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Documentary Review/ Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche
Disclaimer: I went into this documentary with no prior knowledge of the topic. If you are similarly clueless and would like to watch this film with fresh eyes, I suggest you do the same and stop reading after this paragraph. Although…I would rate this documentary as just okay. You might enjoy reading this post just
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Godzilla & the attempted all-nighter
I want to remind my six readers that you can follow this blog on Instagram! My youngest kid turned nine recently and requested a sleepover with his favorite cousin to celebrate. He also requested that I buy Mountain Dew for them, telling me that they needed the caffeine because they were going to “pull an
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The Queen of Winter
A few weeks ago, a friend referred to me in a group chat as the “Queen of Winter” and I swelled with pride. I am the queen of winter. I love winter. Or at least I used to. We’ve had a weird winter here in Minnesota this year. The weather has been warm (above freezing)
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Meanwhile, in the real world… (vol 2)
Both of my kids went to school this morning, the first time in three weeks that this has happened. I had expected to feel relief, but now I have to turn my attention to righting the chaos in my house. I need to clean the bathroom. I need to get back to the gym. Worst
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Tragedy, Undefeated
I mentioned a few posts back that I had a college friend on hospice due to cancer. He died yesterday, on his oldest son’s seventh birthday. My friend’s son woke up on his birthday yesterday morning having had a living father for 7 out of his 7 years on this planet, 100% of his life.
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Still reading books in the year of our lord 2023
Every year my friend gently bullies me into setting a “reading challenge” goal on Goodreads. This year I did not achieve my goal of 50 books, landing hard at 47 (prime number!) instead. The shortest book (144 pages) I read this year was All Systems Red by Martha Wells, the first book in the Murderbot
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Frazzle
I always feel frazzled this time of year. I need to find homes for the piles of new stuff sitting around the house. The kids are out of school and will be for another week. This year I have a job I’m trying to apply for that closes in a day. I need to go
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Crying in Church on Christmas Eve
Despite serial sickness (cursed Christmas), most of us made it to church on Christmas Eve. My mom still goes to the church I grew up in. The pianist at Christmas Eve service this year was the same woman who played the organ in church when I was a kid. She moved away, they took out
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A week before Christmas
It’s a week until Christmas. My youngest kid puked at school this morning and had to be picked up from the nurse’s office. I have an awful cold, and vertigo stacked on top of that. It’s great fun. Have you ever had vertigo? It’s the stupidest thing you can have wrong with you. Tiny little
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A two field trip kind of week
I went on two field trips this week, one with each of my kids, because this is the sort of thing you feel compelled to do when you are an unemployed mother of two. Actually, both field trips involved tromping around in the forest, and mid-December is, in my opinion, the perfect time to be