He is really hard on himself, but like… you don’t go from zero to job that fast unless you are both good at your job AND really liked by others.

Anyways yay for Spouse ❤️

wait I lied, I bought a sweater and slippers from Her Universe at like 1am

I do kinda want the Swiffer

*the

Wait maybe there aren’t Lego minifigs. I thought one of TVs huge sets had them 🤔

I was like “surely there must be SOME figures that aren’t Funko or Lego”

and Mattel slid into my DMs like

Okay I have a keychain-sized 11th Doctor but I maintain he does not count because he is too smol to freak me out like regular Funko Pops.

This is no shade AT ALL on anyone who loves them; I just really, really do not. I have a reason but that’s for some other thread

Could be worse. We used to have a side-by-side

lol you are assuming he thinks about this

(In his defense, he has a lot to deal with. Which is why I asked for this multiple times across months and via voice, text, and email)

Me, to lieutenant PTB: I swear to god if he shows up with a regular fridge I’m done

<last week>
Me: Fridge, french door
PTB: 👍
<today, a week pre-con>
PTB: hey how about this fridge
Me:
Me:
Me: I ASKED FOR ONE THING. ONE. THING. YOU HAD ONE JOB.

(I need the French doors because there is only one place it can go, and that place doesn’t have room for a regular door)

I did that a couple times way back in the day!

I love this for us

Thanks to @knitgrrl.bsky.social for always serving me the piping hot tea 😘

Anyways my reply to this is simple. Here’s a google news search for “knitting granny hobby” from ten years ago

www.google.com/gasearch?q=k...

Looks like she abandoned bsky so I figure it’s safe to @ her.

Actual factual bastion of modern knitting @claraparkes.bsky.social says it well:

I need you to meet my spouse because EXACTLY 😂

He got a good amount of severance, so quick new job = two salaries for a few weeks