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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · 6h

The smile on my face when I saw this! 🥰 Thank you for sharing.

Do you mind if I answer your other question here? I need to get better at self-promotion online. 😬 Here is my fav local bookstore with a link to pre-order my next book. ❤️ Thanks for asking about it.

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Good Grief, Pass the Bread, Mom Is Dead: A Memoir

A Memoir

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 7

Omg! Such a good visual with the cat. Glad your ankle is healing. 💓

Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 7

Feel free to tell me something good. You got an ingrown toenail taken care of? Drop that shit in the comments. Have a Bluesky list of people who post nothing but rescue cats? Drop that shit too. 💓

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 7

I need to follow the people who create the crossword, if they’re on here. The wordplay in those clues is *chef’s kiss*

In summary, I apologize for my earlier tweets about Wordle and Connections. Eff them both.

There’s a reason Crossword is the GOAT.

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 7

If I don’t know words outside of the Crossword, how am I even going to find one word IN it?

But I finished. I only had to look up one clue. Some shit about an Australian biscuit or something,

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 7

Ooh! Thats. Great way to look at it! Ty!

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 7

a cartoon character with a plant growing out of it 's head is saying `` hello '' .

ALT: a cartoon character with a plant growing out of it 's head is saying `` hello '' .

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 7

Other than my cat, I finished the NYT crossword puzzle for the first time in my life yesterday. I had always convinced myself I had too much work to do and couldn’t spare a Sunday morning on something as frivolous as a crossword.

Also what the fuck is a rebus? That word intimidated me for so long.

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 7

Sometimes I think of Therese Okoumoum (is she on here? I’m going to look after work.)

If she’s on here, it would make me so happy to see a photo of her enjoying a lake. I hope in the comments people won’t yell at her: “nice to be on a fucking lake when people are suffering!!”

Here’s my cat.

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 7

“Hey Janet. I snuck in here and don’t know anyone bc the food looks good.”

*me attempting small talk*

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 7

Like “silence is violence.”

Bitch, it’s 6am my time. I just want to see some cat photos to get through the rest of this shit.

Can I see a few photos of a cat without feeling guilty that I haven’t given my take on “insert USA problem of the day”?

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 7

I think I’ve figured out why joining this Bluesky thing scares me. Because I curated my feed highly on other sites.

But even then, certain things sneaked through my highly-curated and admittedly very left-of-center echo chamber. They’d ruin my gotdamn day…

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 6

Yes! Take that time for yourself. Love to hear it. 💓

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 6

I’ve been working on this book for four years and it won the Diverse Voices prize for new releases at Harper Collins, but still I am so nervous there will be a mistake.

I need to learn to let go a bit. Today, I will not be an overthinking heffa and I hope you won’t be either. 💓

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 6

Yes. No chip, nothing. Found him in Philly on a trip to see my family. He now lives in LA.

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 6

Okay, I have to go work on this 92nd book edit. The nice lady caught that I had two different spellings of heifer in my manuscript. “Heifer” vs the Gen X way I was raised to say it: “heffa.”

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 6

I noticed I join social media like I enter parties when I go alone.

I play the wall, hoping someone will talk to me, then immediately get nervous if they do.

Here’s my cat.

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jul 6

I apologize for my Wordle vs Connections post. Upon further reflection, I now see they are two entirely different games that use different parts of the brain. I promise to do better in the future.

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jun 26

This was him when I found him. Hope you have a great day full of wonder. Unless you play Tiles on Zen mode.

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jun 26

Also, my cat says hello. I wake up and just watch his paws.

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🥀L8te_Bloomer_JJ! @l8tebloomer25.bsky.social · Jun 26

If you fucked up yesterday, just remember grace is renewed daily.

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jun 26

My therapist told me to start my day with gratitude and fun instead of news. It’s helped me form some insights.

Connections is better than Wordle and anyone who plays Tiles on Zen mode is a sociopath.

Welcome to my middle age skeets.

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jun 24

Hi! Yeah, you and I might be related. 😂

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jun 24

Aww, thank you! 😊

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Angela Nissel @itsmeangelanissel.bsky.social · Jun 24

Trust me. I am thoroughly embarrassed. 🙈

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