Are they supposed to be the Blues Brothers?

I had never seen Pulp Fiction and Partner A decided to remedy this while we were high. I found myself wanting someone there who was Extremely Nerdily Into the movie to tell me about all the other movie references contained within. (The plot, I have no recollection of now, but I enjoyed it at the time?)

worth what I paid

Free concerts: 

-A duo with drums and an electric cello, singing about the eruption of Mount Tambora.

-A 70s style gospel choir. I introduced Partner A to my strategy of interpreting all Jesus songs as horny or romantic. (Heck, maybe they are, for the same reasons a lot of artists were stuck with religious themes whether they liked it or not?) Anyway, we learned that Jesus was always punctual and "able;" I'd swipe right.

-A traditional jazz trio. I learned I have negative interest in just sitting and listening to a jazz trio; it's great background music, but not to be focused on.

procrastination works

I have small retirement accounts semi-abandoned across several companies due to job changes. I want to consolidate them but not enough to actually figure out the logistics. Helpfully, one of them just consolidated itself: a former employer moved all its legacy accounts to a company where I already have an account! 

remember to be ugly

 How social media can flatten us, because the stories we tell shape who we are.

(The article doesn't get into the ways we curate our own histories to ourselves to give them good narrative arcs, but I found myself doing that a lot more through my early 30s than after I started using social media more. Maybe it's a factor of age- or disability- related nihilism, but I don't expect my feelings and experiences to logically follow from prior events anymore. Stuff just happens! When it does I'll deal with it, but how I go about that won't necessarily have anything to do with or be consistent with what I've done before.)

I live another life

My dreams that take place at "home" are always in my parents' house, even if my kids or ex-husband were in the dream and even though I've lived in my current house longer than I lived there. But I just had one taking place in my actual house! Will it be a trend? (Ironically it was a dream that would have made more sense at my parents', because I was looking to borrow an old computer of my dad's to bring with me to Star Trek camp. There was another camp being held at the same location but they knew where to direct me because I was carrying a large computer.)

unsafe at any speed

My 1980 Escort story led to a bunch of you sharing first car stories with me; thank you! Another story about that car arose: it was rusting badly enough that it was having trouble maintaining structural stability. My dad built a wooden frame inside the trunk to hold it together for me. In retrospect, WTF, but this family attitude explains a number of things about my past and current life choices.

some things I want to finish quickly

I previously mentioned eating weird food combinations because of the need to nutrition-max when I was losing weight. Now my cholesterol came back slightly elevated, so I'm reducing saturated fat and eating more oats and psyllium. I apparently can't get past the nutrition-maxing though because I added both TVP and riced cauliflower to oatmeal to increase nutrition and volume. It turns out that I don't WANT oatmeal to have any more volume than it already does, so lesson learned! 

(Oh, and cutting saturated fat means no longer eating as much of the yogurt and cottage cheese which became my protein staples last year- the low-fat versions are foul to me. Beans have usually been my primary protein source and I'm going back to them, but since my metabolism slowed this will require eating fewer FUN carbs, alas.)