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Good Morning, you Beautiful People!

Today is going to be all about…

…SNOW!

We got about 6 inches last night, and the precipitation is supposed to continue through out the day. The question — as it often is in the mid-Atlantic states — will be how much of that will be ice? I love the snow, and the ice can be a beautiful thing to see, but it’s a rather dangerous beauty.

Other than figuring out what our snow removal strategy will be and implementing it, today will also be about laundry, puzzles, and most likely a nap, as I stayed up too late last night.

I hope you find something beautiful in your day, and as always, thank you for being here!

Side note: another day without poetry, but I'll play catch up on Monday

myveryown_nemesis

Good Morning, you Beautiful People!

There is a continued theme of clearing snow and doing laundry. The bakery where my son works is closed again today (we weren't expecting that, since, you know, that retail life). I'm hoping that my son takes the brunt of the snow clearing, since in most places it looks like it's only a couple of inches, which would be cool if it were only snow, but it's snow that has been packed down with sleet. There are a few places that didn't get cleaned up at all yesterday, so those zones are about 8 inches of snow covered with the sleet/ice-pack, also known as mid-Atlantic winter concrete. Blech. It's supposed to stay cold here (high of 25F/-4C, and the highs aren't going to break the freezing mark all week), so we can't play the "wait until it melts" game. For now, I'm going to drink my coffee (decaf), look out the window, and stay warm. I'll probably watch an episode of Elsbeth, then work on the laundry, and when/if my son asks, I'll help with the remaining snow removal.

I hope you find something beautiful in your day, and as always, thank you for being here.

myveryown_nemesis

Good Morning, you Beautiful People!

Today is going to be a socially busy day -- I'll be going to a face-to-face meeting in the morning, then my husband and I will meet up with our travel partners for the Spain trip, to pick our flights. Originally, we had planned on going first class, but since my husband is going in for a rather expensive procedure for his meralgia paresthetica next week (Wednesday, so one would hope that most of the storm madness will have passed), that part of the budget is going to take a hit. I'll probably be brain-fried at the end of the day, which used to mean numbing everything down with bourbon, but tonight it will probably be Sudoku puzzles, podcasts, and chamomile tea. And that's a beautiful thing.

I hope you find something beautiful in your day, and as always, thank you for being here.

myveryown_nemesis

Horror Writing Prompt no. 2075: afterlife

#horrorprompt

by-and-by

after life, after death,

after ever after

we hold our strife, we hold our breath,

and drown in waves of laughter

01-23-2026

myveryown_nemesis

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt no. 1643: whisper

#haikuhorrorprompt #senryu

petrification

trapped in stone, you howl

if only you could whisper

then you might break free

01-23-2026

#APoemADay

myveryown_nemesis

Hello, my Beautiful Friends!

It's been a good day. I picked up a grocery order so that we are well-stocked for the upcoming storm, and then I spent several hours with friends. We went thrift shopping and then went out to lunch. I bought a puzzle, a jacket, and a Sudoku book. I was going to do a load of towels today, but my outing with friends was longer than I expected, so I'll add that to tomorrow's activities. I took care of some paperwork for my husband and served as the second driver to pick up my son's car from the garage. There was a time when I would have had to remember to remain sober for that last one. That's not something I have to worry about anymore.

That was about it. I forgot to defrost what I planned for tonight's dinner, but I have plenty of other options in the house, so I'll just have to shift tracks. Since I spend so much of my life on the side-track instead of the main road, I'm cool with that.

I hope you found some beauty in your day, and as always, thank you for being here!

myveryown_nemesis

Horror Writing Prompt no. 2074: premonition

#horrorprompt

silent calculation

she hesitates with her admission

and struggles with the recognition

that she has wrapped her bold ambition

under the guise of the premonition.

01-22-2026

#APoemADay

myveryown_nemesis

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt no. 1642: writhe

#haikuhorrorprompt #senryu

abeyance

you writhe and gasp

bound by cords of woven pain

waiting to be free

01-22-2026

#APoemADay

myveryown_nemesis

Good Morning, you Beautiful People!

I am procrastinating. I have some cleaning to do and some calls to make. I’m only procrastinating on the cleaning because I don’t want to make the calls. They aren’t horrible calls to make, I just hate making calls in general. That’s one thing that the sertraline doesn’t fix — the motivation to make the calls which historically have triggered major social anxiety reactions. I think that to a certain degree, motivation is something that we learn. Some of us are hardwired with more of it than others, but all of us can learn to motivate ourselves to do the next best thing. I struggle to learn motivation for practical things until I hit a hard deadline. This is an ADHD trait (though you can have this tendency without being neurodivergent) which is a huge part of my struggles with executive function. It’s hard to execute anything when lack of motivation keeps you from functioning.

Okay. I guess it’s time to stop procrastinating and to start getting something done. But I really don’t wanna. Off I go…

I hope you are motivated to find something beautiful in your day, and as always, thank you for being here!

myveryown_nemesis

Horror Writing Prompt no. 2073: red wine

#horrorprompt.

just a little cut

it was not the red wine

that quenched my biding thirst.

it was the lifeblood, the joy, and the pain...

...and all I did was cut a little vein.

01-21-2026

myveryown_nemesis

#haikuhorrorprompt

go seek

it's too late to hide

when you see Faeries from the

corner of your eye

01-21-2026

#apoemaday

myveryown_nemesis

Good Morning, you Beautiful People!

Let's see if I can actually complete this check-in before breakfast, and actually post it in the morning...

Today I need to launder the sheets, pay the bills, and review the budget. Those are at the top of the list. The rest of the list is mostly filled with things that I didn't do yesterday: schedule boarding for Ted for the end of February (my sister K's remembrance and ash spreading is the 28th), find out where the heck I put my Target card so that I can cancel it, and maybe start sorting and prepping the next batch of donations. The way I have to manage donations every couple of months is indicative of my reckless spending habits. Most of the items on the donation list are from purchases made early in 2025 and la4te 2024, so that's an improvement, right? In either instance, it still needs to be done.

And as for something beautiful...I did finish this AND post it this morning. I'll also share some pictures of my corner of the winter sky, one from this morning, and one from earlier in the month. The sky is beautiful, as are the stark branches of the oak tree in our backyard. My photography skills, however, are questionable. ;~)

May you have a beautiful day, and as always, thank you for being here!

myveryown_nemesis

Horror Writing Prompt no. 2050: cemetery light

#horrorprompt

a play of light and dark

for shadows to fall

upon tombstones, there must be

cemetary lights

01-20-2026

#APoemADay

myveryown_nemesis

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt no. 1641: black ocean

#haikuhorrorprompt

castaway

this pool of ink bleeds

its tribute to black oceans

where your lost dreams float

01-20-2026

myveryown_nemesis

Good Evening, my Beautiful Friends!

I thought I checked in this morning...I did not. Oops!

Today I did some light cleaning, rehung some curtains, took the dog for a walk, brought up the trash bins, and watched several episodes of Elsbeth. While she is a lawyer, not a police detective, I see her as a modern-day take on Columbo. It's lite-fare watching, which is what my brain needs right now.

I also wrote two short poems based on prompts from Bluesky. I did the same yesterday. I took a break from writing and social media after the holidays, but it's time to get back to writing. I'll still keep my social media activity low, simply because so much social media is meme-sharing about politics. Even if I agree with you, I don't want political memes right now. It saddens me that social media has devolved so much since the early days of the internet. Yeah, there was some whack-a-doodle crap going on back then as well, but at least there was a higher text-to-image ratio than there is now. That's one of the things I like about this check-in thread [this is inreference to the Daily Check-In at Science-Informed Addiction Recovery Tools & Peer Support]...it's like an ongoing conversation with folks who are trying to change, or who have changed, their lives for the better. And that, my friends, is definitely something beautiful.

I hope you found some beauty in your day, and as always, thank you for being here.

myveryown_nemesis

Haiku Horror Writing Prompt no. 1624: lump

#haikuhorrorprompt

the enemy inside you

never "just" a lump

it hides deep within your chest

consuming your light

01-19-2026

--this one is going to get some editing; while the prompt was "lump", I want to shift it a bit.

myveryown_nemesis

Horror Writing Prompt no. 2071: in the snow

#horrorprompt

winter's gloss

like candles and lipstick

it glistens like cherries on snow

this bloody affair

left on display, scenting the air

and staining our skin.

01-19-2026

#APoemADay

myveryown_nemesis

Hello, my Beautiful Friends!

The day started with a pleasant AA meeting that turned towards talking about acceptance. We shared about accepting ourselves and about accepting help. It was a very healthy meeting. Some of the shares were on the religious side, and others were more about the practical side of asking others for help. It was a nice balance.

After the meeting I took the dog to the vet for his Lyme and Lepto vaccines. He was a champ. He didn’t want to get out of the car (per usual), and a fellow who was waiting to pull in next to us popped his head out the driver side window and called out, “Hey, Buddy, how ya doing?” So Ted popped out the car to meet his new friend. He doesn’t love the vet’s office, but he does love meeting new friends!

I have a load of laundry in the wash, and have a few things I need to take care of later this afternoon, but for now, I have a couple of hours to be a lazy bum, so that’s what I’m going to do. And that, my friends, is a beautiful thing. As is meeting new friends, as Ted knows well.

I hope you find something beautiful in your day, and as always, thank you for being here!

myveryown_nemesis

Okie dokes...I have broken my social media fast. No one ever said anything, but today a dear friend was definitely checking to see if I had popped up at Bluesky. That was lovely. A lot of my close friends know that I have a history with needing to take breaks from social media, so it wasn't a friendship test, or anything like that. It was just me being curious.

My writing goal for the year is a poem a day, as it was last year. Since I'm starting late, I'll be posting two a day until I catch up to myself. I still haven't counted how many poems I wrote last year. I know that they aren't all good poems, and that's okay. Last year's challenge, along with this year's challenge is mostly about consistency, not quality. Most of those poems will probably #HaikuHorror prompts, because they usually flow pretty quickly. I still have poems from last year that want tweaking, so if anything gets a major rehaul, I'll count that as well.

Wishing everyone a pleasant 2026...based on 2025, I think we have to create our own beauty to make that happen.

As always, thank you for being here, and may you find something beautiful today!

myveryown_nemesis

Hello, my Beautiful Friends!

Sunday was very Sunday...the only thing missing was a nap, but since I had a short nap on Saturday, I would definitely call this a successful weekend. ;~)

Today's beautiful thing was how I felt halfway through the errands. First, I ran an errand to the grocery store, then I completed the second errand (more on that in a moment), dropped off a return, and finally picked up a couple of personal items from Walgreens. So that halfway point between errand two and errand three...I felt so accomplished. I felt like a functioning sober adult. Why? Because errand number 2 was dropping off the pain pills I didn't use at the drug receptacle at the "safety center" (a campus of two -- now attached -- buildings which houses the fire department and the police station). Old me would have never done that. She would have held on to them "just in case." But not the new me. She knew that if she ever needed to use that type of medication, a medical practitioner would prescribe it. There is no reason to hold on to those meds.

My original plan was to ask my husband to do it, but I'm glad I did it myself. I know it seems like a small thing, especially since my primary DOC was alcohol, but I have in the past misused pain meds. Not to the point of addiction, but still, there was a shadowy history.

That one little errand made me feel like I really am taking charge of my sober life, and that feels beautiful.

I hope you found something beautiful in your day, and as always, thank you for being here!

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SNOW!

drinking coffee, looking out the window, and staying warm

sudoku puzzles, podcasts, and chamomile tea

by-and-by

petrification

life on the side-track

silent calcuation

abeyance

on procrastination and motivation

just a little cut

go seek

my photography skills, however, are questionable

a play of light and dark

castaway

i don't want political memes right now

the enemy inside you

winter's gloss

being lazy is beautiful, as is meeting new friends

breaking the social media fast, and diving into poetry.

something beautiful

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