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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…
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Books – 2024
Is anyone getting sick of these listicle-type blog posts I keep posting? I’m not. They are so easy to write! I read 44 books this year, falling well short of my 50-book goal. This is the second year in a row that I haven’t made my goal. Here are the best books I read in…
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Christmas Movies 2024
I pushed the Christmas movies hard this year in an effort to get into the Christmas spirit. It did work. I was feeling pretty merry by December 24th. Here’s what I watched during the Christmas season in 2024. Happiest SeasonMy sister made me watch this one last year and I liked it enough to watch…
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Odds & Ends Again
When I last wrote I was suffering through a major tech issue with my computer that has since resolved just as mysteriously as it started. I am grateful and trying not to question it too much. I am almost done with Christmas shopping. I’ve got one teacher gift left to purchase, and possibly two kid…
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Odds & Ends
So my computer is doing this fun new thing where it dies anytime it’s idle for more than ten seconds. Everything works great if I’m moving my pointer or typing or streaming a movie, but if I stop interacting with the screen for more than ten seconds, WordPress and Gmail are replaced by darkness and…
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“First snow and everyone forgets how to drive.”
Have y’all heard this saying? I hear it every year around this time. But what do they mean when they say it?! Option AIt’s the first day of snow and everyone is driving way under the speed limit and way too timidly because they have forgotten how to drive in the snow. Option BIt’s the…
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Today, on another episode of “is it normal or is it Casey’s undiagnosed autism…”
One of my favorite things about having a job again is having coworkers. I love coworkers. I love getting to know how people think and why they are the way they are, and I love knowing the names of their cats and what their spouse’s most annoying habit is. I get to study them and…
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Gift ideas for people who might be like Casey
Well, here we are. Time to start stressing out about Christmas gifts. I am a terrible gift giver, so this is a struggle for me every year. In the interest of helping someone out who maybe has a Person Similar to Casey on their Christmas list, I thought I would list out some of my…