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Grouting, amiright?

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2026 — Year of the Human: newshapes.micro.blog

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Current Listen Count: 12

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Apple ☝️ One note: newshapes.micro.blog

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This is how it’s going.

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Thanks Photo Memories Widget: newshapes.micro.blog

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What if we just tried again? What if we agreed, if you spread hate it’s okay for hate to find you. What if we genuinely wanted good for each other.

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I just love him, ya know?

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Too many house plants, I’m evolving. 🪿

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“Hah, it’s funny we got the exact same thing” “of course we did, why wouldn’t we?” - 3 years on the dot. Let’s keep being our own landlords together forever <3

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Current Listen Count: 8, but I know where this is going

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Todays take away: I put memories in folders, that have tags that are searchable. Pay attention to city infrastructure; so many hiding power lines. Forever searching for a parking spot has to be the short straw of afterlives.

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I’ll cut your hair this weekend.

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Current Listen Count: 57

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Current Listen Count: 57

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Edit: 1/4/26 - Count: 187

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Lil’ Fuzzums

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Spring is here, it’s such a fast transition but a much needed one.

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I’ve been thinking about quilts and community lately.

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Check in: I’ve been stopping projects half way through and hoping someone else will finish and clean them up.

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Season 8 Love is Blind. I fall for it every time and spend the night yelling at the TV. I can’t tell any of the relationship apart and it’s wonderful. 📺

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Well, I made it. 30 rotations around the sun 🌞

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Remember when it was warm? And the sun & wind worked in tandem to heat your skin but never to a boil. It’s that time of year where I start idealizing the other side of the fence (summer). The fruit, the foliage, the after dinner walks. Not the bugs, the sunburns, the humid sleepless nights.

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To quote a good friend - need to start somewhere. Glad to be here, get ready for photos of my pupperoo :)

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