One of the best monologues from one of the best movies. Period. “Tell me… am I lying?”

Stuffed cabbage tonight 🥬 This isn’t the most visually appealing when served but… trust me, it’s phenomenal. ✨👌 #foodstr

Bless those with the jump to recipe button

DYOR bitcoiners: Dudes in the group chat so it must be true 😂

She’s so cool tbh 😎😍 View quoted note →

We’re two weeks into the teacher strike, so I finally caved and got her a skateboard.

hbd 🥳

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IDK who needs to hear this but single people over 40, especially those with children, are not and should not be playing by the same dating rules as those looking to start a family. My biological clock isn’t ticking. I’m not counting on a partnership to provide me a nice life. I’m looking for a partner, not to adopt another dependent. At this point, you need to be adding more than you’re taking or what you’re taking from is my child, whether that be energy, money, emotional capacity… Don’t feel bad about yourself for not having the same playbook as someone else. In fact, feel good about it. There’s no one size fits all path to happiness or success. If you’re going to take relationship advice from anyone, take it from someone who’s been in a successful marriage for 10 to 20 years. Don’t take parenting advice from someone who has no kids, etc. There are certainly things to learn from these people, but when you are in a different era of life you’re playing a very different game. It’s not a feminist take to want *at least* an equal at this point. It’s an ROI calculation as head of household and the person truly responsible for another life. You know best what is good enough for you and yours.

Mothers don’t argue with children, we raise them.

Don’t let conformity kill your creativity. 🫶

I’m not an expert on history. I’m not religious. I’m not the one who can debate well on either front. But I know what I’m seeing in front of me with my own two eyes. It is inarguably, ethically wrong by all standards of decency for anyone, least of all a people that experienced the murdering of millions of their own to do anything, ever, for any reason that could remotely be considered genocide. The use of that term at all in the narrative should be a wound itself causing every party involved to ensure it stops. It’s somehow worse because of this, to me. It’s the most morally corrupt, ethically confusing thing I think I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. The dissonance of it…

Frozen pizza tonight because I’m exhausted. Put all the ricotta on one half because my daughter hates it. Real. Fucking. Life. 🍕 Just out here living the larp! 🫡

Today makes a full week school has been out due to a teachers strike. I’ve been helping out a some of my friends with childcare because not everyone can take this much time off or can work from home. So, three extra kids in the house. I feel for the households where taking several days off can mean missing a payment or even cost them their job. That’s most people. Yes even in two parent households. Hate to break it to some of y’all but in real life, not everyone has the luxury of choosing to not work. Idealistic philosophies only go so far when you need a roof over your head in a good school district and to put decent food on the table for the children you love. People’s circumstances aren’t always political statements or even reflective of their ideals. They’re a result of (hopefully) doing the best you possibly can with what you have. I‘ve always prioritized working from home so I can drop my daughter off in the morning and be the one who picks her up from school every day at 2, so we can be together for the rest of the day. What do other families do after school is done when they’re still at work? What do other single parents do who are working until 6? Truly, I see you. I wouldn’t be able to have the life I have without my community. It’s the biggest reason I haven’t left Portland, despite being otherwise over it here. I don’t care about the wide network of social acquaintances and party friends. I’ve got a solid community of real, beautiful friendships that have been strengthened over many years of time. We’ve watched each others children grow up, we’ve seen each other through boyfriends, weddings, divorces, surgeries, moves, breakdowns and breakthroughs. No matter what your situation is, the importance and even necessity of having quality, sincere friendships cannot be overstated. It’s one thing to socialize and connect and another thing when you’ve got to choose between your kids and your job. Who shows up for you then? Online friendships and virtual communities are legitimately important, I think, and are very real in their impact on us. That said, there are only so many ways virtual connections can offer support and people can only know you to a certain extent. You can know someone online for 10 years and even meet them a few times and still not really know them or their lives. Hell, you can know someone in real life or be related to someone for 10 years and still not really know them. Real friendships are actually a non bullshit example of the proof of work metaphor. They can’t be bought, they can only be earned. You can’t larp your way through them. Time reveals truth. I’m grateful for what I can do for mine, and what they have done for me. Even as I sit here listening to what sounds like the ceiling about to fall in on me as the kids are doing god knows what upstairs. Few things feel as good as full house.

I saw this on Instagram and Google’d to see if it was real because, what? Imagine the layers of broken involved in doing this with your day to day life 🤔 On the other hand I bet he’s expert tier at excel spreadsheets 😂

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