Em is choosing to move forward again
@erbenkert.bsky.social
learner of women theologians, overjoyed at friends creating, exuberant about storytelling, fangirling all the things. seek to uplift the oppressed. talk mental health? nostalgic for Walt Disney World and 90’s girlhood. 💖
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(also this is a tiny lil update for my pinned post, I am now settled in Muncie with a new job and it’s been ultimately really good ❤️)
it’ll be interesting to see a high school classmate on Netflix tonight!
February 11, 2026 at 10:57 PM
it’ll be interesting to see a high school classmate on Netflix tonight!
hello guess who deleted her dating apps for an actual good reason this time?
February 2, 2026 at 7:33 PM
hello guess who deleted her dating apps for an actual good reason this time?
Catherine O’Hara toooooo why? 😭💔
January 30, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Catherine O’Hara toooooo why? 😭💔
Miss Shirley from beauty2thestreetz passed away nooooooo 😭💔
January 28, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Miss Shirley from beauty2thestreetz passed away nooooooo 😭💔
someone from my high school is going to be on love is blind and here is a picture of us as toilet paper mummies from youth group fifteen years ago 😂🧻
January 28, 2026 at 5:22 PM
someone from my high school is going to be on love is blind and here is a picture of us as toilet paper mummies from youth group fifteen years ago 😂🧻
there is a plumber in Muncie with a branded cyber truck and I saw it for the first time today and it was very surreal
January 23, 2026 at 10:29 PM
there is a plumber in Muncie with a branded cyber truck and I saw it for the first time today and it was very surreal
One of my opening questions to my dating profile is “who is your favorite muppet and why?” And someone responded and said “what are muppets?” WHY.
January 22, 2026 at 4:18 AM
One of my opening questions to my dating profile is “who is your favorite muppet and why?” And someone responded and said “what are muppets?” WHY.
I’m listening to an episode of Bluey from across the office through a FaceTime from my coworker’s granddaughter. What a time to be alive, three degrees from Bluey.
January 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
I’m listening to an episode of Bluey from across the office through a FaceTime from my coworker’s granddaughter. What a time to be alive, three degrees from Bluey.
ALSO the amount of men when I mention Minneapolis who don’t know what happened???? big yikes.
I’m back on the dating apps and this guy and I matched on the 19th and we’ve been chatting and he *just* told me that his mom died on the 14th???!!? SIR?
January 12, 2026 at 5:10 AM
ALSO the amount of men when I mention Minneapolis who don’t know what happened???? big yikes.
trying to figure out how to build bridges but oh is it so difficult
January 12, 2026 at 5:09 AM
trying to figure out how to build bridges but oh is it so difficult
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It's really hard for people who have empathy as well as a sense for justice right now.
January 9, 2026 at 5:25 PM
It's really hard for people who have empathy as well as a sense for justice right now.
my direct supervisor is out sick and it’s the first week of classes and things are a messy mess thank goodness for GRACE
January 7, 2026 at 7:36 PM
my direct supervisor is out sick and it’s the first week of classes and things are a messy mess thank goodness for GRACE
the guy I’ve been actively steadily going on dates with this past month is moving STATES away and I’m sad about it
January 4, 2026 at 11:56 PM
the guy I’ve been actively steadily going on dates with this past month is moving STATES away and I’m sad about it
I am on day ten of this sinus infection and I just wanna be healthy again
January 2, 2026 at 11:35 PM
I am on day ten of this sinus infection and I just wanna be healthy again
My eighty year old uncle has already brought up the epstein files and trump and we’ve not even been here an hour yet 😅
December 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
My eighty year old uncle has already brought up the epstein files and trump and we’ve not even been here an hour yet 😅
Merry Christmas Eve!
December 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Merry Christmas Eve!
I downloaded the latest iOS and it is making me dizzy the way the apps transition in like a 2005 PowerPoint. 🙃
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I downloaded the latest iOS and it is making me dizzy the way the apps transition in like a 2005 PowerPoint. 🙃
Help my brain can’t stop singing “pink pony clurb, I’m gonna keep on dancing at the pink pony cluRB” added emphasis for my ridiculousness 🥲💕🐴
December 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Help my brain can’t stop singing “pink pony clurb, I’m gonna keep on dancing at the pink pony cluRB” added emphasis for my ridiculousness 🥲💕🐴
Go look at the moon
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Go look at the moon
I made four dozen cookies tonight and I still need to make more and I didn’t do the dishes and I’m going to bed because it’s after midnight
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I made four dozen cookies tonight and I still need to make more and I didn’t do the dishes and I’m going to bed because it’s after midnight
I changed my grocery pick up order to specifically include a lime bc Applebees never gives enough limes for the fiesta lime chicken
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I changed my grocery pick up order to specifically include a lime bc Applebees never gives enough limes for the fiesta lime chicken
also someone said the word “alphabeticaltized”
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
also someone said the word “alphabeticaltized”
there’s an AI seminar happening at my work and the speaker just said that last year students used AI at least once for coursework 60% of the time and this year so far that’s jumped up to NINTEY PERCENT. I hate it here. (Here being this time and space lol)
November 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
there’s an AI seminar happening at my work and the speaker just said that last year students used AI at least once for coursework 60% of the time and this year so far that’s jumped up to NINTEY PERCENT. I hate it here. (Here being this time and space lol)
ooooooo this man I went on a date with made me SO MAD and I don’t want to talk about it but I wanted to lament and let people know I’m BIG mad AND sad 😣
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 AM
ooooooo this man I went on a date with made me SO MAD and I don’t want to talk about it but I wanted to lament and let people know I’m BIG mad AND sad 😣
I’ve been trying to go to bed earlier and wake up earlier but it’s a struggle
November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I’ve been trying to go to bed earlier and wake up earlier but it’s a struggle