- Once around the time we first met, I told my now husband that I had a horse meeting at work. It was true; I met with a coworker to discuss some horse books we were making. Now every time I have a meeting at work, he always has to ask if it was a horse meeting.
Sadly actual horse meetings are rare. My answer is always neigh.
- I spent last Saturday helping my friend plan our friend's bachelorette party. We are both in the wedding party.
Between you and me, I don't love being in weddings. I do love going to weddings, but the rigamarole of actually being in one is something I'd rather skip.
But I already agreed to it, so here we are. Everything is so expensive.
My unsolicited wedding advice as an old and wise person rapidly approaching 40 (my friend got mad at me for saying that on Saturday) is to do it as cheap as possible. My wedding cost around $5,000, which was still more than I wanted to spend.
The truth is that all of the tiny details you think will make or break the day don't matter. Nobody will remember them but you. Food and beverages and music are all you really need. Add in alcohol if that's your thing (it was one of the biggest expenses of my wedding). Some places to sit and some spots to put your drink. Remember, it's one day of your life.
I know plenty of people will disagree with that. One time the millionaire owner of the company I worked for told my coworker that she should spare no expense for her wedding. I guess he would know; he's had more weddings than me.
- I was looking up corn-themed domain names the other day. Totally normal Thursday behavior. I saw cornboy.com is for sale for almost $5,000, while corngirl.com will run you $2,500. Is this misogyny?
On a more serious note, it pisses me off that corn is now used as a euphemism for porn. I know it originated on TikTok as a way to avoid getting banned. Keeping it an advertiser-friendly platform and all that. I'm here to say that it will be OK if your TikTok account is shut down. In fact, it will be a net positive. Can you tell I'm a total TikTok hater?
Maybe this site will get banned from Neocities for using that word. It would be scary to start over in a new city far from everyone I know. But the idea of inventing a whole new identity does have some appeal. (Still, I backed up my site within one minute of posting this.)
All of this to say: on this website, corn means corn, goddammit.
- This may be old news for some of you, but I learned that Ryan Coogler was inspired by The Luck of the Irish when he made Sinners. The Luck of the Irish as in the the Disney Channel original movie about a kid who turns into a leprechaun when he loses the magic coin that helped him pass as human. There's something about basketball in there too.
As a person who grew up watching DCOMs and remembers loving this one, I am absolutely delighted at the hilarious fact that this stupid ass made-for-TV movie still has cultural relevance in 2026.
(For the record, my favorite DCOMs are Brink!, the Zenon series, Rip Girls, and Johnny Tsunami.)
