The Beehive Change Ok nobody panic but I changed some stuff. I know. I know. We're not supposed to change things. Change is not a thing we handle. There's
Skylar The Urge To Be Happy I'm sitting at my kitchen table. The fire is going. Duncan is perched in front of the front door staring out at a snow storm. Skylar is in
knitting Every Damn Day Skylar's latest rotation is in dermatology, which I've been looking forward to because of a baseless but immovable assumption that it would give him access to
Social Distancing Halloween In These Unprecedented Times Despite These Unprecedented Times Of Uncertainty We're All In This Together And It Came To Pass, I decided we'd still try to celebrate Halloween. We simply
Ridiculous Tickling Texts On Tuesday morning I woke up to something of a surprising email. I get quite a handful of emails to the Stranger account. Most of them are from you people
Medical School Physical Exam I heard it before I saw it. It was coming from the next room over. A one-sided medical based conversation by my exhausted spouse who has been working graveyard
knitting I made this with my man hands. I embarked on my third sweater project in early July. I was determined to knit one Skylar would actually wear. Skylar is not a good liar. I don't
Ridiculous A Pretty Serious Dispute I need you to solve a debate that is make or break for my marriage. Skylar, who is wrong, thinks it's rude when I'm working or
The Beehive Spooooooky Meg is essentially a gay man on paper. I don't mean that she's a gay man on top of paper; I just mean that if you
Ridiculous Best In The Business During These Unprecedented Times Of Uncertainty, I have run around 200 miles per month. I've mentioned this to you before. My conversion into Forrest Gump was a result
Pictures from my phone Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Mamma's tired but here are some pictures and a few quick distractions for your perusal. I don't want no bunny banana frog ok no way. [https:
Skylar Anniversary Tomorrow is my and Skylar's one-year wedding anniversary what how is that possible you look so young STOP IT YOU GUYS. What a wild first year of
Ridiculous Only In Utah! Skylar said it was "hot" and he was "sweaty" so that's why it was a good idea for him to take his shirt off and go sit on the furniture. I told him this wasn't my
The Perfects Dead Rat Our greatest neighborhood allies are the Perfects next door. When I bought this house in The Year of Our Lord Eleventy Hundred, I was too intimidated to talk to them
Medical School Pediatrics Skylar found out his newest rotation would be in pediatrics and this freaked him out. I was honestly surprised that he was so nervous to do this rotation. If you
Ridiculous Red Vines On Saturday I started getting notifications to my phone about my Instacart order. This was curious, since I had, in fact, not placed an Instacart order. I had forgotten that
Skylar This New Step of Covid When The Great Covid began earlier this year I was one of those people who was constantly telling you that actually we really had a lot to learn from this
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions We are so very overdue for a Pictures & Distractions post and I have some fun stuff to share with you. So here it is. [https://1.bp.blogspot.com/
Ridiculous Famine The first time I visited Skylar's family in Portland I thought maybe the Pacific Northwest was experiencing a famine that hadn't made the news in Utah.
Medical School Skylar's World Skylar has moved onto his second rotation now, family medicine. As I understand it, that's the same as regular medicine except it sometimes posts racist things on Facebook
Dating Second Date Last week I tweeted this thing that went viral: > For my second date with my husband we met in NYC and went to a party and ended up at
Ridiculous The Friends We Made Along The Way We want to be the kind of people who go camping, but we don't actually want to go camping. That's the only way I can describe
Ridiculous My Mother's Pickle Canning Recipe None Of You Asked For, Which Was Rude I'm basically Martha Stewart now, except I've been to less prison and I look better in skirts. I thought I might as well fully lean in
Bob and Cathie Out of Gas We drove to a little farm yesterday morning to buy crap to put in jars and leave on our shelves to rot. Canning truly is one of my favorite annual
Ridiculous My Mother's Spaghetti Canning Recipe No One Asked For, Which Was Rude My most vivid memory from my entire childhood is stuffing my face into a giant green pillow in the basement during canning season as the house would fill with overpowering
