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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!
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Most of my problems with Buy Nothing
I don’t usually like to put negativity out into the world, but there’s some shit I need to unload on the rest of you. Do you have a local Buy Nothing group on Facebook? We do. I have used it frequently to rid my house of items that have outlived their useful life with us.
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We got the house!
I’m sorry to have left everyone on a cliffhanger. The sellers ended up decided not to conduct the “interviews” with the potential buyers, and we were surprised on a Friday afternoon with the news that our offer had been accepted. We are so excited. The kids are going to have their own rooms! I’m going
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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