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tara 🎃

@magnolia2010.bsky.social

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armed with will and determination, and grace, too. 40something encouragement auntie of conscience. mobilian. lawyer. doing my best. joy in the face of horrors. you can do this. "we are concern, we are hope despite the times." - R.E.M.

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tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 6h

i do my best thinking in the shower and tonight was highly productive, think i just sketched out my whole performance for the ball in january.

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 7h

ooh friend, this is a LOOK. gorgeous!

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 7h

not for nothing: them doing so well tonight makes me feel a lot better about how well we did against them.

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 7h

ok seriously, skattebo is somehow both of these dogs at the same time.

a cartoon of a dog and a cat with the cn logo on the bottom

Alt: Looney Tunes: the big bulldog stalking angrily with his little sidekick yapping energetically

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tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 8h

that song rules

that video is a time capsule

john mccrae was FINE back in the day

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 8h

that was just silly.

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 8h

[i am proud of this silly joke, as proud as i am of repeating lyrics from "the night pat murphy died" over and over again during every brewers game]

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 8h

jeezum crow-armstrong, what is going on with the officiating here.

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tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 10h

oh this RIPS. shakespeare was entertainment for the masses and that's why remakes and modernizations are such great teaching tools for all kinda of classic theatre - it strips all the fuss out and gets to the heart of the thing.

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 10h

oh, philly people, i am so sorry. my lord.

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 10h

oh no, not like that, are you kidding me

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 11h

he will be seated at the right hand of the toaster. that's AMAZING.

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 11h

ms. juanita, my mother's AA sponsor, ADORED this record and played it in her car nonstop. "optimistic" is one of my favorite songs.

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tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 11h

pro: today was strength day + the instructor who's the best form teacher, so i used 12.5lb dumbbells for chest press and deadlifts for the first time in my entire life, feeling very accomplished and proud

con: everything hurts and it's only been 2hrs, i may be working from bed tomorrow

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tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 13h

we did a lot of sightseeing of random plains/west stuff in ND, but we also stayed in the hotel on the standing rock reservation.

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 14h

ah, the ever popular GIRL IN SHOWER sign. there were 4-5 of us long distance girlfriends who would stay at the house and the guys had signs for us. during pledgeship it was one of their jobs to guard the bathroom for us.

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tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 14h

i'm so sorry.

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 15h

awwwwwww ❤️

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 15h

i mean, in that case, feels like this meme would be a better response, but there's that whole "needing to stay employed" thing to consider.

The meme with a stick figure talking to a closed circle of people, then someone from the closed circle giving a thumbs up to the other stick figure, then promptly going back to their conversation.

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tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 16h

it is the most useless feature ever. i get that it's probably supposed to replace the "OK" or "thanks" email, but the alternative to those is NOTHING, not another weird stimulus to deal with.

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tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 16h

this is like the eighth time this week i've used this gif, lol. my god what is going on at the takes factory these days. that one's not even funny.

a man is sitting in a car with a group of women and says `` that 's bait . ''

Alt: a man is sitting in a car with a group of women and says `` that 's bait . ''

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tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 16h

love it.

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 17h

i have been rewarded for three deeply annoying work assignments by hearing two of my all time favorite songs on siriusXM today:

crowded house, "something so strong"

EMF, "unbelievable"

and yes, i stan "unbelievable." a killer dance song with a RIPPER guitar solo. gimme.

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tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 17h

if you have anyone in the family with chronic illness or maintenance meds, i cannot recommend it. we ran the numbers with the beloved's T2D and it was staggering.

tara 🎃 @magnolia2010.bsky.social · 17h

that plant is ADORABLE.