Hey so why did you leave Tumblr? Don’t feel obligated to answer. Just curious.
Hi anon? Not sure why you’re hiding behind the glasses. But okay.
There are a small handful of people on here I know offline who I’ve shared a lot more details, but most of it had to do with bandwidth after experiencing a lot of terrible shit in my personal life involving one of my kids. That, and the fact I had lost a lot of trust on this space when someone kept reblogging pictures of my kids, and Tumblr support was less than helpful with removing that user who kept creating new accounts and doing it.
So that’s it. I’ll leave this here for those who are curious, but I’m very likely not going to be back. I still have the app on my phone and you’ll see me occasionally pop in and leave a heart on a post, but that’s about all the energy I have left.
I do miss it sometimes, especially the people who made this community so special. Y’all are still lovely and it’s nice to hear from you all from time to time, so thanks for that.
Hi!
Yesterday a friend of mine on here did an incredible kind thing which led to a bunch of other people on here doing incredible kind things. So I wanted to pop on here and say thank you. You have no idea how much that means to me.
That’s all.
We had quite the feast. Everyone pitched in to make this wonderful meal. Love my family. So grateful.
Here, have a loafy boy. He’s hanging out underfoot - and under chair - with us while we prep the feast.
i hate all the people who go like “ohh van gogh is overrated” or “you just like van gogh cause it’s popular”. yeah? so what? can’t i like stuff that a lot of people like? can’t you admit that dude is an amazing painter and deserves every single fucking ounce of recognition? shut up, please. i’m falling in love with the starry night all over again wheter you find that good or not, bitch
“Van Gogh is overrated”
Well maybe if you watched the museum scene from the Dr Who Van Gogh episode you’d understand.
That gotdam scene gets me EVERY 👏🏽 SINGLE 👏🏽 TIME 👏🏽
The actual ugliest sob ever.
It broke me.
WANTED
A sugar no-gender-specified person who is willing to buy me a new MacBook Pro.
In return, I will create adorable video edits of your fluffy friends for free, as well as any memes you want, no matter how dank.
Thank you for your consideration.
Question:
Why do I have Billy Joel’s “Goodnight Saigon” rattling around in my head and why won’t it go away?
Please send help.
I Was Tagged in a Thing!
Yay! @ladyofthehouse tagged me to answer some things, so here I am on this thing to answer things for you.
Favourite Colour: A deep, deep blue that’s almost purple-ish.
Currently Reading: The past couple of vacations have allowed me a bit of time for reading that I haven’t been afforded as of late. I finished Sarah Gailey’s The Echo Wife, which was utterly fantastic. TLOTH was the one who introduced me to them a few years ago while I was standing in the middle of Powell’s Books in Portland, overwhelmed by the offerings there and desperate for a recommendation. (Side note: always have a writer on speed dial/text in your phone for such occasions - Sarah Gailley has become one of my favorite authors as a direct result of TLOTH’s rec of American Hippo.) Also on vacation, we listened as a family to T.J. Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea - a delightful book. Currently, I’m listening to the audiobook of This is How You Lose the Time War by Amar El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, and reading The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart (we’ve been watching the Disney+ series which inspired me to pick up the book), as well as Anthony Bourdain’s posthumous World Travel. As a family we’re listening to B.B. Alston’s Amari and the Night Brothers. Next month, the spouse and I are doing a buddy read with some other folks of Kate Moore’s The Women They Could Not Silence.
Last Song: “The Trapeze Swinger” by Iron & Wine
Last Movie: The Green Knight. It was gorgeously haunting. Dev Patel is mesmerizing in it, and Sean Harris plays one of the best King Arthurs ever put on screen.
Last Series: Watching quite a few right now. The aforementioned Mysterious Benedict Society, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Marvel: What If…, and the current season of Ted Lasso. Also, I’m introducing the 2 older kids to Stranger Things. We’re about halfway through season 1 and I’m loving it.
Craving: An Oreo Peanut Butter Malt.
Tea or Coffee: Coffee. Currently drinking Wonderstate Coffee’s Organic Panorama. We also make tea every evening, and we’ve really been digging Everything Tea’s Hot Cinnamon Spice Black.
Currently Working On: Whether or not I’ll have any work this fall at all? Yeah…it’s looking pretty dire so good vibes would be appreciated.
I’ll tag @delgrosso and @2-4-6-k8. Enjoy!
Something something metaphor about people not masking up and getting vaccinated and not taking all of this seriously and then contracting and dying from the virus something.
A gajillion years later, and @staff still hasn’t fixed this notification glitch on the iOS app. I have zero unread likes/replies/etc.
Photo dump from the past few days.
Top 2 are from our local bookstore.
Next one was the homemade basil pesto crostinis we made for lunch today.
Next 2 were from an unexpected trip I needed to make yesterday to pick our older kids from camp a day early because of forest fires.
Next 4 are the various Coffee Delivery Devices I’ve used over this past week, including one designed by @wilwheaton
And the final one was a grilled chicken salad recipe thing the spouse found, which ended up being quite good.
Hope all of you have had a good week. Be kind.