Feeling bad that my kids just went to band camp where they have to march, out of doors. At least they'll be on the peninsula, which is ?maybe? better. Having memories of the year we took them to fall encamporee and then had to send half the troop home

The other half of me laid in bed awake last night (having slept for hours yesterday afternoon unexpectedly) coming up with new and fun trips to do (NYC for Christmas! Can we go back to Guemes Island in Dec? What about Halloween in my hometown in Illinois? North Carolina is cool!). Because I'm bored.

But like... I'm always the only one who follows through on shit like that. There's, like, five people in Seattle I can count on to actually commit to things and follow through on them. Which is fine. I don't need much. I'd like more. I like all of these families! I just... fucking Seattle, man.

2/3 of the families are busy. The other one hasn't responded. These are all folks we knew from elementary or outside of school, and my kid's not even going to HS with them. One of them reached out and was like "hey, we should get together - tell us all the (high school) knowledge!" #seattlefreeze

I mean to do this during the summer - have a little get to know you for the families whose kids would be coming in a bit on the fringes. Picked the easiest possible time - Sunday afternoon. No one's got stuff Sunday afternoon in Seattle. It's why I put all my GS meetings then. So, want to guess?

Seriously, I really wish I was less extroverted. It's *hard* in this city. Anyway, I can go alone. That's fine. I would just like to nerd out with someone, and ye olde husband is completely uninterested. Which is fine. At least I've got a friend to go see Väsen/Hawktail/Aoife O'Donavan with!

Also, having been burned by about five thousand attempts to connect with people (in Seattle and beyond), I'm literally terrified to reach out to anyone. It would be so much easier if I wanted to stay home all the time like my partner, but NOOOOO... Beth wants to go doooo stuff. #extrovertproblems

Schwartz totally does need it, and it just bumbling/cute/calculated enough to get it... or was. IDK, he's so much of a villain sidekick now that I think he wouldn't last long on Love Island (or anywhere... except maybe Traitors!)

I was hoping for JaNa and Kenny, because they seemed the most authentic to me, and was as shocked as Leah about the top two, but I was also pretty shocked that Barbie and Ken... I mean Kaylor and Aaron... didn't get to the final four (I'm not mad about it, didn't like either of them, but surprised!)

You are a good friend, and I say that as someone who got sucked in by a good friend two seasons ago