June 6, 2025
1. We spent a ton of time with the kids this week and mostly it was good. To my surprise. There was a lot less fighting than I had expected. I very much needed this break from professional responsibilities and to have time with them that wasn’t our day to day frustrations.
Helping folks: if you wanted to help my friend’s family during this trying time, you’re welcome to send money that I will place in their hands personally. I can’t set up a GFM, I just don’t have the bandwidth for that.
We can use my Lakota links with the note “For Jose”:
Venmao: @RK-Tillman
PayPal: ruthtillman@gmail.com
Cashapp: $ruthkt
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May 30, 2025
1. I cut my hair in under 15 minutes. 🎉 Of course the 3-4 inch chop was undetectable and SmolAc told me that it was my turn to get a haircut after theirs.
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May 23, 2025
Helping folks: Lily Meade could really use some help. Her situation is so hard. I hate that healthcare in this country is so tied to income and employment.
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May 16, 2025
1. This was the first Mother’s Day that didn’t feel fraught and difficult and painful. I had a chat with a bestie who has also lost her mother to start my day, pancakes with the family, a trip to run an errand and then a donut seeking adventure. I rested a while, then cooked for 4 hours – a recipe I’d been planning for a while. It was pretty satisfying. I didn’t get my dog time though, I had vaguely hoped to run into some neighbor dogs.
2. I managed to hill my potatoes! Woo!
Challenges this week: What a week. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt quite so unequal to my job as I have this year in this job. It’s much bigger than any 3 jobs before it, and it’s not like I had small jobs before this. On top of which, it’s been transition after transition after transition for almost two years now. We all know how much I embrace change, especially change I didn’t initiate (none).
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May 9, 2025
1. I really like this Friday Afternoon tea shop. I don’t really drink tea. I wish I could get into it but it’s rare for any tea to make it on my drink again list, I just like them as a business. I bought a barrel (hyperbole) of tea from them to gift a good friend and it’ll last them a year, so I can’t support them by continuing to buy, but I’m glad they brought on a tipping option that we could use now and again to support a small business: Our “State of Tea Union” for April 2025
Helping folks:
Amadi Lovelace needs a mobility van.
My friend Q lives on social security which, as we all know, is especially precarious these days on top of the very small amounts they’re willing to pay for disability income. She’s hoping to go to school to be able to take on work and needs help to fund school.
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May 2, 2025
1. We have plans with two sets of friends already for May, and if we pace ourselves properly, we may have 1-2 more. It’ll be good to see them all, however many of them we manage to schedule.
2. I’ve petted two dogs this week. Almost made it three but that neighbor was in a hurry.
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April 25, 2025
1. Ilona Andrews has a new … Book? Series? I don’t know what it’ll be but while I both wished for a longer snippet on the blog, it’s good that it ended where it did because I couldn’t hold my breath any longer. What a treat.
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