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Snow Day
We had a small blizzard come through overnight last night and I woke up to the news that school had been cancelled; students were instructed to log on for an e-learning day. “Bye!” I shouted up the stairs to my husband as I left for work an hour later. “Have fun figuring out everyone’s Google…
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Category: things taken for granted in one’s twenties
I did not realize what a luxury it was to be responsible for only my own healthcare and maintenance in my twenties. I took it for granted back then. I had no idea what it was going to be like to be responsible for the healthcare and maintenance of two other whole human beings. I…
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Emotions around real estate, part II
I could live here. This could be home. I should start at the beginning. We signed with a realtor last fall. She is experienced, savvy, super familiar with our neighborhood, and utterly fabulous. But… we signed with her in November. It’s not exactly a busy season for real estate. Thus, we waited. And waited. But…
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Emotions around real estate, part 1
Now that we’ve told our favorite neighbors that we’re probably moving I can blog about our search for a new home. It is difficult and I am very emotional about it all. The last time we searched for real estate I was emotional too, but that’s largely because I was very pregnant for most of…
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Don’t mind me while I nerd out
It’s that time of year when I rewatch Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl Halftime Show multiple times per day. It is so fucking good. I love it. In the future I will force the robot health aides at my nursing home to watch this with me. After watching the full performance with my youngest I had…
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Favorite Words
My oldest brought home some strange homework the other day. He was instructed to list his three favorite words. “Three favorite words?” I asked. “That’s a weird one.” I do have favorite numbers, and I feel very strongly about numbers. Prime numbers are the best numbers, and eleven is the best of the best. Even…
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Not Blogging About My Job
I am struggling with wanting to write about my job, but also knowing that it is entirely inappropriate for me to write about my job in a public blog. Even if I changed names and details it feels like an invasion of privacy. It’s too bad, because the students, teachers, and staff at my school…
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Is it actual climate change or just anxiety?
I was recently looking at old photos of my kids, photos from back when they wore footy pajamas and built forts out of couch cushions and pulled all the water bottles out of the cabinet just for laughs. There was so much snow in so many of the pictures! Winter after winter, month after month…
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Dragging everyone else down with me
When I woke up this morning, my first thought was “fuck, I have to exercise.” I’m clawing my way back onto the exercise train this year, and it sucks. I do not care for exercise. I’ve established an elaborate reward system that involves gold star stickers and Chip and Dale-themed Disney pins and it’s still…
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Travel Anxiety
We booked our plane tickets for Japan. I am… not excited. I mean I am excited. I have always wanted to go to Japan, and I am especially excited for the Shinto shrines and the Buddhist temples and seeing the Pacific Ocean from the other side. Although I did some good traveling in my early…