💔Lil Treasures #149: Bro-Break Ups and Candy Corn Hate
Gilmore Girls, robot vacuums and Taylor Swift Q-Anon
Hello everyone!
It’s a crisp fall morning and the air is filled with notes of new Taylor Swift. Y’ALL READY?
Taylor always seems to to swoop in when the s-word is hitting the fan (at least for me) and heal us all with her soothing bops. I am ready to be swaddled in that voice, guys.
Lately I have felt like one of those Roomba robot vacuums, trying to cover as much ground as possible with the limited battery that I have. I run into a few obstacles at times, but attempt to ricochet right off of them to try and make sure the job gets done. I am a driven creature. But you know what usually happens to our dear Roomba’s? They get stuck. They find that impossible edge or corner in their planned route, and it’s too much. Their wheels spin and they beep like crazy and then shut down.
This is me, I am the robot vacuum. Just one with a little extra added spice.
It’s been a strenuous semester for us so far, jam-packed with new writing projects and not enough cars to drive these tenacious children to all the sports and activities they are enrolled in. We are now on a bowling team! Everything is fine! Sports Mom™ is starting to lose a little steam, but I’m taking comfort in the fact that when it is too much, I will make a big commotion and beep my little heart out and let myself get stuck. Because we all need to get stuck and shut off sometimes. Especially when the new Taylor Swift album comes out.
This week’s treasures:
💛I had the opportunity to be interviewed by the lovely Amanda Waters on her Substack page Amanda Loves Words a few weeks ago where we talked about writing and human capacity and lots of real fun stuff!
🧦If you have a few dollars to spare, All Saints Church in Portland, OR has an Amazon wishlist with some supplies for some of their unhoused neighbors in their area who are facing colder temperatures and need things like socks, gloves, etc.
🍵 If you need some warm fuzzies for your Friday don’t miss this tea party with the Green Bay Packers.
🖥️ For all of you regular Google Drive users (specifically Google Docs) this thread might be the key to our future expertise.
💀Big news in archaeology corner: King Charles is opening up the mystery vault and allowing for DNA testing of the infamous princes in the tower! This secret has fascinated me for ages and I cannot believe we might have answers soon. If you have no idea what I’m talking about you can read about it here.
🍬Tell all the candy corn haters this video is for them.
💔Loving this whole account but especially this video about bro break-ups in the Bible.
Twitter’s finest:
Have a great weekend, folks! Can’t wait to hear all about your treasures from this week!
Friends, it has been a minute. And what a minute it has been. To jump right in and keep the over-sharing to a minimum, I learned this week that I have been living with undiagnosed ADHD. I did the full, 4.5 hour battery of psych testing about a month ago and just had my feedback session this past Tuesday. It’s been a lot of processing since then. Reading, watching videos, learning. I didn’t walk out of the testing (or into it) convinced that I had ADHD. Just sort of wondered if that’s why I’ve been trying so hard for so long and nothing seemed to be getting easier or smoother. Especially inside my head. It’s been fascinating to read about how ADHD manifests in women, because I had none of the “typical” markers that one might imagine when they hear the term ADHD. I won’t go into my entire history, but reading this article made me weep. And “weep” is the correct word. It was like opening a window into my 15 year old brain. And 22. And 28. And 31. And 36. And 39.
http://drellenlittman.com/secret_life_of_girls_with_adhd.pdf
I have decided to start meds, and today will be my first dose. I feel nervous and a little anxious about it, since I don’t want to lose essential parts of myself. I’m told that the right med and the right dose make it easier to be yourself. And that makes me feel hopeful. Mostly I’m hopeful. Hopeful that this diagnosis will help me make sense of so many areas where I have struggled for so long and help me move forward in areas where I haven’t known how to (but have wanted to, very much).
On a simpler note, some recent treasures have included: a $10 cinnamon pumpkin muffin candle from Target, a soft orange duster sweater from Marshall’s, Brooke Ligertwood’s (née Fraser) album “Seven”, and finally finishing Doris Kearns Goodwin’s beast of a book “The Bully Pulpit.” If you’re at all a fan of American history, I cannot recommend this book more. Who knew that William Howard Taft was a more admirable president and all-around human than the much-applauded Teddy Roosevelt?
Anyways, much love to you all. Looking forward to reading everyone’s treasures!
Oh my Lil Swipes. I have been MIA for a little while. A huge, unexpected medical bill, a family member in the hospital, a busy few work weeks, a lot of homesickness for my family and for Michigan, and what feels like a million baby showers have stressed me out to the point of crawling back into a hole.
Am I a bad person if I never attend another baby shower? I will buy gifts off the registry. I will like the million baby photos that come after birth. I think I just have one (1) baby shower left in me. And that’s it.
I have a really busy weekend (40th birthday party tonight! Bake sale tomorrow! A FREAKING BABY SHOWER TOMORROW! Dinner with a friend! I need to bake a million things!) so I am going to treat myself with coffee this morning.