Eryn

Sleepy babes, unite!

And I don't think you would have a clue there's been such a dramatic of a loss unless you experienced a similar transitional moment in time.

Which I hadn't thought about as a continuation of my experiences being in the "Oregon Trail" micro generation, witnessing both before/after.

My kids are 4 years apart & my parenting experience was totally different with my youngest, more isolating & lacking connection

BECAUSE in that 4 years parents started waiting in their cars on their phones (beginning of smart phones) instead of chatting for 5 minutes at pick up, at practices etc.

Are you my old friend Tori?

Her: I wonder if this stapler could go through my thumb nail

Me: if it can it would hurt so bad

Her: nah

*Second later, with much screaming*

Her: Teacher! Eryn let me staple my thumb!!

She was stuck, stapled to the stapler & I got a time out!

I really wish there was a remind me
bot on Bluesky.

My kid asked me today what GW's Iraq war was like & all I could think about was all my friends who had signed up the year before to pay for college. Jesus we were young.

Jokes aside, I'm glad you're here

You weren't in your right mind at the time.

Maybe you would find the advice my husband gave me one night useful ...

"just go to sleep"

I mean, I didn't like it or find it useful but I mean maybe you might 😡

(Then of course he fell immediately into peaceful sleep even though his life was in danger)

No, I don't feel good, what tipped you off. Dreaming about moving from an indoor bed to an outdoor bed seems pretty normal to me.

I also don't want to have to clean it before I use it, which is the real barrier. Why am I not rich!

What I want is an outdoor bed. I want to go in my backyard & flop, not on a chair, not on a plastic seated couch, but in a bed with a light sheet over me, & take a nap, outside

I want to be outside but I don't want to participate in outside activities all the time. I want indoor activities, outside

Hopefully that wasn't a crushingly depressing fact to share, but I honestly felt the same way. Like those kids gave us so much, I appreciate it in new ways now as an adult & as a mom & knowing how things went.

That movie taught me I could crush on two boys at the same time! lol

This movie was a BFD to me when I was a kid, so I rewatched it awhile back & it all came back to me.

Haim broke his leg & was almost recast (lol), but instead, he's in a cast for the whole movie, even after the real cast came off. Working w/that injury is what kicked off his substance abuse💔

Source:

Just smashing that McRib button on his desk 3 times a day

It's "let's read too much about printers!" week, I guess. I was reading about converting printers to print underglaze designs for ceramics & have spent many days in this now. Why aren't we rich?!

I would follow Jamie Hewlett off a cliff

But one time when I was a tween, we were driving at night & my parents were having one of those light parental disagreements/arguments & I noticed there was a lunar eclipse happening. I told my parents & they stopped arguing & we had a great night watching it together. So! Check mate, NEIL.

I thought about him yesterday so this is probably my fault. I was thinking about when he insisted on tweeting that lunar eclipses aren't spectacular & you wouldn't notice one if nobody told you about it WHILE a million people were tweeting excitedly about an eclipse. What a huge bummer of a person.

I looked up what the accusations against him were because I couldn't remember all the details & holy crap it was so many women.

a woman is sitting at a table holding a piece of paper and saying i don t like the sound of that . Alt: Catherine O'Hara saying "i don t like the sound of that" & shaking her head no

Just got this email

International Women’s Month events in Seattle:
Neil deGrasse Tyson

They piss me off in those bean soup mixes, because everything else in the mix gets soft like 40 minutes before the lima beans. Get your shit together, BEANS.

I make a point of trying/cooking the foods I disliked as a kid, until I find a method that makes me go "This is good, I've been converted." Mostly so my kids would have a well-rounded introduction. But lima beans still vex me. Maybe I'll grow some this year, I'm POSITIVE they're better fresh.

These kids have had tacos made with grubs, so I know they'll do fine in the face of adversity (lima beans)

My favorite Mexican place used to put lima beans in their chimichangas & nestled inside flavorful chicken & crispy fried dough was fiiiiiine, but still felt like a betrayal.

I have found a specific niche for black-eyed peas where I enjoy them, but they were right there with lima beans when I was a kid. My dad liked them, so my mom would empty a can into a bowl & microwave them, the end. Luckily our house rule was "You only have to try one real bite."

4am parenting thought: I never cooked Lima beans for my kids. I sent them out into the world completely unprepared for Lima beans.

I'm sorry this was such a shit show babe. I'm still really proud of you for showing up. The majority of people don't even go through the motions of pretending they're going to show up.

You could probably have a date night at the Blue Bayou on pin money!