Off-grid, paleo princess

Things that make you uncomfortable.

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That goat is basically what moving to Colorado and trying to make friends with the locals looks like.

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Winter is cold.

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This was in the snowy parking lot of the Boulder Main Library last week. I think it's a portable hipster habitrail. I tapped on the glass to try to engage them but they only hunched further down over their open plan work stations.

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You really haven’t lived until you try to talk to a 70 year old neighbor at a party and keep getting slow monosyllabic answers then realize they are sitting up really straight with their eyes bugging out pretending so hard that they aren’t baked.

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This happens in Boulder, of course.

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I did not know this was a thing. I did know about colon hydrotherapy but apparently paying people wearing gloves to stick stuff into you has expanded.

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Making yams more attractive.

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My recent purchases are changing which catalogs arrive.

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This is a glimpse into our inevitable future created by an emphasis on STEM, Maker Culture, and stoners. I can totally see my neighbors firing this off at each other.

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Making potentially racist cupcake toppers for my kiddo's b-day.

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Look! Divorce in a box!

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Valentine's is not my favorite. But today I bought myself something expensive and shiny to replace this old thing. It may not look like much but it took two engineers and a gantry truck to install it.

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Frankly, our school is frequently approached by bears but the town dogs manage to keep them back better than the shotguns loaded with rock salt.

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Auto-correct decided I said "ducking". I literally cannot express how mad I am.

Me

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Hipster level: Advanced

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Trident added a counter next to the counter. I am so freakin' lost. There are books where the honey is supposed to be.

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So, childcare has been unreliable making planning sort of hard. These excuses were all provided by real people, who had really advertised their nanny services, in pairs because it is more believable that way...