"we come back to my house, sun comes up, people in my canal—theres like 3 guys driving at 6am to go you know do the sunrise fishing excursion"
"—and it just like driving out of my like canal, i was like this is incredible! it was the most sereal feeling ill ever feel in my life"
"i could use a canal to drive out of like what is going on? you said that twice now! most people drive out of their street, out of their driveways—" "just a subtle flex" "he lives on a canal!" "hes like, lives in a canal this guy!" "im tryna paint the picture for you guys!
alternatively the canal cut or maffhew lives in ft lauderdale and it is absolutely impossible to not mention the canal infrastructure of the area during storytime and he gets chirped for it
if you ever mess up, remember that you're not the person that got a cargo ship stuck in a canal OR got a different cargo ship to destroy a bridge that connects a major highway together
At long last, Baptism Day has arrived! I can’t lie to You, Watcher; even knowing what your book says about Autonomous and knowing that You didn’t instruct us to celebrate all of these holidays, I still miss having special days to look forward to. But I’m working on making every day something to look forward to, like Javi does.
Currently the ETW is building a proper baptism center for Oasis Springs, but it’ll be a few more years before construction is complete. I thought we’d be going to a public pool or something, so I was shocked when Javi took us across the road to a nearby canal!
My parents-in-love came with us, and Juanita assured me that swimming in the canal was perfectly safe, and they had been coming here for Javi’s whole life on Baptism days. So I gave my worries to You and trusted my husband’s judgment.
It was strange, swimming without the taste of chlorine. Javi and Juanita watched the boys while I did my baptism. I could feel the current pulling against me, but I’m a strong swimmer and was able to hold my own. I’m still concerned about our kids being able to manage it when they get older and can swim on their own, but that worry is for a few years from now, so I won’t think about it too much.
pain has veeeeeery suspiciously disappeared from the tooth which makes me veeeeeeeery suspicious bc that’s not good lmfao bc if the pain goes without treatment, it means smth in that tooth has fucking died if I can’t feel anything anymore LMAO. okay if I press hard enough it hurts but it’s nowhere near the sharp ass pain it’s been leading up to this point so! I’m gonna go into that appointment expecting dead nerves and an infection or abscess of some kind. I’m also going in expecting the tooth to get ripped out so! what a day that’s gonna be