The Exhausted Menu

Thoughts on life, food, and the moments in between

Category: Ramblings

  • Hold Music

    I walked into a doctor’s office, and they gave me Zepbound. Wait. There’s a story here. I started taking Zepbound earlier this summer for a couple of reasons. One: obviously, my weight. Perimenopause hit, and boy-howdy, did my body not agree. I gained 20lbs in about 6 months. And I can’t take hormone replacement therapy…

  • Therapeutic Blackstone

    We bought a Blackstone a little over a year ago. Our grill had died and there was a blowout sale at our local Lowes that sealed the deal for us. Though I work with history now, back in the day (centuries ago), I worked as a short-order cook at a golf course. It started out…

  • As the Campus Turns

    It does feel like a soap opera sometimes. Life has been . . . life. Our house felt like a train station for about a month as friends and family visited. The distraction was a welcome one, as we dealt with a rollercoaster of administrative abuses at our jobs that have negatively affected so many…

  • “Hello, boys!”

    “I’m baaaack!” I’m terrible at keeping up with things. I usually say that won’t do it if it’s not on my calendar. Even remembering to breathe sometimes is a calendar event. So, I’m making a calendar event to update the Exhausted Menu. Or, maybe I’m living up to the name of the blog. Who knows….

  • Hi, hello, how ya doin’?

    Welcome friends, foes, those in the middle. How are we all doing? Let me tell you, my surface game is going great. But underneath, deep in my gooey core, I’m terrified. Stone cold frightened. That’s partly why I’m here. Therapy helps, but maybe yelling into the void will ease the worry. And hey, yelling into…

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