Evening beloveds, how are we?

This week has mostly been spent babysitting a family friend. She is 60 and has a chronic ongoing condition alongside 20-ish years of alcoholism. She was in hospital for treatment, they confronted her about the drinking (she was very drunk and very sick and had several bottles of vodka, and…

It sounds like she was lucky to have you all, and you to have her. Sending you big hugs in your sadness.

Wow. I think you are right, and probably are still in shock.

Be kind to yourself. Any way you feel, even if it’s just numbness is valid and important and if you sit with it and allow it it will surely settle. Your immediate memories of the evening may be worth writing down and keeping somewhere safe, if you can manage…

What a wonderful thing to receive. It’s worth remembering how the smallest gestures we sometimes offer can be the most enormously generous and affirming to those we offer them to. I will try and bear it in mind this week.

I'd like to see it fail to sell, then be awarded by the govt to an organisation that rescues abducted girls (along with more than enough cash to re-fit it appropriately for it's new, noble purpose.)

My thoughts exactly. 

A wall of fucking fedoras?! This needs more stars, alas I have but one to give.

Wow. We do not have the same mother. A friend of mine lost his mum to cancer when he was maybe 18. His dad remarried within a year (super quick for the teenaged kids to suddenly have a stepmum) and at my friend’s birthday party this sweet, quiet, tiny, floral-fabric-clad, velvet-hairband-wearing, church-going step-moth…

I mean, do his parents count?

Mine used to confiscate books, music, toys etc on a regular basis. When she finally watched the ending of Aladdin she was intent on burning the video. The only way we could think of saving it was by arguing that since the pastor and his wife had given it to my sister it couldn’t possibly be demonic. It worked.

Transhumanism. Huh.

I feel like the decision to describe abortion access as healthcare is often a deliberate one, which isn’t to say it’s always the best. If the discourse is around “healthcare” then it may be easier to convince fence-sitters who don’t consider themselves gestational enforcers but who also find the idea of abortion…

Got all but one item back! He arrived late, having not replied to my mum’s message asking if he was stuck in traffic. He got out of the passenger seat of his his mother’s car, my mum greeted him and his godmother, he said “I’m sorry I couldn’t text back, I was driving.” My Mum was tempted to reply breezily “Oh don't…

Wise. Thank you and congratulations, it's a beautiful cake *blows kiss*

Oh I hope so goddess...And thank you. That gif is delightful!

Nonsense

Thank you. Stomach already less volcanic, the fatigue has set in so I’be just had a nap.

Thank you...my lawyer is keeping good company with you it seems!

Good for her! What an empowering way to kick off this stage of life, you’ve raised a good’un there. 

I looked after my friend’s kids (7 and 10) this week and they were hilarious, as always. 7 is in love with the dog and walked her with my mum instead of a river swim, 10 and I walked a mile up river, in the river, and she called all the baby trout kissing her feet “My employees.” My niece is 3 and will be here any…