vcmcguire.bsky.social
Disabled writer and librarian. Garden enthusiast. Mother of a trans teen. Perpetually homesick Californian living in Philadelphia.
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The joints thing makes me wonder about Lyme.
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Update: My 22yo German niece is going to make Käsespätzle for me tomorrow!!
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A lot of the reason we like each other I suspect!
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Ooh my German family is unexpectedly coming for the weekend. Maybe I’ll see if my sister in law is willing to make spaetzle.
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I would’ve tried it!
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Like…with gelatin?
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Ew, Tim
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I don’t see it! You’ve got vcmcguire at gmail?
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I’m prohibited from posting pictures of my girl. Your kid looks like a wonderful goofball.
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That sounds really hard.
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I’m with you but I’m not very patient and so I often cook them too fast and they end up much darker. Fortunately I like them that that way also.
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This is so silly. Like there weren’t homebodies before.
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I do a lot of this for my 19yo daughter. She has had opportunity to learn how to use email effectively (both parents are writers and academic-adjacent) but she hates writing of any kind and has resisted. Now that she’s off at school if an email is important enough she’ll call and ask for my help.
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I would be like this except I like owing a house so it would probably be more like every 5 years. Fortunately my spouse figured it out quickly and dug in his heels. When we bought this house he only agreed on the condition we didn’t move again til we had an unavoidable reason. Now been here 14yrs.
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This used to be my rule too but in my neighborhood easily 20% of the kids don’t have costumes. I’m talking 8yos, not teenagers. Now I just give it to everyone. Last year I gave some to a grandma who was walking around with her grandkids. Idgaf.
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Is the no furnace thing a temporary situation?
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Doesn’t it mean talking or chatting?
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Unmasked tech, leaning over me to take my vitals:
“Your heart rate is really high. Are you feeling anxious?”
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Oh good. My copy finally arrived and it seemed like everybody else already had theirs! I’m just a few chapters in but I love Miss Maple 🐑
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Oh, she’s fun. Very absorbing light reading.
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With the pointy bottom? Yes I think so
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Still waiting for my copy!
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Nope nope nope
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I GOT IT ON GUESS 4. But I had to eschew hard mode for guess 2.
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That’s a beautiful coop!
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Same. It does not diminish me as a cis woman in any way to acknowledge that not only women give birth.
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For me it’s usually tied to my heart. Heart racing=anxiety, fear, anger, embarrassment, shyness. Joy is more elusive and I have to make sure to pause and acknowledge, and really FEEL.
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Well, I doubt you’re unusual! In my reply to you I listed several ways I experience emotions and probably other people experience different things in different ways too. Some people might recognize happy emotions easily but need physical cues for anger or sadness.
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Very occasionally. Usually the emotion and the physical sensation are simultaneous and I know what the emotion is right away. Sometimes emotions come without physical sensation but in that case they’re not strong emotions.
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I’m in!
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I am all about the flame color. I have a much-chipped mug in that color.
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Great so Matthew is a Xoomer and I’m an Xennial. I guess that’s better than Boomer and Gen X?
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I don’t know anyone personally right now (used to know the person who special ordered books) but I wrote to them just now anyway. I said you were leading an initiative to bring Black-owned bookstores to BS and I gave them one of my codes bec I have extra. We’ll see!
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I didn’t know Loma Linda was 7th Day Adventist! I grew up vegetarian and have a weakness for Loma Linda’s canned vegetarian hot dogs, called, appetizingly, Big Franks. There used to be a weird little health food store near my house that sold every LL fake meat product but it closed during Covid.
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But—I’ll try reaching out to them anyway.
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I’d love to get Uncle Bobbie’s on here—Black-owned bookstore and event space in my Philly neighborhood. But I think they’re heavily invested in Instagram.
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Mine leaves drawers and cabinets open, chairs not pushed in, backpack in the middle of the main walkway through the house. He’s not adhd, afaik. My theory is he has better spatial awareness than I do. I will trip on anything, but he won’t. (Also his parents are the same)