Beautifully Irrational

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This is a monthly series, published near the end of the month summarizing what I found, ate, watched, googled, and felt this month. New categories added from time to time. Books Added to My TBR (e.g., books I just learned about that I’m excited to read… maybe) The Pinnacle (Abir Mukherjee) Sublimation (Isabel Kim) Offseason […]

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Lauren Bravo is one of my favourite writers. I’ve only read one book — Probably Nothing — but it was that good. One of my top books of 2025. Every month or so, I look up writers I like on Goodreads to see if they have a new book coming out. Every once in a […]

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too. ******* All last week, the news would report that we maybe-likely-possibly-definitely have a weather event. The weather event would be zero inches of snow or 3,000 inches of snow. I do not envy meteorologists because people […]

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When I first heard about the game 2025, I checked it out and then quickly closed the screen. The goal is to make 45 groups of 45 entries, pulling together the groups from the mixed-up options on the screen, which are all buttons with a word (or words) on it. For instance, you may see […]

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I know it’s boring to read about someone else’s dream, BUT in my dream, all newscasters around the world had stopped reporting on the news and were reporting solely about what I’m about to tell you. So technically, the dream-you already know all of this. In my dream, the ChickieNob got a new, lemon-yellow guinea […]

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There is a saying that you’ll never be younger than you are today. I guess it’s not just a saying because it’s actually true. Whatever age you are today, tomorrow you will be that age + one day. I’ve never quite understood the point. Is it that it’s easier to do many things when you’re […]

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We had our penultimate wellness visit with the pediatrician. Our doctor will see patients until they leave college, which means next year will be the final time we go to her office. We secured her as their doctor while they were still in utero, and she saw them when they came home from the hospital […]

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Not sure what #MicroblogMondays is? Read the inaugural post which explains the idea and how you can participate too. ******* I blame Dear John for adding another game to my daily game sessions. Wordiply is from The Guardian. You get a few letters in a row, and you need to make the longest word possible […]

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Because Quentin is super smart — he can find a timothy hay treat in record time — we got him two toys. The first is a set of stacking cups. He loves to pick up things and throw them, and stacking cups felt like something he could spend hours stacking up and taking apart. The […]

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We spent last weekend at the beach. We needed a break, but we also learned that the US Fish and Wildlife Service was dismantling the visitor’s center in January in preparation for the moving of the beach in 2027, and this would be the last time to see it. It was the site where the […]

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