The Girl in the Red Rubber Boots

Category: Thoughts About Life

  • Update on my Crazy Idea

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    In July, I posted about my crazy idea: I want to spend a year traveling to different parts of the USA, spending a month in each location. Yes, that’s still happening. Currently, I’m planning to leave Oregon on September 15, which is shockingly SOON. At first I was super organized with the plan. I kept…

  • July Life Update

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    Today I’m writing from the train. I decided to take a short trip to Seattle. My actual reason for doing so is a wee bit complicated, so I’ll save it for a later post. But in the meantime I thought I’d pop on here and write a bit of a life update. Topic 1: My…

  • 15 of my Favorite Feelings

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    Today, in honor of a youtube video I watched once and quite liked, I decided to write down 15 of my favorite feelings. That feeling when, in the middle of some stressful or generally unpleasant situation, I get a cup of tea and a little space of time where I don’t have to make any…

  • May Life Update

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    One of these years I would like to have a calm, relaxing May. It’s probably the prettiest month of the 12, yet I spend most of it in some frantic end-of-the-school-year rush. Last week my giant task was to get the yearbook printed. I’ll spare you the details of the 297 things that went wrong,…

  • When Tech is No Longer Exciting

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    I was born in 1990. My entire childhood and adolescence was defined by this idea that, every six months to a year, something new and absolutely mind-blowing would enter my universe. A computer A color monitor A color printer Email A digital camera A pager CD’s DVD’s Instant messenger Dial-up internet USB drives Cell phones Laptops Flat-screen…

  • Bye, Sprwinter

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    Today I decided that I don’t have to like February/March. I feel like I should. I mean, there’s the whole “live life to the fullest” thing. But even more, I always thought my least favorite season was winter, and my favorite season was spring, so should’t I love the moment winter begins to turn to…

  • The Way We Live Now

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    Every February the ladies at my church have a ladies retreat, and then a week or two later the youth at my church have a youth retreat, and I have to decide whether to go to one or the other or both. It’s always at the coast. I don’t know what people do who don’t…

  • What Goes Wrong Where I Work

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    Of course the first comment on my last post asked me, “So, where YOU work, what is likely to go wrong?” I should have anticipated that this question might come up. I was basically asking for it. But I still have avoided writing this blog post because in order to say what goes wrong where…

  • Limping Through December

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    This year I learned one of the uncomfortable truths about post-college life: Most people don’t get a month-long vacation over the holidays. I’m used to the terribleness that is the two weeks after Thanksgiving: Illness, dead week, finals week, giant projects you should have started on three weeks ago. But then, I’m also used to…

  • Thanksgiving

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    My friend Simone and I sat outside on the porch swing, with only a light blanket over our laps for warmth. The winds blew, sending wet leaves to the sidewalk with a splat. We watched the kittens peeking timidly at us as we sipped our tea and ate pumpkin cheesecake. “It feels strange being out…