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It's wild. I tensed up super hard when I heard it (I was sitting at the light at the intersection where the guy was trying to turn when he got hot) since it was right in front of my face and everything hurts now! I'm just glad Amelia is rear facing in her car seat and didn't see anything.

Obviously witnesses aren't the main victims of road violence but I'd prefer my Monday morning without watching a car get t boned at 40mph.

I was really excited to have a super productive day since my toddler went to her little playgroup today and then a very loud car crash happened right in front of my face while sitting at a light so instead I've spent the whole day trying to get my nervous system back under control.

When I was an adolescent altar girl one of the readers would come into the sacristy, take off his shirt and put on his (zip up) alb so apparently that's an option.

I'm not a competitive person at all. I'm just very chatty.

It's such a thing. And all these Michigan people chose to move to New Jersey. They should learn to talk and drive faster.

I just use it for groups and for marketplace because my whole feed is crap like this.

Happy for everyone telling me that I'm stupid for still having FB but unfortunately it's the way to stay connected to town stuff especially when you have a little kid and our town buy nothing group is amazing. Congrats on the moral superiority though I guess.

People think it's rude but like sorry I'm enthusiastic about what you're saying I didn't realize this was a group therapy session with no crosstalk.

Yeah absolutely don't know how you do it I moved to a town that's half Jewish so I could be sure everyone would always be talking at the same time.

I've been spending a lot of time with my best friend from high school and I realized that when we get together we both just start talking and there's not a breath of space and, like, that's how you have a conversation.

I've been a member of a progressive Dutch Reformed church full of Midwesterners for more than ten years and I've never really felt like I fit in and I realized today (as a person raised by fast talking Irish and Italian New Yorkers) it's because nice Dutch people don't get cooperative overlapping.

I think I'm the kind of person who is totally their target -sahm, kinda crunchy, had birth complications, kid has a delay (speech in her case not autism) but I'm well adjusted enough that I'm not looking for someone to blame.

So my Facebook page is suddenly all antivax autism Tylenol shit and all these ~holistic mamas~ are sure to point out that it's not just Tylenol and vaccines. It's formula and epidurals and prenatal nutrition and all kinds of things that mothers are doing wrong. So fun.

Obviously there was no Lilith Fair documentary when I was fifteen but the video store had a promotional video with all the videos from the Tori Amos album Little Earthquakes and my best friend and I rented it *a lot*.

Very excited that Chris and I are gonna party like we're 15 years old tonight as he's going to play Risk with some friends and I'm watching the Lilith Fair documentary.

Yep. If you tear (which everyone does) they recommend spraying it on there which requires holding a can at a very odd angle and does not actually make it not hurt.

They give it to you to spray on your vag in the hospital after you give birth and I was absolutely not a fan.

Live that my stupid MAHA former family friend is posting about how she knew 8 years ago during her first pregnancy that Tylenol caused autism so she's never taken it while pregnant but *checks notes* her oldest kid has autism.

Going apple picking with my mom today, can't wait to hear all her opinions about Charlie Kirk, a person she'd never heard of before his death.

Fevers are dangerous when you're pregnant (and maybe cause autism who knows everything is fake) so it's good we have Tylenol for that. Taking meds when you're pregnant is such a fucking minefield every choice seems wrong.

I'm so mad about this autism Tylenol thing. This administration is hell bent on raising the birth rate but also wants to make pregnancy as miserable as possible for women? How does that make sense?

Well I guess the only good thing about this NJ gubernatorial debate is that I'm pretty sure almost no one is watching it.

Heck yeah Mike Sherrill coming out as pro phonics on the gubernatorial debate!

He's more eloquent than I'm comfortable with even though the things he's saying are absolutely batty.

I've been going to 4H and county fairs all summer and fall and I'm so over these events having an absolutely rocking GOP tent and almost no Dem presence. I was just at Sayreville Day and there was an LD-19 tent with Coughlin signs but where's the MCDO or Sherrill campaign?

...Is this the church I used to work at?

Parenting has such odd tensions. I just packed up a bunch of Amelia's stuffed animals and was like "what if I threw all these in the garbage?" But I'm also extremely pumped to take her to Build a Bear to build a bear on her birthday.

Publication Day for "Why Christians Should Be Leftists" an interview with myself

Interviewed myself about my new book for my newsletter, v easy assignment philipchristman.substack.com/p/publicatio...

Definitely agree with the last line about DSA meetings. I've been to a few of those and I'm a democratic committeeperson in a super progressive town (whole council and mayor are Dems) and those meetings are lol.