So my last real post was the 14th (that post on the 19th was actually supposed to go into baby_names but I didn't realize it hadn't until just now, whoops. Wondered why I got no comments.) So in the two weeks since then... it's been pretty much the same thing. People get sick. They're getting better! HAHA JUST KIDDING NO THEY AREN'T ( Read more... )

It was a day where I was dealing with one super energetic toddler, one whiny and clingy and sick toddler, and one screamy and teething and sick baby ( Read more... )

I forgot to buy a wreath and candles and I cannot find the box with the nativity playset in it, so today's homily about advent being about preparation was apt. This will be the third year in a row where we didn't have an advent wreath for the first Sunday of Advent. (Last year I rigged up a psuedo wreath with some napkin rings and it was pretty ( Read more... )

I'm feeling a strange mix of blessed, stressed, and depressed, which all rhyme and which I somehow feel ought to be spoken by a sassy southern woman in an 80s movie, like maybe Dolly Parton. "Honey, I'm blessed, stressed, and depressed ( Read more... )

I was planning on making a post today about Margaret Thatcher's death and the "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" campaign. I was planning on writing about how disappointing it is that people can often be more readily motivated to work from a motive of hatred rather than love or positive action. I was going to write about what all those 99 pence could ( Read more... )

I think, and this applies to a lot of different areas of life, if something is personally easy for you, or something leaves you personally indifferent, you need to be extra careful about telling people to "calm down" or "stop exaggerating" about it ( Read more... )

I spent Sunday morning horking instead of going to Mass, so that was no fun. I think it was a stomach bug, not morning sickness, because of other symptoms. I'm feeling mostly recovered now ( Read more... )

Today was a bit of a crazy breakthrough. I've been trying literally for months to find a banking solution for my cross-border needs. I've been calling all kinds of banks and things in both countries trying to find a solution that isn't $50/mo or worse, and coming up against "No..." "Sorry..." "I don't think so..." all the time ( Read more... )

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I feel like I have some kind of very minor body dysmorphia going on, because, facts ( Read more... )