The stomach bug slammed into me at around 4pm yesterday. One of the cooler things about being a seasoned adult is the self-awareness that comes with years of experience. I started to feel badly at 4 and immediately put my…
Angry Man Farm 2022 – IT BEGINS
In case you happen to be new to this old blog, Angry Man Farm is simply our garden. Many years ago WM and I noticed that farms have such lovely, bucolic names like Lone Pine Farm or Running Horse Farm….
The gratitude cycle
A few weeks years ago we noticed that our dryer stopped efficiently drying clothes. Regular loads would take two cycles to dry, but we dealt with it, because after 8 or 9 years in the apartment with a communal downstairs…
Friday 5: A rose in a fisted glove
Happy Friday! I told my coworkers today (via Teams, we’re still working from home until further notice) that this week seemed like it was six weeks long and I think I accomplished maybe 10% of what I needed to. In…
February 2022
Here are some things we did in February that didn’t warrant their own post because I wasn’t posting much in February! Mom had a birthday and I bought her a ticket to go see Beautiful: The Carole King Musical at…
Friday 5: They
Hanging onto blogging (and sanity) by my very fingertips, here I am again! This week’s Friday 5 theme is They. They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. How have you proven them right or wrong?I suppose as…
Friday 5: The full spectrum of human experience
It’s Friday! Huzzah! This week’s Friday 5 theme is The full spectrum of human experience and you can click on that link to dive deeper into that. As for me, it’s 15 minutes until movie night and I’m going to…
Out with the old, in with the new
The snow delayed delivery by a few days, but my new navy sofa is here and I think it’s pretty sweet. When I sit on it, my butt doesn’t touch a spring! The cushions are soft, yet firm. The color…
WDW 2022 trip: What we did not like
There are 3 kinds of Disney Parks fans. The first group will never criticize a thing. The second group hates everything that has been added since 1980. The third group, the more centrist group, can love many things and still…
WDW 2022 trip: what we liked
We indeed made it to Walt Disney World and ooo what a balm to the soul it was, even with weird (and mostly justified) Covid-19 protocols. And most of the thrill was likely of the ‘holy crap we’re HERE!’ variety,…
Friday 5: Texture (and a remembrance of my red sofa)
Friends, the time has finally come for us to let go of the red sofa that was a fixture of my very first single-lady apartment. (that blog post is pure gold, by the way) Purchased in 2006, the red sofa…
I PASSED THE CAE EXAM!!!
Picture it, Sicily 1922 the Skipper Canteen restaurant at Walt Disney World. (we made it to Disney!) WM and I are eating lunch, having arrived on property a few hours earlier. We are eating cachapas and downing some ice cold…
