In which his mom freaked out and sent us a ton of stuff! Four gifts each, eight total, more than doubling what we had under our little tree for each other!
Before:
And after:
I got an electric hand mixer! And a bath caddy! And other fun stuff!
And he got clothes and toys!
And I made an enormous Middle Eastern meal — falafel that fell apart, hummus, tabouli, marinated olives and feta, bread, sumac roasted potatoes with a cumin-tahini sauce — because Jesus was Middle Eastern, right?!
(“That’s a lot of tabouli,” he said. “A shitload of tabouli.”)
And we really should drive to the matriarchal home (after all, I actually got dressed today) and see my aunt and uncle, and visit, and drop off our tiny little gifts for them, buuuuuut I kinda want to just blob around here, in our cozy little house, watching terrible Christmas movies?
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OMG yes!!!!! Jesus was Middle Eastern!!!! We should all be eating that for Christmas. And it looks delicious. Yum, yum, yum.
Merry, merry. Thinking about killing all social media and starting up a blog again in order to present the best version of myself (as opposed to the endless stream of shit posting I do on FB to enflame the stupid on my friends list, which turns out to be a much larger percentage than we really want to acknowledge, and while hilarious to the 13 year old that still lives within me, isn’t really in the spirit of ‘the best version of myself’). I like to say that ‘Facebook killed my blog’ but really it was equal parts indolence and WordPress bitrot. Recently, I had myself all talked into a static site generated by yet-to-be-written Python and hosted on some free CMS somewhere, but now I’m entranced by the ease of setting up WP. Are they staying ahead of the hacker cycle? The last couple of attempts to put missionblvd.com back up were rendered headless by hackers within a few weeks. Is there a solution that doesn’t require constant technical asswiping?
Well, I’m running this site on WP on bluehost.com. (If I’m too lazy to update WP to the latest version, it eventually happens automatically.) The spam filter works well. Haven’t been hacked in years, so not sure how bad the recovery process would be these days.
Social media is shit, and I sense a lot of let’s-return-to-blogs sentiment in general. I announced on FB that I was gonna stop using it much and that I’m available here if anybody wants me, but so far not getting much traffic. Still, two unique commentors on this post is def an uptick from a year ago!
And I agree, trolling dipshits on FB is not wholesome fun, nor is finding out how many people ARE dipshits. Like, we didn’t know these things about each other back in the days of blogs, somehow. Of course, we also didn’t have the coordinated foreign and domestic disinformation machines we have now, but still. I preferred not knowing that a significant percentage of the people I know are full-on conspiracy theorists. (Knew some were, of course, but so many?! Really?! Heartbreaking.)
Blogging feels so much more wholesome, somehow, and if anybody comes along and calls me a cunt or whatever, I can just delete it. Though historically, I don’t think I’ve ever deleted comments that weren’t spam? Or my own, after I’d reconsidered them and decided I was being a bitch. There’s something about blogging that discourages the vitriol one feels fine displaying on FB.So, yeah, start blogging again. And seriously why reinvent the wheel? Use an established CMS and do content!