When comparing previous notes to myself, I realized that I still had some growing up to do and some major life decisions to make. I looked…

Since I’m relaunching my blog, I decided to do things a bit different from my previous attempt.  February is a very busy month. Aside from getting back into writing, I have to manage my clan of creatives who are all working on different projects. I believe the best way for me to have a successful blog is to let the contents unfold naturally as they happen.

Throughout the week I have come up with…

Let’s Finish With a Workout…

Yay! its Friday. While some of you are planning your movie night, and doing fun, cool things, I have to work.  But it’s ok. Gotta make a living right? I had a busy week with the people in my house, so today ended with a good workout. Since I’m an obsessed list maker, I created a simple workout schedule to juggle through my days. I’m not an everyday gym person. I don’t have that kind of time with…

Dear Monday…

Anyone else wake up really early in the morning, and stare into darkness until day breaks? This was me this morning, on a Monday nevertheless. I woke up while it was still dark out, and couldn’t go back to sleep. My husband leaves around 4:30 a.m. for work. He leaves the curtains open so it’s easier for me to wake up.  This morning he kissed me goodbye as he does every morning, but when he left I…