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What Happens When You Give Up Coffee For A Month?

22nd August 2019

I love coffee. This blog kinda runs on coffee. However. Recently, I’ve been really stressed and looking at ways to help my overall anxiety. Would cutting out coffee help my insomnia, too? My husband sleeps so well, I was getting jealous. And could I do more during the day with coffee, or without it? Is coffee culture just a social thing? I’m not a quitter, but when I do, it’s cold turkey. (I’m also not a doctor, maybe don’t try…

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Disability Humor Parenting Travel

9 Years of Blogging: Some Things Don’t Change

15th August 2019

And so, last weekend we piled into the car on a road trip to get Isla’s uniform and school supplies. The kid starts Primary 1 next week, and she is the only one ready for this. There we are in the car with the heat on because we already had summer. For three days in London. I’ve been looking for ways to stall this growing up thing for a while now. Which is why we left the shopping trip to…

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Books Humor Life

A Book Lover’s Guide To Parting With Books

4th April 2019
Image for blog post on getting rid of books to make space for more books.

It’s a well-known fact that I’m a book lover/hoarder. My three book cases are triple-stacked and my bedside table type thing is a tower of books. I clear book stacks from the kitchen table, because the kitchen table is my home office. I finish reading books and instead of getting them out of the house I um, suggest that my husband read them. I have yet to watch Marie Kondo, because I think I would find it really quite stressful.…

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Books Humor

It’s Not Hoarding If It’s Books (Or Lego)

29th March 2019
assorted lego mini figures

Something happens to me in the Spring. Maybe it’s because it’s my birthday season, but I start to feel crowded and aware of all the memories junk memories laying around. I mainly write at the kitchen table with stacks of stuff around me. Notebooks, books, balloons, Monopoly money. (The product links in this post are Amazon affiliate links, I make a small commission if you make a US or UK purchase through them. Read my disclosure here.) Last week, I came…

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Humor Life

Letting Myself Go Online Shopping

6th March 2019

The product links in this post are Amazon affiliate links, I make a small commission if you make a UK or US purchase through them, at no extra cost to you. Read my disclosure here And so, the fam and I have a wedding to go to pretty soon. I never knew I could stress so much over someone else’s wedding. The last wedding Neil and I went to (that wasn’t our wedding) turned out to be five days before Isla…

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