The sassy four year old.

Maggie wastes her life online.

[dora-winifred]

we have family friends who are in a terrible eldercare situation (at least their elderly mother is safe in a nursing home) and they're trying to find out if they can get any money out of the house at all which is filled filled filled with stuff. but who knows if she's been paying the taxes nevermind her income tax. and these friends have cousins who when in a similar situation where they knew the house was underwater on the mortgage just put the keys in the mailbox and never looked back

[dora-winifred]

all sorts of people are getting engaged…congrats to them I guess…

[dora-winifred]

I’m so on the edge with the stress of my stupid apartment and I just came back from the beach and normally Monday is the most beautiful day of the week because it’s the one day that I’m the only one working from home but I get back to the apartment and my roommate is here?!?! Go to work!!! Get out!!!

[dora-winifred]

wedding registries that just ask for money are not only tacky but don't let you build/strengthen/etc your relationships through the gifts. even cheap things off a registry are another brick in your relationship! a friend got married at a time when i was not feeling so wealthy and i bought $50 bucks of glass tupperware off their registry. and then three years later i'm at their house and she says "oh the rest of the fruit is in the fridge, its in the glass container you got us for our wedding". i was thinking about this again because i went to the beach today with my parents and they brought up some beach towels a friend had gotten them as a wedding present. they don't even have the towels anymore! but there we are at the beach and they're saying "ooh those towels from edward were so good, these ones we have now just aren't as nice". 34 years later!

[dora-winifred]

and i say this as someone who generally doesn't enjoy giving or receiving gifts. but for your wedding?! when there's a built-in socially acceptable way of asking specifically for exactly what you want?!

[dora-winifred]

wedding registries that just ask for money are not only tacky but don't let you build/strengthen/etc your relationships through the gifts. even cheap things off a registry are another brick in your relationship! a friend got married at a time when i was not feeling so wealthy and i bought $50 bucks of glass tupperware off their registry. and then three years later i'm at their house and she says "oh the rest of the fruit is in the fridge, its in the glass container you got us for our wedding".

i was thinking about this again because i went to the beach today with my parents and they brought up some beach towels a friend had gotten them as a wedding present. they don't even have the towels anymore! but there we are at the beach and they're saying "ooh those towels from edward were so good, these ones we have now just aren't as nice". 34 years later!

[dora-winifred]

I had bought mini ice cream sandwiches like a full box and then the freezer door was left open overnight and I was like I’m sure they’re fine but they’re not fine. They’ve got like icy bits on them and taste freezer burned. Boooooo!!!

[dora-winifred]

Understanding more that my physical and mental health issues are really really really tied up in each other. Low ferritin, low energy, stomach too tight to eat more, afraid to lose control. These things are all feeding into each other! Like I'm guessing I would for sure be less anxious if I wasn't lowkey hangry every moment of the day! And now I'm getting bombarded by Instagram videos about all the problems low-ferritin can give you and like yeah I can start to believe it!

[dora-winifred]

I hate having my period in the summer between the heating pad and my general body experience I'm soooo sweaty and gross

[fnordseer5]

our idiotic ancestors used to believe stuff that's not true but luckily we've now figured out all the true things to believe in

[dora-winifred]

Me: I’m so stressed out about my roommates not paying full rent and this whole moving situation but it going to be okay because at least I’m going to the beach the full weekend not even coming back until Monday morning and hopefully I’ll rest a lot and swim three times

My uterus: 😈😈 oh how about instead you feel even worse!!!!!!! And be in so much pain you might not be able to go swimming!!!!

[dora-winifred]

the american catholic whites at this point are quite intermarried amongst the different catholic white ethnicities so when i meet someone my age with an irish last name i'm like hey i bet you eat lasagna at christmas

[dora-winifred]

i was reading this sarah schulman book and she randomly starts talking about how on staten island the irish made it up and out but the italians have kind of stalled. and it used to be that her students on staten island were irish/italian and now they're italian/puerto rican. not sure why that made the final edits of the book but i was like huh interesting

[dora-winifred]

do you guys think we will have an italian-american US president any time soon? the irish have had two. the italians have had nancy pelosi as the highest politician. can we go higher??

[dora-winifred]

i'm irish- and -italian american and my ancestors are from the same county in ireland as joe biden's ancestors. so i've been Represented. but what next

[dora-winifred]

do you guys think we will have an italian-american US president any time soon? the irish have had two. the italians have had nancy pelosi as the highest politician. can we go higher??

[dora-winifred]

periodically harming myself but looking at apartment listings for portland oregon

[dora-winifred]

blah blah blah. another weird day at work. terrible! great. tomorrow i have therapy after work. not sure whether having therapy in the middle of the work day or at 5 pm. is better. both kind of suck but for different reasons. then on friday i'm rushing to the train right after work to go to the beach for the weekend. hopefully i will be able to swim 2 times but there's a riptide warning. i need to eat more so i have energy to do fun things this weekend but i feel like shit.

[dora-winifred]

Yesterday my roommate’s girlfriend asked me what days I go to the office and I was like uhhhh why do you ask “just wondering”. This does not bode well for me. Normally she’s not at our house on Tuesday evenings but she was yesterday and she was there when I got home at 5. And she was at my house Friday Saturday and Sunday for many hours each day. She’s a teacher off for the summer? The way noise travels in the apartment is so terrible so regardless of where they are in the apartment I can hear their entire conversations and whatever they’re watching on TV. The one good thing I’ll say about this individual is that she does a good job of cleaning the kitchen after cooking which my roommate is not good at. But otherwise mind your own business and get out of my house!!!!!