Seconded!

Laura, you are juggling so many balls! I would be a wreck.

Hec, I love everything about the new decor, and I’m going to have to visit some day just to have one of your cocktails there.

Seconded!

I would love to have you both over for cocktails!

Today is Matilda's last day of school, finishing her Sophomore year. Considering the entirety of Freshman year was spent on Zoom, this year was a vast improvement.

She gets exactly two days off, and starts her summer job on Monday. Her boyfriend leaves for Texas on Friday (staying with his mother for a month), so that's going to put a damper on her summer fun.

And the movers are coming today. These are the movers that will take all the furniture and stuff we have in storage at a friend's house nearby and take it to the new house. It's a mix of stuff that we bought at the White Elephant Sale (the Vanity, the Cabinet with the secretary), the vintage bed frames we bought, and all the stuff we had offloaded from our apartment previously.

So the new house will be full of stuff but not habitable yet, since we're awaiting new mattresses which will arrive next week. Some time next week there will be a second round of moving as we take stuff out our apartment and move it over to the new house, whilst moving Emmett in over here.

I'm glad we don't have to make it all happen in one day, but it will make things very cattywampus for the next couple weeks.

Glad to hear your DH is recovering well, Beverly! Best wishes to you both.

Laura good luck!!

Healing vibes to DH Bev!

Hec that sounds chaotic but like awesome forward momentum as well!

My company sent out a Pride thing and the message is fine (the theme is “love the science of you”??) but the graphic is hideous and unreadable. Ah well.

BevDog! Oh no, poor DH. Love snd healing.

ION - I am having a pissy day at work and people can F off.

All day training is keeping me from being vocally belligerent, so that’s good.

I lost a filling (or, as it turns out, part of a filling), and the dentist fixed it today. He had an all-80s Spotify channel playing, and now I have "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" stuck in my head.

Other hits I heard included: "Islands in the Stream," "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," and "Purple Rain." I honestly forgot about the existence of "Islands in the Stream" until today.

My kids are big Dolly Parton fans, and they love "Islands in the Stream." I've heard that song more in the last year of my life than in the 40 previous years combined.

That's actually extremely adorable.

Hec and JZ, good luck with the moves. I love the design choices and would invite myself over for cocktails if I were in the same area and did that sort of thing.

I approve of the Dolly Parton love being passed down the generations; well done, Kate P.

In me news, I am a great-aunt as of the 27th, as one of my adored nieces came through labor safely: Baby Ila is rather squished but generally seems pleased to be here. My brother has discovered the camera on his phone and is rapidly turning out to be THAT grandparent; I have redirected him to Google Albums rather than having my phone go off unceasingly with notification of Yet Another Photo.

Between her and my goddaughter's little, I am enjoying this grandy thing: I get to send gifts of the nice hardbacks of the Tiffany Aching books and write actual letters to family members on good paper (thanks to Bev and Plei for enabling that). A cousin was heard to mutter on FB that I am the second coming of my beloved Great-Aunt Dorothy - as she was a WAVE cryptographer during the Second World War and a bookish, compassionate woman who took no shit, I can't think of a compliment that's meant more to me.

Love and flamethrowers to everyone who needs them!