For a blog (or let’s just call it a website at this point, since “blog” kind of implies new posts are added more frequently than like once a year) that I’ve spent untold hours designing, building, breaking, re-designing and so…
Retail Therapy
Nothing like applying for jobs to make you feel anxious/unsettled. Especially when the world happens to be in a period of “economic uncertainty”–aka are we in a recession and can’t afford to hire new people or is it fine? It’s…
Latest Obsession: Sewing/Embroidery
The good news is that I have a new hobby to distract myself–sewing/monogramming. Patrick (my husband) got me a sewing/embroidery machine for Christmas, but it took a few months for me to work up the courage to face the prospect…
Trying to Embrace the Suck
I don’t know about you but I hate winter–particularly February. I truly don’t get how some people (most people, presumably) just carry on with their lives throughout the entire year, same as ever. For me, life pretty much comes to…
A Few Recent Favorite Things
I’ll start by saying that my LEAST favorite recent thing is the fact that I’ve literally spent the past 24 hours breaking this site and my new business website all because I am both overconfident in my WordPress abilities but…
Long COVID, Midlife Crisis or am I just Old?
Yesterday on Twitter I read a thread about Long COVID and processing speed…which in and of itself is sort of remarkable since I barely use Twitter anymore and what time I do spend on the site is usually just a…
Can You Have a Hobby Without it Becoming a Perfectionist Trap?
I’m pretty sure that most people can have hobbies without having them become perfectionist/”should” traps, but I’m beginning to realize I’m not one of them, at least not in my current incarnation as chronic over thinker/loner. Take this very blog,…