Author Archives: Sheryl

My husband’s nephew turned 13-years-old today, which is absolutely insane because I was dating my husband when this nephew was born and I haven’t aged at all since then so I really have no idea what we are celebrating. And we did celebrate this milestone birthday yesterday. Our newly minted teenager wanted chicken wings andContinue reading “Day 231 — Monday, November 2, 2020 or a birthday party for an official teenager”

One of my favorite yoga instructors left the yoga studio I go to a few months ago. I’ve always loved her Sunday morning class — she just has this gift for taking a “standard” vinyasa flow class, adding kickass music, throwing in some cardio type moves, and of course she always does an intense coreContinue reading “Day 230 — Sunday, November 1, 2020 or we did yoga in a dojo today!”

Every Halloween, my husband and I try to be really good neighbors by making sure that one of us is at home by 5 p.m. to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters. My husband believes that it’s one of our civic duties like voting or paying taxes. But I think that’s just his attempt to guiltContinue reading “Day 229 — Saturday, October 31, 2020 or a socially distant kind of Halloween”

It’s been cold and rainy most of the week. I actually didn’t leave the house on Wednesday and Thursday because it was so gross. But I was happy that at least it wasn’t snow! Until today: What the hell is this?? It’s still October!! Sure we live in New England, but c’mon!! We got aboutContinue reading “Day 228 — Friday, October 30, 2020 or we had a snowstorm today — in October!!”

My husband walked into my home office today to grab something off our printer and he farted. While he was standing right next to me at our home printer. I was sitting at my desk WORKING and basically his ass was at the same height as my head because I was sitting in my deskContinue reading “Day 227 — Thursday, October 29, 2020 or flatulence in the workplace”

My husband had a virtual meeting today at 12 p.m. Now normally this wouldn’t be an issue — his home office is set up in our kitchen/dining room area, and my home office is in a spare room. Sure I can hear his work conversations even with my “office” door closed, but it usually worksContinue reading “Day 226 — Wednesday, October 28, 2020 or my home office had a waiting list today”

Our weather has been unseasonably warm the past couple of weeks, and I am definitely not complaining about it! My vegetable garden has benefited from the added warmth and sun — some of my tomato plants have started blooming again! Now if I could only get that second crop of spinach to actually grow full-sizedContinue reading “Day 225 — Tuesday, October 27, 2020 or this might be the last of my summer crop”

I’ve been pretty pumped about the pumpkin I painted last week in my virtual painting class. It’s hanging on the bulletin board over my desk and I just keep staring at it — I’m just so impressed that I was able to paint an almost perfect pumpkin — the shape is good, and I’m reallyContinue reading “Day 224 — Monday, October 26, 2020 or yesterday’s painting was kind of…meh”

I’m looking right at you, Amazon. My husband and I have been Prime members for over two years. Sure somedays it’s really annoying that we’re just making Jeff Bezos even richer, but then there are other days when it’s really damn cool that I can get something delivered to my home the next day andContinue reading “Day 223 — Sunday, October 25, 2020 or I have a big problem with shitty customer service”

Last night, my husband and I went up to the local Irish pub for dinner. Now that we can sit at the bar again, it’s almost feeling like a normal Friday night! Except for the moveable plastic divider the staff put on either side of us to create more of a physical barrier between patrons…sureContinue reading “Day 222 — Saturday, October 24, 2020 or the pumpkin was missing from my pumpkin-themed dinner”