Category: Blog

A friend offered to do something to help make my life easier for the next chunk of time… and I managed to say yes to it!

I am not very good at seeking or accepting help from others, so this is kind of a big deal, and I’m feeling really grateful right now.

Star Wars: Visions, S1E8 “Lop and Ocho,” centers a BUNNY RABBIT ALIEN.

SO FURRY. Continue reading “Star Wars is Furry”

The hardest part about cutting off family members who only hurt you is that it’s a constant act of restraint — you could always fold & send an email or call.

It would just end up hurting and making it worse… but it’s an act of willpower to remember & act on that knowledge.

Part of me wants to write a thread about how I’ve gotten completely sucked into The Morning Show and all my thoughts about it…

But what those thoughts really amount to is that watching Anniston & Witherspoon portray these complex women is really personally meaningful for me… Continue reading “Anniston and Witherspoon”

I got a call from my 14-year-old’s English teacher today. Their assignments had been flagged as probably plagiarized, which was surprising as I was there when my kid wrote them. An agonizing process of convincing them to pull words out of their brain and actually type them…

Turned out the system flagged one of my kid’s assignments — a piece of fiction about their cat flying to the moon — because they’ve turned it into another class previously. (Which was allowed.) Continue reading “Double Check Automation Always”

Life can be… way too much. So hectic.

But this hour, I’m eating my mom’s homemade fudge, listening to Taylor Swift, playing an easy zone in World of Warcraft, and soon I get to watch one of my favorite movies (Scream 2) with a friend who hasn’t seen it before.

This is good.

If my foot goes over the edge of the bed while I’m sleeping, there is a monster underneath who will attack it viciously.

Most of the time she masquerades as a lovely little cat. But if she sees a foot poking out from under the covers, she transforms into pain incarnate.

Once I got so flustered that I said I “felt like a feather pulling its parrots out,” and honestly, it was a much better representation of how I felt than what I’d actually meant to say, and it’s really stayed with me.

If the Sheltie puppy is sufficiently bored, she’ll play fetch. She doesn’t think it’s a very good game. But if the older dogs are being boring, and the humans are being boring… it’s better than nothing.

So much fun helping my kid figure out answers to their high school health class that are basically propaganda for capitalism. Sigh.

At least any kid growing up in my house is subjected to enough anti-capitalist, pro-union rants that they’ll never fall for it. Continue reading “Parenting in the Pandemic”