Marginal Utility

Sometimes a phrase sticks in my head, popping up when my brain starts to fly off at the edges.  Marginal utility is one of these.  It hit me this morning that what I’ve been going through for the past week is the law of diminishing marginal utility.  As I consume more, the utility of the [...]

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Exhausted by 9 am

Do you ever wake up, drink a half of a cup of coffee, and then decide it’s high time to try to de-stink your couch?  Welcome to my morning.
We’ve been talking recently about the possibility of looking for a new place next spring.  This is imminently exciting and completely terrifying.  It is mostly completely terrifying [...]

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Eat your salad before your hot dog

Don’t get me wrong, I love a good salad.  It’s just hard to acclimate the tastes to greenery after horking down a dawg.  It was, aside from the buns, carrots and celery, a local feast.  Lettuce mix, kohlrabi, scapes from the CSA plus the aforementioned carrots and celery.  I absolutely adore kohlrabi.  I am even [...]

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Today is the First Day….

Of the rest of the summer.  And it is pouring.  Not that I bemoan the lack of blistering heat, mind.  I just wanted to get out of the house for a couple of hours today until I woke up to the sound of sloshy-sloshy. Yes, I’m a wimp like that.
We celebrated the last day of [...]

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Seceding from the Union

I’ve had kind of a rough few days.  Knee deep in the self-flagellation and fighting like hell to stop it.  That sort of thing.  Sucks.
I think it’s a by-product of having a fun weekend and then coming back to the real world of laundry and homework coupled with a deeply ingrained notion that I’m not [...]

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Curled up in the Haze

After spending the better part of Saturday night awake awake AWAKE due to my littlest’s desperation to nurse all the damn time (believed to be caused by a combination of teeth and absence), I was tucked into bed with the baby at 8:00 last night.  I was well asleep by 9, and rolled out of [...]

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This, that and the other

My God, kids *need* all the time.  I think my head would explode if I got to change a diaper without the baby demanding to nurse while his sister calls me from the other room.
I currently have enough lettuce in my fridge to choke a rabbit and neither kid eats the stuff.  I’m going to [...]

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Jangling

The last week has been full of emotional ups and downs.  Maybe even the last month but definitely the last week.  I’m finding it hard to let go–I guess it’s a sort of wanting to go inward while taking everyone with me.  To be honest, it’s a return to feeling part of a community, which [...]

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Getting Caught Up

I spend a lot of time feeling behind the curve on things.  This is in part due to being a pretty massive daydreamer who has to crash back to earth several times a day, and in part to being descended from folks who define slacking as any time spent not accomplishing a task.  This is [...]

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