Accidentally dedicated two hours to trying to figure out why the hell my great-grandmother named her son ✨Rashleigh✨, of all things. One of life's great mysteries.
Tori Brenneison
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📚 bookmonger @ interestingtimesbooks.com 🏫 MA history of art ✨ she / her 📍 Cleveland, OH, USA 🇺🇸🇬🇧 assembled in USA w/ UK parts 🏴 I'm tired
Really feel as though I should do more today, but I have destroyed my back putting the floor down this week. On a more positive note, the floor is down.
can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.
V. important: I put three chairs outside the store earlier this week, and today a man had chosen to sit in one!
My father-in-law, the cutest man alive, gave me a box containing a book-themed t-shirt and coffee mug last night, to wear/have in the store. The mug came out of a Wessex Packaging box, and, upon further inspection, is from a company in Bath. Look, I don't actually believe in omens, but....
the view (I have dedicated a pair of pants and jeans to being ruined by this renovation lol)
The end is in sight, but the going is slow. I am very sticky, and very tired, and everything aches. Also, nothing in this store is square and the floor is not level.
If you are an American backpacker, you are likely familiar with bear vaults. If not, a bear vault is a reinforced plastic jar meant to keep bears out of your food, etc. If you want to know what me opening the bucket of floor adhesive looks like, search for videos of bears trying to open vaults.
Thing no one told you about opening a store, #557294: there will come a time when it feels as though you do nothing but move piles of stuff around.
i’m in bed surrounded by cats and i have to get up but i will disturb them if you’re in bed surrounded by cats you should get a paid day off
My son was not forthcoming with details on the bee Mass, but luckily the school posted a clarifying video. www.instagram.com/reel/DedFq9F...
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I have been crawling around on a floor for two days straight, and my entire body hurts. Last third of the store carpet tomorrow.
Kiddo came out in shirt, tie, & blazer this morning. I asked why (shirt & tie doesn't start for the year until tomorrow), said he's serving in Mass because he's in beekeeping club and "the Pope is doing something about bees so we're having a bee Mass". Will have to research the Pope and bees, obvs.
"There aren't real houses in London it's all flats" you are absolutely correct internet stranger, I spent months hallucinating living in a house on this street full of houses, obvs
Not while knitting, but listening to David Mitchell's (of Mitchell and Webb) narration of his book, "Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens" while laying carpet in the store. I'm 10 chapters in, we've only just reached 1066, and I've had to pause it several times to laugh.
Tori Brenneison@toribrenneison.bsky.social · last wk.Need something to watch while I knit. TV show or documentary (I don't have patience for movies and will mostly listen). We have Netflix, Prime, and YoutubeTV.
Hey cool I locked my keys in the store and now I have to walk home
Y'all have no idea how much my nerves are soothed by there being at least a little flooring installed in the store, fr fr
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
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Why didn't I think of this sooner, this carpet tile looks baller in the store, I love it
The amount of campaign spam in my mailbox is TOO DAMN HIGH. (The only thing I know about Poindexter is that the smear ad on TV says he swallowed an 8ball of coke to hide it from the cops but tbh that's the dedication to a course of action I think you'd want in a political representative)
hi a cool thing about finally having someone confirm I have ADHD at 40 is learning it makes you 2-3x more likely to develop substance and/or behavioral addictions and oh wow that explains a whole fucking lot
There are three huge boxes of sidelines on my front porch and I am going to start laying carpet this afternoon. Closer and closer to the "store" part of having a store.
The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.
Me: It’s pretty funny how every fictional character I adore is a Big Mess who’s Too Much but they are worthy of love anyway. My brain: But that doesn’t apply to us, right? Me: Oh god no! lol My brain: Okay, just making sure. lol
Gonna spend the weekend installing a floor in the store! FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR FLOOR <3
Looking for recommendations to add to the opening stock of the store and so far my friends have only suggested things I have already ordered lolololololololololololllllllllllllllll (I love them all)
It is 1:05a and I have been on iPage since like 7p. ... bookstores, yo.
