This post is part of Just Jot it January, and the prompt word, “embrace,” comes to us from Laura. Check out her blog here!
I’m trying. But it’s hard, I tell ya.
I mean, there’s always going to be chaos. Life is unpredictable, right? And no matter how determined we are to make our plans come to light, something is bound to throw its own brand of poopstorm into the mix.
So what is a girl to do?
Embrace the chaos.
Make friends with it, tell it to come on in and do its worst, because its going to come in whether it’s invited or not.
All the things that can go wrong, from the little stuff I’ve learned to deal with like WordPress absolutely refusing to change the title of a copied post unless I go out of it and come back in again (am I the only one?), or putting stress-related heartburn in my life almost every day for the last five years … I’ve got to try to go with the flow.
Because fighting it just isn’t helping.
This surrender-y post is part of Just Jot it January! Want to join in? Just click here to get to the prompt and drop your link. It’s fun!
Thanks again to Laura for the prompt!

May 5, 2025 at 5:43 am
Chaos is all around! All we can do is embrace it! 😀
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January 17, 2025 at 8:14 am
For some reason I’m picturing riding on a large, pink swan floatie and riding the river of chaos to calmer shores. Not sure why my brain went there, but I’m going to go with the flow too!
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January 17, 2025 at 6:58 pm
Nice! 😀
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January 14, 2025 at 9:20 am
I long ago embraced the reality that I have to program myself to the electronic devices’ needs rather than make it do what I want. I embrace it as if it were a ripe pomegranate and I were a porcupine, but I embrace it.
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January 14, 2025 at 8:44 pm
That’s what I call stickin’ it to ’em! Haha! Thanks for the laugh, Marian. 😀
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January 13, 2025 at 11:59 pm
What’s the other word for embrace? Hugs, my friend.💜💜🤗
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January 14, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Awww, thanks, Dar! 🤗
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January 13, 2025 at 11:40 pm
A great Testament to life stress
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January 14, 2025 at 8:43 pm
Indeed. Thanks, Heidi! 🙂
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January 13, 2025 at 1:11 pm
I blog on Blogger and WordPress. Blogger behaves like trying to insert an image in a Word document—a soul-sucking endeavor to accomplish. WordPress is only slightly less stressful. It only makes you invent colorful metaphors after going through all known cuss words in your primary language. 🤬 So, I get your chaos embracing 🤦♀️
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January 13, 2025 at 3:46 pm
Here’s to inventing colourful metaphors! Haha! So glad I never bothered with Blogger.
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