Do you guys know my friend Amber who blogs over at Airing My Laundry? If you don’t know her, you should go stop by and say hi. She likes to read, has a daughter basically the same age as mine (they’re both 3rd graders, but I think my child is like 3 months older than hers), and has an appreciation for the hotness of one John Krasinski.
See for yourself:
All fine criteria by my standards.
She also hosts a linkup on Tuesday that I’m joining in this week. It’s called “hey, it’s okay” and it’s basically a brain dump of all the things you should feel guilty or remorseful about but don’t because who has time for those kinds of feelings? Not me. Not right now, anyway, because I haven’t left my house in 4 days and the only feeling I have is insanity. And an even bigger hatred of pants.
And that’s all okay.
You know what else is okay?
Forcing my husband to binge watch Mr. Robot, including on Sunday night, knowing he had to get up for work the next morning at a reasonable time. Side note, Mr. Robot is really, REALLY good.
Feeling frustrated with the fact that my daughter has yet another day off of school because of the asshole snow and needing her to get out of my house so I can actually get shit done. Also because I want to watch TV during the day (Master of None isn’t going to watch itself) and I can’t because she watches the one TV that has Netflix.
Sitting on my ass doing essentially nothing while my husband shoveled aforementioned asshole snow. And walked the dogs.
Ringing my neighbor’s doorbell to let them know my cat hangs out in their backyard and, when invited in despite never having met them before, totally scoping out their house and feeling just a smidge better about my housekeeping skills. Which are complete shit, by the way. Which is also okay.
Cheating at Monopoly. Yes, I did it. But in my defense, the husband was playing like a huge dick and I have zero tolerance for that.
Drinking excessive amounts of tea and coffee because it’s fucking cold and I have a Keurig now and it’s just as fun as I imagined.
Watching Straight Outta Compton and realizing that yes, the Oscars completely shit the bed on their nominations this year both in terms of the lack of diversity and not recognizing people who deserve it in favor of people who seem to get nominations based on their names alone. #lookingatyouKateWinslet
Kicking ass at my friend Brynn’s frugality challenge. Even if I don’t win, I have definitely done a much better job of watching my wallet this month. And after the spending orgy known as December, I definitely needed it.
Cursing in basically every paragraph in this post.
P.S. I’m also linking up with the amazing Kathy and Nadine for their Humpday Confessions but that’s tomorrow.
I always feel a little bit better about my housekeeping skills too when my I see somebody else’s house that’s messier than mine because we’re huge clutter bugs and hardly ever pick up unless somebody’s coming over. I have zero tolerances for people being jerks while playing Monopoly or Risk. My husband thinks it’s funny to see if he can make me lose and it makes me so mad!
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I love John K!! He is not only sweet, but adorable and funny and OMG have you seen the images of his latest movie coming out? You can add hot to the list. Gotta go hop in a cold shower now…lol!
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I have loved him for so many years. Since The Office started, I believe. But this…enhancement is very nice to look at.
My favorite things is to go to someone else’s house and see that it’s messy too. We should probably all just stop cleaning up so we can all feel better about ourselves.
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Ha! I like that idea!
i loved straight outta compton! aside from the nostalgia factor, i do think the movie should have been nominated for best movie. the acting was so-so but the story was amazing.
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I think the fact that the story was so great made the acting seem less so-so, if that makes sense. And for an almost 3 hour movie, it really didn’t feel like it at all!
Mr. Robot is next on my list. I just finished Chelsea Does and loved it! Straight Outta Compton was sooo good! I need to get frugal. ASAP.
It is so unexpectedly wonderful. I vaguely remember hearing about it and the Christian Slater won all the awards and I figured why not. Such a good call on my part.
“Master of None isn’t going to watch itself” Hahahahhahahahahaha But so true! SO TRUE!!!!
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I have like 3 episodes left. And I just want to get to them already.
Snowdays get boring after a while…because you know you have real life stuff to get to!
Totally agree. Like food shopping. I desperately need to go and it’s just so much easier without my daughter.
I love that you cheated on a board game. Remind me to never play board games with you — or at least never play like a huge dick.
And I agree: pants suck. Well, not PJ pants. Those are what I live in until I have to go out. Then I come home, take off the jeans and slip into PJ pants. Ahhhhhhhhh.
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I love all the cursing. 🙂 IRL, I swear a lot but online I don’t. I have been trying to substitute saying Martha Stewart in place of some swear words, especially when I’m around civilized people, like my Grandma who thinks darn is a bit harsh. I always feel better when I catch a glimpse of a neighbor’s apartments and they are messy like mine. It reassures me that aliens have not taken over the world!
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Master of None certainly will not watch itself. Luckily I’m willing to watch it as much as it needs watching. Swearing all up and down this post is totally okay too.
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i always felt that all those award nominations were a little weird, definitely people that were getting nominated for name alone. KC and I started Mr Robot but only got a few episodes in, we need to get back into it.
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I love to swear too. I mentioned this on Facebook once and had some people be all, “Swearing just to swear doesn’t make sense to me..”
I’ve cheated at Monopoly too. I haven’t played in ages. I should.
And JOHN KRASINSKI! I need to watch 13 Hours.
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I wonder if I’d like Mr. Robot. I need a new show to watch and lately am having terrible luck finding things. Tried Bloodline: didn’t like. Tried Madame Secretary: didn’t like. Tried Leftovers: HATED. I feel like I should just give up and start, like Mad Men over again. At least I know I loved that.
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The sheer novelty of the Keurig is exactly why I started drinking coffee in the first place.
It’s amazing how aspects of others’ houses can make you feel better/worse about your own.
Haha great post! I can’t ever compare my housekeeping skills because I have filthy roommates who ruin any progress before I get back home. I completely agree they shit the bed with the nominations. I think there were a few movies that 100% had oscar nom worthy people of color that were not nominated.
Totally off topic but… I just noticed Dog Ate My Wallet on your random, rotating list of blogs you read. Since I don’t actually write that one anymore, you might want to remove it.
And don’t ever feel bad about your housekeeping skills. I can send you a picture of my house if you need. I promise, it will make you feel better.
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Soooo… I NEED to watch Straight Outta Compton that seems like an acceptable date night movie. Well, at least for my husband and I who swear we’re still g’s. 🙂
Also, I go to bed with John Krasinski every night. True story. My husband and I have been re-watching The Office at night in bed on his iPad. 😀
Annnnd kudos to you for cursing in basically every paragraph of this post!
I totally read that GIPHY with an Adele accent.
XOXO
Are you going to post about the frugality challenge?
The only thing I missed about being in the country for the snow was sitting on my ass drinking a lot of tea and coffee and reading while doing no snow removal whatsoever. Otherwise, NO.
Mr. Robot is on my list.
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I hadn’t planned on it but I can definitely do a summary when it’s all over.