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Back when I was living in Columbus, Ohio my friends and I started a quote wall. Whenever a bit of brilliance (or otherwise) poured out of someone’s mouth, somebody would yell “Quote!” thus nominating it for Quote Board status. The quote then had to be seconded by someone (it almost always was), and then it would be written down to be forever immortalized on the Quote Board.
This is the modern-day equivalent of that classic piece of my past.
QUOTE BOARD:
“I love a daytime ghost!”
– Jen, 1/26/21
They’re much less scary then,
…especially when it comes to communicating with Grey’s teacher!
Flattening the learning curve,
Back when I was living in Columbus, Ohio my friends and I started a quote wall. Whenever a bit of brilliance (or otherwise) poured out of someone’s mouth, somebody would yell “Quote!” thus nominating it for Quote Board status. The quote then had to be seconded by someone (it almost always was), and then it would be written down to be forever immortalized on the Quote Board.
This is the modern-day equivalent of that classic piece of my past.
QUOTE BOARD:
“I find nothing appealing about Chris Pine. Like, I look at him and see a neanderthal.”
– KB, 1/4/21
She’s in Pine-ial,
You know, in January!
Honestly, that’s par for the course for 2020. This one is the worst monster of all.
Here’s 2019’s monster ornaments.
…back when everyone was getting used to the crippling horror of what it meant to have a former reality TV star and proud pussy-grabber sitting in the Oval Office, John Oliver aired an episode of Last Week Tonight where he asked viewers to remind themselves every single day that this is not normal.
The night that aired, I wrote this message on a dry-erase board in our kitchen.
I’ve looked at that message and the clown next to it every single day for the past four years. Sure, it’s been erased and immediately rewritten probably two dozen times since it first appeared (our grocery list is beneath it so it gets a lot of traffic), but it has been a constant in our lives for the past 1,500 days.
And then, today.
If you know me at all you know I’m not a huge fan of many politicians on either side of the aisle. People often assume I’m a diehard Democrat, but the truth is I consider myself to be far more left-leaning than the Democratic party is typically willing to go. Still, my vote almost always goes to Democrats because they’re closer to the mark I’m trying to hit.
All of that is to say, while I’m incredibly optimistic about what lies ahead in the next four years, I refuse to have blind loyalty to any one person or party. Meaning I will be just as critical of Biden as I was of Obama before him, and of Dubya before Obama, and of Clinton before Dubya.
Before the previous administration, presidents were held to a higher standard because they were the president. We’ve all witnessed what happens to a country when accountability goes out the window, and that’s why it’s paramount for every one of us to keep paying attention to what’s going on around us. We can never allow ourselves to go back to the America of literally yesterday.
Of course, we’re all entitled to a day off.
We did it, everyone! We survived! Well, most of us did, at least.
I love all of you!
Unless you’re Donnie. Or anyone who worked for him. Or any of his supporters. Or anyone who voted for him.
To all of those people, this one’s for you.
Normal,
The Blarg 