I never truly understood the void, the deafening silence, caused by the absence of something. Till Kumo. I desperately want to write him the tribute he deserves but all I can feel… Read More

I found Heather Armstrong the day she posted about Leta’s birth. It was just another link on a page leading to another blog in a string I’d read that day. I read that post thr… Read More

Every night while knitting my stripe for the day on my temperature blanket I think, “I should blog about this so I can look back and see the progress later.” Every night. I… Read More

First, we spent SO MUCH MONEY and SO MUCH TIME getting the house ready to sell. People do not tell you how expensive it is to SELL a house. I was assuming we would just put it on Zillow and… Read More

So I got the Pfizer booster shot late last week and after my second shot experience (I was a giant baby for 24 hours) I wanted to better track my response this time. This time I was a big… Read More

I was going to show you a really dumb interaction I had with a spam texter today but my site was temporarily dropped earlier this week from Adsense for “violence”, or something d… Read More

I have been 43 for 3.5 days now and for 3.25 of those days I was not a licensed driver. Apparently 42 year old me thought that I should just shove the renewal form in my desk drawer to wo… Read More

20 years later I have a much different perspective than I did on that morning as a fresh 23 year old. As the events in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC happened I was watching on TV… Read More

I came downstairs to write a blog post about what ungrateful douchebags birds are but Ben came down too and now we’re watching Better Call Saul. So this is just a post to say the post… Read More

Pandemic survivor guilt makes me feel like an asshole. Just wanting to blog about this makes me feel like an asshole for complaining about feeling like an asshole. I lie in bed at nig… Read More

I’m 3 days away from being out of 30 days Facebook jail for the 3rd time in less than a year. One of those times it was actually my fault. I mean, it was a valid comment, I called a ra… Read More

I can remember watching Little House on the Prairie as a kid and thinking they would LOSE THEIR SHIT if they could time travel into that current time and see that we can FLY in the sky to go… Read More

It only took 14 months but Danica has FINALLY warmed up to playing with Senna. She’s always been the most standoffish of the three and we never really assumed she would play with him a… Read More

We are now 348 days into quarantine. And somehow I’m, like, okay. I thought at first it was because we gradually went to work from home. We started with 3 days a week at home. Th… Read More

When people tell me that I share too much online I send them a link to the photos from inside my colon. I get the oversharing seems to be a new topic still for a lot of people because they t… Read More

Look, I know I can be incendiary online. I have BIG OPINIONS and very little filter and I accept that. The people that love me accept that. The people I respect accept that and in an attempt… Read More

I spent all day 10 seconds away from crying. That sharp lump lingering in my throat, eyes watering but not enough to let tears fall. Deep breath, eyes closed. Hold it. Release. Move f… Read More

One of my absolute biggest pet peeves is when people use old idioms that have been bastardized into meaning the exact opposite of what they are actually supposed to mean. I know what you&rsq&hell…Read More

Hi! How are you all this evening? I have a fun rant for you. YAY! Twice today I’ve seen uninformed people try and use HIPAA incorrectly as a privacy violation defense and I wanted t… Read More

Hi all! Hope you are all well! Are you finding ways to stay sane while stuck inside while the world burns around you? I hope so! Being in the Bay Area, we were the first place to lock down a… Read More

Ben has been asking for a third dog for a LONG time. Like, since the day we brought Danica home. Ben: What’s one more?Me: Well, we have to walk them daily and I only have two hands… Read More

A long time ago I wrote a post because I was annoyed about Carpool Lane Campers. I still hate them. Not a lot has changed. Since then, over 5 years ago, I’ve had a master list floating… Read More

I don’t know what it is about sitting in an airport bar that causes me to feel the need to write. This time it’s a coffee bar, but still. I sit and watch the people frantically w… Read More

“I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot… Read More

I can not tell you the number of times I’ve sat in front of this very screen, typed a sentence, backspaced it, typed it again, closed the tab, then just greatly condensed what I wanted… Read More

Those of you who follow me on any social media account in existence have, for the last two month, been subjected to my keto journey. I think for my first post about it I promised to not beco… Read More

Oh, HI! How are you? Good? I hope so! This is just a blog post to remind you that I’m alive. This is the point post where I usually stare at the screen for about 15 minutes then close… Read More

First person from the US that comments “SEND ME ALL THE PAPERS” gets these! 1 – Photo Paper Plus Glossy II – 8.5×11 – (20 Sheets) 1 – Photo Paper P… Read More

I recorded a Get To Know Me tag video because I had a bunch of stuff to do the other and needed a distraction so I didn’t have to feel bad for not doing those things. My camera died at… Read More

So I’ve been on this True Crime TV shows slash documentaries lately and I preface this by stating that I am a pretty horrible person. HORRIBLE. But COME ON. PEOPLE AREN’T THAT NI… Read More

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Ben is a planner. He likes to plan and make spreadsheets and know what’s happening before it happens. I am not. I’m more of a fly by the seat of my pants person. I don’t ne… Read More

I am embarrassed by the level of sticker crazy I have gone with my Erin Condrin LifePlanner. I had a small and more simple planner from a Kickstarter last year and I really liked it but I ha… Read More

Oh how I wanted to love Lootcrate. A box full of figurines and pins and shirts AND MORE!? And all geeky!? YES PLEASE. But no. I mean, the figurines have all been great. Even the ones that I… Read More

Hans tore a hole in Cassidy’s window screen FOUR MONTHS ago. We spent a lot of time looking for him and once I thought I saw him run into a yard in the cul-de-sac across from us but it… Read More

I’m currently in bed wearing a Grumpy Bear onsie cuddled up with Kumo’s butt. Here was my day: Wake up. Work. Long commute home. Dinner. Lots of Hearthstone and laughing with Ben… Read More

I’ve decided to attempt Blogmas. ATTEMPT. I’ll probably fail but I like to set my standards low so that I’m not disappointed in myself later. The last few months I’ve… Read More

I participate in most of The Oatmeal’s Kickstarters because each one is more awesome than the next. Somehow I ended up getting TWO of his coloring books, Penis Fairies and Queef Storm… Read More

At 3:10AM this morning my alarm went off to go pick Cassidy up from work at the local outlet mall. Ben and I dropped her off last night at 7:00PM on the way home from a DELICIOUS Thanksgivin… Read More

Oh hi, here’s an update on my life in bullets. Because bullets are fun and I am lazy. I’m 1.5 months into treating my lifelong psoriasis with Enbrel. So far the side effects have… Read More

Hello, my name is Anna and I am a LUSH addict. I had to order some new shampoo last week so I decided to order something extra to do a little giveaway. YAY FREE STUFF! I loved this Little Mo… Read More

I fell in love with Chihuly glass the day I walked into our medical group’s new building in Palo Alto and there was a three story glass sculpture installed in the lobby. I was running… Read More

Hi all, hope your July was awesome! Mine started out pretty rough but ended with me in a pretty dang good place. If you do a favorites type blog post or vlog, definitely let me know in the c… Read More

I’d been trying since yesterday morning when I first saw the story about Dani Mathers to write a blog post about it but no matter how hard I tried I wasn’t able to properly conve… Read More

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Celluwipes for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Did you know the amount of bacteria on an average cell phone is 10 times higher than th… Read More

I’ve been in a low place. I’m struggling. It sucks. But I put on my brave face every day and carry on and try as hard as possible not to let it affect the people around me. Yest… Read More

I’ve been going through some personal behind the scenes stuff so while Ben was out of town last week I decided make some time to get out in nature and took the dogs for some hikes. I l… Read More

Yesterday Ben and I pulled into a Starbucks drive through and I saw that they have S’mores frappuccinos. S’MORES. FRAPPUCCINOS. YOU GUYS! Me: Can they make frapps with soy milk?B… Read More

While browsing Target for something to finally start decoration my master bedroom walls: Cassidy: Look, this one says, “This home is filled with Happiness and Love.”Me: Is there… Read More

Lately I’ve been trying to find more vegetarian or vegan recipes to make at home. We haven’t cut meat completely, we still eat fish a few times a week and occasionally get chick… Read More

I thought I’d put together a little Mother’s Day gift guide. There are so many different types of moms out there so I just thought about things that I’d love to receive. Yo… Read More

BR> About a month ago I put this sticker on my car. I saw it when I was buying a Feel The Bern shirt and it made me laugh so I added it onto the order as an afterthought. I didn’t… Read More

Actual conversation Ben and I had over dinner the other night. Me: So I had a really weird dream last night.Ben: What was it about?Me: I don’t want to tell you because you’ll mak… Read More

About 73 people told me before my colonoscopy that the prep was the worst part and I could just not wrap my head around the fact that PREP could be worse than having a probe stuck 5 feet up… Read More

In busy areas in California we have carpool lanes, specific lanes designated to vehicles with more than one person created to decrease congestion and coax people into ride sharing. Depending… Read More

OH HI INTERNET FRIENDS! I’m here! I’m alive! I’m a blogging slacker. I keep meaning to start logging my life here again. I always tell people that the biggest reason I blog… Read More

This is how you troll yourself on the internet and why my BFF is the BEST BFF. IT WAS A PACKAGE FOR ME! And there is EVEN A TROLLFACE ON THE LABEL! It will be displayed under the tree with p… Read More

Last Saturday I took a Melatonin and got into bed and then 5 minutes later Ben asked me if I wanted to watch a movie with him. Yeah, I was sound asleep in bed about 10 minutes later. Till s… Read More

BR> I snapped this photo seconds before heading out the door to take an early evening run with my two favorite furry creatures on Wednesday. Little did I know that it would be the most… Read More

Oh hey! Happy 8 days after Valentines! We decided to just spend the day together doing Stuff We Like. We went on a hike, ate some good food and saw Deadpool. So basically, it was a perfectly… Read More

On Black Friday Ben snagged a few nights at our favorite hotel in Pismo, SeaVenture, and we were finally able to use them up last weekend and it was PERFECT. We woke up both mornings to the… Read More

Me talking to Ben about KC tonight: I’m so torn. I don’t want the responsibility to make these decisions. But I don’t want anybody else to make them for me because I can&rs&hell…Read More

Fun is always easy to have when Julie is here! Whether we have an adventure all planned out or just play it by ear, it’s always awesome. I think the best part to me is just getting to… Read More

Here are all the beauty things I couldn’t live without in 2015! I really wish I had more time to do these monthly but LIFE AND STUFF. So since it’s the end of the year I thought… Read More

We had a REALLY mellow Christmas this year. Ben and I agreed that we were going to buy our new couches for Christmas and he made me promise that I would not buy ANYTHING ELSE for him for Chr… Read More

When I Rule the World if you spoil any TV show or movie within 7 days of the first airing of said media you will be subjected to the appropriate punishment. This is particularly important as… Read More