Category: the girl behind the screen

{My} Anxiety Is:

The constant need to be busy. Being on the go is a bit like a drug to feed the anxiety beast. If I’m working several jobs, if I’m focused on my new ballet classes OrangeTheory classes watching Shtisel in yoga pants or 6th grade math homework 7th grade math homework 8th grade math homework or…

Snow Day

I pulled up to the Starbucks drive-thru this afternoon. When my husband spent roughly an hour this morning digging my car out from under many, many centimeters of snow {that’s a thing, by the way, that happens when you move to Canada. You begin measuring snow in centimeters instead of…

Mental Tetris. Also Frogger.

It took until Day 3 of Ali Goes Back To Work Full Time for us to have our first meltdown. Now, I’m not at liberty to disclose who had the meltdown, and not just because it may have been me, {Narrator: It wasn’t} but since my prediction was that this…