Adri

@genericgeekgirl@peoplemaking.games
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just another geek girl
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I only found one non-black dress so far that I actually liked, but it's super cute, and she loves it, and this is the pattern.
Tonight my five-year-old asked if I missed my mom, and told me that it's ok if I feel blue sometimes, because she, Daddy, and Lizzy (our dog) love me, and oh my gosh <3
The kiddo's Daisy Handbook shipped with four really sturdy pieces of cardboard (to stabilize it because it's got a soft cover), and I'm sure I'm not the only Troop Leader who was like "ooh, free craft materials!"
The child has asked, once again, that I wear some colors other than black, because it will "look fancy". I asked her to pick just one color, and she said purple. And also pink. So, uh.. I guess I've got some shopping to do.
I'm dumb. I bet he has Paypal. Old people love Paypal.
Fucking Zelle, man. The funeral home wants $1370 for cremation, and I was trying to send my half to my step-father and it keeps fucking crying about "fraud risk check." I called Capital One, and all they could suggest is that I send it in multiple, smaller increments. I successfully sent $200, and then it wouldn't let me send anything over $75. So I did that four times, at which point, it decided that I couldn't send anything more. Neither I, nor my step-father have Venmo, so I had to ask my spouse to send the balance to my sister, and jesus fucking christ, my mom just died, fuck your fraud check.

I am officially a Daisy Girl Scout troop leader \o/ (I registered the kiddo and myself on Wednesday, but I had to wait for my background check to go through.)

Now if I could just wrangle myself an assistant leader (ASAP) and find us a space to meet (before October), we'd be all ready to go.

I think I"ve mentioned this previously, but my daughter thinks the church down the block from the library is a castle. She really has no other context for it, and it is a rather fancy looking building (which feels surprising given that they're Baptist, but whatever).

When she was younger, she'd talk about how the wooden robot and the log princess lived there, though lately she's gotten the idea that royals are a thing that "lived a long time ago, like the dinosaurs."

Yesterday, she *really* wanted to see inside the "castle". My initial, and super careless, response was that we weren't welcome there, and I kind of saved it by explaining that someone lives there, and we can't just go inside someone else's home. Except that then she was like "what if we knocked first?" Oh.

My stepfather is there now, trying to clean up the place and possibly find the will, and it sounds like her mental health was significantly worse than the already bad impression I'd gotten from her doctor.

The good (?) news is that it sounds like she may have only been dead a couple of days before they found her. I was afraid it might have been a bit longer. Also her cats are ok.

Today at the playground, a girl--a little older than my daughter--handed me a flower and said it was for me, and that was just so kind and absolutely something I needed in that moment.