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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · Jan 7

Just a reminder you don't have to please imaginary strangers who are almost certainly not thinking about you at all, and if they are that's their problem, not yours.

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Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 10m

Eating protein, trying to keep my cool. Er, generate some cool. Pretend I ever have cool and imitate that.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 14m

I was curious last night what the show date page looked like on the site. Oh, just a black void then? Yeah?

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 17m

It's quite fun to swim around in a language I don't know when I know its cousin because French is not really very helpful but some Spanish words are the same since Latin so I get all excited for those.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 24m

Me: What's el buki irlandes? The Irish what?

Also me: Oh!

A guy who looks a lot like Hozier from the band Los Bukis.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 28m

All of Bangor is covered with memories that way like pop-up video from all that driving. And I'm a location-based memory person.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 29m

Yelled at my phone "This is not the answer!" then got the proof of Summerlands off the shelf because I left the copy I'm reading upstairs. Do any characters need to be pointlessly enraged? Because I've got that locked and loaded right now.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 31m

Pretty annoyed at how hard these people (?) are making it to do this one thing. Also it's definitely AI writing the messages which infuriates me because they (?) are not listening. AT ALL. Because they are mindless code is why.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 1h

There I took out the dog, the compost, the recycling, and the litter gleanings, which the critters will steal or disassemble even though there's no cat poop. They are insane right now. They shred every cat litter cleaning bag. Litter pee clumps! WHY. Such a mess.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 1h

$26 in my hand?

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 1h

Maybe I can park at the maxillofacial surgeon near the corner where I told the student with the baby the plot of The Nerve when I was just starting it. Where I put out a fire in the landscaping bark with cranberry juice.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 1h

Not now, oblivious help desk for unlabeled counterintuitive user interface. I am on the edge here.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 1h

It's like saying turn left at Marcy's house. Is there a sign? How would I know then? Happens constantly.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 1h

Nothing makes me more spectrum-y than telling me to go to the X place on your site when nothing is called that and nothing matches that description. Oh, you just call it that? It doesn't say that? THEN HOW WOULD ANYONE ELSE KNOW???

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 1h

Let's go out in the wind and the rain and check the mail and get pine needles in my hair. They are snowing down out there!

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 1h

Anyway I just got so annoyed that the dog got out of her armchair and came to see what was up. AND I turned off the interminable Mexico reel! I know!!!

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 1h

Possibly the most annoying thing I deal with is making people grasp that we're tax-exempt. I can't just pay and charge the tax. I would have to pay it personally.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 3h

Pretty psyched to unpack my fez of smaller jeans last night and find today that they fit perfectly. No more oversized falling off jeans, yay! Of course it was swollen legs that made me upsize, not weight, so even better because the legs got cured. Nightmare.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 3h

The severe drought and no mast this year means the wild animals are frantic and going a little berserk. The deer are visibly thin. Anyway that's why the worst ever mouse incursions. Pity people's gardens because they are eaten up.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 4h

Last night the kitty was lying in the upstairs hall then heard something and tore downstairs so yes I AM delaying descent due to the likelihood of more tiny corpses.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 4h

Mentally reviewing all parking in a ten block radius because I spent ages driving ride share around there and have the map of Bangor tattooed on my brain. Ooh it's at the park Ariel and Winston walked through back when the University was Husson not U Maine!

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 4h

The funeral home where we took my mom is nearby and actually has a lot of parking out back but I suspect they wouldn't want to share. Unless there's a funeral. Then you could blend. Except for the sign. That's a no.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 4h

Make politics boring again

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 4h

Stop the madness

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 4h

Down with all this sort of thing.

Oh my giddy aunt @ohmygiddyaunt.bsky.social · 4h

I asked Sumara how one of my characters would deal with my drama and she said they'd spend hours doing creative work, sleep nineteen hours, then eat five plates of dinner. Which is SO ACCURATE that I did hours of creative work and slept a whole lot. Where is my excessive dinner? Where?