Yesterday I saw our yard squirrels running in circles in our yard and I said, “Oh my god, those squirrels are fucking nuts” and Victor said, “No, baby, those squirrels are storing nuts” and I laughed much longer than I should have.
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At the bookstore I overheard a woman who dropped her books yell, “Oh hell’s taint!”
It is now my new favorite phrase and I will be using it daily.
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Sharing this drawing on my substack because it’s reminding me that nothing lasts forever and that my depression (that always seems like it will never end) always passes. I’m worth waiting for. So are you.
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It’s May and my xmas tree is still up. New personal record? Not even close.
I’m finally learning how to wait out depression and anxiety too. Yay us.
I like the tree up year/round. Just change out the ornaments seasonally. And replace the ones the cats swear they didn’t break.
Squirrels and nuts go hand in hand.
I love that expression, I’ve never heard it before! That’s a great one to add to my vocabulary.
It’s always darkest before the dawn.
And there’s nothing better than a Fourth of July tree, just add American flags to it, and you’re celebrating Christ’s half birthday as well as our Country’s birthday.
Jen, You have done so many therapies and know chit. My buddy, Kelp, is so med resistant – nothing seems to help. How can I help her?
(The best thing you can do is listen sometimes. Right now ketamine treatments every 6 weeks are helping me. Sending you and Kelp so much love. ~ Jenny)
Storing nuts to fuck them later?
Recently my invectives have all been ball-centric. Shitballs, fuckballs, BALLS!, and anything adjacent to the problem-balls. So satisfying!
The tree is just the house tree now; we accept and love the house tree!
Please. Our Christmas tree has been up since during the pandemic. Not due to depression, just because we like it. You do you.
I love it! But, gotta say, what the HELL is comment #5? Huh? I either really need to drink more or have had too much. Please say you aren’t promoting online stupendous jobs! Millionaires in a year! Come one come all! Time to store a nut my friend. Oh my stars….
(SO MUCH SPAM LATELY. I need to fix my filters, I think. ~ Jenny)
My tree has been up for several years, although it only has half a dozen ornaments that I was given after I took all the other ones off. I kept the lights on for the first few years until they started to flicker. 🙁
On Saturday, we stored our re-boxed Christmas decorations in their off-season home in our crawl space. And then found three more boxes (outside decorations) in the garage. And then realized the mug on my kitchen counter that I’ve been using as a pen holder IS A CHRISTMAS DECORATION. My goal used to be “put away Christmas decorations by Valentine’s Day.” Now, it’s Memorial Day weekend.
Facebook kept giving me ads for a carnival supply company. One of the products that got pushed through was “Jesus on a Donkey”. That is my new oath.
Leave the all-purpose holiday tree up year round if you’re enjoying it! I’ve got all my little Halloween stuff on a hanging shelf thingy in my studio so I can see everything whenever I want.
My Christmas tree is also still up. I had planned to decorate for each holiday, but this year has thrown so many many curve balls at me, so it remains bare. I try to see it as potential rather than failure.
Wait a minute. Are these live trees that are now dead? Hopefully they are artificial trees. There’s a really high-quality artificial tree in the waiting room at my doctor’s office and they decorate it year-long for all of the holidays. I just LOVE it.
Jenny, always remember and never forget that depression lies and this will end.
My new favorite is from JoJo from Jersey. “They all bought the tickets, and now they get to ride the ride.”
O. M. D. I just cackled SO hard for “hell’s taint”!!!!! STEALING!!
I found a Hanukkah latke platter under some stuff on my counter this weekend. We are soul-sisters.
I have brief moments of happiness (like reading your posts), by my depression is now permanent. The world is completely messed up and I don’t believe for one moment that it is ever going to get better. Thank you for your bright moments!
I read something somewhere: There is literally nothing in nature that blooms all year long, so do not expect yourself to do so. – I do think you said it very well. Depression lies.
There is a restaurant near us that leaves their very tall tree up year round and just changes out the decorations for different holidays. No holiday coming up? Have some fake flowers or bows. It’s their thing and I love it so much. I see no reason to take yours down, ever.
I guess the upside to depression that never leaves is you don’t have it sneaking up on you, incognito, like “oh hi, don’t mind me, I’m just going to take away your appetite until you subsist on a single bland food like oatmeal. Keep working on that spreadsheet — I’ll see you tonight at 3am for generalized anxiety and fully awake fixation on whether you should have your well tested for traces of arsenic, K?”
My Christmas is up year round. I used to decorate it seasonally, then thought, “F**K it…” and now it has decorations for any and all holidays, celebrations, calamities, whatever. The cats love all the dangly bits.
rats, that should have read Christmas TREE is up…
I am personally trying to bring back “Dang-Nabbitt!”
Also, spent the last two days sobbing because my life is falling apart, and I feel so alone, and then suddenly your blog email popped up, and I remember that I am not. Thank you ma’am.
Oh, THANK THE MAKER!
Now I can say when my daughter & mother (neither of whom live herevor speak to each other) complains that the Christmas tree is still up, I’ll say “So what? So is Jenny Lawson’s. If she gets to do it So do I!”.
I put my Christmas tree up the day after Thanksgiving, and take it down when it catches fire.
Depression is a bitch I will agree. But for me sometimes I write my best stuff when I’m depressed because I feel everything so deeply. I hope you start feeling better soon. I try to find at least one good thing every day even as small as today my bush out front gave me two beautiful flowers for the first time this Spring. These little things give me hope.
I literally just took our Christmas tree down. But it’s sitting in the box in my living room, so…
Sorry my add acting up. You said squirrel and that made me look for one. I’m so easily distracted. Lol
The record you should be going for is how many YEARS in a row the tree stays up. 🤣
“Yard squirrels” makes me think you also have other types ofsquirrels, but then it wouldn’t surprise me if you do. I guess here I could separate the ones who come to the door for walnuts and the ones who run like hell if we open a door, but I just call them Alberta or imposters.
I have one friend who loves Christmas so she just leaves her tree up year-’round. I have another who leaves her tree up but changes the decorations to go with whatever holiday is coming up next. So you do you.
Hell’s taint is my new favorite curse, next to ‘colder than a witch’s tit’. 😀
Cover 👏🏼 that👏🏼 tree👏🏼 with 👏🏼flowers 👏🏼 until👏🏼 Memorial Day!
Then stick a bunch of flags in it
I dated this self-centered ass who taught me many things. One of them is that feelings/emotions have a beginning, a middle, and an end. I usually picture myself on a beach standing on the shore, facing a large wave that just…washed over me and retreats.
My born-in-1896 Houston-raised grandmother didn’t know the word taint. She taught us the common usage of the time, which was “Hell’s pecker!”
Our formerly live tree is still on the deck with a bird feeder hanging from it. It didn’t move out there until early February and probably will stay out there until we want to eat out on the deck and it gets in the way.
I just love you!
Our Christmas tree stays up year-round. It’s out of the normal traffic flow and I am lazy. In a good year my husband may bring his air compresser and blow the dust off.
I am also stealing hell’s taint. Your stories are the best, Jenny. Miss chatting.
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Our Christmas tree stays up all year long. It’s tucked away from the main traffic areas, and honestly, I just prefer it that way — partly out of convenience, partly because I’m a bit lazy. On a good year, my husband might even break out the air compressor to give it a quick dusting.