One Bite at a Time

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

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Earlier today Maisie was gnawing and smacking on some small object in her mouth and I made her drop it and it was a fucking brown recluse spider.

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Our five year wedding anniversary is coming up and the themes are wood and silverware. I was like wtf am I gonna do with those, but I just had a genius idea. I'm going to get Erik a gift card for a woodworking class in town! He used to be really into woodworking before he got too busy with his job, so this would be a little bit of positive pressure to get him back doing something he loves! I may also get him a tie clip made out of vintage silverware.

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Made Erik some linen shorts but they came out a smidge too tight. I figured out how to sew a panel on either side to give them more ease, and he rejected my plan to use the same fabric in favor of this woven Fableism fabric I had leftover from a collared shirt I made him last year. I don’t know that I like it as much as I would have if we’d followed my plan, but he LOVES them, and that’s all that matters.

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"you only like her because shes a woman" yup "you let female characters get away with too much" yes "if a man did this you would hate him for it" indeed

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This is absolutely better than whatever insidious internalized misogyny takes hold of women to make them hate female characters who are merely annoying or emotionally damaged. Yesterday I saw someone on Al Gore’s internet claim that they hate Jenny Schecter more than any other character in film or television. Literally what is wrong with you

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My kid can’t lie for shit.

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We recently assigned vehicle alter egos for all three of the dogs. Gerald is a vintage Jeep without doors, Maisie is a Honda civic with a ridiculous spoiler on the back and a loud muffler, Penny is a 2010 Honda Pilot.

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I worked for quite a while on this dress and I don’t really like it 😭

It was a simple pattern that I complicated by teaching myself how to pipe- and then making my own piping for some reason. And adding pockets. AND then I added this ruffle on the bottom inexplicably and I’m not really a fan, I don’t think. It’s fine, I can cut it off easily but I’m going to leave it for a few days and see if it grows on me.

This is a pretty expensive linen and now I’m feeling like this was the wrong project for it ☹️ Oh well, I’ll wear it around the house at least. And I learned a new skill, so not a total loss.

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I figured out what I don’t like about this dress: it’s too much. It’s just too much! I wear a lot of neutrals and simple patterns, so the linen itself was already out of my comfort zone. But to add puffed sleeves and piping and then RUFFLES? Girl, what?

Anyway, when I have time I’m gonna not only chop the ruffles but significantly shorten the length. I won’t make it a mini dress exactly but probably just above the knee, and it can be for sitting around the house or going out on very hot days. That way the whole vibe will be less overwhelming.

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Quished together

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I'm far from the first person to say this, but the plastic surgery epidemic in Hollywood is truly baffling to a casual viewer in middle America.

Erik and I just watched Margo's Got Money Troubles on Apple TV. It wasn't very good and I don't recommend it. It was not very well written but it might have been saved by good acting. Unfortunately, despite knockout performances by Nick Offerman and Elle Fanning, Nicole Kidman and Michelle Pfeiffer are almost unwatchable. Their faces are like terrifying masks sewn in place. At times you can see the person underneath trying to wrench the face into an expression of emotional turmoil, but there's nothing. The foreheads don't move. The eyes dart around beneath frozen eyebrows. The skin of the lips is stretched so tight it's shiny and grotesque, the mouths barely moving over bright white veneers. They look angry all the time. It really goes beyond distracting and becomes unsettling the more you watch.

I'm not trying to body-shame. If I saw either of those women out on the street I'd think they were pretty enough. Maybe trying too hard to hold on to something that would otherwise yield to nature, but I wouldn't be like, repulsed. It's when those faces try so hard to screw up into emotion that I get the ick. Erik kept turning to me and saying, "I almost can't watch this. It's really upsetting." It really was. Michelle Pfeiffer's character in particular has some very emotionally intense scenes, and it was like tears just leaking out of a Halloween mask. Creepy and wrong.

Why are ACTORS doing this?? I know they face a lot of pressure but man, it seems like Kate Winslet and Emma Thompson are doing just fine. I just wish more women would draw a line in the sand and say, "I'm not maiming myself for anything. This is my face and I'm keeping it."

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I worked for quite a while on this dress and I don’t really like it 😭

It was a simple pattern that I complicated by teaching myself how to pipe- and then making my own piping for some reason. And adding pockets. AND then I added this ruffle on the bottom inexplicably and I’m not really a fan, I don’t think. It’s fine, I can cut it off easily but I’m going to leave it for a few days and see if it grows on me.

This is a pretty expensive linen and now I’m feeling like this was the wrong project for it ☹️ Oh well, I’ll wear it around the house at least. And I learned a new skill, so not a total loss.

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It's that time again

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I eat scrambled eggs on toast with a nectarine and a bowl of cherries for breakfast most days in the summer and it’s transcendent.

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Bertolt Brecht, trans. Tom Kuhn and David Constantine

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Absolutely not.

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Father’s Day buttermilk biscuits 🥰

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On our drive to Louisiana we saw dozens of billboards for this injury lawyer named Morris Bart. He had a weird smile and we slowly grew obsessed with him.

Y’all look at the Father’s Day card Henry made for Erik:

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Saw someone say they make a Cobb salad for lunch every day in the summer and it sounded like a plan to me.

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I need this sticker real real bad