The Heart “Blood is made up of red cells, white cells, and platelets, all floating in the clear pale gold liquid called plasma that makes up a little more than half of our blood. Plasma is mostly water.” She copied this out from a book on the heart that she checked out from theContinue reading “What Amelia did at Kindergarten on Thursday”
Not sick
Amelia finally went back to school after over a week out with pneumonia. Since she’s coughed herself awake a couple times a night, every night for more than a week, and the only person you really want when you’re sick is your mommy, my sleep has been pretty abysmal lately. Work’s also been stressful, soContinue reading “Not sick”
Amelia’s painting of “Skyland”
I don’t know what “Skyland” is, but this is what Amelia says it looks like.
Homemade pizza kit to the rescue
I keep homemade pizza dough and sauce in the freezer along with shredded mozzarella, so if I think of it soon enough on a Friday afternoon, I can defrost them all in time to make pizza for dinner. Tonight’s oeuvre was half smoked turkey (you know, for kids) and half Genoese salami, smoked turkey, andContinue reading “Homemade pizza kit to the rescue”
Yet another excellent outfit by Amelia
Freezer management pro-tip
For a household with two parents who work “outside” the home and also care a lot about eating healthy, the freezer is a secret weapon in the fight against take out, processed food, aggravation, and starvation. The only problem is that sometimes food goes in the freezer and (practically) never comes back out again. (SoftwareContinue reading “Freezer management pro-tip”
OMG please make net neutrality happen
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will propose to regulate Internet Service Providers (ISP) as a public utility under the classification of Title II. This classification would give the FCC the actual power to punish ISP’s if they tried putting forward corporate-friendly “fast lanes.” The proposal is expected to beContinue reading “OMG please make net neutrality happen”
On Racism
My friend Shannon asked for suggestions for videos that were funny but spot-on about racism/race, and I suggested Chris Rock’s but about his (current, wealthy) neighborhood: While surfing around Chris Rock videos on YouTube (the above has some weird cuts that I thought might alienate her students), I listened to him talk about how muchContinue reading “On Racism”
Honey-dos
Now that I can a kid who writes, she can write me “honey-dos” like these. The first says “sew a dress of roses” and the second says “buy a rug.” She specifies verbally that the dress should have buttons that look like roses — she’s never even seen me sew, ftr, and I’ve never sewedContinue reading “Honey-dos”
Park City gondola ride and nature trail
Grand Meetup Blues
I work for Automattic, and it’s great. We all work from home, I set my own hours, I have an incredible amount of autonomy, and I get to do work that I deeply believe in. Once a year, everyone in the company is gathered into one place for a weeklong, mandatory meeting that we callContinue reading “Grand Meetup Blues”
The Thing With The Stuff 