Truly, the boringest of posts
I know I always say I have nothing to write about and then I write pages, but truly, tonight, I have no idea what to write about. We had a...
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Good friends and good pizza
I suddenly realized I’ve only got 37 minutes to make my Blaugust deadline! Today was very hard in some ways. I had a lot of feelings about being neurodivergent. I...
Decluttering tomorrow, river tonight
After a few friends commented their enjoyment of the topic, I was going to write about decluttering “really quick”. But after I started, it ended up getting a bit longer...
Jupiter’s sick burn, also pennywhistles
I posted part of this chat exchange on Mastodon today, but it continued past what I posted, and now I have to post it here, too. 😂 We have a...
Blaugust, trip to store, Zoe Bowie Starlight loses some teeth
Blaugust is really taking it outta me! 😂 For those who don’t know, it’s an online festival of bloggers all trying to make a single post every day for the...
Update on guitar and nervous system
GuitarWe went to the music store today to see if they could repair the old GS Mini. The dude working the front of the store led us upstairs to this...
Family Vacay Day 8 - Fin
We’re home! I’m happy to report that the trip home went great. Bright and sunny, and no problems with aggressive drivers (always a relief). The dogs lost their minds wen...
Family Vacay Day 7 - I SWAM IN A RIVER
For anyone just tuning in, I have two chronic illnesses and several serious comorbidities, including severe panic and anxiety. I haven’t been able to exercise since 2016, I’m de-conditioned as...
Family Vacay Day 6 - Marty the Mantis
I’m super wiped again so this’ll be fast. I really want to complete Blaugust! I stood in the middle of the street to get this, dodging traffic, my family on...
Family Vacay Day 5 - Deer, a new guitar, bad fire, good fire, etc.
We got more deer! The whole family showed up today! But I only got a photo of one, the others stayed well-hidden. They seem to love eating the lichen off...
Family Vacay Day 4
Smoke is still high, sigh. We had a conversation today with Greg’s parents, thinking back over the years, about weather and fire. All of us grew up in the Pacific...
“She knows the bird does not have any external genitalia to punch.”
You put eight people in a house for a week, introverts mixing with extroverts, routines clanging together like cymbals, it gets funny. I really enjoy this. I’m not gonna say...
Family Vacation Day 3 - Where there’s smoke, there’s fire
Yeah, so the fires are becoming more of a problem again. We can see and smell smoke. Air quality has gone downward fast, sigh. I keep mentally thanking the crew...
Met a hummingbird today
For about 7 seconds. In hummingbird years that was a decade. I was writing out a postcard when it happened, and I’m pretty sure I was writing about birds. I...
Off on adventure with family
We’re in a very small and very Oregon little town for a few days, with my husband’s parents and our kids and their partners. The dogs are home partying with...
Made a couple new books!
We’re soon to be hanging out with family for a little holiday together, and I’d made myself a new journal, then made Jupiter one, and then yesterday I thought maybe...
I’m 52 today!
I love birthdays! 🎉 Okay, so, 52 years old today, and it’s GOOD! Not just seeing the lovely morning of 52, which a couple of my close friends didn’t. But...
At the vet’s office
Both our (senior) doggos have daily meds they take, and so they both need to come in twice a year to get a check-up. I just took this photo of...
Puns would destroy me
At the audiologist for a family member and there is a framed sign in the bathroom that says “Audiologists are eareplaceable” and I laughed because OF COURSE I DID, and...
Undersea Green is kind of amazing
I have discovered through two hours of research that Daniel Smith’s Undersea Green and Roman Szmal’s Geothite are possibly the two most underrated paints in my collection. Also that QOR...
Cats are such butts (also movies!)
So I am up very late because reasons (not at all related to owning a small pink espresso machine) and two small noteworthy things have happened. Wait. Three. 1. Our...
My face finally makes sense again
My bangs have finally grown all the way out! The crisis that began in April of 2025 is finally over! I’m kidding of course. About the crisis. Not the hair....
Journal-ception
We’re going on a little family holiday soon and Jupes wanted a new journal to write/art in for the trip. I made them this last night, they picked the colors....
Small world at Costco
Today in “it’s a small world”, we took our car to Costco to get all the tires replaced. They said it’d be an hour, so we wandered into the main...
Grown-up Goonies
Jupiter is moving tomorrow and so we had made plans that after Greg’s birthday dinner we’d watch a movie together. I asked what they wanted to watch and they asked...