10 Things

And no hope of a theme

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1. I am adoring this season of The Traitors because it continues to be campy, delicious fun and Alan Cumming is a national treasure. But I sincerely want to know what the contestants were told was the dress code for the Black Banquet because what in the haunted American Girl Doll was Lisa Rinna wearing but Tara Lipinski was in a snoozy basic LBD, Kristen Kish looked hot and elegant, and Candiace was rocking Medusa hearwear?

2. I wrote a poem this week because sometimes you just love your oldest friend so much that you have to make it weird by writing a poem about it.

3. I bought more puzzles even though I’m not good at puzzles. I have decided that puzzling is going to help my brain, though mostly it just affords my daughter an opportunity to make fun of me for being so damn slow at completing puzzles. I fell into a bit of a rabbit hole the other day and discovered that apparently Minnesota is something of a hotbed for competitive speed puzzling? The way I would SUCK SO BADLY at this activity…

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4. This week was the one year anniversary of the death of my friend Jenny. I miss her all the time, in big ways and small. One of the small ways: a woman that she loathed has been writing truly awful poetry lately and putting it on Instagram and I know Jenny would have had the perfect snarky thing to say about it. I’m not sure if there is a heaven or not, but if there is, I hope the angels are giving Jenny all the good gossip.

5. I don’t want to sound judgmental (lies. is liar who told you that.) but I just feel like the Grim Reaper isn’t really doing his best work lately. I just feel like if Grim just did a little crowdsourcing, it wouldn’t be that hard to come up with some better options, you know?

6. On a VERY related note, Catherine O’Hara was magnificent, always.

7. I currently have three kidney stones. I am… displeased about this, as one might expect. I’m doing mostly okay except for when one of the little rascals goes on the move again. At least one of the stones is too large to pass on it’s own, so I’ll probably be having surgery at some point this spring. This isn’t my first rodeo with kidney stones, but I hadn’t had one in like 10 years, so it was a good run, I guess.

8. Things in Minnesota continue to be hard. I had two friends who had a direct encounter with ICE this week and though they were unharmed (neither were out protesting or trying to encounter ice; both are white US citizens) they were both briefly terrified and left shaken as a result. ICE needs to GTFO of Minnesota.

9. Appreciated this explainer about why Minnesota is the way it is, when it comes to how we are responding to ICE.

10. I generally love the Olympics- I am fully a sucker for an inspirational montage, an underdog victory, speed skater thighs, all of it. But honestly it feels a little hard/gross to be all USA! USA! USA! at the moment, right? Thankfully, there are a whole bunch of Minnesotans competing this year and I feel very HELL YEAH about cheering for them, so feel free to join me in cheering on these talented folks. Hoping for another moment like this for Jesse Diggins (this is one of my all time favorite “sports announcers losing their minds” videos)