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Busy Bodying...

I think the neighbor who lives across the street from us, their son and his wife and kids are moving out. They've lived with the neighbor for a couple of years, had two kids while there so maybe three years actually? Anyway...they have a smaller house than

Catch Up...

So I have only written one day this month. Clearly not a "write more days than not" number. Which means I'll have to play a little catch up here and there. Write on days I normally don't, maybe write twice a day for a

Favorites...

Okay, full disclosure before I start, I do have a favorite child. I know a lot of you would call me out on it, I've not been subtle about it after all. Anyway... My mother's parents had a favorite child. They never tried to hide it

It's Gonna Be May (2026)...

I had to add the year because I'm pretty sure I use that title every year. I am nothing if not consistent in my annoying jokes. The world continues to be a raging shit show with new versions of shit showiness every day. This past month we added

Here We Go Again...

So there was another assassination attempt on Saturday. The fact that it's now Tuesday and I'm writing about it lets you know where we are as a country, right? I mean, after it happened and he was calling for his ballroom right afterwards I was like.

And There's More...

This is a companion piece to yesterday's post. My friend Terri commented/commiserated on yesterday's post about how much is sucks to be stuck. To just feel like you cannot budge that scale, can't change those numbers. And as I was writing out a

(Dys)Functional Fitness...

This is going to be an extended version of the end of month fitness check in box so if things like this either trigger you or bore you to tears this is your bow out now. OH WAIT! Before you go...there is a new feature that Ghost added to

Ay ya yI...

Okay, not that anyone has been waiting for it but I guess it's my turn to write about AI. I'm a creative. You all know that from my grammar choices. Very creative. As such I view AI through that lense. And the AI we are generally

Oh Well...

We bought this house during the pandemic in a planned neighborhood. Those two things meant that you had limited choices. We could see the area where the neighborhood would eventually expand into and really wished they'd sell us a lot that backed on the woods. No go. So

Basket Case...

We have two hooks out front for hanging baskets. Last spring the flowers we put out end up lasting until we replaced them with Christmas baskets. And even then we put them in the backyard and though they didn't bloom at all over the winter they stayed pretty

Bad Mood...

I'm in a bad mood. It's been building for a few days. Finally gave in to it yesterday and just admitted I was in a foul mood. Figured that it would lift by today once it was acknowledged. Don't we all just want to

Wife Guy...

I was talking to Katie this weekend about her grandparents. She had some questions about them and their relationships to their families. As we were talking about my dad Katie said, "He'd be what we call a 'wife guy' now." And yes, yes he

Just a Little Stitious...

I almost wrote about this yesterday but I didn't want to jinx anything. See last time Michigan had a really talented team in the Frozen Four they played Denver in the semifinals and lost in OT. They played Denver in the semifinals again last night. I'm

Charm Offensive...

JD Vance went to Hungary to campaign for Orban this past week. It was so effective that Orban's low polling numbers went even lower after Vance spoke. I guess Vicktor hadn't paid enough attention to JD before to realize that he is a charisma black hole.

Two Weeks...

Berry. That's the shade of lipstick I'm after right now. I had my perfect reds phase and my deep burgundy period, now I'm after berry. A little less deep than the burgundy but not into pink territory. Monday I hoped that I would be

Space Talk...

Okay, so I was never a space kid. I didn't learn the constellations. I don't know what Apollo mission did what. I have no idea who the first astronauts (aside from the ones everyone knows) were. And I don't know who did what first.

Good God, Y'all...

So until and unless he decides to back down and move it again we are just a little over 24 hours away from Trump following through on his threat of totally wiping out Iran. Which a lot of people are interpreting as dropping a nuclear bomb. Which is insane. Which

Spring Cleaning Time...

Beautiful weather this weekend so we are taking advantage of it and doing some Spring cleaning. I tackled the catio while Brent is doing the first round of pressure washing and weeding. He's still working on that while I begged off to write. I know, I'm

Now Make it Rhyme...

Writing is really personal. That seems super obvious but sometimes I think it's easy to forget. When I write something, that's me. On the paper. Or the screen as the case may be. But it's something that didn't exist before and now

Time Marches On...

Can you believe we are already at the end of March? And conversely... Can you believe it's only March? Depends on if you are talking about your personal life or the slog through the current Trump presidency. But this is MY March recap so we're going

Bonus!

When I went gluten free I was posting about how many options were out there now vs. when we went low carb doing Atkins years and years ago. A friend of mine who has two daughters with celiac replied that he was THRILLED that gluten free became a fad for

No Kings III...

Today is the third No Kings rally. It's the first one we won't be attending. We already had something on the calendar when the date was announced. I actually weighed noping out of our plans and going to the rally and then realized that would go

It's A Metaphor!

A friend of mine took her first trip to Hawaii this past week. She did not have the same luck that we did with the weather. She got there during the second of the Kona storms. The first one was so bad that even with a little less (little less)

Save Us From the Discourse...

There is a new version of Harry Potter hitting HBO soon. The first trailer was released today. Which means another round of The Discourse. Normally I stay away from it all. If you don't know by now that JK Rowling is a transphobic terf monster I cannot help

Long Distance Dedication...

I have a friend who does an online radio program. Mainly he does it for friends and family and to relive his misspent youth as a DJ. (Okay, I added the misspent part, but it just flows better) It's basically because he really likes music, likes talking about