Lately my anxiety has been coming at me hard again. I really hate this turn-the-clocks-back time of year, and the election results haven't helped. My roommate has told me that she's tired of listening to me complain about things, and I can't blame her. I feel almost just like I did at this time of year back in 2019; right at six months after we ( Read more... )

Today, in another state far away, my nephew is celebrating his birthday. He was born on this day eight years ago, in another state far away in the opposite direction. It's a little hard for this old aunt to believe. My cousin was able to visit here briefly before we went on vacation, and from what she said, she'll likely be settling in that far- ( Read more... )

Sara and I stayed up until midnight last night, eating brownies and watching Speed. This has been our New Year's Eve tradition for a while, and I'm not complaining! One year (back here), we timed it so that the bus jumped over the gap in the freeway right at the stroke of midnight. This year, we got pretty close, but midnight fell right around when ( Read more... )

I woke up early this morning with a stomachache from worrying so much. I couldn’t go back to sleep ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Grandma's deathiversary. At services this evening, the lay leader read her name from the bema as part of the yahrzeit list. That was hard. In recent years, the start of a new year always depresses me, and this didn't help. I have to remind myself that there are still good times to be had. NCIS will be back with new episodes next week ( Read more... )

The last few days have been absolutely shittacular. No other word acurately describes the shittiness. And tomorrow is probably going to be just as shitty ( Read more... )

I didn't want to talk about last semester's problems while they were still going on. It was too depressing. But now that things seemed to have gotten back on track somewhat, I've decided to finally write this ( Read more... )