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January 17 - Hindsight is 20/20 Journaling Challenge

This is something I've always wanted to get down, so thanks for the prompt, Elisa! My journaling is 302 words (it's typed out in the credits).

 
I still need to comment on the most recent pages, but wanted to let everyone up to this point know their pages are compliant!
 
Thank you for hosting this challenge, Elisa. I got a little wordy with it! Word count is 467 and journaling is with my credits in the gallery. Mine :)

 
Great challenge thank you for hosting.



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journaling: (word count 362 words)
I made a new year resolution to get in shape and so I started dressing up more. No more sandals and tennis shoes to work. As my fellow employee tells me that way I could tone up and look better. On this one day, I was running late to work and did not want to be tardy so I looked for a pair of boots I wanted to wear but could not find the pair I wanted to wear so I grabbed a pair of dress boots. I had started walking around the building with a friend on our breaks. Every break that matches up we go walking and when she can’t go walking I still go walking because this is my resolution. I walked down from the car to the building and decided I am not going to go walking on my breaks because it had started raining. When all of a sudden when I reached the end of the sidewalk. I have to step off onto the ash fault to get to the other sidewalk., The drain gushed water out and next thing I know I am down on the street with my knee bent backward and I get up and brush my handoff and go into work. As the day progressed my hand was hurting a little and my leg was killing me. I texted my kids' dad that I had fallen and my leg hurts. He tells me I should go get it checked and I told him I am fine. As the day progressed my leg continued to hurt so when I got home I changed into sweatpants and tennis shoes. I went to the ER and they x-rayed my knee. No break just a contusion. As I am leaving they tell me that it could take up to three months to have my knee feel better.
In Hindsight is 20/20, my new resolution of not wearing tennis shoes is only on sunny days. When it rains or is going to start to rain, I will only wear my tennis shoes. Resolutions are goals and can be edited. Still keeping my resolution just tweaking it. No more falls.​
 
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I started working in the pharmacy by accident. Someone called in sick and they needed a cashier. Eventually the person that called off kept calling off and lost their job. I was asked if I would prefer to switch to the pharmacy or stay up front in the photo department. That’s how it all began. I kind of feel that my fate was sealed that day. Little did I know how that decision would impact the rest of my life. I guess it’s true, hindsight is twenty twenty.

Around this time I left home. Things were miserable for me and I had had enough. Because of my position at the store I was able to find a job when I finally made it Texas. I had a nice little support network at Walgreens. Many wonderful people that helped out during tough times.

Fast forward a few years and I decide to go back to school to become a pharmacist. I was one of the older ones in my classes. I had to work full time because I didn’t live with my parents like my classmates. I also was in class full time. I still don’t know how I made it through doing both. About two years into my studies, Butler added a physician assistant program. Not once did I ever even consider changing my major. I only had a few more years to go and was guaranteed a great paying job upon graduation.

Graduation came and I was very happy to not have to go to school anymore. It wasn’t very long until I became a manager. More hours more responsibility. Really only a little bit more money if you think about it. I was salaried so it didn’t matter how long I stayed at work I got paid the same thing.

This went on for years and years. Fast forward, now I am thirty years with the same company. I thought things would change for the better but they have not. I am so stressed all the time. My hours were cut about a year ago. The pharmacy I am at now is not the greatest and is very busy. That just increases my stress level. I can’t sleep at night. I am always so tired.

I am at the point in my life where I am thinking I should have changed my major. I feel very under appreciated and just frustrated with my current situation at work. I am tired and stressed and I actually dread going in to work. Hindsight is twenty twenty but sometimes the results are not what you want them to be.
 
This was fun! I altered the phrase a bit in the titling but I do have the exact phrase "hindsight is 20/20" in my journalling. My word count is 756. Thanks for the challenge!
 
That was difficult to start, but when I had finished I thought of a few more things I could have written about.
 
This was hard! But, glad I did it. Journaling is in the credits, and I had 354 words. Thanks for the challenge!
 
I've checked all to here & everyone is great & good to go!

If you are posting anytime in the next 3 hours, please please please make sure you have the phrase "Hindsight is 20/20", have 200 words at least, and are using current Lilypad product, as I can't verify for you beforehand.

I'm off to bed! This was a great great challenge!
 
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