That’s Ms. Guy to You

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble.

Where am I going? Wrong answers only.

Recycling bin and garbage can laying in their sides in the rain in Sebastopol, California

It’s been a long week. My garbage cans know how I feel.

Speaking of proper word usage, my bosses have me doing a lot more technical writing, content creation and UX writing, including microcopy (e.g. error messages). This belongs more on LinkedIn, except that I’m “borrowing” sometimes from other companies’ style guides. This, for example, is great!

Urban Dictionary definition of “grubbin”

Just leaving this here so my SO knows I’m not crazy when I say this. I speak San Francisco Bay Area and I guess they don’t use the word “grubbin” the same way in SoCal.

Anyway, the pesto orzo tofu salad they have at the cafe in my building today is pretty grubbin.

And America didn’t realize her mistake for the first day or so, then went “Oh, shit!!”

Things that seem weird, but are actually kinda good: pourable mozzarella. It’s also dairy-free, so doesn’t hurt my stomach. It’s got a little tang; I put it on my Caesar salad.

This is definitely me some days. I wore Salvador Dali socks to work today, then met my fiancé at Arthur Murray for a couple of hours of dancing. After we got back to his house and took off our shoes it turned out he had on socks with cameras. 📷

Woman’s muscular lower legs

See those calf muscles? Those are dancers legs.

This isn’t to say that the less economically advantaged in LA doesn’t need or can’t use more of a hand than celebrities, but the shadenfraude I’m seeing everywhere is disheartening and takes focus off the work needed now.

I learned a new word today: parasocial. It’s evidently parasocial and “weird” to feel empathy toward strangers, and also only specific people deserve care and concern. This is bananas to me. Misfortune doesn’t discriminate, but we do.

One woman posted on Facebook today that she was “cheering on” the fires every time she saw another multi million dollar house burn. A woman on another social media platform shared that she feels it’s weird to feel badly for someone like Aubrey Plaza, who recently lost her husband.

Sonoma County Regional Parks It is with deep sadness that we share news of the sudden, devastating loss of our colleague, Ranger Katranne "Kat" Pringle. Kat was a dedicated and knowledgeable ranger who brought passion and...

A coworker shared this with me at lunch today, since I used to work for SCRP.

I did not know Kat, but I can only imagine the circumstances leading up to this tragedy.

Her poor family and colleagues’ minds must be reeling right now. She leaves behind a child as well.

This is devastating. 💔

Just realized Dancing With The Stars airs on ABC, which is owned by Disney, so my ballroom obsession perfectly aligns with me marrying my Pixar Prince Charming in 6 months! 💍