My toddler keeps saying “At me! At me!”

🔖🎮 Read Hitting the Restart Button: Mass Effect Andromeda (The Learned Fangirl) by Kristin.

#Repost @bymariandrew (@get_repost) … Caption from me, Kimberly: I have polycystic ovary syndrome and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. On high pain days, I take the elevator. I have to give myself a little talk about how that’s okay. I also give myself little talks about how it’s okay to work on my PhD slowly and to be a slow mom. I’m constantly reassuring myself that my illness is real and it’s okay to make accommodations for myself because of it.

New glasses.

ME: OMG this book is great, why haven’t more people cited it? checks publication date sees “2017” OHHHH….

(Seriously, though: Sarah R. Davies is the first academic author I’ve noticed connecting the new domesticity to the Maker Movement.)

Test

I asked my friend to run a play-by-Slack, X-Files flavored game of Monster of the Week, and THIS happened...

(Yes, I DID just Venn-diagram werewolves, Lupercalia, the Michigan Dogman, and Beauty and the Beast)

TFW you’re sitting in the waiting room at the optometrist reading about podcasting but wish you were at home editing your podcast.

Auction haul: Buffy crew jacket, Sunnydale High Library playset.

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Theatre geek tourism: Sam French. #bronze20

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Geek tourism: Meltdown Comics. #bronze20

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My first rosé! #bronze20

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Sunrise over the City of Angels. #bronze20

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Roadside sculpture near Hollywood & Highland. #bronze20

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View from my brunch seat in El Segundo. #bronze20

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A better picture of my little @everyday__magic crystal haul.

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Bought these crystals at @everyday__magic but forgot to ask what they are. But they're pretty and @bakaraw said she's obsessed with my toddler (who picked out the lavender one on the far right).

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What I got W for Valentine's Day. Really leaning into our Giles/Jenny Calendar dynamic.

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Be your own toddler.

It begins... #thingsofbronze #buffy #btvs #podcast

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Starting #lettermo with a bang. I'll reveal the contents of this package once I'm sure it's reached its destination. Not everyone will be getting something this fancy. Sorry!

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It feels like providence that this ran across my Instagram feed the morning after I decided to lean into the sea witchiness I've unconsciously been cultivating my whole life.

#Repost @entertheearth (@get_repost) ・・・ Thank you to everyone who has stopped by our tent at the Tucson gem show! We’re still unpacking even more new material. We have a limited number of these expertly prepared fossil crabs. They are Macrophthalmus sp. from the former province of Majunga, Madagascar and date from the Pliocene Epoch (5-2.5 million years ago). (Because we can not ship at trade shows, they are currently only available in person. However we hope to carry some online and in our retail store soon.) The wholesale division of Enter the Earth is at the Kino Sports Complex gem show in Tucson, formerly known as Electric Park. We’re tent #23. The show is open from January 26th, 2018 until February 11th, 2018. While the Kino show is open to both wholesale and retail customers, a physical copy of your tax identification is required for wholesale pricing, preferably a state resale license. We hope to see you there! #entertheearth #tucsongemshow #tucsongemshow2018 #kinosportscomplex #kinogemshow #gemshow #rockshop #crystalshop #rocks #minerals #fossils #fossilcrab #crab

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Today's #lettermo release: the first of my Buffy stationery goes out into the world with an Evil Queen stamp! I'll show you *which* Buffy note card it is in a couple of days. Don't worry: if you're a Buffy person and you're on my #lettermo list, I will do my best to ensure you get a Buffy note card.

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Sleepy mama mermaid #seawitchvibes.

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Now that I know it's been received and opened, here are the contents of that mysterious package from #lettermo Day 1! Three Amiibos (part of an SNES Classic bundle we received, but passed on to a home that will appreciate them), an art print by @thelatestkate, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and a birthday card designed by @emilymcdowell_. Picture two shows them in the box (grocery plastic bags actually make a decent packing material), and picture three is a repost of the sealed package. Again, most folks will be getting letters and postcards... But this was really fun to put together.

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