It is STILL Thursday in the Illinois,USA! I am not late…yet…
Dear Tricia
T-Minus 32 days left of work. Then it is on to the NEXT adventure… WHICH WE MUST VIDEO CHAT SOON! I can’t post it online yet, but I must tell you so many things.
Sooo…My punishment…I MUST take you to Avanti’s. Continue reading
with Elizabeth
And now for something completely different! LOL just kidding; Elizabeth and Tricia are obviously not yet (and probably never will be) finished talking about aliens.
Fair warning: If you don’t like curse words that start with “f,” you might want to give this one a pass, since our recurring joke relies on it. Continue reading
with Elizabeth
Last time they talked about Tom Hiddleston. This time they talk about a theology of aliens. Elizabeth and Tricia’s friendship truly covers the heights and depths of the human experience.
Elizabeth: I was just thinking this morning about how having the image of God allows us to be individuals. God made all of us humans in his image, and to our finite minds, that would seem to make us all the same. But to God – the infinite God who rejoices in every sunrise (see G.K. Chesterton) – the multitude of ways in which we bear his image as individuals is a continuous source of delight. We don’t have the capacity to appreciate each and every individual, but he does. And if we realize that, it can help us see people as valuable individuals when we meet them out in the world. They are enough. We are enough! I have some basic level of value, not just as one of many image bearers, but because I bear God’s image in a way that nobody else can, and God sees that and is delighted by it.
Tricia: I think this is a good argument for the existence of aliens.
Elizabeth: You really want to finish the alien co-blog, don’t you? Continue reading
Yikes!! Lindsay and I are seriously slipping. First she was late in posting a letter, and now I am too. Hopefully a good ol’ fashioned punishment/challenge will help us reset everything! Read my letter to Lindsay on her blog, Wild Ginger.
Articles
1| “Things I’ve Learned About Heterosexual Female Desire From Decades of Reading“…the title says it all, but here’s a quote anyway.
“100% of women want to have sex with a man who embodies the fox version of Robin Hood from the cartoon Robin Hood, but most do not actually want to have sex with a fox or a man dressed as one.”
2| Mallory Ortberg (famous Christian John Ortberg’s daughter) gave a hilarious and insightful interview entitled “Toast’s Mallory Ortberg on Death, Faith, and Why It’s So Easy to Make Fun of Christians.”
Videos
1| “They will be replacing renowned Indian stabber Andrew Jackson…I’m sorry, Native American stabber Andrew Jackson, on the twenty dollar bill, with Harriet Tubman.”
Articles
Videos
1| Jonathan Groff is no longer King George in Hamilton (NATIONAL TRAGEDY), but he makes up for the sadness by hilariously inducted Jimmy Fallon into the Order of the Garter.
Lindsay gave me some seriously good advice (check out my letter to her last week for context) AND she has five very good reasons, BUT. Her letter to me was one day late! So I am therefore upping our blogging stakes and instituting a new rule: Whenever one of us is late to blog, the other person gets to issue a challenge that must be completed during the next week. So get ready, Lindsay. In my letter next week, I will challenge you to….something! I haven’t thought of it yet.
Dear Tricia,
I have broken the chain!
I have failed you! I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself. *Distress! Destruction!* Continue reading
Articles
1| The Toast nails it when describing “How to Really Make Friends as an Adult.”
Get out of the house and participate in activities where you’ll meet like-minded people. For most people that means going to a rock-climbing class or signing up for a wine tasting. You don’t like those things? Well, do them anyway. All potential friends are into rock climbing.
2| I do not need any further convincing to go to Japan, but this list definitely made me more desperate than ever to turn my dream into a reality!
Videos
1| I am such a big fan of guys (trying to) experience life as a woman and being all, “I thought this would be easy but it’s so hard!!”
2| IT’S HAPPENING!! High schools are starting to sing Hamilton songs!!! AND THEY’RE SO GOOD!
with Elizabeth
I have used snippets of my Messenger conversations with Elizabeth twice now on my blog. I am convinced that we are hilarious, pathetic, and witty, which are three of the things most necessary to creating a blog series. Presented occasionally: “Let’s Talk About…” with Elizabeth!
Elizabeth: A reporter in DC is interviewing Tom Hiddleston on TV right now and it is not me. Life is unfair.
Tricia: Whoa, there’s so much going on here! First, obviously, how dare he dance with and/or touch anyone but you or me!? But also, is he going to be the next James Bond??? I don’t know how I feel about that!
Elizabeth: Yeah, there are rumors, apparently, but I’m not necessarily down with that. Mostly because I want him to do comedy, but also because I’m not a huge James Bond fan.
Tricia: The role just seems like everything he is not. Whether he’s playing villains or heroes, he’s always very emotional, and that’s why I love him. James Bond is always emotionless.
Elizabeth: And a misogynist. You can’t redeem Bond.
Tricia: Unless he REMAKES James Bond.
Elizabeth: Remember all the furor over “blond Bond” Daniel Craig?
I’m so glad we’ve moved into an era of acceptance where Bond can be a blond chiseled and sexy white guy instead of a brunette chiseled and sexy white guy.
Tricia: I see your sarcasm, but I really liked Daniel Craig’s Bond. HOWEVER, I feel it is important to say that although I want Tom Hiddleston to be in everything, I actually think Idris Elba is the best Bond choice. We need some racial diversity while maintaining the Bulky Man Box aesthetic.
Elizabeth: Idris Elba! Continue reading
Lindsay and I once bonded over the realization that we are both external processors – we can’t make decisions without talking things out first. Usually repeatedly. So now that multiple decisions are looming in front of me….I needed to externally process with my friend! Head over to Wild Ginger Blog to read my mental breakdown.
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