The 12 yr old decided that he didn't want to go to the mall this afternoon, he wanted to "chill out, please", so I put the lights on my sister's Christmas tree (ugh) and sent her to take a shower and a nap while I fed and water the kids, the best holiday gift anyone can give her lol

Oh no the 12 yr old is definitely being annoying on purpose😂

Hahaha ok my sister's kids are 5 and 12 so that's slightly different lol

Literally having this conversation tonight with my sister about her kids lol

Jfc 🔪🔪🔪

This is amazing.

(At least once a night for the past month, Jackson Wang shows up and hands me raw chicken. Like, it's always in the middle of a dream, it's always kind of random, I'm always super befuddled. A few nights ago, he gave me a fruit basket decorated with pieces of raw chicken. It's so weird.)

I have enjoyed playing Stardew Valley and in the same vein, Cozy Grove; you are a "spirit scout" who is accidentally marooned on an island where there are a bunch of ghosts and you have to go on quests and help them resolve their issues. There's lots of collections, food and shells and fish etc.

12 yr old: [person] set [group] back so much

Me: so I think that when a person uses the behavior of one member of a group to justify their hatred/disrespect of group, they're just looking for something to "prove" what they already thought.

12 yr old: WHAT. Why have I never thought of that before?

He had a lot of extremely 12 yr old version shit post thoughts tonight and we've still got a few hours to go 🤩🤩 the best kid.

Also 12 yr old: what would you do if you had infinite money??

Me: describes feeding people and housing and green energy

12 yr old: no, I meant like... What would you do?

Me: ???

12 yr old: I would get scientists to explore the multiverse. Then I'd destroy all the other universes.

12 yr old: ok, I want both. And a cake pop. And a candy bar. And Doritos.

Me: all that?

12 yr old: excuse me, did you not just say I can do whatever I want forever??

😂

(Hoist by my own inability to resist a Tumblr meme)

We are both bouncing our left leg to the rhythm of the clicking of the overhead fan. lmao.

lol the exact same thing happened in my family.

It is!!!

And I feel like it's partially my fault because I spent so many years buying digital music :(

I always give fun office supplies, like funny post it notes shape like animal butts, or cute notebooks. This year I'm giving several of the the muji notebooks that lie flat (in different sizes) and a muji fountain pen.

I was complaining about this last year I think, when I wanted the new g-dragon and every single record store I've ever been to in NYC is closed??????

That has definitely happened to me too 😂 but I'm empty right now, so I think there's something else going on. I'll just check in with them to see, maybe they emailed me and it went to spam or something, could be anything.