Category: My Noodle
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Identity Crisis – COVID Edition
Like almost everyone else in the world these days, I’m depressed. Really depressed. So depressed that I’ve been taking a mild anti-depressant, St. John’s Wort, for a while now. You know things are bad when I can take an anti-depressant. I’m bi-polar. Under normal circumstances, an anti-depressant would send me into a manic episode, even…
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Quantum Planning – Covid Edition
I’m nervous. I’ve been thinking about the future in terms of months. Like, next year I’m going to move to Chicago and go to school at “The Second City.” April 2021 to be exact. I’ve been packing already! COVID will be gone, the election will be over, and Seattle will have lost its mind even…
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Adventures in Echo VR, Part 1
I started a new game on my Oculus Quest, Echo VR. It’s a free game that looked like a lot of fun. The tag line? “Battle Robots in Zero Gravity”. Since it’s the apocalypse, I’ve been spending A LOT of time alone and it pretty much drives me nuts. Echo is a multi-player game/experience. I…
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Status Update – Life of Karin
It’s been over 6 months since I walked out of my office and went home to stay. It seems like it’s been years. At first, I was posting blog posts by the week talking about what was going on with me during this time. That, of course, dropped off as staying home became the new…
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Irrational Choice?
I had a bit of a scare on Tuesday. I’d already been really stressed out, thinking about the election and the vandals/rioters and being generally in a state of panic, when my work decided we needed to fill out an online questionnaire about our medical history. The Medical History Questionnaire I don’t do well with…
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The Last Elected American President
Warning: All of this is coming from my noodle, which believes everything is highly suspicious and also tends to believe in conspiracies. I know I have an over-active imagination. But I’ve seen too much in this life to not be the way I am. You have been warned. Earlier this week, I’d posted something about…
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Death of a Friendship
I find myself remembering the past, old friends, and things that happened, never happened, and maybe should have happened. I miss an old friend. When I was younger, I was extremely shy. I still am shy, but I have such developed extroverted skills, no one believes me anymore when I tell them I’m shy. But,…
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A Monotonous Spew
Warning: The post is mainly a spew of me trying to figure stuff out. * I walk into the kitchen and go to the right side of the sink. In front of me, in a perfect line, I line up my green water glass on the left, my juice glass In the middle and my…
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The Two Minds of Karin
Yesterday, I was on my after-lunch walk, heading south on Palatine, when I noticed up ahead of me, on 65th street, a march was going on. I froze. You see, I have issues with groups. PTSD actually. People in groups, shouting, being angry or violent, trigger my PTSD. It’s even worse now since I saw…
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Musing on “Good Witch”
I’m on season three of “Good Witch” and I’m still musing over why I’m watching it in the first place. I know how it started. The word “Witch” was in the title and I’m attracted to the supernatural. I put it in my list and about a month ago, I started watching it. My Tendency…
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I May Never Come Home
The last time I was in my hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, I was sitting with my brother Kelly and two friends, Jen and Patrick. I was telling them about why I left the Navy. The actual story is a bit involved and so I’ll save that for another post, but the main reason was: I…
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Karin in Virtual Reality
I love the beach. I love the waves coming in. The birds trolling for food. People walking. Baby turtles achieving their first challenge by making it from the nest to the ocean. It’s not just the beach. I love water, moving water. Rivers, streams, waterfalls, even fountains. I find moving water very soothing. I think…
WildEyed Loon 