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Calm Before the Storm
Despite having very confidently typed out that title, I would not characterize the last several weeks as calm. I spent this morning wading through someone else’s junk. We had told the sellers of our new house that we were happy to keep any items that were specific to the house. In my mind, this meant
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Tips for planning your family trip to Japan
Despite having taken Japanese in college and knowing many people who have been to Japan in the last ten years, I was extremely intimidated by the process of planning a family trip to Japan. But we had an amazing time! We made some mistakes, yes, but we also had a lot of wins. What we
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Disasters
My oldest kid had a strange homework assignment the other day: ask your parent about a natural disaster that they have experienced. My first thought was that I hadn’t lived through any natural disasters, but upon reflection I realized that I have. After recounting all these incidents to my oldest child, he sighed and said,
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MD + RR + PL
We’re coming up on Memorial Day Weekend here. The city empties out considerably on those long summer weekends. Now that we are cabin owners, we haven’t spent a summer holiday weekend in the Cities in a long time. I actually kind of miss the empty sidewalks and restaurants, and the feeling that we were on
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In which I continue to wonder if it’s undiagnosed autism or just my personality.
Ugh, I am so nervous about our upcoming trip to Japan. It doesn’t help that we just have too much going on in June anyway. And the fact that we’re going to own exactly three properties while we’re on the other side of the world–oh, and two of those properties will be empty while we’re
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Coworkers are the best
I went into work with off-the-charts anxiety the other day due to some medical issues and weird test results with one of my kids (since resolved). I’m a hypochondriac and struggle to tolerate medical complications and emergencies, and it’s about 1,000x worse when it has anything to do with a child. I told my lead
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Mindless Media Consumption
I’m having one of those weeks where I have no motivation. I’m not really sure what happened. I spent Saturday morning chopping up a big tree limb at the cabin with my little chainsaw. The kids hauled branches away. I showered and we packed up the cabin and started driving home and somewhere along I-35
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It’s Taurus season!
Have we ever discussed astrology? I want to believe in astrology. I find it fascinating, and have been known to say things like “But you don’t seem like a Leo to me!” even when I have no fucking clue what a Leo is supposed to be like. I have never read a book about astrology
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I’m not even that busy, I’m just a big baby about it.
I feel very busy lately, even though I’m not. It just feels like I have a lot of major projects up in the air, and a lot of upcoming chaos. There’s old house stuff: make handyman list, hire handyman, schedule floor refinishing, schedule carpet cleaning. I’ve been researching the history of this house for years,
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Top Ten Kacey Musgraves Songs
I drove us all back from the cabin this weekend, which means I got to work my way through the entire Kacey Musgraves Essentials playlist on Apple Music. And now you get this endlessly compelling blog post. I would be very curious to know what everyone else’s favorite Kacey Musgraves songs are!