Went away for the weekend, extending a wedding invitation into an excuse for a mini-break. (Wedding was, btw, completely gorgeous and gave me all the warm fuzzies.) Lessons learned: (1) kids are now old enough that going away actually does feel like a break, and we're planning on doing this more often. (2) Turns out… Continue reading Lifelong learning: 5 things 24.6.19

Pooter continues to give me grief, connecting to t'internet or not entirely at will, and not remotely according to my convenience. Makes it amazingly hard to get anything done, and is a very hard problem to diagnose and fix because of the randomness. Tweak something: hurrah, it's fixed! Um, no, it just happens to be… Continue reading On and off: 5 things 17.6.19

It came up in conversation today that I've apparently been A Bit Miserable (stressed, grumpy, not my default delightful self) over the past... um, decade? Which, well, huh. I mean YES babies shit all over my sense of self and equilibrium, no surprise there, and I certainly spent a lot of time telling everyone just… Continue reading New and improved but also not: 5 things 10.6.19

The weather has finally caught up with the calendar. We have actual sunshine that MEANS IT. You can't believe how excited the kids are to be wearing shorts at last. Me, I'm half loving the feeling of air on my skin, and half sighing at doing the pedicure + leg depilation dance for the next… Continue reading Summertiiiiime and the living is so-so: 5 things 3.6.19

Objectively, current state of unemployment is the absolute freaking ideal. Kids are in school. I have no immediate financial pressure. Is marvellous! I mean, there are downsides, but there's a lot to enjoy, and I'm very conscious of how nice it is to have this alone time. I've been feeling a weird urgency to it;… Continue reading Slobs don’t deserve free time: 5 things 27.5.19

First week of unemployment proceeded satisfactorily; neither a model of productivity nor an entirely slothful wallow (more's the pity). Spa day, leisurely lunch by the lake, bit of work (design stuff and freelance stuff), signing on at the unemployment office. Respectable, all in all. Utter lack of any housework whatsoever. Oops. Signing on is of… Continue reading Life of leisure: 5 things 20.5.19

Thursday was my last working day in the Wrong Job. I literally woke up on Friday with a smile on my face. For all the stress and insecurity and gaslighting of the place, my boss's last words were "don't ever change", so I feel confident in saying it's not me, it's them, and there's no… Continue reading That’s quite enough of THAT: 5 things 13.5.19