I don’t know what it is about this time of year, but January and February really kill my sleeping. This is at least the third year that these months have been like this. Last night was another case of bolting wide-awake at six, then lying in bed, listening to ASMRs and watching my room grow light until it was time to go to work. UGH. At least I’m ( Read more... )

Last Memorial Day weekend, my sister and I watched Dirty Dancing because we’d just watched an awful new remake that left us with a new appreciation for the original. This year, we did the same thing with Little Women. We both watched the new PBS miniseries, and while I liked some things about it (it was less Jo-centric and more focused on all four ( Read more... )

Sara and I stayed up until midnight last night putting together a puzzle and watching Speed (our New Year's Eve tradition). We tried to time it so that the bus jumped over the gap in the freeway right at midnight (like we did back here), but we were a few minutes off. Today we're planning to make cheese dip and brownies ( Read more... )

Earlier this year, Sara got into the habit of going for walks, and last weekend, I joined her for one. I thought, it’s just walking, how bad can it be? UGH. My Louisiana body could take the heat, but not the inclines. There was so much up and down, and Sara walked every side street and cul-de-sac like some sort of crazy masochist. I was briefly ( Read more... )

Sara and I both had to work until noon today. There really wasn't much to do at my job, and I spent almost the whole half-day sorting through our latest order of pocket folders, which turned out terribly. We are planning to find a new folder vendor because it was so "jacked up" (my boss's expression). It was easy, unstressful work, but boy, was it ( Read more... )

As soon as Memorial Day was over, I started looking forward to the 4th of July holiday. We didn't set off any fireworks, and it was too rainy to go to the waterpark, but we did have a good time anyway. On Thursday night (July 2), we went to dinner and to the movies to see Inside Out. It was very good, in the way that most Pixar movies are. We had a ( Read more... )

I've had a few too many disappointing experiences lately. Last weekend, I finally filed my taxes. I won't be getting back as much as I'd hoped for in my refund, and I'd been counting on that to put towards moving. We rented Interstellar last weekend too, which was also really disappointing.

The move will probably happen at the end of next week. ( ( Read more... )

I could've left work earlier than I did on Christmas Eve, but I ended up working almost a full day because we had nothing else to do and so we finally rearranged the bindery/shipping area. That is where my desk is and where I spent most of my day. We'd been talking about rearranging it for a while, since we got rid of an old embroidery machine. My ( Read more... )

~ The temple hosted another potluck dinner and a movie on Saturday night, and I attended again and brought Green Glop again. (It was pretty well-liked.) The movie this time was Hava Nagila, a documentary about the Jewish folksong of the same name. I was really excited to see it, because it was the closing film of the Jewish Film Festival that I ( Read more... )

~ At 2am this morning, I had just fallen asleep (after hours of crocheting and watching The Golden Girls, the best way to spend a Saturday evening) and Sara was still awake when someone rang our doorbell. It was so spooky. We looked through the peep-hole and discussed whether we should open it while the woman outside rang a second time. Finally ( Read more... )