I love this post. I met my husband on Match.com, and my profile literally said “ I’m moody and clingy, and I want to get married right away “. I wrote everything in my profile as simple and straightforward as possible. It weeded out all but him, who apparently was like “Oh Baby Yeah!”
Right now my bio just says: "Standing over my sink eating fresh garden tomatoes like a Goblin Queen" I just can't take the prompts seriously. Except I am deadly serious about how I eat my tomatoes.
1) I love this piece so much (many of your newsletters lately have felt like they were speaking directly to the wobbly bits in my brain—thank you for putting them into the world. They make such a difference <3)
2) SHE'S 23??!?!?!?!? I think part of me just died.
3) You're inspiring me to do a similar post because online dating is absolute hell (& maybe Substack is an untapped dating pool?? LOL)
4) You're amazing & gorgeous & talented & funny & if enough people haven't told you that, it's an absolute crime!! xoxo
While I am not someone who dates, we seem to have a few things in common! We have the same unusual skills, although I will add that in addition to being unaffected by caffeine (maybe even rendered more tired), I am unaffected by stimulants as well.
I thought that I lost one of my keys a few weeks ago and went through a whole ordeal to find a locksmith on a national holiday (Labor Day), having locked my phone inside, only to discover that my key for the lower lock also works for the upper lock (I guess I forgot). The locksmith arrived right when I discovered this I am also very skilled at thinking that I have lost my phone -- just in the past few days, I found it on top of the refrigerator one time, and another time, I found it in my hand (seriously; I was holding two items in my hand, and the other one was covering it, so I didn't realize it was there).
I'm not sure if I am afraid of my cats not loving me, but more so, if I don't greet them every time I pass by them (which is all the time), that they will be sad. I also worry that I do not sing enough weird songs to them anymore, as compared to when they were kittens.
Another commonality is that just an hour ago, I was in the shower, and I wondered to myself, will I ever actually clean this? I put it on my calendar tasks and keep pushing it forward by a week.
As to challah, I coincidentally had it just yesterday for the first time in probably 20 years or so. It was sliced rather than torn off, but that was my mom's doing.
And now, you have inspired me to have cereal in bed. While I would say that you have inspired me to apply SPF like I'm supposed to, I will continue to forget every day.
I love this post. I met my husband on Match.com, and my profile literally said “ I’m moody and clingy, and I want to get married right away “. I wrote everything in my profile as simple and straightforward as possible. It weeded out all but him, who apparently was like “Oh Baby Yeah!”
hahahah this is inspiring. love it.
Ok I stole it for bumble!!!
Right now my bio just says: "Standing over my sink eating fresh garden tomatoes like a Goblin Queen" I just can't take the prompts seriously. Except I am deadly serious about how I eat my tomatoes.
Gorgeous
1) I love this piece so much (many of your newsletters lately have felt like they were speaking directly to the wobbly bits in my brain—thank you for putting them into the world. They make such a difference <3)
2) SHE'S 23??!?!?!?!? I think part of me just died.
3) You're inspiring me to do a similar post because online dating is absolute hell (& maybe Substack is an untapped dating pool?? LOL)
4) You're amazing & gorgeous & talented & funny & if enough people haven't told you that, it's an absolute crime!! xoxo
wait also let's investigate this substack x dating idea.....
awww thank you!!! so glad they've been resonating we need to be commiserating and laughing about all of this together
I do a lot of genealogy and people literally used to mainly marry whoever lived next to them on the census record page. For decades.
So keep online dating but also look next door!
I can date from my stoop then ;)
Ah! That’s interesting!!
While I am not someone who dates, we seem to have a few things in common! We have the same unusual skills, although I will add that in addition to being unaffected by caffeine (maybe even rendered more tired), I am unaffected by stimulants as well.
I thought that I lost one of my keys a few weeks ago and went through a whole ordeal to find a locksmith on a national holiday (Labor Day), having locked my phone inside, only to discover that my key for the lower lock also works for the upper lock (I guess I forgot). The locksmith arrived right when I discovered this I am also very skilled at thinking that I have lost my phone -- just in the past few days, I found it on top of the refrigerator one time, and another time, I found it in my hand (seriously; I was holding two items in my hand, and the other one was covering it, so I didn't realize it was there).
I'm not sure if I am afraid of my cats not loving me, but more so, if I don't greet them every time I pass by them (which is all the time), that they will be sad. I also worry that I do not sing enough weird songs to them anymore, as compared to when they were kittens.
Another commonality is that just an hour ago, I was in the shower, and I wondered to myself, will I ever actually clean this? I put it on my calendar tasks and keep pushing it forward by a week.
As to challah, I coincidentally had it just yesterday for the first time in probably 20 years or so. It was sliced rather than torn off, but that was my mom's doing.
And now, you have inspired me to have cereal in bed. While I would say that you have inspired me to apply SPF like I'm supposed to, I will continue to forget every day.
Hahaha I have also “lost” my phone while it’s in my hand!!