Becca Barnes

What the f*ck is going on

I finished S1 of The Chair Company and I’m so confused but like in the best way??

Screenshot of news article that says “negotiate with your landlord” - Housing Minster’s message to renters

Renter: I would like to negotiate
Landlord: no.
**fin**

“Hi our son came to daycare in grey triceratops socks and came home in someone else’s grey brontosaurus socks” - actual message I need to send

For a second I thought this was a Birds Eye view of some hip new lattes I could try

Kids can have screen-time but only if it's this

Some of you didn't play MindMaze on Microsoft Encarta and it shows

Finally gave my toddler some Power Rangers figurines - but he doesn't have screen time, and I don't want him kicking/punching, so instead I taught him that the Power Rangers are friends who like to hug 😂

So I taught my toddler to say HIIII-YAAAA, and I just learned that there are now 3 little boys at daycare saying that all day, including when they are all lying down to go to sleep 🤭

I’m in a fun cycle: my toddler keeps putting my lower back out and then I do some work to get stronger, and then he goes and gets heavier again and it just repeats and repeats for eternity

You’ll arrive in 6 months and people will still be in line from next weekend

Career change time

Photo of a black bird with red wing facing right while perched amongst small twigs with beak open and with whisps of golden breath leaving trails in the cold morning air

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt

I’m looking forward to completely avoiding the area near IKEA for the next 3-6 months

Daycare Christmas party had someone turn up dressed as the Grinch and I saw children screaming and crying 💀😂

Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.

When are we all having Troll 2, Troll 2, and Trolls 2 triple feature watch parties?

I put a widget on my home screen with a notepad so it’s easier to jot down ideas and thank god i didn’t miss this gem

Is this a Tim Robinson bit

We've been working on "Free Palestine" in our house! (20 months old lol)

Or just make some jokes? The sincerity kills me (and yet I do it myself)

We used strips of magnetic whiteboard to move story elements around when breaking stories in the Power Rangers writing room. Just got some out to use myself and found these ones from early drafts of something years ago… ⚡️

New Zealand's Black Friday sales have been going for so many Fridays that I genuinely do not understand which Friday is the Friday

I wish!

It's the only way. Also: Sitting at a cafe with a goal of finishing something before it's not socially acceptable to write there any longer is my best procrastination-minimisation tool.

(Message sent from cafe, while BRIEFLY procrastinating)

Yep - I don't think I would've gotten as far as I have without a healthy dose of anxiety about career success in the early years pushing me onwards 😂

Look I know the local cafe's chai/coffee mix drink "Chatte" is meant to be pronounced "Char-tey", but I cannot read it as anything but "Shart-tey" 🤮

I’m watching 2x shows that happen to both be about sad lesbian writers at the same time. I am here for this cultural trend but now I’m getting their backstories mixed up 😂

Me realising I have a packet of the sugar free lollies I know will make me feel ill: HELL YES