Dumb Thing #2

…when your email isn’t working and you don’t know why…and when calling someone who should know how to fix it seems futile…and you realize how dependent you are on email…and you wonder if you really should be entrusting your connection to the outside world to a bunch of wires anyway. Hopefully I’ll be up and [...]

What Goes Around…

It was about 13 years ago. I was young, single, in college and I had it totally together. I thought so anyway. I was visiting a friend of mine in Minnesota and one of our outings was to the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN. I distinctly walking the mall that day feeling pretty good [...]

Dumb Thing #1 (Part 3)

(Here’s Part 1 and Part 2 if you need to catch up.) Moving on… What can I do to fix it? As you can see, this issue (i.e. paying off $25,000 in debt) is not black and white. There’s a lot goin’ on here. My first goal is to embrace motherhood (as I explained in [...]

Dumb Thing #1 (Part 2)

(If you’re just joining us, you may wanna read Part 1 first.) So, now for question Numero Uno: What can I learn about the past so this doesn’t happen again? Well, with regards to the credit card debt specifically, I’ve reflected long and hard on the situation. Accumulating so much debt is rather out of [...]

Dumb Thing #1

In keeping with my melancholy, the-glass-is-basically-empty outlook on life, I’ve decided to add a new category to this site called “Dumb Things.” This new category will give me a place to post my thoughts about things in life that I think are dumb and/or things that make me want to scratch my eyeballs out. I [...]

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