🧪 This is a test.

🤓 God I’m such a geek for geeks. Just off a video call with a very, very brilliant person.

🗓️ Day of meetings today and my work computer is acting up and the snowmageddon of the century is coming and I’m scared.

John Cleese’s classic “silly walk” burns more calories than a normal gait It’s not particularly silly, is it?

🎵 Now Playing: Controversy by Prince from the album Controversy on Music

🎵 Now Playing: 41 Dogs by Kim Taylor from the album Extended Play on Music

🎵 NOW PLAYING: THE CHIPMUNK SONG (CHRISTMAS DON'T BE LATE) BY KIM TAYLOR FROM THE ALBUM KIM TAYLOR EXTRAS AND DEMOS ON MUSIC

🎵 Now Playing: The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late) by Kim Taylor from the album Kim Taylor Extras and Demos on Music

👍🏼 Today’s on-site offsite retreat went really well. I’m pretty drained, although in a good way!

🦈 Yes, and I’m playing improv games with my team at work.

👨‍🏫 JUST SPENT AN HOUR ON TEAMS WITH MY FAVORITE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT GUY, MIKE TAYLOR. HIS NEWSLETTER IS ESSENTIAL IF YOU’RE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY KIND OF TRAINING OR PRESENTING.

👨‍🏫 Just spent an hour on Teams with my favorite learning & development guy, Mike Taylor. His newsletter is essential if you’re responsible for any kind of training or presenting.

💼 Having a mini “retreat” at work today. It’s like an on-site offsite.

🎅🏻 Dear Santa all I want for Christmas is a live performance of RENAISSANCE start-to-finish by Beyoncé featuring a full band, DJ, gospel choir, full orchestra, an operatic soprano, and a step dance troupe in a pear tree

🫣 Hearing the most horrible mashup of If We Make It Through December and Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer in my head for some bizarre reason.

A few photos from our Cincinnati Xmas

Birds aren’t real.

My little brother, who has two young daughters, gave me a present. I was like omg social & emotional skills I totally need this but it turned out the box had something different in it. So I pitched a fit and threw it at him and sulked for 7 minutes. (JK I said thank you.)

🎁 Just opened a ton of presents! My family is always too generous.

🎄 Having a Christmas visit with my side of the family.

The Genius of Water (Fountain Square, Cincinnati, Ohio)

WRITING FROM 2020

From December 2020, this is likely one of the last pieces I wrote on Facebook before leaving it. I don’t think I’ve written a “last day as” post like this since. I might need to do one this year, now that I’ve got a platform to publish it on (thanks, micro.blog!) #The Last Day of Being 41 “So it’s been a long year Every new day brings one more tear ’til there’s nothing left to cry.

🥡 Having a little Chinese food tonight. Well actually a lot. Mmm.

One of the many things I love about my husband is his decorating aesthetic. I don’t care for Christmas but seeing this warms my black little heart every morning.

TX AG = Queer Basher You fight because you think the they’re coming for your pathetic semiautomatic weapon. They aren’t. We fight because we think they’re coming for us. They are. Through legislation and book bans and outright discrimination disguised as religious freedom.

🫠 In a VERY painful, confusing meeting.

🎵 NOW PLAYING: FREEWAY BY AIMEE MANN FROM THE ALBUM @#%&*! SMILERS ON MUSIC

🎵 Now Playing: Freeway by Aimee Mann from the album @#%&*! Smilers on Music