Friday night

I think (hope? pray?) that we may have turned a cosmic corner this week. After the last few weeks of bureaucratic, meteorological, and sinus purgatory, the last few days have been a noticeable improvement. The sun has been out for five days running, I’ve blown my nose fewer than six times today, and yesterday four, count ‘em, four pieces of paperwork that I’ve been waiting on tenterhooks for arrived in the mail.

And it’s Friday. And even better, this time next Friday I should be done with this bout of solo parenting.

Wordless Wednesday

To follow up probably my longest blog post ever, I compensate with (nearly) Wordless Wednesday: Snow in Kansas.

Monday again

Lately, trying to update this blog (not to mention dealing with the rest of my life) feels like being part of a singularly uninspired remake of Groundhog Day. Still solo parenting (Day 19). Still trying to kick a head cold. Still trying to juggle a pile of work with an even bigger pile of bureaucracy related to cars and mortgages and bank accounts, oh my. (Obligatory Wizard of Oz reference—get it? Kansas?) And if I don’t find it entertaining, how on earth are you supposed to find it even remotely interesting?

But sometimes, for the sake of posterity (and just to prove to myself that I have not yet, in fact, gone insane), these things must be documented. And so I give you….