TGIF: Soup and Sentimentality (Patreon)

Hello and happy Friday, Patrons! It's another rainy day here in LA and you better bet your buttholes that some chicken noodle soup has been made in this house! We've now conditioned ourselves that at the first drop of rain I start getting my rain gear on to hunt out some chicken broth. My go to is this Flu Fighter Chicken Noodle Soup and it delivers every time. The soy sauce and the hot sauce? *chefs kissing* Also have you ever noticed that everyone is a lil extra weird when it rains? I was up at the tiny target near our house getting soup supplies and everyone in there just seemed to linger, saunter, and stare a liiiiittle weirder than normal. 😆 It makes me laugh because it felt like every aisle I went down there was some dude in a stained sweatshirt giving side eye. Maybe it's me? I was disheveled and hustling and huffing and puffing. There's a chance they were concerned about my general state and scared that the frenzied tall girl swishing around in her wet rain jacket wasn't doing well. Little do they know I was thriving in my soup mission. 

How have your weeks been? Anyone feeling that weird and wacky Saturn in Pisces energy floating around? The week started a little off kilter for me but has since been pretty nice. I recorded a podcast with an old friend (from improv days back in NYC!) yesterday and it was an awesome hour and a half convo about creativity and content creation and my journey/insights over the last few years and ...woof ...what a delight. I was exhausted afterwards, but it was so nice to start to verbally put together my thoughts around more of the psychological ride that content creation takes you on. I think the episode will come out in the next few weeks and when it does I'll let you know! 

Full disclosure I've been working in the background on a book idea that encompasses a lot of these thoughts so it's been all over my brain lately. And that's probably where the weird disorienting energy has been coming from. I'm starting to do the thing I hate the most, reflect on the past and attempt to process it. FUCKING EW. Cue Macaulay Culkin screaming as a full grown man. Do any of you feel itchy about looking back at your past? I don't know exactly why yet (trust it'll be something that gets untangled in therapy) but attempting to look back at things gives me the ~cRiNgE~. Which is wild because my anxiety brain is oh so excellent at reminding me of my most (in)significant embarrassing moments right as I'm trying to fall asleep. She's a tricky minx that way. But, knowing that looking back currently gives my soul stress hives also indicates that it's likely an important thing for me to eventually do. And that's where I get excited about this potential process. It's like tackling a filthy, disorganized closet. Getting started trying to clean it is a big ol bitch, but when it's finished it's an incredible feeling of lightness and achievement. And who knew those moon shoes were in there!? Speaking of the past, remember moon shoes? The tiny trampolines you wore on your feet? Growing up they were signals of WEALTH and SOPHISTICATION. Opulence. You own everythiiiiing. Anyway, I'm equally excited and nervous about this writing-through-revisiting thing and, if anything, am hoping to get some organized emotional closets out of it. 

Y'all, "deadass" got officially added to Dictionary.com recently and if that doesn't show you where we're at as a society I don't know what will. Other words officially added to the site include hellscape, rage farming, trauma dumping, petfluencer and woke. Wow. What a graduating class. These are all official words recognized by dictionary.com. TBH I think it's hilarious. And also kinda shocking that hellscape hadn't already made the cut. Also I wasn't familiar with the term rage farming before. My first thought was that it was some sort of new hipster therapy activity where you transfer your aggression into gardening. It's not. It's "the tactic of intentionally provoking political opponents, typically by posting inflammatory content on social media, in order to elicit angry responses and thus high engagement or widespread exposure for the original poster." Farming peoples rage. I get it. Seems we are in a hellscape. Deadass. 

Well damn, I'm exhausted. It's felt/looked like it's 7pm since I woke up. I'm gonna wrap things up here. I know you have BAR flies coming up so have a blast! I'm gonna finally crack open Bad Vibes Only and get my own party started. Oh, one other thing I wanted to ask you guys completely unrelated to the rest of this! I've been wanting to plan some travel for Elliott and I in the upcoming months and am looking for some inspo! I'm curious if you have any suggestions of places you've been to or things you've seen lately? Any trips you've taken (or are taking) that you'd recommend to your dear internet stranger friend? Let me know! I get carried away living vicariously through everyone's incredibly curated travel posts online that I forget if I want to have those experiences I need to plan them. So hit me with some ideas! Alright, the flu fighter soup isn't going to slurp itself. Enjoy your weekends everyone! And thanks, as always, for being here! 💚G