Short track speed skating stresses me out. So much falling and I always wonder if people are going to get sliced up by someone else's skates when they accidentally take them out

Ah the particular joy of being a romance reader and discovering a new author you like and then realizing she has written like 40+ books … yesssssss… (Also the mild embarrassment of “discovering” an author who is like one of the top/most popular in the genre. Better late than never though!)

We know it isn’t fake and we know that Trump is a vile racist. This administration is filled with the worst people alive. Everyone wearing MAGA gear is happily telling the world they are racists too.

The fact that I don’t know how to curl makes me feel like I’m not living up to my full potential as a Minnesotan

I’m in the thick of Minnesota winter, where 20 degrees feels pretty manageable. I’m traveling for work this week to CA, where the temperatures are in the mid-60s and my brain is short circuiting. Like, wait, what do I wear in 65 degrees again? Am I going to be the weirdo wandering around in shorts?

Catherine O’Hara was one of those actors that was always a delight to see on the screen because she was literally good in everything. You knew you’d be entertained because watching her face was always a perfect performance.

One of my personal goals is to not mock public figures for the way their bodies (especially things they can’t control like height) but WOW my spirit is being tested by some people right now. Focus on the evil, self, not the height…

These people are so breathtakingly stupid

Love this section

INCYMI: Post up yesterday about what life in Minnesota feels like right now and the special exhaustion of trying to fight for our community and still figure out dinner for the kids: wendyrobinson.substack.com/p/a-life-div...

Just a gentle ask... there are more and more people coming into Minnesota to join the resistance against ICE and that's great. But if you are donating money, please donate to established groups in Minnesota. They are doing the work, know the landscape, and you won't accidentally fund any grifters

I keep 2 candy dishes on my office desk - one fruity candy and one for chocolate candy My chocolate bowl currently has a mixture of Heath, Rolo, KitKat, and Milk Duds. I’m learning a lot about the dental situations of my coworkers thanks to the presence of Milk Duds 😂

My first two thoughts, as a Minnesota mom, seeing this forecast: 1. Ha, suck it ICE 2. This might actually be cold enough that I don’t have to fight with my middle schooler to get her to wear a coat to school

“Do not engage in a winter campaign in bitterly cold areas. You will lose not just your army, but most likely your throne.” - literally every military historian ever “GET IN THE CAR, LOSERS, WE’RE GONNA INVADE MINNESOTA IN LATE JANUARY” - the Trump administration

I’m not good at puzzles but I am trying to do more activities that defrag my brain a little and aren’t attached to the 24/7 doom machines. This is 1500 pieces and I fear I am out of my depth.

Yes and this shouldn't be a controversial opinion

I need to update my resume for the first time in like five years and, wow, I've done a lot in the couple of years. I'm proud of myself and my career, but, ugh, resume updating is so tedious.

My latest post from my unofficial series called “is heterosexual marriage a scam?” wendyrobinson.substack.com/p/love-atten... (If you aren’t already a subscriber, I’d love if you became one!)

Moments like this are a really great time for people to remember that ChatGPT (and other AI forms as well) is a very, very bad place to turn to for news updates

Hello, I'm childbirth.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

There is no room for bigotry on our turf.

I am DONE with all of my gift buying and 75% of my wrapping. I have lots of memories of my mom being stressed & mean on Christmas Eve b/c she was barely done shopping and hadn't done wrapping. One of the gifts I give myself & my kids is wrapping one gift a day for most of Dec and shopping early

I plan to handle the eventual death of, well, you know, with the exact amount of grace, compassion, and dignity that he has historically shown to others.

I know mistakes happen, but getting sent the wrong item from an online store and then having to go to the post office to return it (in December!) is really annoying. I don’t want to keep a pair of men’s size 14 running shoes but I also don’t want to have to, like, do something to return the. Sigh.

I love a Christmas stocking (both having one and filling one) and I feel like this is the ideal mixture: - candy (duh) - some sort of small toiletry for a purse (hand sanitizer, dental floss picks or good lip balm) - something that exists for the sole purpose of being cute - scratcher tickets

Just unthawing a (wrapped, obvs) Uncrustable in my (clothed, obvs) armpit, like the grown ass adult I am.

Waiting impatiently for the rain to turn into snow...

I have book club tonight and then NO! OTHER! PLANS! for the weekend and, lo, I am pleased. Living the middle aged lady dream over here.

Chonk the chicken says get back to work (Chonk is kind of bossy)

It’s just the four of us for Thanksgiving this year but feeling good about the menu and the amount of cooking I have to do (fairly minimal) And, yes, that says Snickers salad.

Self-care sometimes means ordering more notebooks that I might not technically need and enjoying how pretty the boxes are when it arrives 😍

Being middle aged means sending an excited text to your bestie after your annual physical to brag about how good your A1C is. Having middle aged best friends means that the “omg, amazing!” text you get in response is entirely sincere 😂

ICYMI: new post alert wendyrobinson.substack.com/p/the-people...

I’m on a flight that got moved on to a bigger plane than originally scheduled and the flight is only 50% full and everyone is so happy. It’s a fairly long flight too and my last flight after many weeks of work travel, so this is a nice way to wrap up work travel for the year

I know there is so much discussion of how to help food banks/pantries right now (and that is good, we need to take care of people) but as someone who used to supervise a food pantry, let me just make another small plea: setting up a recurring monthly cash donation is SO HELPFUL to those places

I’ve never smoked weed (or had an edible or anything else) but I’m in favor of pot legalization. That being said, going places where it smells constantly like weed tests my conviction a bit. This post brought to you by the smell in my hotel hallway

I really need to escape this hotel tomorrow and see the ocean

I’ve been in LA for over 24 hours and haven’t seen a single celebrity. I’m starting to think that maybe an education conference at the airport hotel isn’t quite the celeb hotspot I was led to believe it might be.

I woke up for the day at 4am central time. I took an accidental two hour nape from 11am to 1pm pacific time I worked out at 8pm pacific time and I have no idea when I’m be able to fall asleep tonight because I am currently WIDE AWAKE and still haven’t had dinner. My internal clock is a mess

Global climate change is bad for so, so many reasons (duh), but I'm not sure we complain enough about the fact that it means I'm still having seasonal allergies in freaking OCTOBER.

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

Airports may truly be the most “well, it’s five o’clock somewhere” of places

If your Cybertruck is your therapist, I hope you are single and alone forever

ICYMI: Meet the Mayor of Smug Town wendyrobinson.substack.com/p/meet-the-m...

I hate working out in the morning but i woke up earlier than I needed to (time zone challenges) and went to the hotel gym at 6am. Gonna be vaguely smug about this for the rest of the day.

Spending time with a dear friend who lives far away and it is so, so good for my soul. I also just realized that we’ve passed the tipping point and can now say that we’ve known each other for more than half our lives There is real good stuff in friendships that span all of the phases of adult life

High school sports can really break a parent’s heart (and players too, of course)

I’ve never straightened my kids’ hair and I don’t plan to… but i’m guessing his hair would be halfway down his back if I did. (His hair is so gorgeously curly and I love it so much)

I've signed myself up for a 5K in November and a 10K in May. I've done one 10K in my whole life and that was 20 years ago so I'm beyond rusty but I do like having a goal to shoot for. Here's hoping my middle aged knees and cranky feet don't fail me this winter.