surviving

(dad-blast it! I swear I posted this when I wrote it, but here it is in drafts…argh!) I am home, but I am still waiting. I do have my bed! My dear wonderful bed, that is so flipping comfy, with everything I need in reach. My desktop, on a desk with a keyboard shelf and […]

It’s a new month. It’s the end of 2023. And all I have to say is…what the fuck? What the ACTUAL FUCK? It’s been rough. As mentioned last post, on October 8th, I woke to the never-welcome phrase “Mom, sorry to wake you, but–“ Yeah. We’re still dealing with that. We’re out of the hotel

School starts tomorrow. My kids are coming back! Along with a bunch of new faces. That’s going to be interesting–we don’t normally have a lot of turnover in the student body, but we had a number of graduates last May, and also we didn’t replace students as we lost them to moves and such over

In the same month! Within a week, even, of the last one! Ooohh… Well, here I am. I tried to think of something intelligent to say, but I didn’t come up with anything. I won’t be letting that get in the way of blogging, though, no sirree! Lots of people with nothing intelligent to say

My first blog post was almost twenty years ago. I didn’t remember that on my own; I was just wandering around my site for the first time in way too long, and noticed. I used to blog every day. I’m not sure why that changed. Is it a change in me, or a broken habit

So tonight my plan was to make overnight oatmeal for the week because I hadn’t yet, and make some mason jar salads. Along the way I wanted to clean out the refrigerator, since things had got a little backed up with all my unused salad fixings crammed in there. Okay, so…I figured I’d start with