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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…
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Curiosity about family size, and how I can never ask people questions on this touchy subject.
One thing I am fascinated by is how families come to be the size that they are, and also the spacing between children. In particular, I am interested in the decision-making process of mothers. What internal and external factors were at play that caused you to end up with the number of kids you have?…
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Fun-o-Meter
“But how long is the hike going to be?!” my youngest wailed at me this morning. They have the day off from school and I have the day off from work and I had just delivered the bad news that we are going for a hike later. “Not too long,” I said. “There’s not a…