rambling Hairy Situation... I know this is going to come as a shock to all of you but...I'm very vain about my hair. Okay, so from the laughter I'm guessing it's not a shock at all. Yes, if you've known me for any time
rambling I'm Positive... I've mentioned before that I added a Positive book to my yearly "stuff I do" this year. It was part of my theme for the year (instead of goals, though I mean, I have goals too) I wanted to be the very best version of me
rambling Wake Me Up... and call me Billie Joe Armstrong because September is ending. It was a status quo month. That's the best way to describe it. Maybe I was napping along with Mr. Armstrong afterall. That cold I wrote about Brent having at the end of August turned out to be
rambling Yes or No? So in my search for conversation topics to use for nonfiction (aka rambling) blogs I ended up on 275 Yes or No Questions to Break the Ice! Which, come on, yes or no questions don't really break the ice. A yes or no answer doesn't really
rambling Happy New Year! I have talked before about how I tend to want to start new things or set new goals in August and September, how it's actually weird to me to do it in January but I do because that's when everyone else is so there are all
rambling Excuse Me... I was listening to a podcast this morning (How to Do Everything) where someone wanted to learn how to burp. They couldn't burp. Never burped. The most they did was make this kind of gurgle noise. So it spun off into an exploration on if this was normal,
rambling Beyond Slippery... Yesterday ABC put Jimmy Kimmel on "indefinite hiatus" which is firing him without saying fired because of contracts. You'll see a lot of headlines about ABC firing him over what he said, but that's not accurate. They fired him because the head of the
rambling Again... There was an opinion piece yesterday about why Gen Z isn't mourning Charlie Kirk. Which is a nonsense take. A lot of Gen Z is completely distraught over it. He was if not the main reason at least one of the largest motivating forces behind getting Gen Z
rambling Unexpected Nostalgia... I've been listening to Levar Burton Reads while I work out. I used to listen on the treadmill at the gym. When we stopped going to the gym in March of 2020 I stopped listening. And when we got the home treadmill it has a program with it
rambling Pop Culture... I'm going to talk about a couple of movies and a couple of books so if you haven't seen the new Superman or Thunderbolts* or read the books Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle or Tantrum by Rachel Eve Moulton and want to spoiler free you need
rambling But at what Cost? I've been thinking a lot about Gen Z. Specifically the kids that graduated high school in 2020 and 2021. They lost their junior and senior years to COVID. Had to homeschool missing out on all of that end of high school stuff. Homecomings and proms and year book
rambling That's the Difference... When I was a teenager our high school got a recognition from The White House for our diversity. Yes, diversity was a good thing. Under the Reagan administration. Which was at one point in time the pinnacle of republicanhood. Man, it was a simpler world back then. (It wasn'
rambling Here We Go Again... COVID has once again come to the Mastenbrook house. Uninvited. Unwanted. What a pain in the ass. Intel in all its wisdom decided that everyone should come back to the office full time. As we live 5 minutes away from the campus where Brent works he's been easing
rambling No Intentions... I'm flying blind today. Or two thirds blind anyway. Okay, maybe not. Normally on the last day of the month I set my intentions for the next month. I know, it sounds sort of self help bookshelf 101 but I still do it. I actually set them in
rambling The Fall of August... We made it! Another August in the books! As far as Augusts go it wasn't the worst August to ever August so I'll take it. Reading...I picked up the pace a bit after reading that massive King tome last month. Eight books total, two nonfiction.
rambling The Loss of Time... I wish I could remember where I saw it so I could give credit but... A year or so ago there was a "What did no one warn you about getting older that you wish they had?" posts. The answers ranged from funny to deep to just really
rambling Distr...Ummm... Okay, so I have no idea what the title of this piece was going to be. See I sat down to write because I really need to write somethings to close out the month but I got a notice about our Google storage that's maxing out so I
rambling Resend of Previous Post... (I'm trying to change the title to see if that corrects the error, sorry for the multiple copies!) I do a lot of my shopping online. I also don't use Amazon if I can help it so it's all done by individual companies. Which
rambling The Adult in the Room... Yesterday I kept repeating to myself, I'm 57. All day long. I'm 57. I'd look in the mirror. Fifty. Seven. For whatever reason this age is a hard one to wrap my head around. It's not like I'm horrified that
rambling Oh Good Heavens... The girl is 57... This is what I wrote in last year's birthday blog: "What do I want from the coming year? I want to be healthy. I want to be happy. I want to stay centered and calm during the coming political storm. I want my
rambling Terms and Definitions... Not quite terms and conditions, but sort of? So it's been just over a year since I got my ADD diagnosis. As most of you know I didn't do anything with it. I decided against medication for a few reasons. One, at the time, it was
rambling What Do You See... I remember that when I was taking anatomy in school and I learned about the blind spot in our eyes. I was blown away. We all have a section of our vision that is just being filled in by our brains (I guess technically it all is, but that'
rambling You'll Fall for Anything... I saw one of those ridiculous takes the other day, the ones that you see all the time now that basically boil down to "somebody was mean to me so I had no choice but to vote for Trump." The snowflake, candy assed, protect me daddy, weaklings. This
rambling Context Matters... It's been really hot here the past few days. I'd say unseasonably hot, or unusually hot, but it's not really all that unusual anymore. We get a few stretches like this every year now. The fact that it took until August to reach 100
rambling Oh Sweet Child... This morning I was doing some eyebrow maintenance and as I tried to pluck out an errant hair I realized that it wasn't a hair, it was a very fine wrinkle. Which then started..."Every time when I look in the mirror, all these lines on my