In some offline news, I joined a local book club this past month! If I'm honest, I had a big worry about the people I would encounter there. I mean, I knew pretty quickly that they were lovely girls, very smart and well spoken with great taste in beer and good conversation. Still, there was that niggling fear in the back of my mind. I waited for my moment, and as soon as I saw it, I went for it: So, what did you guys think of Fifty Shades of Grey?
Lucky for me, the two girls who'd actually read the book hated it and everything was safe. I exhaled loudly and rushed through an explanation about how I spent almost two years recapping that book chapter by chapter.
April is the best month of the year due to it being the month of my birthday and Coachella and hanging out with Lorraine and the blog's birthday and also my birthday. (L: Did she mention her birthday? HAPPY BIRTHDAY.) Of course, all that excitement was a lot to take in and meant that we got a little more off-schedule than usual. Like, "Post the bloggy equivalent of a vacation auto-responder" levels of off schedule. But good times were had and we hope the, "CHECK OUT OLD POSTS!" stuff kept you all occupied. Hopefully we didn't lose too many of you in our absence because we're back and rushing to play catch up.
I had a cryfest at some point in the middle of this month, and I'm blaming it mostly on exhaustion. I'm only a little bit ashamed to admit the cryfest happened while watch The Voice. I always tear up during that show, though, because people's dreams coming true makes me emotional.
What was I saying? Oh yes, exhaustion. I've been working a crazy schedule for the past couple of months, and it's a safe bet that any lapse in posting you saw this month were either courtesy of my extended work hours or Sweeney's multiple trips.
Sweeney: There was a small possibility of leaving town this weekend and for the first time probably in forever my response was, "PLEASE NO DON'T MAKE ME."
What was I saying? Oh yes, exhaustion. I've been working a crazy schedule for the past couple of months, and it's a safe bet that any lapse in posting you saw this month were either courtesy of my extended work hours or Sweeney's multiple trips.
Sweeney: There was a small possibility of leaving town this weekend and for the first time probably in forever my response was, "PLEASE NO DON'T MAKE ME."
ANOTHER MONTH HAPPENED! That's how we begin each of these recaps of recaps (#recapception) because that's about how it feels. Sitting down to work on a TMYK leaves me with all sorts of big, dramatic feelings of concern for the rapid disappearance of time. This post is especially like that, having recently finished a big, enormous project that has been such an essential piece of this blog.
We've both been busy with work and life and planning all the things. These first two months were my two stationary months before a long string in which I will be in a new time zone at least once a month until August at the earliest. This should mean I can do some awkward blogging from airplanes in the near future! Snark Squad: bringing additional passenger discomfort to a flight near you.
We've both been busy with work and life and planning all the things. These first two months were my two stationary months before a long string in which I will be in a new time zone at least once a month until August at the earliest. This should mean I can do some awkward blogging from airplanes in the near future! Snark Squad: bringing additional passenger discomfort to a flight near you.
Hunkering back down into our pre-holiday-craziness schedule has been a challenge. We've gotten a little better in the last week or so, but we've yet to give you a full week of posts since the new year started. Sorry, but also, life is hard.
Sweeney: This is your monthly update that yes, indeed, life is still hard and we are still daydreaming about our magical future in which we quit our jobs and become full time Snark Ladies.
Lor: We aren't there yet.
Sweeney: This is your monthly update that yes, indeed, life is still hard and we are still daydreaming about our magical future in which we quit our jobs and become full time Snark Ladies.
Lor: We aren't there yet.
Our final The More You Know post for 2012 was titled, "So, we had a year." That seems fitting. In 2012 we fell into a hiatus, lost a few Snark Ladies, but then decided to reinvent the website. We did a lot of great things, but it was a celebration in and of itself that we'd even had a year. Sweeney and I pulled it together and soldiered on, despite all the craziness and a multitude of changes.
Sweeney: It's weird to think about that time, then. That brief period when we wondered how/if this blog would continue to exist. By "weird" I mean "impossible" because this thing has come to be so damn important to us both.
Sweeney: It's weird to think about that time, then. That brief period when we wondered how/if this blog would continue to exist. By "weird" I mean "impossible" because this thing has come to be so damn important to us both.
DECEMBER. It's already December. You know, we've been doing TMYK for over a year now. I just had a vague flash of writing the December 2012 TMYK so I went to check and was way surprised to discover that we actually did the first one (when we asked all of you to help us name it!) in September 2012. WEIRD. I'm sure I'll say this again when we do this again next month and add all the requisite NEW YEARS goodness, but this blog has come to occupy this strange space where I am equal parts confused by how long it's been and how it hasn't been longer because it's come to occupy such a big space in my life.
Just today, I was wasting time on Twitter, talking about how I would recap ALL THE THINGS if I could, when a Twitter friend joked with me not to forget to recap my recaps. BUT IT ISN'T A JOKE, FRIENDS, as dear Willie quickly reminded me. We are a couple of days into November, meaning it is indeed time to recap our recaps.
Sweeney: We're so meta like that.
Lor: Happy November! Happy NaNoWriMo to those brave souls who are participating this year (leave your profiles! Let's be friends!) and Happy No Shave November to those of you doing that. Never forget that Stalker Boyfriend came to us by way of a Movember ad. I mean that in the most encouraging way.
Sweeney: We're so meta like that.
Lor: Happy November! Happy NaNoWriMo to those brave souls who are participating this year (leave your profiles! Let's be friends!) and Happy No Shave November to those of you doing that. Never forget that Stalker Boyfriend came to us by way of a Movember ad. I mean that in the most encouraging way.
What's this? A TMYK post? MADNESS. Right, so, for those of you who are new around here, this is a thing we used to do but randomly stopped doing for no reason other than time/laziness a few months ago.
Lorraine: I'm gonna go ahead and defend us and say it was more a time issue. No one who reads this site can accuse us of being lazy. I mean, we are sometimes, but you guys wouldn't know it.
Sweeney: That's totally true. I was doing the whole self-deprecating thing, but now that you mention it, yeah, we put an insane amount of time into this blog.
Lorraine: I'm gonna go ahead and defend us and say it was more a time issue. No one who reads this site can accuse us of being lazy. I mean, we are sometimes, but you guys wouldn't know it.
Sweeney: That's totally true. I was doing the whole self-deprecating thing, but now that you mention it, yeah, we put an insane amount of time into this blog.
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Thank you so much for being patient with us this month, specifically in this last week or two. Settling back down into life post the Snark Lady trip to California has been rather tricky for me. Mostly, though, my RL job was basically all, "welcome back from a week of vacation. Here's everything you missed with interest." Hooray, gainful employment.
Sweeney: I still don't entirely know what's going on. Just when I thought I'd developed a solid understanding of how to manage a self-structured schedule, I went to Coachella and then had all sorts of family stuff (which seriously just. keeps. coming.)
Sweeney: I still don't entirely know what's going on. Just when I thought I'd developed a solid understanding of how to manage a self-structured schedule, I went to Coachella and then had all sorts of family stuff (which seriously just. keeps. coming.)
Sweeney: We missed two days because (1) Lor was helping me get my shit out of storage (Welcome to California!) -and- (2) We decided that vacation meant all the sleep and none of the TV.
Lorraine: Our lives are super glamorous. I'm not being sarcastic; the naps I took in LA were FANTASTIC. Totally worth storage moving.
Sweeney: Aside from our glamorous lives with amazing naps, we've been busy this month! To reiterate the theme from last month's TMYK: not dying = winning.
Lorraine: Our lives are super glamorous. I'm not being sarcastic; the naps I took in LA were FANTASTIC. Totally worth storage moving.
Sweeney: Aside from our glamorous lives with amazing naps, we've been busy this month! To reiterate the theme from last month's TMYK: not dying = winning.
Sweeney: First, happy Easter if you celebrate. Happy Colorful Chocolate Day to everyone else. Enjoy.
Lorraine: "Enjoy." Now forever said with a Cersei-like bow and offering of wine.
Sweeney: Obviously.
Second, it seems like there is less to say by way of introduction to this newsletter-esque post this month. We still have a thousand big exciting plans brewing, but we have started to really find a rhythm that works for us here at our digital Snark HQ.
Lorraine: "Enjoy." Now forever said with a Cersei-like bow and offering of wine.
Sweeney: Obviously.
Second, it seems like there is less to say by way of introduction to this newsletter-esque post this month. We still have a thousand big exciting plans brewing, but we have started to really find a rhythm that works for us here at our digital Snark HQ.
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