It's finally done: the oven saga is finished. Some of you may recall a few months ago I posted an update about nothing much in particular that turned into a rant about my oven. To sum up, I had purchased several new appliances in 2021 from Lowe's in addition to the Protection Plan that they... Continue Reading →
I don't understand how the internet works. I mean, I know the basics, having more or less grown up with it, and I often provide technical support for my parents, although it seems with each update, I can help less and less. I know still less about how the ones and zeros actually combine with... Continue Reading →
The YMCA where I work out offers a a variety of fitness classes, none of which have I ever tried for a variety of reasons, but mostly because I like to exercise around as few people as possible. There used to be an aquatics class with the word "sweat" in the title and the description... Continue Reading →
Guess what time it is! It's time to laugh at my stupid mistakes! I need a clever name for this because it's probably the most recurrent theme on this weird mishmash of a blog. I'm open to suggestions, especially if they reference a particular day of the week so I can save such stories for... Continue Reading →
Since you're reading this, I feel I'm safe in assuming that you're at least a somewhat regular consumer of the Internet. As such, you've probably encountered at least a couple listicles featuring examples of a specific type of false memory known as the Mandela Effect. Just in case you've missed the internet's fascination with it,... Continue Reading →
Kalen left for work after lunch and I watched out the window for a few more minutes, thinking about how the bees were a much more compelling blog topic than the New Year roundup I had planned. I knew I would never get any good pictures from my living room, though, between Pippin's nose art... Continue Reading →
I know we all have those dreams that are so realistic that we're just shocked when we wake up, but do you ever have the opposite happen? Where you have to stop and really assess whether what's going on around you is real? I don't mean the theory that we're all living in a simulation,... Continue Reading →
When I was about 10 years old, my family attended a wedding reception for a couple of friends from church. Most of the typical wedding reception things held no interest for me and I didn't know many of the people there, but a friend from my Sunday school was there with her parents. After we... Continue Reading →
I took Pippin on our usual morning walk through the neighborhood and was thinking about what to write next. Sometimes I think in my head and sometimes I think out loud which gets me a few strange looks, but it also augments my natural "I'm kind of a weirdo" vibes and serves as added protection... Continue Reading →
It's after Thanksgiving now, which means it's officially acceptable for me to upgrade autumn things for winter things, but it also means that I'm in that post-holiday turkey-induced slump where I don't have much energy or motivation to trudge up to the attic and dig out the Christmas decorations, so I'm just going to write... Continue Reading →
