Yes, I have a TikTok account. My TikTok content is 85% based on who I follow and the content that I like (Disney, nerdery, happy dancing, humor) and 15% completely random content. For example, I'm currently watching the entirety of The Sound of Music in 5 minute clips. The VonTrapps just escaped the convent and are motoring to the hills. I hope they make it. By the way, Christopher Plummer's Georg VonTrapp is very much worth rewatching as an adult. Last week I bought two TikTok songs from ...
Friday 5: Career Day
Happy Friday, friends! Today is National Mail Order Catalog Day (I miss those) and National Fajita Day (I prefer tacos now.) I've had a mentally jangly few weeks for no explanation and I finally feel it ebbing. What's been helping is going on walks with WM as he rehabs his knee. It's been months since I've walked regularly and I HATE how correct it is that movement helps with mental health. Boo, hiss, why can't I feel better by playing video games and snacking all day instead? Here's ...
Pennies from heaven for you and for me
Alternate blog title #1: Tell me you grew up in a working class family without telling me you grew up in a working class family. Alternate blog title #2: Coinstar can take their 12.5% coin counting fee and shove it where the sun doesn't shine. What do you do when your banks are full and it's raining out? You count and roll coins like a couple of bored GenX kids. Our current bank doesn't offer a coin counting machine so we had to do it the old fashioned way. Longtime readers may ...
Wordless Wednesday 2023 WK 33
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Friday 5: For argument’s sake
Happy Friday! Today was my summer Friday and I took Mom to the beach for the day. It was a good day; however, I think I have to find a new beach. I've been going to Margate for years and it used to be that there would be 15-20 feet between everybody. Since Covid ended and people continued "working from home" (4 out of 5 people are great, number 5 logs into Teams on the beach) the beaches have been slammed. Today a group set up their umbrella and chairs less than four feet in front of us, ...
How I stopped destroying my nails
I have always, always been a nail-biter and cuticle-picker. You can tell from the scant photos of my fingers on the Internet because I have almost always hidden them when showing pictures of me holding something. I have not destroyed my fingers since March, which is the longest I think I've gone. I'm not saying I'll never relapse, but I think I'm in a good enough place where I can write about what worked. How'd I get here? I mostly stopped biting my nails during the worst of the Covid ...
