1. New Squirrel in the ‘Hood!

This cutie has been visiting occasionally; he has a really cool mix of white, gray, and brown fur. I’ve never seen one like him before! He is a huge bully to the other squirrels though and while we’re on the subject, my crazy witch neighbor was just outside screaming like a lunatic because a squirrel was in her yard and then she proceeded to talk shit on me with the neighbor on the other side of her, who she also talks shit on because “all he does is smoke weed” and she can smell it in their house but she always sucks his ass so hard because he also happens to be the landlord’s son.  I literally have never met a woman so hateful, and it’s actually amazing that she hasn’t had a viral Karen moment yet.

She makes me feel like I’m some kind of reclusive crouched in a dark corner of my house like a freak wearing a cloak of chittering rodents, when there is a literal market out there for squirrel feed, squirrel hammocks, squirrel picnic tables, a guy in California with millions of followers on Insta (INCLUDING CELEBRITIES) who takes care of his neighborhood squirrels. Meanwhile, SHE THROWS BREAD AND VEGETABLES OUT IN THE BACKYARD WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS FEEDING.

She has me so fucking pissed right now that I am shaking and my fingertips feel cold from the stress. I don’t know how HNC stays married to her. Also, can we talk about how she sits on her sidewalk and cuts her crusty-ass toenails?

THE MOST HILARIOUS PART TO ME IS THAT SHE FLIES A FUCKING FLAG IN HER YARD THAT SAYS BE KIND – LOLOLOLOLOL.

2. Boulevard Rainbow

It was raining all morning last Saturday. When it finally slowed to a drizzle, I walked to the library and saw the best kind of rainbow on my way back. :) A nice little reminder that it’s not all doom, gloom and flagrant hate in this world. Even when it seems that way.

Relatedly, I gotta hand it to the old ‘hood for upping their diversity game over the last few years. They have several Black and Latino-owned businesses that have joined good old Las Palmas, the long-standing Pita Land and Tong Garden, plus a new ramen place and Yemeni cafe opening over the last 2 mths. I guess this is why my squirrel-hating neighbor was recently screaming about how SHE NEVER GOES TO THE BOULEVARD ANYMORE, IT’S REALLY GONE DOWNHILL.

Yeah, downhill for racists.

3. PERSERVERENCE

I laughed so hard when I came across this old ass blog post from 2007! That was right around the time I started this blog, after moving away from LiveJournal, so literally for the whole lifespan of this stupid space, I had been dreaming of going to Romania. LOL @ 2007 Erin who seriously thought that maybe “by next summer” my dream would come true. More like “by the next 18 summers…”

I am still a little high on the memories of this trip. It felt like a fever dream (and OK I did have a fever at one point, probably) and I just can’t get over it. It’s also funny to me that the picture I used in that 2007 post is from Sighisoara and I promise you that I had no idea of this at the time, I 100% just googled Romania and grabbed any random picture, I’m sure. But looking at it last week I was like, “WAIT, I posted a picture of Sighisoara??” In case you didn’t read the 2973102937 posts I made about that trip (and who would, really), Sighisoara was my favorite place we visited!

4. BITCH BABY KISSES

Henry and I watched Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen on Netflix and while I really enjoyed it overall, at some point my weird aural fixations crept in, causing me to become acutely aware of how FUCKING ANNOYING THE MAIN COUPLE – Rachel and Nicky – WAS IN NEARLY EVERY SCENE THEY WERE IN TOGETHER. Rachel was so dominant and the way she coddled him drove me up a wall; even the way she kissed him was so bizarrely maternal?! LIKE HE WAS A BABY?? At one point, there was a scene where she kissed him once and then left, causing me to scream, “WAIT, SHE FORGOT TO KISS THE BRIDGE OF HIS NOSE AND THE TIP OF HIS NOSE AND HIS EYE LID AND HIS BROW BONE AND HIS FOREHEAD AND HIS EARLOBE AND BEHIND HIS EAR AND HIS TEMPLE AND THE CROWN OF HIS HEAD.”

Legit drove me up a wall and eventually I started muting it.

It also didn’t end the way I predicted and that made me mad but overall, I thought it was good. Except now I can never watch Adam DiMarco in another show because he was almost the same wishy-washy spineless character in White Lotus too (although it worked a lot better in that show).

The poster design for this is A+ and the music was also chef’s kiss.

5. I DON’T HAVE A FIFTH THING

Genuinely, this week has trashed my mind. But I have some concerts and other fun things coming up (starting tonight!) so hopefully that will put me in a better headspace, which I just realized that I actually was already in until Cuntmaster 5000 next door started running her white trash inbred trap today. Oh well.