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On my way to work this morning, I passed a house with an enormous banner on the roof that said FUCK HARRIS. What I have found most unsettling about our political process over the past 10 years, is just how coarse it has become. And I find it unsettling. In my every day life, I can disagree with a coworker, or a neighbor, or a family member and generally speaking, it will not lead to name…

So glad I’ve landed!

So no – I didn’t fall off the face of the earth. I got a job! I’m coming up on 4 weeks in role and I’m on a HUGE learning curve. I’m going to try not to let the blog go dark but cannot promise 5 posts a week now. Can I tell you how great it is to be gainfully employed again? I have a low boredom threshold so the job is certainly giving me a lot of new things to learn and do. And I’m not going to…

Yesterday, it was all over the news that healthcare providers will soon be required to notify women whether or not they have dense breast tissue when they perform a mammogram. Why is this important? First let’s talk about breast tissue in general. Overall, there are three different types of breast tissue: Glandular. This is the tissue and ducts responsible for producing milk. Connective. This…

My to-do list has blossomed! I signed my offer letter this morning – now I feel like I need to be getting ready for a new school year. My Apple Watch won’t hold a charge for a full day anymore and if I work out, it doesn’t last much past supper time. So I’m off to the Apple Store to see what they can do for me. Apple Watch 10 was announced yesterday! But I don’t think there’s that much…

Yes – I took a week off for Labor Day. I had company so I was distracted being a good hostess! And I also had an interview which resulted in a job offer! So after 8 months of job searching – I’m going to be working again!!!!!!!! If all goes well with the background check timing, I’ll be starting as Program Management Lead Analyst – VP at Citi on September 23rd. I am OVER THE MOON excited! The…

So I humiliated myself big time yesterday and to make myself laugh, I’m throwing back to the most humiliating thing that has ever happened to me. Background: I grew up in Wapakoneta, Ohio which is most famous as being the hometown of Neil Armstrong. It’s a small town and my family and the Armstrong family were friends – my Dad and Neil were really good friends in their youth. The Armstrongs and…

My health question today is – can you literally die of embarrassment? I did something epically dumb this morning that may cost me a new job. I confused a no email for a role at a company for a role where I am 2 rounds of interviews deep in the process with final interviews pending. A role that I have been pursuing for 11 weeks and think I could be a rock star in. And of course the person who has…

I had a tree removed from my front yard about 3 weeks ago so after they removed the stump, I had an area that was just wood chips and mud. So I’m busily working to get grass growing there. Have you ever needed to seed lawn from scratch? Unfortunately, there’s no sod to be found around here right now so I seeded. This is what AI told me to do: Here are some steps you can take to seed a new…

Where did this summer go? Next Monday is Labor Day already! It’s the un-official end of summer – but what do you know about Labor Day – other than it’s a good excuse to have a party or cook-out? Labor Day has some of its roots in the Haymarket Riot of 1886 in Chicago. So definitely NOT a party. And as the word riot implies, there was violence and several deaths. On May 4, 1886, workers from the…

I’m throwing back to the good old days when we didn’t start pumpkin spice until late September if not October. WHY must we have pumpkin spice starting on August 22nd? It’s still summer by every measure – including the thermometer which is supposed to be in the 90s this weekend. Could we please stop rushing the seasons? They rush past quickly enough! And Starbucks – if you’re listening – would…

Turns out, what I thought was a patch of eczema last week, may actually have been an Oak Leaf Mite bite! What’s that you say? Well, I had never heard of them either but it seems that our giant cicada invasion this summer brought with it a surplus of Oak Leaf Mites. Oak Leaf Mites – also known by their Latin name Pyemotes herfsi – are a tiny European mite species. Tiny? Barely visible to the…

I was at the grocery yesterday and picked up a bag of Granny Smith apples. They are BEAUTIFUL. Like take a picture of them beautiful. Too pretty to bake a basic apple pie with. So I’ve been looking at recipes for apple pie variations to try out on this to-do Tuesday. I think I’ve settled on this from Food & Wine Magazine – but now I need to run to the grocery again for Apricot preserves! And…

The kids in my neighborhood started back to school late last week. I can’t remember first days of grade school anymore – although first days at college are like yesterday! When I was in grade school, we didn’t start back to school until after Labor Day so the idea of going back to school in mid-August would have freaked me out back then. My family usually took our vacations in mid/late August so…

I’m shopping for a new printer. Mine has developed a disturbing tendency to have paper jams and it give me error messages even when it’s printing fine. But as I scrolled looking at new models, I had a throwback thought to my first printer – which was dot matrix. Ah the good old days! My first printer was actually more of a typewriter than what we would call a printer now. It had a full keyboard…