Initially underrated advantage of our new house: it's a 2-minute walk from a little independent appliance shop. This has become extremely valuable over the past few months, as four appliances in succession have broken, not counting the time I needed to replace a shelf in the fridge. I mean yes, normally one would make phone… Continue reading 3 things in a hurry, 2.7.21

Posting on a Wednesday is weird. I think in calendar weeks and midweek is just not the right time to navel gaze. But I don't want to sit at my computer on a Sunday, and I'm working on Monday, so Wednesday it is. Unless I shifted to Friday, I guess. That feels weird too. OH… Continue reading Midweek brain does run-on sentences and randomness

Been thinking a lot about different kinds of beliefs this week. Not in a remotely religious sense, just the difference between knowing something rationally, and knowing it in your bones. And the ways in which your brain and body can trip you up by holding onto unhelpful and untrue beliefs even when you "know" better.… Continue reading You gotta have faith

Tomorrow I start my new job. I have a contract so it must be true. I am still having a little difficulty knowing how I feel about it; it's very easy to see the ways in which it could suck (start-up chaos) as well as all the things that seem perfect. My natural tendency is… Continue reading The Great Unstuckening?

I have a vaccination appointment, finally. (Well, two. Both set up together.) It's been A Challenge getting one – they all disappeared within six hours of being opened to all age groups, reportedly. I kept trying and failing (having them snatched out from under me in the few seconds it took) until finally succeeding today,… Continue reading Not everything is terrible

Good thing: back to school after two weeks of holiday with very little to keep kids occupied (because plague, and rain, and friends either sick or in quarantine, and mommy flat out of ideas). Am actually pretty impressed with kids, they were very bored in a very sweet and cheerful way and completely omitted to… Continue reading Good, bad, whatever

Things are just a bit hard sometimes. Last week was fine all in all, stuff got done, life got lived in that everyday kind of way, but the weekend was a bit hard. First there was the emotional hangover from a job interview on Friday: the kind where I feel great at the time, it… Continue reading Not the *best* week

I have achieved greatness this weekend: both kids have properly tidy rooms. All surfaces cleared, AND a big wardrobe clear-out. By which I mean, I have reviewed each and every item to see what's wearable and fits and suits their current tastes. Unsurprisingly, this has resulted in more than half of C's clothes being ditched,… Continue reading Hoarding as a genetic trait