I love having fun and being able to be silly at work. This weekend I wore a "shame sticker" each day and kept being, well, shamed.
It was fantastic tbh
me: Hey Punny Coworker, can you help me lift a heavy-
Coworker: Sure!
me: -scary, spider-infested tarp up onto a shelf?
Coworker: NOPE!
Cue about 5 minutes of me putting in immense physical effort to get this man to the laundry room: prying his fingers off corners and doorjams, literally dragging him when he collapsed to the floor like a dramatic husky, him wailing like a banshee ("Oh god, she's strong! Help me! Help!") and both of us cackling our heads off while our coworkers watch this free entertainment
Once we were both physically exhausted, we hoisted up the tarp up in under 10 seconds
There's no way there isn't tons of fanfic about this though, it's pretty glaring! Shifu has more baggage to unpack than I think most people think about.
Something about Tai Lung's death bugs me.
Later, over breakfast:
Shifu: So Po, tell me all about it. How did you defeat Tai Lung? And is he safely back in prison?
Po: (beaming with pride) No master, I used the Wuxi finger hold and obliterated him. He's gone forever!
Shifu: (horrified) YOU DID WHAT???!!!!
You KILLED HIM? You said you defeated him! I never taught you to KILL anyone! The good guys can't kill their enemies in this kid-friendly film! We never actually use the forbidden Wuxi finger hold on anyone! And he was my adopted son! I'll never ever get to see him again or get to hope that he'll repent and turn good!!
Po didn't kill Tai Lung in self defense. He wilfully executed the Wuxi finger hold on a weakened TL 🤯
My old boys were so good about just being comforting and understanding when I wanted a kitty pile. I miss them.
I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.
- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.
- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.
- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.
Reminds me of when I was at a wedding stacking tiny bottles of maple syrup in precarious ways and people we didn't know from nearby tables started giving me their bottles.
It was a nice moment!
A couple years ago, I was staying with a friend for New Year’s and we’d decided to drive down to this adorable strip of locally-owned small business shops and check them out. The bakery was particularly crowded and since I wasn’t planning to buy anything, I waited outside. It’d been snowing, and since moving I’d picked up a “Californian-experiences-true-midwest-winter-for-the-first-time” habit of making at least one (1) tiny snowman every opportunity I get
so I built a little snowman on one of the small tables on this strip.
after about three minutes of cramming ice together, I hear, “Do you want espresso beans for the eyes?” and I turn around and there’s this gal leaning precariously far out the window of her coffee shop, surrounded by her coworkers, holding out her hand and said espresso beans.
I think of those strangers often. just the thought of them all looking out the window to see this random stranger on the corner in the snow building a tiny snowman and deciding to join in, make it special for no other reason than that they wanted to. people are so, so precious and I’m never going to forget that moment.
One of the funniest failures of US school system is the fact they are legally obligated to teach us all the states but they never actually show how big Alaska is like I have actually had teachers tell me that Texas is the biggest state. We have all just convinced ourselves that Alaska is that small shrunken down thing on most US maps and the people that know it's the largest state can almost never accurately describe how large it is.