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Month: November 2022

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Nostalgia Trip

Posted on November 19, 2022 by noemikjames / 3 Comments

Today my husband and I went to a tailgate in Berkeley before the Big Game (Cal vs. Stanford). We met at this tailgate 16 years ago. If it weren’t for this group...

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We made it!

Posted on November 18, 2022 by noemikjames / 1 Comment

I wrote this last night and I swear I published it last night but I guess I didn’t. It’s fitting really. I swear today was soooo loooong. But I made it! We made...

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Of course…

Posted on November 18, 2022 by noemikjames / 1 Comment

… yesterday was the first day in November where I failed to post. I meant to come and say: today I just can’t so here are some pictures of kittens. And honestly...

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Two more days

Posted on November 16, 2022 by noemikjames / 1 Comment

Today felt like I was hitting a wall over and over again. Finally I recognized that even though having kittens has been easier than we expected in many respects...

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Too tired to post

Posted on November 15, 2022 by noemikjames / 1 Comment

Today kinda wrecked me. It felt like chaos all day at school. Between the end of Trimester 1 and the start of Trimester 2 and my absences and the Thanksgiving b...

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Finally on the mend

Posted on November 14, 2022 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

This morning my eye looked as bad as it ever had, but by this afternoon it looked much better; the swelling was way down and the redness was only noticeable if ...

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No photos today (lucky you, because this is ugly)

Posted on November 13, 2022 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

So on Friday I got the kittens. I also got pink eye. And I also got antibiotic drops for the pink eye. I expected that since I had two more full days in the wee...

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The Big Reveal: Introducing our two new chaos agents

Posted on November 12, 2022 by noemikjames / 2 Comments

Please welcome to our family, and thus the blog, Lynx and Panther, our two new kittens. They are not siblings, but they’ve been raised together and are a bonded...

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Flying by

Posted on November 11, 2022 by noemikjames / 1 Comment

November is flying by. I can’t believe it’s already Veteran’s Day. Just one more week of work and it’s Thanksgiving Break. Yay! But really it feels like Hallowe...

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Even loooong days eventually end

Posted on November 10, 2022 by noemikjames / 1 Comment

And this one did too, with a trip to Walgreens to get my son’s bivalente booster at 7pm. I HATE getting vaccinated at Walgreens, but the appointments at Kaiser ...

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