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Report on Resolutions, Month 1
This year I couldn’t decide on a new year resolution. Am I always trying to improve my eating habits and exercise more? Yes. And I find it so utterly boring. It’s a major part of my life that needs work, yes, but God isn’t there more to life than Jillian Michaels Ripped in 30? So
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Influenza
(Written last Saturday, 1/24.) Influenza A has come for my family. My youngest woke up with pink cheeks last Sunday morning: red flag. Temperature in the 99s: not a fever, but definitely a red flag. Flu season: red flag. I dug up a covid/flu test and within thirty seconds the diagnosis was in: influenza A.
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That time that one of my kid’s stuffed Yoshis stood on my head and controlled me as if we were in the movie Ratatouille except I don’t like cooking.
YOSHI IS THE BEST YOSHI IS THE BEST YOSHI IS THE BEST YOSHI IS THE BEST BETTER THAN ALL THE REST YOSHI IS THE BEST YOSHI IS THE BEST YOSHI IS THE BEST ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES YOSHI EVEN COOLER YOSHI IS STILL THE BEST
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Chaos outside, chaos inside.
I am really struggling with work lately. I wrote back in December about how work was getting both easier and harder. Now it’s just harder. The surge of ICE agents in Minnesota has had a profound effect on my school. It was bad in December, and it has been far worse since January 7. I
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Nativity Set Sentimentality
We had a small Christmas tragedy mid-December when my cat jumped on the piano and knocked one of the three wise men to the floor, shattering the entire lower half of his body. Actually, it didn’t feel like a tragedy when it happened. Partially because it was like 6:20 AM and I was frantically trying
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Flu season is like the Super Bowl for attendance clerks.
The last two days have been insane. You would think having so many students absent would make my job easier, but it does not. So many phone calls, all day long! Staff are dropping like flies! And this is not an easy week to get substitutes in the door. I am drinking massive amounts of
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Work is getting both easier and harder
Work is getting harder, but not in the way I expected. As far as the actual workload and my flow, things are going pretty well. I am still learning (I think I will say that phrase every day until I retire), but things are running smoothly. Working at a school is so much easier when
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When there’s nobody left to do the invisible labor of family life.
I try to not spend too much time on Facebook, but when I do make my way over there I am inevitably pulled in by the Reels. Facebook Reels are terrible, but so interesting. I get a lot of cat content tossed at me (A+) and recently a lot of piano content (also A+, I
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December Update
We are four days into December and my de-Grinch-ification efforts are going well. Presents have been purchased, although not wrapped. We have a tree with ornaments. We have candles, Advent and non-Advent. I signed up for the gift exchange at work. ME! The Grinch! Signing up for an extra gift purchase! Am I having a
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Casey, the Anti-Grinch
My blog is fixed! It was broken for weeks, and I could not bring myself to even begin investigating the situation. I have this blog because I want to write, not because I care about encryption protocols! A ten-minute chat with Bluehost tech support solved the issue. If only I had done this weeks ago.