Fucking 2016. In some ways, November was one of the worst months of my life, which feels weird to say like that, because so much of it was normal or even good. And I'm okay and my family's okay and the world keeps turning. But fucking Election Day. I'm still fucked up about it, only now in a sort of wonderingly amused and angry way, like every time ( Read more... )

Updating is hard :( Still alive, fyi, which you would definitely know if you follow me on tumblr where it remains 60% Captain America and Sebastian Stan at all times, basically. Stuff I've done since my last update....last month, WHOOPS:

• The wake for my aunt happened, and it was fine. I still feel profoundly weird about being Adult enough to be ( Read more... )

So you know that thing where you don't update for a while, and the longer you don't update, the more intimidating updating seems? Yeah. In my defense, I have been around on Tumblr and Metafilter, and also I've been pretty busy. Anyway, obviously the solution is to update while you're at work, waiting to get something back from your boss ( Read more... )

I aten't dead! I declare personal amnesty on catching up on posting, if only to relieve myself of pointless guilt. Anyway, here is a random list of things I would post more about if I weren't so hideously behind on posting anything at all:

• STEVEN UNIVERSE. I love my gay space rocks show ;_____;
• I made the mistake/A+ life decision of buying Civ V ( Read more... )

While my family did not head up to the mountains this year for Thanksgiving, I still had a lovely, much-needed four-day weekend. We did Thanksgiving dinner at my cousin's, and it was low-key and fun. I made the pies as usual, just apple and pumpkin this year. I felt smugly vindicated when my pie was declared better than the pie a neighbor had ( Read more... )

Going back to work after my five-day Thanksgiving vacation was hard. :( Thanksgiving vacation itself was nice though! No snow, and it was relatively warm up in the mountains, but what are you gonna do. California perpetually laughs at the concept of seasons. 60 degrees is still better than the 80 degree weather that the rest of Southern California ( Read more... )

I have endured yet another weekend of being a social human being! My German relatives are leaving later this week, so I went to one. last. family function to squeeze in some time with them and properly say goodbye, and now I am done with my Good Daughter/Cousin/Niece obligations until, like, Thanksgiving. I hope.

Also, my mom and I babysat my ( Read more... )

So last weekend my second cousins and their mom from New Jersey, and my uncle from Belgium were visiting. This past weekend, my German cousins and aunt and uncle came for a four-week long vacation. This means that my past two weekends have been entirely taken up with assorted parties and outings. I do love seeing usually distant family, but oh my ( Read more... )

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Oh three day weekend, where did you go? I miss you already. :( Things I did:

• Baked three cakes for the party my mom threw for random distant, only related through marriage relatives.
• Acted as hostess for aforementioned party, which was sort of boring, but at least my baby cousins were around being adorable. 
• Went to the park for the traditional Eid ( Read more... )