I really need time to quit slipping through my fingers like sand. We are in July, and I have no idea how that happened when I could swear I just…
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Welcome to my 2024 travel post. (It covers the whole year because I will not be doing any other significant traveling this year.) Here is the cat doing kitty pilates,…
What a May. I traveled twice and didn’t die, I ate a lot, and I voted. The cat, as always, was indifferent. And here is the cat in the immediate…
It feels like spring this week. The windows are open, we’re probably about halfway into the busy season at work, and my new intern has been NO help. If we’re…
Happy March. Chocolate now comes in Angry, and Wegmans sells individually wrapped microwaveable potatoes called Micro Potat-oh!s. Both of these things obviously had to be documented, because they are hilarious….
Happy end-of-blogging-hiatus. On today’s episode of Starbucks Name Roulette, my name is now Karelen. How fucking hard is this? I swear I’m gonna start introducing myself as Fred. The bright…
Last week I took my first winter holiday in years, and it was just lovely. (Unfortunately I did have to go back today. Womp, womp.) I really need to staycation…
Happy new year to everyone except this cat, who doesn’t contribute to the household in any way but still feels entitled to claw up my ear every time I hit…
I don’t have a reading update. November sucked like a black hole in more ways than one and I have been in a major reading slump for the last four…
I KNOW. Last month I said I was definitely never ever never getting a cat. I’m SOOOoooOOO changeable. (Or, as one of my friends put it, Archie was a gateway…