We're Not Heroes

On the road from NaNoWriMo to publication, my journey to get this misfit group from my head to the page and ultimately, to you. You can follow me on Twitter @PensnPencils Send all education or teacher related questions to the teaching blog whatshouldnewteacherscallme.tumblr.com

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So Drift Partner did a thing.

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We did the thing!

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ONE WEEK

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Friday Night Homebody Club

Checking in.

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At my parents house, ate a delicious fish fry, already showered and watching the baseball game waiting for college football to start!

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ordered in, watching the office with pete while murphy sits between us, apple candle glowing and we’re do artsy stuff on our ipads.

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Drinking a gin and tonic, playing Mario Party, chilling with the cats

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Halo 3 and wine with Drift Partner

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This is the face of a birb that likes to serenade tile walls

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Why does he like to sing like this

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Grooming intensifies

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Why

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A thrilling saga.

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Life Hack: Hangovers

B Vitamin Complex. Trust me on this one. Take it before you go to bed/when you stop drinking. You will pee neon yellow. Do not be alarmed. I've been using this for the past three years and since adopting it, no hangovers or at least absolute minimal impact hangover. You're welcome.

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the upside to today is I told mom that I don’t think I’ll ever want children and she literally goes

“Whatever, K. That’s your choice, you do you. Just go find a boyfriend or a long-lived parrot so you’re not alone forever”

I am blessed

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My mom has finally started referring to my cat as her grand-cat after years of ignoring my comments on never wanting children and how cats were the best she would get.

She also told me I need a boyfriend, but progress is progress! Yay for you!

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Yeah my parents are big on the Find-A-SO Hype train because they’re convinced I’m gonna end up alone in a nursing home.

Not having kids? Not a big deal to them. They got a GrandKitten (lol my parents and your mom are similar!)

But me being Forever Alone™? BIG FUCKING DEAL.

So big a deal, in fact, that my own mother felt the need, as I was mid-bite into a taco, to tell me she didn’t give a shit if I was gay if that’s what I was worried about because “They’ll love me no matter what.”. If you’ve ever wanted to choke on a shitty Taco Bell Chalupa in a Prius with your mother earnestly waiting to hear your nonexistent Gay Confession™ I can tell you it is equal parts painful and hysterical. 

“Nah fam, I’m just awkward af but thanks for reaffirming that you’re not a butthole I really appreciate it and am flattered.”

“Are you in love with [best gal pal]?”

“Ma I’m eating a bloody taco right now I am in love with sour cream ok? Chill I just get super awkward around dudes. Cuz I’m not pretty.”

Which, by the way, never say to your mother because then you get subjected to a confidence building pep-talk that is equal parts flattering and equal parts mortifyingly embarrassing.

A+ Parents, they would fight my grandparents for me

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I have never been so emotionally engaged in a short story that centers around a taco, being trapped in a car, and moms who think they are doing the Right Thing™ and Being Supportive™. My mom asked me while I was trapped in the car at the tender age of 14 and my response was just to laugh. She hasn’t asked since, but I can sense it in the air.

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I’m glad I could contribute!

And yes, she’s never asked me again but it does linger in the air. Like an omnipresent force…or leftover Taco Bell. ;)

Hooray for awkward questions while being trapped in Suburban Mom Cars™!

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Before I started dating drift partner I was single for a long time (it was a year but that’s forever when parents are concerned)

My dad decided to inform me that if I was going to date girls that was ok too.

I just wanted to eat my bagel but ok thanks dad

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Whoops posting to main blog

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Them: oh you’re not having your wedding in a church? *Clearly judging* Me:

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It's official, Cirrus is a boy! Got his DNA test back today.

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Welcome to Sunday, where the borb is scream and pleased about this

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Why

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He plays peek-a-boo