Sarah Hollowell

YEAH YOU'RE WELCOME. And I'm keeping them on until the new tornado watch expires!!!

I would definitely do one large tote if our cats were all Carlos-sized, because he's just 10 pounds. I think they'd be too confused to escape.

But the other two are 18 and 28 pounds,,,

Last year I tentatively brought up to some friends that I was wondering if I had OCD and they were like "🤨 yeah, I thought you knew"

Just normal brain things, like feeling deep in my heart of hearts that I can prevent a tornado from hitting us if I wear daytime pants to bed

Wait actually this is brilliant

And way more likely to fit through the basement hole than my other idea (zip tying two laundry baskets together into a mega cat basket)

another concern is that if we drop Rudy in the basement hole, we'll probably never see him again

Why do I live where tornadoes happen

But it's also like a weirdly tall crawlspace basement so I don't really want to drop them from that high. But they're too dumb to understand I NEED THEM TO BE IN THE CARRIERS.

I stay awake thinking about this.

I worry so much about what do with our cats in a tornado. They're so dumb. Two of them hate their carriers. We don't have a proper basement with stairs. I'm going to have to just throw them in the basement hole.

I wish tornadoes were either less cool or less terrifying because I want to learn everything about them all the time but that does give a lot of fuel to my anxiety

we've had a warm spell so of course now I'm doing things like staring at some kind of sprouting bulb and saying "What ARE you? I didn't plant anything there"

truly one of the worst parts of being mentally ill is how much time I spend apologizing for being mentally ill

And that could mean they're just annoyed at some minor inconvenience, OR that they're on death's door, so you gotta spend a bunch of money at the vet to check

Why can't cats have more obvious signs of illness? Why is it always shit like "idk he didn't eat his treats as enthusiastically as usual and the vibes are off"

Ian is becoming increasingly bitter about Amber Benson not being in the opening credits and I just say "yeah I agree it sucks" but can't tell him HOW MUCH IT ACTUALLY IS GONNA SUCK

Okay

A great week for people with longstanding but irrational dislike for Timothee Chalamet (me, I'm people)

Tara's outfit during Under Your Spell......also very formative for 11-year-old me

Me: But see I think that proves they're confusing the Joplin EF5 with the Jarrell F5, because those injuries did happen, but to cattle, in Jarrell, Texas, in 1997!
Ian: Right, sure
Me: Or 1999? No. 1999 was the Moore F5. I'm mixing up my tornadoes.
Ian: 🤨
Me: ...I'm normal.

There's some connection here between how formative that moment was for me in 2001 and why I now keep tripping into romancing Astarion no matter who I actually PLANNED to be with

I also predict his reaction to Buffy and Spike is going to be "😐" and that's fine I mean we can't all be 11-year-old girls watching it for the first time, screaming and feeling like your heart is going to explode right out of your chest

He will at least get graded on a curve because he isn't really a musical guy. The only musical I know him to have willingly listened to on his own is Hamilton.

Tonight we're finally getting to Once More With Feeling on Ian's very first Buffy watch and, like, does he even know that his reaction to this episode could determine the entire course of our marriage

I'm playing with honor so I don't have the meme pre-prepared. I want to experience the high of making it only once it's true. I don't know if my friends will act with such honor. BUT I'm more glued to my phone so maybe that gives me a leg up

The unspoken but daily background tension of wondering if you'll be able to move with the lightspeed required to be the first to send the Destiel meme to the group chat when It finally happens

I earned the respect of the children by knowing the SCP Foundation

why can't The Rehearsal be a real service

This is eugenics against disabled people, by the way and guess who else hated the disabled this much?

Also I don't know what to wear

I have an author visit at a high school tomorrow and I am 100% sure that those kids will instantly know I have nooooOOOo idea what I'm doing, ever