January 10, 2025
1. We tried a build your own poke bowl bar at a super fancy grocery store when we were out of town and it was So Good. I would absolutely love to spend $20 on a bowl chock full of poke and make some rice to go with it at home – that one bowl made 1.5 meals for us.
The wildfires are terrible. Ways you can help.
January 3, 2025
1. I’ve made one small dent in each of the three messes: my office, JB’s room, and Smol Acrobat’s room. Work in progress.
Challenges this week: we need to figure out our home and auto insurance. They are EXPENSIVE.
Not good: net neutrality was struck down by the federal court. (I mistyped feral and honestly, how wrong is that, really?) Watching Celeste Pewter for more news.
December 27, 2024
1. We went on a walk and were accosted by two grey tabbies that DEMANDED petting. Naturally, we obliged.
Challenges this week: Too much peopling this week.
December 20, 2024
1. I FINALLY tackled 2/3 of the wall boxes! You know the boxes that get piled against a wall “for now” that then grow into mountains as people stack things on top of those boxes “for a minute” and eventually there is no hope of reclaiming that space? I’ve reclaimed 2/3 of it! That last third, or quarter, of the pile remains, slightly mocking me, but that’s still progress.
Can we help this young man? Elijah Romero metastatic cancer
December 13, 2024
1. I got to pet TWO dogs this week, total strangers but lovely and friendly.
2. I can hardly believe I’ve survived yet another one of these harrowing weeks of overwork but here we are on Friday. There have only been 3 meltdown level clashes with the kids this week, mainly Smol Acrobat, so that’s better than usual. That’s good, I only have so much left in me.
December 6, 2024
1. I learned about the Foodraiser years ago through Shep on Twitter because he knows Greg Doucette, and have been happy to contribute every year to this tremendous effort. Greg’s duplicated the Foodraiser thread on Bluesky, and they got a local write-up too. When I grow up, I’d love to have that kind of impact for the Lakota families.
November 29, 2024
1. This was a wild week with weather and family and holiday prep and I’m so grateful for having one of my favorite people show up for us.
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