Should be working right now... Kind of am still, but I also just wanted to take some time to write in here. Focusing on any one thing at a time has been very difficult to do lately.

Looks like last time I wrote in here was prior to Halloween. We made it happen this year at least, by putting out little goodie bags of candy and stickers ( Read more... )

Been wanting to write in here, but I've also been avoiding writing about nothing but existential dread and panic. Any guesses which has been winning lately?...

Just hard to see the forest for the trees right now. I know we'll get through everything, one way or another, and I'm holding on as best I can. But man has it been challenging, and taken ( Read more... )

I'm reading a new book, but not entirely by choice. My employer, or rather the CEO, decided to send everyone two books that he feels will enrich our lives. This, after a string of ill-advised surprise packages, including a packet of wildflower seeds... I guess nobody made the connection that one of the hot button issues right now is... people ( Read more... )

It's been so difficult to wrap my head around life in the year 2020. We're already to September, and there's just seemingly very little hope in the world. We're still combating Covid-19, with no vaccine or cure in sight. The number of infections continue to rise, and people are still dying from it. I see more compliance in general, but at the same ( Read more... )

   Interesting to look back on this journal and see that only 21 days ago, life was normal, and I was taking my daughter to the children's museum, as I did regularly. That's all different now, and it's my hope that maybe in the future I'll revisit this entry, and it will be a "Wow; remember when life changed for everyone for a few months in 2020? ( Read more... )

Kids are funny. My daughter makes me laugh all the time, but other kids don't as much. Nevertheless, there were two comments made by kids lately that really amused me. My daughter has had a runny nose for a few days now, and when we were at the children's museum, a kid said, "Ew! Boogers!" to which his friend replied, without missing a beat, "But ( Read more... )

Guess I didn't get around to writing in here more like I had wanted to. Oh well.

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I took today off as well because 1. I have vacation time to burn, and I never take all of my vacation time, which I know is dumb because you literally pay for your vacation time, and 2. I didn't get home until about 3:30 this morning, and didn't get to bed until about 4. Parenthood, for better or for worse, has not only taught me how to function on ( Read more... )

A light entry, content-wise, before I do the heavier one... In reading through my last couple of posts, I don't think I wrote about some of the concerts that I've been to lately, so I shall do that now.

I went to see Collective Soul and Gin Blossoms in early June. I'd say I'm a casual Collective Soul fan, and an even more casual Gin Blossoms fan, ( Read more... )

I've been trying my hand at cooking lately. It's been disastrous, for the most part... but, I've found at least one recipe that I like and can make consistently well, which is a meatloaf using ground turkey and carrot puree. I'm using a cookbook that's called Deceptively Delicious, which infuses fruit and vegetable purees into foods that kids ( Read more... )