Revelry Reverie

Category: Just life, you know?

  • Bloganuary prompt – Jan 4

    What is a treasure that’s been lost? I worry about skilled trades going away. Maybe some have been lost already (probably, right?) but there are a lot of culturally important skills that really only can be learned and understood by doing them, and if there’s no one left who knows how to do them, they…

  • Bloganuary prompt Jan 3

    What is the earliest memory you have? Walking on a wet day down the pavement near our house in Hale, running my hand along the brick wall, and stopping touching the wall when the holly bushes appear, because they’re prickly. I can remember going to school, and sitting on the floor of a classroom cross-legged.…

  • Bloganuary prompt – Jan 2

    How are you brave? I don’t like this prompt – it’s begging the question. I have no idea if this is a true story, but I don’t think that matters. I think what does matter is the idea of being a kind person. Being kind when it’s free and easy for you to do, and…

  • Bloganuary prompt – Jan 1

    What is something you want to achieve this year? I think of myself as not particularly ambitious, which is true and also not quite correct. The true part is that I’m not inclined to glory. I don’t need to get the credit or be well-known, or any of that (I do thrive on validation, however).…

  • Reading

    I realize I just blogged about reading this year, but here we are again. After I picked up Cloud Cuckoo Land at the airport Friday, I really thought, “this is what I will snack on all the rest of the year. As I lie around relaxing with the fam, I’ll be reading this.” But I…

  • A year of murder

    A year of murder

    Technically, the murders started late last year, at least for me, with Roger Ackroyd and nine odious and unlucky people trapped with a sociopath (also odious) on an island. Yesterday, I went to La Guardia at 12:30pm to catch a plane. Eight hours later and from a different terminal, I flew out (to the wrong…

  • Cookie day

    Every year, my mother-in-law hosts cookie day at her house before Christmas. My sister-in-law and I bring our kids over and we make about fifteen dozen cookies to split between us all for the holidays. We always make three kinds, and this year we chose peanut butter, spritz, and chocolate covered pretzels. The kids make…

  • Notes

    I have several ways I like to take notes while I work, and my methodology is pretty much non-existent. I use whichever depending on what feels right. My three ways of taking notes are: With Simplenote and my notebook, I expect those to be part of the record. I keep them – I don’t throw…

  • A little bit stats, a little bit flowers

    Every year on your anniversary date, HR sends an email to you to give you some stats from the last year. Since I wrote my One Decade post the day before my actual anniversary, I didn’t have the email. Now I do, and these are my stats: Last year, these were my stats: While I…

  • One Decade

    On Saturday, Dec 3 2022, I will have been with Automattic for ten years – a full decade. This is the only job any of my kids remember me having (the twins had just turned one when I accepted my job offer). The twins did think my former boss was Wapuu, though, when I told…