Today I had to take the Craigerator to the urgent care, as he has been wheezing something fierce. He’s bee bopping around as usual, pink cheeked and perky, and also has a high squeaky Minnie Mouse voice and breathes like Darth Vader right now. When we got there, we had to wait for a bit…
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Kids are Exhausting and Cute
*Edited to add pictures* Last night we had Jack’s tenth birthday party. We had a Nerf war in the park, followed by a movie projected on a sheet in our backyard. Ten 10 year olds. The Nerf part went actually fine – we just sort of threw them into an area of Audubon park bounded…
Gratitude & Anxiety, in Equal Measure
My week+2 days off is drawing to a close, and I feel (as my title would suggest) both anxiety and gratitude. Sometimes it can be hard to relax, even with a week off, since I have been conditioned to experience time as a scarcity, to be jealously hoarded. I am used to stressing about how to…
Phew
Welllll . . . it’s been a coupla weeks, let me tell YOU. My notice at work was two weeks long, as is typical. The first week of it, I tried to stick to billing 7 or less hours a day (my typical day is 9-10 billed, plus a bit of nonbillable). We have to bill…
Two of Us
Craig is lying, shirtless, spread-eagle on the couch, watching the 2015 Goosebumps movie – which is, as tween movies go, not the absolute worst I will say. Craig is watching it because Jack is suddenly into tween entertainment, and he has watched this movie with Craig already at least ten times. Craig basically skipped all the…