I’ve started this several times and everything feels too formal. I don’t want it to feel like a newsletter where I run down everything that’s happened since I last showed my face. I think we-humanity as a whole-were in the midst of a collective panic attack. It’s not surprising some of us dropped off into nothingness. I miss each and every one ( Read more... )

I saw this on Facebook the other day and it resonated deeply with me.


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Every single time I sit down to write this, I'd get down a sentence--the same sentence--before my anxiety would make me get up and walk away. I know I need to do it. I know it would be good for me to do it. But it's easier to avoid ( Read more... )

So everything I had booked for the rest of this month and all of next month has been cancelled.

This is financially devastating and I don’t really know what to think anymore.

I’ve been looking at the calendar a lot recently because Santana has a birthday next weekend. Which means it’s the start of birthday season in the Noriega house ( Read more... )

I’ve been wanting to poke my head in and chat about random things, but the kids have been sick, so here I’m doing it in bed. I don’t have the brain power to write about the things I was going to write about.

How about this: let’s just start up a conversation and catch up with each other. How are you all doing?

Seb has been a full-time stay-at-home parent for a week now and it is really starting to sink in how weird and strangely normal this is. I never realized normal could be strange.

I mean, it won’t last because I’m leaving again at the end of January, but still.

I’ve been getting a lot of Auld Lang Syne jokes/puns lately (“I always find New Year’s Eve stressful, I’ve been diagnosed with old langxiety” anyone?)

But I liked this one, an old Lang sign ;)


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I’m sure you can figure out how I feel about this.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ups-truck-police-chase-miramar-hostage-frank-ordonez-was-on-his-first-day-as-driver-coworker-says/

I’ve been trying to do this for days, but for one reason or another, I haven’t been able to. Tour life is crazy ( Read more... )