Amanda

I do not care, I will never stop using exclamation points in my emails. You will read my words! And you will embrace my current level of enthusiasm! (Which will range from one exclamation point! to three! and may include a smiley face! depending on how much coffee I've had!)

Sore throat? Would you like to try and choke down some pills that are approximately the size of your pinky finger? Or perhaps you'd enjoy gulping a viscous chemical - I mean cherry - flavored syrup instead

It took me many years to realize you don't have to have a good mom to *be* a good mom, but I'm so glad I finally did because I almost missed out on holding the hand of a beautiful, joyful little boy who yells "dog dog, bark bark!" on our favorite hiking trail on weekend mornings

I made myself a stack of spooky season books I'm really excited about, but now it's suddenly hot out again and I'm finding it difficult to read about kooks and spooks whilst baking in the sun and enjoying the dulcet (read: relentless) sounds of my neighbors' lawn mowers

Tis the season 👻

I closed the door on an 11-year career in the legal field today. Now I shall get in the bath with a tiramisu cup and blast Frank Sinatra's My Way for 40 minutes. A little soul saging, if you will

I know they're invasive and we're encouraged to kill them, but the way people are out and about gleefully stomping on lantern flies makes me uncomfortable. I just watched a woman at the park cheer while her child swung a stick at one like it was a piñata

The day is done, time to unabashedly eat my body weight in pumpkin spice ginger snap cookies while watching a cheesy horror movie

I put in my notice at work (three weeks at the time, but one week left now,) and since the very second I hit send, my right eye has started twitching every time someone tries to speak to me

Me: WOW, the snow's so pretty! Maybe winter isn't so bad! Also me: it's 6° outside, what the shit is this, this should be illegal

All the hair I lost when I was freshly postpartum is now growing back, which is great, but I'm in the weird tiny curling bangs phase so it looks like I have Maleficent horns on both sides of my head

I will never understand people who make disliking everything their entire personality

French toast coffee, a ham egg and cheese on an everything bagel, and People We Meet on Vacation 😌

It's interesting being with someone who doesn't use social media because I'll scroll for a touch too long and think the world's on fire and humans are garbage, while he's coming home to tell me a client sent him away with cupcakes and a bunch of maple tree saplings for the yard