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& other lies my anxiety tells me. Tonight, everything in my house is conspiring to push me over the edge. I’ve got one daughter coughing (we’re all perpetually sick at this point), my other daughter (oh yeah, we’ll talk about that) crying, my sleeping husband sleep talking/grunting/coughing (again, we’re sick) and the goddamn Apple WatchContinue reading “Ringing in My Ears”

Or, as my husband calls it: puttering. I love to sleep. Like, I really love to sleep. Once I’m out, I’m generally down for the count* and my mother and husband can both attest that I’m not the kindest riser in the world. I consider waking up and being able to get back in bedContinue reading “A Nightly Reset”

Happy tears, sad tears, scared tears – she’s cried ’em all, folks! Four months ago, I worked my last day at the job I’d had for nearly a decade. I had been winding down for about a month, so the day itself was pretty straightforward – I brought in coffee for my shop supervisor, gotContinue reading “I Quit My Job”

And cobwebs and crumpled old newspapers and all of those sorts of things. Okay, forewarning, I am not committing to this being an “I’m baaaaack!” post. It might be, but this also might just be the start of a sporadic string of posts that then result in me going silent for another year-plus. Just wantContinue reading “Dusty Crickets”

I don’t cook, except for when I do. As has been discussed, I don’t cook much. In my defense, there is some history to this. I know how to cook and, in fact, I even enjoy it (most of the time). When my husband and I started dating, he literally didn’t know how to makeContinue reading “This Week I Made: Soup & Cookies”