That probably should have been a journal entry.

smonster, I had a long reaction and then realized that it was more a hanging out chatting thing than a post.

Thank you for the birthday wishes. It's been nice.

Thank you, nice surgeon, for finally making Dad listen.

Thank you from the blinvisible peeps, Mr. Dr.

sometimes a woman can totally be The Man.

So my s-i-l. We had a family birthdays and Father's Day dinner on Saturday and she had a few gems. If she were in the Matrix, she'd take the blue pill. Happily. She spoke about it for a few minutes. Then complained that Bridgeton, a fictional story, was not true to the racial identities. (smonster, my reaction was a much longer version of this and more...) Oh, she is such the well-named Karen.

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I keep thinking I should post replying to stuff or saying stuff but somehow it feels hard. But I’m here and I’m seeing you and I love hearing from you all.

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(points to meara's post and nods. Waves.)

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Then complained that Bridgeton, a fictional story, was not true to the racial identities. (smonster, my reaction was a much longer version of this and more...) Oh, she is such the well-named Karen.

Yes, because otherwise it is so devoted to accuracy. (i know you know. They really tell on themselves, don't they?)

Re: responding to things, it makes it harder for me being on my phone, because it's such a pain to cut and paste multiple things to respond to. And then i get to the end and forget half of what i wanted to say.

Women can totally be the man, for sure.

I have Onerous Tasks to do today and I doan wanna. I need to enter all my receipts from the move, see if I need to pull more out of savings, pay my credit card, talk to the movers about the damage to my furniture, and do some stuff with my car insurance.

I can't sit at a computer that long, so I plan to alternate with puttering. Oh, and i have to go to the grocery store because I can't keep eating out like this.

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Yes, because otherwise it is so devoted to accuracy. (i know you know. They really tell on themselves, don't they?)

I only ever like Bridgerton about 30% of the time I'm watching it, but I always enjoy how effortlessly it manages to annoy all the right people just with casting choices.

(See also, spoilery thing from the end of S3 that has some of the internet suddenly VERY concerned about BOOK ACCURACY.)

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Then complained that Bridgeton, a fictional story, was not true to the racial identities.

Isn't that the whole point of Bridgerton? I'm not even a whole episode into the second half of this season yet because I got bored after I started it, but I have been spoiled for a couple of things that people are apparently mad about that make me more eager to watch the rest.

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Ugh, I have a cold. It's annoying. Snurfling and gunky.

EM is coming over this morning. That should kickstart some Onerous Task Doing.

Matilda was out past Midnight last night so the odds of her waking up any time before 1pm are dim.

Father's Day was fun, though. Cousin Nicole was visiting, and I made Emmett and Matilda watch a movie of my choosing (Scorsese's dark comedy about downtown NYC, After Dark) and eat tacos.

I kept trying to connect the dots for them: "That's the guy who came back as a zombie in American Werewolf in London (Griffin Dunne). That's Phoebe's mom (Terri Garr). That's Moira from Schitt's Creek (Catherine O'Hara). That's the dad from Home Alone (John Heard)...."

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Cass, happy belated birthday! It was so lovely to see you last month; it had been too long.

Like meara, I am reading when I can and sending you all lots of ~ma.

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Happy belated birthday, Cass!

The artificial flowers and color-changing wind chimes I ordered arrived, and have been hung in their appropriate places to add a few splashes of color around my house. Pictures to follow after charging/nightfall.

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Hey, Karl! I'm massively overdressed to go hang out at the bookstore cause I'm bored and all I do is work. Kind of the most pink outfit I've worn in a long time. Kind of not sure what I was thinking when I bought it.

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