by Mir | Oct 10, 2019 | Health is overrated, Oh look! Something furry!!
Yesterday the temperature hit the high 50s here, and there was much rejoicing. This has been the longest, hottest summer I can remember, and allllll through September we joked about how fall would be arriving ANY DAY NOW, and yet the next day the heat index would...
by Mir | Sep 11, 2019 | Aspi(e)rations/AD(D)orations, It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I wanted to share a picture of Chickadee’s shoes on her first day of the semester, because for those of you who’ve stuck around for a long time, shoe pictures and the first day of school are a tradition ’round here, and this would’ve been a...
by Mir | Aug 5, 2019 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, What do I do all day?
If you give a Mir a house with a basement, eventually the basement will experience catastrophic flooding, and everything will be terrible, and she will be sad and rent a dumpster and throw away tons and tons of ruined things. If she throws away tons of stuff,...
by Mir | Jul 29, 2019 | Oh look! Something furry!!, What do I do all day?
My favorite thing to do after a trip—by which I mean, the thing I most often do just because I am a poor planner and also lazy—is to come home and swear at least twice a day that I’m going to unpack in just a little bit. I mean, I don’t want to...
by Mir | Jul 23, 2019 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Oh look! Something furry!!
You may or may not recall that every few years my father and stepmother gather up their collective children and grandchildren and take us all somewhere to sit around eating ourselves silly and telling embarrassing stories about the past. It’s magical. My little...
