Who else is having to try to convince their boomer parents to not be stupid?

I feel those of us who went through government shutdowns are the best prepared. When people were like ‘BUT WHAT AM I GOING TO DO IN MY HOME FOR WEEKS’ I’m like ‘well, let me tell you how to spend four weeks in your home and spend very little money’.

Katharine Hepburn’s brownie recipe is my go to. Hopefully no one comes and steals my person!

I was at work one day, in the summer. I was talk to a visitor outside at one of our buildings. There were wasps flying around, and we were generally trying to avoid them, but it was difficult.

Ohhh, that probably looked amazing though.

It’s so bizarre how attached people are to women having long hair. I recently chopped off about a foot of my hair, which I’ve done several times over my adult life. It just gets too long and annoying and I chop it off, and five years or so go by and we do this all again. It is not an emotional experience. 

Maybe it’s because my job is just endless human interaction all the time. Maybe because as a government worker I’ve been through several shut downs where since there was no money coming in you pretty much ended up house bound anyway, maybe it’s because work has been exhausting and everything is scary outside, maybe it…

Good.

It’s like a grown woman’s Barbie, or preppy Lisa Frank without ever having been cool.

‘Everything is pink!’

Ditto, from another widow.

I was entirely unaware of how chronically itchy my eyes are until the past two weeks.

Bernd is my little tiny spirit loaf. 

We are all already anxious people, and we all work in a tourist site that gets 5million visitors a year, and take public transportation in the 6th largest city in the country.

I’ve definitely stocked my home with two weeks worth of ‘sick food’—things I generally want to consume when I’m ill and have the energy to make when sick, since I work with the public and have resigned myself to getting this illness.  I have all my meds on stand by, since I’ve got junky lungs.

We got a Wawa across the street from my job.

Father daughter dances also happen still at public schools in places like the aforementioned Philadelphia.

Ugh, it’s rubbish isn’t it? The only time we got overt awful was when we were visiting Chicago. Not the city’s fault, more the drunken asshole post-baseball game fuckery that happens pretty much everywhere.

It’s possible. His family is a very lively bunch and don’t seem emotionally stunted. But pretty much anything is ‘not emotionally stunted’ compared to my ‘repress everything and never speak of any emotion’ upbringing. 

In all honesty, if I could wear shapewear or even better yet, stays, every day I would.