TGIF: Rants & Quarterly Resolutions (Patreon)

Hello and happy Friday, patrons! How is everyone doing this fine Friday? I'm doing pretty good. It's a sunny day in LA and I can't complain. Except I can. About the birds. You guys, we have these birds. And they CHIRP at the worst hours. But it's not even a chirp, it's more like the noise a smoke detector makes when they need new batteries. They make these repetitive sharp screeches and they do it at 4am. I forget every year that there's a screechy bird season here in LA and every year it makes me furious. In my last house I tried to throw large sticks in their tree in the middle of the night with a zero percent success rate. I didn't want to hurt them (obviously) I just wanted them to witness my anger and change their behavior. It didn't work. And now the siren screams are back. But this time Elliott got a bag of ear plugs. So, like a couple of toddlers on a plane, we'll be wearing ear plugs before the night time takeoff. But, other than the screaming feather bags I can't complain!

However, speaking of more stuff we can complain about have you seen this?

Cup (O')Noodles is making a limited edition breakfast flavor that will include flavors of pancakes, maple syrup, bacon, and eggs. Now, you know I'm a huge advocate of combining known foods to make new foods (see: my youtube channel from 2010-present day) but this is GROSS. I've recently been able to wrap my head around ranch flavored ice cream (I can't say I love it, but I'm curious) but I cannot stop gagging over the idea of breakfast noodles. Cut to a few hours from now, I'm one edible into my evening and somehow neck deep in Postmated sweet noods. *cutesy pouty shrug* I dunno why but I just can't get my tastebuds on board with this hybrid. It's glitching my already extremely juvenile flavor pallet. Thoughts?

Let's see, now I'm on a roll, what else can I complain about? Hmmm. Unfortunately, I haven't caught up with the new eps of Love Is Blind yet so I can't go down that rant alley at the moment. But trust I will likely have some 'pinions as soon as I watch this weekend! Are y'all watching? Oh, I still don't have T.Swift tickets yet, let's throw that on the pile of shit to complain about. Did anyone get tickets? The show looks insane (as per her usual) but I haven't looked at any of the other details about it other than seeing the clip of her diving into the stage and "swimming" underneath. *audible sigh/swoon* Of course she's doing cool shit like that. 

Oh, here's another thing I recently learned and I'm mad I didn't know at any other point in my life. Did you know a potato peeler is INTENTIONALLY wobbly/loose?!? It's so you can peel both forwards and backwards on the potato without ever having to lift it up! Here's the tiktok that's blowing people's minds, mine included. I'm also mad I can't just embed that video right here in this post! Damn your incredibly basic blog interface, Patreon! *shakes rickety potato peeler at her screen*

Okay, I'm gonna get off of this complain train now. It's not doing me or you any favors. What are you getting up to this weekend? I'm getting my hair done tomorrow and gonna go a little shorter than usual. O0o0ooo00OooO, I kno0ooOoow 💁🏼‍♀️! It seems insignificant but I'm actually kinda really pumped about it. For me, it's a little active indicator that I'm actually *trying* new-ish things this year. I've spent the last few months making big and little shifts in my world and I'm starting to feel the positive momentum from that. I'm starting to feel ... what's the word .... excited ...and ... dare I say ... hopeful in ways I haven't felt in while. It's like stepping into a literal and metaphorical Spring season. I'm liking experimenting with content again, I'm loving connecting in deeper and sillier ways with you all over here, and overall I feel more ready to hide less. Not never, but less. And that's cool! I even signed up for an 11 week course on happiness and positive psychology the other day. I know! It's partially because I miss the structure and gentle pressure of a learning environment and also because I want to see if the world of positive psychology is complete bullshit. Who knows! Hopefully my teacher! Who appears to be a current grad student and potentially much younger than me! Fun! 

Speaking of seasons, we're now in the 4th month of the year. I'm no math major but I think that means we're a quarter of the way through? Math humans, can you confirm? I was thinking about how my general theme ...or for lack of a better term, mantra, for the year has been 'try'. And that's been really helpful over these first few months. But now I feel like we're in the shadowland period where our resolutions might have fizzled out completely. And I think that can happen because it can be difficult to commit to ourselves over long periods of time. And we don't have any quarterly holidays that encourage or enforce our resolutions or self exploration ideas. Soooooooo, I was thinking that at this first quarterly mark we should come up with some new quarterly resolutions! Huh, huuuuh? *nudge, nudge....nudge* Obviously you don't have to but, for me, I think it could be helpful to sort of refresh and revitalize my brain around the good momentum. What would I like to focus on over the next three months? I'm curious if taking these goals/mantras/ambitions in three month chunks makes them easier to connect with or implement. "Try" will still be my background programming throughout the year, but over the next three months I think I'd like to experiment with "make." Another slightly vague concept, I know. But I'd like to keep the gentle energy of making little bits of content again. And if I'm not making something to share I want to make in the privacy of myself. I mentioned before that I set up an easel in my garage with a bunch of paint supplies, but I haven't broken the seal on painting in that space yet. So I'd like to do that. And from there maybe there's some other creative makes I can get into. I have been wanting to redo my office space. Remake a space for making. That sounds nice. So what's your quarterly desire/passion/goal/objective/intention? Anything come to mind? Let me know and then we'll all try to collectively remember in the beginning of July to check in on all of these shenanigans! 

FUN!

Okay speaking of make I need to go make dinner. I hope y'all have great weekends! And thanks, as always, for being here! 💚G