Weekend snapshots
A few snapshots from my trip to Iowa this weekend for our youngest nephews’ birthday party! [Friday] The photo I sent Steven when he asked if the roads were clear. Clear roads and bright blue sky! Very windy through Wisconsin though – 29 mph winds gusting...
A hidden gift
Surprise! You all received a little gift from me this Wednesday – without even knowing it! That’s right. After coming home from the dentist, fuming because they wouldn’t clean my teeth due to poor communication with my anticoagulation team, I channeled my...
Random Thoughts Thursday 482
This year, I’m participating in my work’s mentoring program for the first time as a mentee. Yesterday we got our mentor assignments and mine is LITERALLY the top person of my organization! I feel like I won a prize. With so much uncertainty at work right now (I work...
The Terminal
On Monday night after we finished The Departed (we’re reviewing it in work movie club tomorrow), we were looking for something else to watch. We came across The Terminal. I was like “I remember we both didn’t like this movie when it...
Should I already know this?!
I used to track my headaches to try to figure out what was causing them, in the hopes I could avoid them in the future. And from that exercise I learned how many things were in my control – food consumption, caffeine, dehydration, lighting/noise/fragrance levels...
Hi! I’m Kim, a 40-something-year-old living in northeastern Illinois with my husband Steven, and our cats, Khaleesi, Apollo, Starbuck, and Eddard aka Ned. My current main hobbies are running, painting rocks, flying, reading, and eating. I follow a vegan lifestyle and work in an account management role. I write about a variety of topics and consider this a “life” blog – a place I can share anything that’s on my mind. Please visit the “About” page to get a better idea of who I am! 🙂