I started writing this post last Sunday as Halloween 2021, continued yesterday, a week later, when nothing had gotten written except the title. So I changed it to Stuck. And now I am continuing on post-fall-back Monday morning, when it seems like I have a little extra time to write, before I go out to … [Read more…]
Normally, at this time on Sunday, I’d be getting ready to go walk Mark’s 10,000 step loop that includes coffee at Colectivo, but the AFS kid needs to be dropped at a friend’s house at 9:45 and that’s only partway into the walk, so instead I’m listening, sorta watching, this Wilco/Sleater-Kinney show I bought, they’re … [Read more…]
Thursday was the last day of the online students orientation, now an online event, and grades aren’t due until the 16th, so even though I have a ton of grading to do for my internship class (37 students) I decided that I deserve a real weekend. I mean, I have a whole other weekend to … [Read more…]
This week things started getting busier again, with in-person stuff I had to do, on top of online meetings. I went to Memorial Library twice for Friends of the Libraries book donations, and on Friday I went over to Goodman and volunteered at the food pantry. I took hardly any pictures of food or flowers … [Read more…]
This week, I’ve taken lots and lots of pictures of flowers, both out on walks and and on my kitchen counter. Today, Saturday, when we got up, it was about 49°. We wore gloves biking to the farmers market. The prediction was for a high of 80°, and now it’s 86º at 5:30, and super … [Read more…]
We had all round food, well, and almost round food, for brunch today. Pepper & egg fritatta, sweet potato quesadillas. And leftover sticky buns frozen since Christmas – they were the almost round. And what did we eat the rest of the week? On Monday I made turkey divan with broccoli and cheese sauce and … [Read more…]
So this week, I started writing this post before yoga same as last week, but [thankfully] did not descend into fatness crisis again and actually stuck with and enjoyed the yoga class. I got started on taxes, sort of. At Christmas I never did boxing day and cleaned up all the papers on my desk. … [Read more…]
And listening to the news. In my pajamas on a Tuesday morning at 7:20. I listened to an NPR story about a documentary about Black art. And then I watched the Jimmy Fallon interview with Shailene Woodley that I fell asleep during last night, where she confirmed her engagement to Aaron Rodgers. I decided that … [Read more…]
I didn’t even write on Sunday this week. Now it’s the Monday before Fat Tuesday, and I just got the turkey gizzards from Thanksgiving out of the freezer, for making dirty rice tomorrow, and set out milk, butter, and eggs to warm up for making a King Cake today tomorrow morning. I guess the first … [Read more…]
Here we are in the grinding down part of the winter and in the middle of a Wisconsin cold snap. I’m waiting for my second vaccine shot next week, and the impeachment of the orange insurrectionist starts today. Waiting I think is the key feeling, and lonely and stuck. I miss my kids, I miss … [Read more…]