Ella Instead
@ellainstead.bsky.social
Bewildered xennial who should be probably be good at new tech, but feeling like a grandma as I try to get to grips with this new social media. I will get there in the end! Eventually.
I mean. Sounds excellent. I will be doing the same once my family inevitably go to bed around 9pm!
December 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I mean. Sounds excellent. I will be doing the same once my family inevitably go to bed around 9pm!
It sure was a lot! I don’t know what my face was doing when he came in but it probably wasn’t as cool and sanguine as I was going for. More likely along the lines of 🥴.
December 31, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It sure was a lot! I don’t know what my face was doing when he came in but it probably wasn’t as cool and sanguine as I was going for. More likely along the lines of 🥴.
I will never learn apparently!
December 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I will never learn apparently!
Update: I once again chickened out and did not do this. I made my mom bring a can of pumpkin all the way from Canada, made a whole ass pie, my dad and I (the only pumpkin pie lovers) ate about half of it over the last week, and today I threw the other half away because we can’t eat any more.
December 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Update: I once again chickened out and did not do this. I made my mom bring a can of pumpkin all the way from Canada, made a whole ass pie, my dad and I (the only pumpkin pie lovers) ate about half of it over the last week, and today I threw the other half away because we can’t eat any more.
Impeccable as always. Crying happy cottage sunset tears over in my corner here. ❤️
December 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Impeccable as always. Crying happy cottage sunset tears over in my corner here. ❤️
Yes. My standard response to this and related is “Well, there are plenty of teaching jobs available!”
To which I have always inevitably had the reply “Oh, no, I couldn’t work with teenagers at all!”
It is very satisfying to watch people immediately U-turn on ‘so nice.’
To which I have always inevitably had the reply “Oh, no, I couldn’t work with teenagers at all!”
It is very satisfying to watch people immediately U-turn on ‘so nice.’
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Yes. My standard response to this and related is “Well, there are plenty of teaching jobs available!”
To which I have always inevitably had the reply “Oh, no, I couldn’t work with teenagers at all!”
It is very satisfying to watch people immediately U-turn on ‘so nice.’
To which I have always inevitably had the reply “Oh, no, I couldn’t work with teenagers at all!”
It is very satisfying to watch people immediately U-turn on ‘so nice.’
I have been thinking about trying this also because every Christmas I throw out half a pumpkin pie. I only haven’t because it is hard to get cans of pumpkin here and I get worried about wasting it. If you try and have any success, let me know!
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I have been thinking about trying this also because every Christmas I throw out half a pumpkin pie. I only haven’t because it is hard to get cans of pumpkin here and I get worried about wasting it. If you try and have any success, let me know!
Maybe experiment making pumpkin tarts and freeze them uncooked, then bake single serve new for yourself when you want to. I have not done this but feel like it must be possible!
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Maybe experiment making pumpkin tarts and freeze them uncooked, then bake single serve new for yourself when you want to. I have not done this but feel like it must be possible!
I went there — it IS magical!
October 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
I went there — it IS magical!
Not easy but achievable, I say from the other side of that mountain!! Knowing in your brain and feeling in your bones are separate things, but you can get there!!
October 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Not easy but achievable, I say from the other side of that mountain!! Knowing in your brain and feeling in your bones are separate things, but you can get there!!
That said — I can’t tell you why my steady diet of true crime and horrific history podcasts are more restful to me! But they are. So there you go.
October 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
That said — I can’t tell you why my steady diet of true crime and horrific history podcasts are more restful to me! But they are. So there you go.
It is not morally superior to know more than you can cope with and actually undermines the energy you can bring to those things you can control! So avoid the scrolling minute by minute, focus on things that you can change, and don’t feel guilty when you need to step back!
October 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It is not morally superior to know more than you can cope with and actually undermines the energy you can bring to those things you can control! So avoid the scrolling minute by minute, focus on things that you can change, and don’t feel guilty when you need to step back!
I read an article a few years ago that really started me on this little self care path about how the modern news cycle has incorrectly conflated knowing about things happening with having an impact or activism. I would never be able to find it again but I hope I am saying the right things!
October 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I read an article a few years ago that really started me on this little self care path about how the modern news cycle has incorrectly conflated knowing about things happening with having an impact or activism. I would never be able to find it again but I hope I am saying the right things!
Without in any way suggesting it has been easy to get there in my brain — it is okay to focus on the things you can control and limit how long you engage with things that are beyond your control and make you feel bad.
October 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Without in any way suggesting it has been easy to get there in my brain — it is okay to focus on the things you can control and limit how long you engage with things that are beyond your control and make you feel bad.
I have worked hard over the last few years and am now at peace with hitting my max capacity on real world news on avg after 10 min. I forgot my phone at home yesterday and listened to the radio the whole way to work. I felt awful as a result and can confirm I do so much better on podcasts.
October 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I have worked hard over the last few years and am now at peace with hitting my max capacity on real world news on avg after 10 min. I forgot my phone at home yesterday and listened to the radio the whole way to work. I felt awful as a result and can confirm I do so much better on podcasts.
Yes, it’s this. They float around in a ring of shallow moving water. There is a hook a duck stand at every fete and fair. The ducks have stickers with different prizes on them on the bottom so you don’t know what you’ve won until it is pulled out of the water and turned over.
September 27, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Yes, it’s this. They float around in a ring of shallow moving water. There is a hook a duck stand at every fete and fair. The ducks have stickers with different prizes on them on the bottom so you don’t know what you’ve won until it is pulled out of the water and turned over.
Hard same. My sister once calculated (she hates math but did it so she could make fun of me) that I watched it about 60 times BEFORE I bought a copy of my own.
June 27, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Hard same. My sister once calculated (she hates math but did it so she could make fun of me) that I watched it about 60 times BEFORE I bought a copy of my own.