As many of you probably have also done recently, I stumbled upon that pixie-esque Japanese delight that is Marie Kondo via her ubiquitous Netflix series, Tidying Up with Mario Kondo. I had a vague notion of who she was via my layman’s knowledge of the cultural zeitgeist, but I was woefully uninformed on the truly …
OMG you guys. Puhleeeze tell me you’ve seen the documentaries about the music festival that never was, Fyre Fest. Not going to lie, I subscribed to Hulu just so I could watch its documentary, Fyre Fraud, only AFTER I devoured the Netflix documentary aptly titled Fyre. For an emotionally unstable widow, these docs are my …
Hola fellow widowinos. It’s 2019 and you know that that means!!!…Absolutely nothing. The new year has never really meant more to me than the passage of time, but as a lonely woman it only serves to highlight the status quo of my less than awesome life. Apologies for my MIA status the past few months. …
For when you’re feeling the feels
I don’t dream about Bryan much anymore, and that’s unfortunate. He wasn’t even in many dreams in the beginning. When he was they were very disjointed and we were usually dealing with the fact that we had just broken up (?) or something else equally stressful. It was an odd way of interpreting him dying, …
So a funny (is that the right word?) thing happens when someone close to you dies. My theory is, in an attempt to take a mental break from the 24/7 pit of despair that is your brain, you tend to become obsessed with random and often obscure hobbies, habits, or tasks. For me, it’s MURDER …
This morning as I left for work my landscaper rolled up to conduct his usual bi-weekly lawn maintenance. I waved to him and anticipated the inevitable “Your grass is cut, you can pay me now” text (I’m paraphrasing). Like clockwork my phone pinged, however this time it was joined with the little passive aggressive shame …
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