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[tsg2k19]

Oh hey guys, here’s my semi-annual life update:

MPFM and I bought our house in June of last year, got married in August, got pregnant in October, and I’m currently 6 months along with our son. I’ll be a first time mom this summer at 43! MPFM is an even better man and partner than I realized; he has been truly my rock during all the humbling changes of pregnancy. Professionally, I’m doing my best to weather the ongoing attack on science and dwindling funding.

I know I’m terrible about checking in here but I’d love to hear life updates from my mutuals!

[tsg2k19]

The end of a very long chapter and the start of the next.

The movers are here, emptying my apartment and loading the truck that will deposit my life, and Mr. Perfect For Me’s at our new house. Our wedding is next week. It’s funny to say after all the years I mourned my seemingly never-ending singleness that I will miss this stage of my life. Even though it spanned 2 decades into adulthood and I thought it would never end. Suddenly it IS ending, and I feel nostalgic and grateful for all the life I lived solely focused on myself and seeking whatever adventures my heart desired with no regards for a partner and their needs. I’m so happy, but why do I also feel like crying?

[tsg2k19]

Still dressing like a character in Practical Magic 27 years later.

[tsg2k19]

Those of you who’ve followed me for the past 15 or 20 years (geez) that I’ve been active on first Jezebel and then Tumblr know that I’ve not traditionally been lucky in love. I was a late bloomer, didn’t have my first kiss or first boyfriend until 29. Spent the next decade being disappointed by men in Chicago and then New York and then Baltimore. I saw an interview this weekend with Tracee Ellis Ross where she talked about grieving the idea of the life you wanted that didn’t come to pass, and I related so much. I genuinely thought I would never find my person or have the opportunity to be a wife or mother. Until, suddenly, a few weeks before my 40th birthday, a Tinder swipe changed my life. And at 42, I’m about to have all the things I had already accepted weren’t in the cards.

Mr. Perfect For Me and I are getting married this summer. We picked out my ring on Saturday and sometime soon he’ll officially propose to me with it. Today, we made the guest list for an intimate dinner after we get hitched at the local courthouse. We’ve been attending open houses and scouring Zillow for the last month. And tomorrow we’re submitting paperwork to get approved for a home loan. And God willing, next year, we’re going to try to have a baby. It’s surreal and frankly overwhelming - like I’m cramming a decade of milestones into a single summer. But I’m so so happy.

[tsg2k19]

I have a cold. And my period. And I have to report to work tomorrow morning at the peak of a bad snowstorm. But at least I have a partner who brought me medicine, tissues, and flowers this morning. Pray for me and the tread on my tires y’all.

[tsg2k19]

Of course 2025 is starting with a mass casualty event.

[tsg2k19]

Theme of the week is ✨Dystopian Nightmare ✨

[silvermoon424]

Were you taught how to type on a computer keyboard in school? Include your age/age range in the tags

Yes

No

Voting ended onNov 24, 2023

This is a subject that really interests me because I (28 years old) had computer classes in grade school where learning how to efficiently type was a big focus. As a result I have a very high WPM (words per minute) count and am an excellent touch typer.

However, I've heard that they started phasing out computer classes in a lot of schools because it's assumed that kids/teenagers already know how to use a computer in this day and age. But smartphones are more popular than computers now, and as result a lot of Gen Z/Gen Alpha kids are able to text very quickly but their typing skills aren't as good.

[alfa-lima-limon]

Yep had typing class, also known as “computer class” from 3rd-5th grade. This would have been 1992-94 or so. We had the keyboard covered and everything! I loved it. It was on Mac LC II computers. We also learned how to use a mouse and how file systems worked.

Also OP is 28-does that not make them gen z or am I confused? I could have taught them in school, lol.

[linared]

I’m almost 42 and we had classes all through school from 4th grade and until high school and I’m a fast typer. However, my husband, who is 2 years younger did not and he hunts and pecks.

[blueandbluer]

46 years old and we did have computer classes, but they weren’t about typing. They taught us how to use logo writer and program in basic, or how to make stuff using print shop. 

[aliasmisskatisback]

Days away from 42, and I had a single semester of keyboarding in high school. We had josten computers pretty early, like 2nd or 3rd grade, but no emphasis on typing.

However, dad was a programmer & programming professor, and mom taught intro to computing. I was allowed to "play" all the Mavis Beacon I wanted, and can type like the wind on an actual keyboard. I'm slow as shit on a touchscreen.

[tsg2k19]

40. I had a high school typing class on a literal typewriter. /old.

[averagefez]

Current Status

[sweaterkittensahoy]

OH GOD UNMUTE IT'S BEAUTIFUL AND SO FUCKING FUNNY.

[neroon]

I am so angry about this. I hope a 10000 lb anvil falls on the people who kept this movie from being released.

[tsg2k19]

I’m so bummed by this. My dad LOVED Roadrunner and Wile E Coyote and we always watched when I was a kid. I would have loved to see this.

[tsg2k19]

I spent 12 hours today decluttering and cleaning my apartment. I feel so accomplished. My new vacuum picked up so much dust and lint and hair, I was horrified. And then I had also bought a carpet shampooer and I went over every room like 3 times because the water it pulled up was gray 🤢. And that took awhile because I had to move furniture half a room at a time and wait until the first half dried. But it was so worth it! My carpets literally look new. I also got rid of shoes from like 2010 and boxes I hadn’t unpacked since I moved here 5 years ago. And I had bought some new furniture for storage that had to be put together. I rotated my couch cushions. And my mattress. I wiped the baseboards with a microfiber cloth. Who am I?!My place has never looked this good. The only thing remaining is to take lots of cardboard boxes out to the recycling dumpster and then mop my floors. I even did 2 hours of work amidst all that. And now I’m celebrating with a beer.

I need to buy a shoe organizer, and I’m trying to think of some more creative storage solutions because this apartment has only 2 closets, and I need to make some entry closet space for the vacuums.

[tsg2k19]

I think I’m getting old. I got really excited about my new vacuum cleaner and how much crap it sucked out of my carpet.

[tsg2k19]

Oh hi, I’m a 40 year old professional and I’m wearing a lavender cardigan with a sparkly dragonfly on it that I’ve had for 20 years and have paired it with matching sparkly lavender eyeshadow. 💁🏽‍♀️

[tsg2k19]

The more serious we get, the less I want to dish details on my relationship with MPFM. But suffice it to say I’m so in love. And I’m pretty sure I’m gonna marry this man. He’s made it very clear that’s where his head is as well. And it’s so surreal. I sat on my couch sobbing yesterday thinking about how I had fully grieved the possibility of meeting my person and building a life with them. It had become nearly impossible for me to even picture it. And suddenly, there he was. What a blessing.

[tsg2k19]

Get you a man who will get a mani/pedi with you.

[tsg2k19]

What love language is it when a man buys you a fire extinguisher? 🧯 🔥

[sashayed]

                                                               i’m just like so happy for you,                                                                 because you’re like                                                                [censored]-five years old and like                                                                somehow this has worked out. i’m just like, so happy     for myself and like so worried for you?           because like obviously you’re like [censored]-eight years old                           huh.      and like you’ve obviously like         spent your time partying and stuff like that and                                                        thank you.      it’s started to take its toll           on your face               and your body                                               well i love to have fun. and like the boyfriends     that you have had                                          sure. were like really bad for you                    uh-huh. and like come over and [censored] on your stomach and like–                   but i love to have fun.                                     yeah                   no,                        no, totally                               totally.               absolutely                                              uh-huh. but like whatever works for you like works for you and that’s amazing.                      

                                                                                                 thank you.

[tsg2k19]

This is probably a silly thing to mope about, but I was so excited to finally have a plus one for summer weddings I have coming up because I have literally never had a date to bring to a wedding. And it was just one of those standard life things that always made me feel weird and inadequate that I would get invites to “TSG & guest” and never have a guest to bring. Well, both weddings I’m invited to in June (one of which will require an expensive cross country flight/stay) are addressed only to me on the invite, with no mention of a plus one. Which means no plus one. And I’m not annoyed with my friends or anything; they’re paying for everything. It’s just a bummer that like everyone has accepted that I don’t have a plus one, and now that I do have one, I can’t bring him. And ALL of the mutual friends I will be seeing at each event will presumably be there with their partners, so I’m going to be the 5th or 9th or 13th wheel as per usual.