To those of you who celebrate Christmas and have children, I hope your kids’ joy offsets your exhaustion today. To everyone else, I hope your Friday goes really well.

I have so many thoughts on Jingle Jangle! This article about how the movie centers Black Girl Magic addresses the aspects of representation in casting, hair, and clothing better than I ever could. Plus Jessica, Journey, & Jeronicus integrate math, physics, and magic. The maximalist costuming is so joyful!

Netflix: 22 minutes left in Jingle Jangle!
Me: 😭🥺💗💞💗🥺😭

Jingle Jangle: has huge climactic sequence with positive resolution
Netflix time bar: shows 36 minutes and 16 seconds left
Me (understanding story structure): 😬🥺😬😳😬

Today has been the kind of day where you lie down on the floor after wrapping the Christmas presents and hope someone will come pick you up.

One song into Jingle Jangle and I’m aching for more R&B musicals - originals, not juke box shows. 🍿

The results of this Spotify-evaluating AI are hilarious. Enya + The Lonely Island are peak Kimberly music. We DO stan Daniel Tiger in this house. And I WAS a self-styled hipster-with-a-baby-bjorn manic-pixie-dream-girl!

My child: “I learned a valuable lesson today.”
W: “What’s that, buddy?”
M: “I learned that the guy I thought was Iceman was Beast, and the guy I thought was Beast was Iceman.”
💛❌🖤

Rachel Reichenbach’s Why your Instagram Engagement Kinda Sucks Right Now explains so much. I mostly use Ig to connect with friends & I’m so glad I don’t have any plans to be an influencer.

Finished reading: Dawn of X, Volume 2 📚