Now with more headaches

I am so excited that I can finally post from my phone. Does that mean that I will be spamming you more, probably not, it’s summer and I’m a teacher at home with my school age son so finding time or bandwidth to write is next to impossible. Obviously not though, since I’m writing now. When I first got Substack I thought this was already a capability and kept expecting it to already be there. I’m just glad it’s here. Also, pardon my typos, I’m writing on my phone.

So, what’s new in the mid life world… I may have told you that I can’t do dairy, and then I realized I couldn’t do chocolate (we’re going on 2 years of that) so I bought myself a giant bag of fruit gummies. No, not those gummies, normal children’s fruit snack type things. And guess what, headaches.

I was listening to a Smartless podcast one time and Jason Bateman was lamenting how life is no fun because he can’t have any vices. He’s a recovering addict and I appreciated the candour. Midlife makes vices borderline death traps. Or so it feels. I can either stay up late or have a drink. One day I may be as fortunate as my senior sister wherein one drink means no sleep. So that writing is on that wall.

My indulgences are things like smart sweet gummy candy because they are low in sugar and high in fibre and bubbly water. Woo, look out for that raging Friday night. Oh, and I do stay up late reading books, not for any other reason.

I have also hit that stage in life where I say “wow I really slept in” and it’s 8:30. My mom used to shock me with that statement. 20 year old Kara didn’t think it was a sleep in until at the least double digits on the clock. Now, that would result in, you guessed it, headaches.

Sure, these headaches are probably linked to hormones, sure there are probably other things in my life that could curb them (read: not staying up until 1am reading my kobo). But for now, not looking for advice just commiserating and sending out a quick post from my phone.

Stay healthy friends.

Currently on my kobo: One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid (I’m very excited about it as it was a skip the line book on Libby)

In my ears: The Wealth Money Can’t Buy by Robin Sharma