Pearl died. RIP Pearl. She died while I was on a work trip so I didn’t have to deal with the body, so that was nice of her. My sister said, “She probably died of sadness that you left.” LOL. No.

I’m reading Wuthering Heights and these heights are not wuthering fast enough. I don’t know what that means! I just know that Catherine is awful. Heathcliff is awful. Everyone is awful! I think I was under the impression that the Brontes were Austen-esque. AND THEY ARE NOT. Which is fine. It is just not what I was expecting when I tucked into the Heights and realized, oh damn, these people are terrible and also it’s very dreary. In Austen, there are terrible people and there are not-as-terrible people and it is not always dreary. Only sometimes! To move the plot! I like to be tricked into liking someone only to find out they’re awful later! Bronte is just like, “Yeah, all of these people are bad, buckle up.”

I figured out substack sort of, so now I get most of my ‘stacks in my Feedly reader and some I just get on the app and some I get in my email too. Well, I made that sound chaotic. It is. I just am used to it now?

I’m trying to plan a trip to Europe with the kids and I don’t know if you’ve heard, but AIRFARE IS OUTRAGEOUS! We’ve done some domestic travel recently and seriously, how are people managing this? It is VERY MUCH A LOT OF DOLLARS TO SIT IN A FART TUBE! I wonder how much my extra kidney would fetch?

I’ve been trying to play tennis with S weekly but usually it ends up being every 2 or 3 weeks and we went yesterday and my arm is very sore right now. I enjoy playing (we don’t keep score, we just try to have a good number of rallies it’s fun!) but I am very competitive and want to learn how to WIN (like I said we don’t keep score, this is just for MY OWN PERSONAL I AM A WINNER FILES) and honestly I don’t have the time to become a tennis champion right now, but that is the only thing holding me back from glory. (LOL.)

That’s all!