dual personalities

Well, I’m in kind of a funk today. Sometimes it feels like certain things should be easier. You know, like paying a social media platform to advertise. Or buying furniture. But no. And sometimes, on top of all that, you get emails like this.

We can all just assume that Nordstrom’s algorithm is way off and NOT that they’ve heard me making jokes about how sweatpants are all that fit me right now. Right? Sigh.

Did you get my reference? Because at work, I’m always making Mean Girls references and no one gets them. To the point that I get emails like this from out of state program partners during conference calls.

In other news, this happened yesterday.

We are all so lucky to have local news that send push alerts like this.

To update on my mother’s blog post from Monday, I did eventually get my new bed put together. And I got rid of my old bed on Facebook Marketplace in less than an hour. I also got a new rug for my room. It brings me joy–even if the upholstery color isn’t quite what I expected on the bed and so I’m not quite sure the two go together.

It’s all still a work in progress–but aren’t we all.

Once again, on Monday, my mother had a quote from Freddy B on the blog and so last night, I took one of my Buechner books off the shelf and settled in for a little insight into my soul.

“And God knows we have all had our wilderness and our temptations too–not the temptation to work evil probably, because by grace or by luck we don’t have what it takes for more than momentary longings in that direction, but the temptation to settle for the lesser good, which is evil enough and maybe a worse one–to settle for niceness and usefulness and busyness instead of holiness; to settle for plausibility and eloquence instead of for truth.”

Frederick Buechner, The Two Stories

As usual, it didn’t disappoint.