“I H*CKED UP BUT IT’S OKAY So IDK if you guys want to hear about like...”

You look alot like my favorite cousin. Had to do a Double check to make sure she wasn't also my favorite Tumblr author ��

You know, I get this a lot, and I think I just have one of those faces? 

My actual first name is Bethany if that helps anybody who’s working through the decision tree of trying to figure out if they know me IRL or not. 

@bandersnatchcrumplesnort

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“I H*CKED UP BUT IT’S OKAY So IDK if you guys want to hear about like...”

My heart picked up in sympathetic panic for you, glad you got all that managed!

@justfollowthings replied to your post

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Glad everything turns out okay

@crystal-crochet-chronicles replied to your post

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I'm glad you got your keys back!

@mysticalhermitofdoom replied to your post

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Thanks so much guys, it’s fine in retrospect but man there was a good chunk of yesterday that was really stressful and upsetting! 

upon reflection, I’m glad I gave myself a couple of minutes to just... feel my feelings. It let me get through gibbering panic into ‘okay, let’s start thinking logically’ and put the panic away. Which means I didn’t make panic-based decisions, like ‘I’ll just use a brick to bust out a window!’ which was literally my first thought.

so here’s some lessons I’ve learned

upon research, emergency car locksmith services are not as expensive as I thought they were, and not nearly as expensive as my likely next step would have been, which was ‘smash a window out’. That would have been way more costly as well as having to deal with the mess. 

calling a car locksmith would not have been the end of the world, just frustrating and leaving me temporarily scrambling for funds

I’m telling you this so you know, too

glad I had my work number memorized, I need to also memorize like my roommate’s cell number and my other friend’s cell phone, as they are the two people most likely to answer a call from a strange phone number

don’t put off getting a copy of your car key made. seriously.

(if you have the kind with the chip that are expensive to copy, in many older models you just need the chip to start the engine, and can use a plain copy with no chip to unlock the doors. I don’t know about the newer models, but it’s worth investigating)

my neighbor’s really nice and I hope he enjoyed a lovely evening with his family. (his little boys are super cute and love to come talk to my dogs when I’m walking them.)

Take care & hope you feel better soon!

Bless and thank you, hon.

@cell113 replied to your post “cell113 replied to your post “was gonna respond to more replies but...”

Oooooh that's unfortunate, I'm sorry. On both fronts, dairy overdose and not being able to get relief. My mom did something with salt water and lemon juice that helped, but I don't know if it really helped or just dehydrated. If nothing else, water?????

I’m actually being pretty good about staying hydrated. I quit soda recently and now I mostly drink tea and water. Tea has a lot less caffeine so it’s been An Adjustment but I’m doing well on that front. I suspect the salt water and lemon thing helps rebalance your electrolytes, and gatorade can also do that. (I like to get the powdered gatorade and go light on the mix, though sometimes I get the cucumber lime gatorade just cause I love cucumber lime)

@jester-knyght replied to your post “The strongest warlock in all the land uses his power to constantly...”

Hahahahahahahahahahah

I just need you to know that comments like this keep me going

@kireon replied to your post “The strongest warlock in all the land uses his power to constantly...”

Thank you for this! I loved everything from hungover princess to coconspiring knight to help her.

LOL RIGHT??? like, I loved writing an exasperated princess with frequent hangovers, and my favorite part of the story is the subtext is that like Hently has been patiently waiting for Morty to just, like, call him and be like ‘listen can we meet without the whole princess thing? For dinner? As a date?’ 

@onkydonkeysandraptorchicks replied to your post “You drop a small piece of food on the floor, and decide to kick it...”

Go sweet monster!!! Love it

Monster friends!!!

@wanderingsoulessandfree replied to your post “You drop a small piece of food on the floor, and decide to kick it...”

This was stunning to read thank you

<3 <3 <3

also my favorite comment on the monster under the fridge story, possibly of all time, was someone who just wrote “Nom!” but for the life of me I can’t find that comment now. whoever it was, I want you to know I fucking love you 

@anikamaubeer replied to your post “Can I ask what your thoughts on brie larson are?”

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anikamaubeer replied to your post “Can I ask what your thoughts on brie larson are?”

She is :) I can only refomend Captain Marvel, and also Room. And she's also really amazing as a person.

Yeah I’m really interested in Captain Marvel. I think I’m going to skip Room, I heard good things but I read a plot summary and I think I would find it more upsetting than anything else. I’ve heard good things about the recent netflix one, Unicorn something? Unicorn Paint Store? (I just looked it up, it’s Unicorn Store lol)

@vulpinerefuge replied to your post “More delivery adventures”

Man, I came around a curve one time and the same exact thing happened- goose in the middle of the road, not in any hurry... I guess it's just a thing geese do!

Geese do not fear humans, or vehicles. Geese have seen the faces of the gods and find you lacking. Never seen a batch of DGAF like you get off geese.

@braindeadmaggot replied to your post “@braindeadmaggot replied to your post “You drop a small piece of...”

^agree. Very much agree. As much as I love King, his books just don't really do it for me. I still get confused how my dad's military friends (grown men who have seen the horrors of combat) can't get through 10 pages of a King book. And there I was at the age was 12 reading a *basic* story. Not to say they're not good, just not scary. But you little monster, love him. How you wrote this was very thrilling and the ending was a great surprise. Brilliant!

Partially I think it’s a generational thing. I’m an elder millennial, King is absolutely a Boomer. And I think where I differ on what I like versus what he clearly likes is that we find different things scary for different reasons. (As a side note, The Eye of the Dragon was actually really good, I believe he wrote it for his daughter Naomi who does not like scary stuff but does like Dragons and shit.) I have some friends who find his books super scary and stuff, but they’re alllll Gen X. 

I find him personally delightful, I follow him on fb and twitter because he mostly talks shit about 45, promotes books he likes, and posts pictures of Molly aka the Thing of Evil, his wonderful corgi. I genuinely love reading his introductions and anytime when he’s talking about writing. Even though I, to some extent disagree with a lot of his advice in On Writing, I also absolutely love to read it. 

I find him very personable and one of my secret (not anymore I guess) dreams is sending him a book I wrote and telling him how much he’s inspired me as a writer because, to be clear, he absolutely has. 

@followthebluebell replied to your post “hi bluebell! sorry if this is bothersome, or if it's not something...”

Thank u for taking about your dogs! I loved reading about them.