Caitlin > Recent Status Updates

"Khakis just make a person look like they're both pantless *and* void of a personality."

erm, Ted Lasso would beg to differ

“When you imagine a new best friend for yourself, you never name him Alex. You probably also don’t imagine him dressing like some kind of teenage librarian.”

"There are certain phrases, she realized, that function like spells. They change the energy in the room."

Oof a 9/11 reference is jarring in this fantasy world

“It’s a huge deal for a train line to suddenly not be working.”

(Tell me you don’t live in NYC without telling me you don’t live in NYC. 😆)

“No matter where you are, regardless of the world, you can feel out a market day like good music.”

"not vampires... nothing nearly so glamorous. Just a bunch of rapidly ageing young men with hard lifestyles and a preference for longer days."

“She looked like an accountant on a pirate ship.” 😆

"As the water gets cold, the hope does, too." (oof, what a line)

also

"Where there should be technology, there was instead heavy utility."

"Being a landlady has put an armor on her - halfway between mothering and upper management."

"If a person like him had existed in any timeline, she would have heard about it. They would have taught him in schools."

🫠 wowza what a line

References to both Amazon and The Wizard of Oz. Interesting those exist in this world.

“Every element of his appearance both proved and contracted the idea of maturity.”

“It is only very traumatised people who confuse stasis for peace.”

“There’s always something not quite right about other people’ Christmases.” 😅

“We talk about our resolutions. I’m not sure why I bother. I don’t think I’ve ever managed a lifestyle change that’s seen out the Christmas decorations… I blame January… the weather would make Ernest Shackleton think twice about popping down to the shops for a pint of milk yet we choose this month for a bizarre act of self flagellation.”

"Christmas is this pine-scented, tinsel-strewn time out where everything just stops... a temporary apocalypse where everyday norms are replaced by a fever dream of cheer and goodwill."

“I don’t like waking up with things already in full swing.” (Relatable)

“If dreaming was a job, we could move right now to the fancy streets.”

Calling Love Actually the “movie equivalent of a warm fire” is so accurate. 🥰

Awww a Charm City Rocks shoutout

"I don't do yoga but I support the pants."

girl, same

"Anything's a mixer if you're brave."

lolz

"It's easy to zone out in a chaotic coffee shop but not in your own chaotic house and [she] didn't even try to understand the difference."

Same, girl. Same.

“She looked like she was about to pledge Kappa Kappa Murder.” 😆

This woman’s devotion to the “purse book” immediately wins me over.

Hot damn she says her piercing total clocks in at 21.

“I’m starting to learn that having a limit does not actually make you limited.”

“I dress up for bed” is such a Cynthia Erivo line.

“What you’re drawn to is there to enlighten you.”