Eve D. 🍎

Full time note taker. I roll my eyes a lot, here. When I find gems in haystacks, I share them. Pretty much everything interests me. I read a lot, but not enough

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

🖊️ For fun, I write a blog and a newsletter, aimed at 45yr+ women...
...you know, about all that stuff that happens when you enter the second chapter and start looking around and asking "huh, what now?".

It's frivolous, but you'd probably enjoy it. Others do! Link below.

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

@eric_seufert @ryancjulian The scale

[Andrew Wilkinson @awilkinson]

This is a story about how I lost $10,000,000 by doing something stupid.

Ten. Million. Dollars.

Literally up in smoke. Money bonfire.

That’s enough to retire with $250,000+ in annual income.

Here’s what happened…

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

@BronyW I was doing stretching exercises in gym pool yesterday and a woman who was swimming laps stopped after each lap and randomly started chatting to me! Definitely 2 types of people in the world....

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

@cathjenkin I LOVE a good “karma saga”. Doesn’t happen often enough. Pls share deets privately, if you can!

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

I just scored @FlySafair Lekker R11 Flights! 🎉✈️ Go and get yours now at https://t.co/nI5zpV2CNN #FlySafairLekkerR11Flights

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

I just wrote my first note on Substack
https://t.co/0FIyeSy9Vw

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

@beehiiv HELP! I cannot get into my dashboard..I don't receive the emailed code. This is a recurring problem that has not been solved by you, and happens regularly. I've sent an email. Please fix asap, I'm on deadline. [email protected]. Thanks!

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

@beehiiv Hi...having issues with not getting device confirmation code emails., so can't log in and post newsletter. Can someone help?

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

@SamCGon @BongKingCapeTwn weird...but also gives me an opportunity to say that I STILL think about our convo from above, and die a small death each time 🤣🤣🤣

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

@cathjenkin City of Tshwane has a Black Friday deal #TrueStory (settle outstanding bill, get full refund of all interest charged)

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

I know same day delivery is possible, so anything that takes FIVE days to get to me once it's dispatched feels like incompetence. #impatient

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

The UK is like the spooled sibling jealous of the US getting all the attention today....

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

The Queen is unwell with a chest infection and has withdrawn from her engagements this week, Buckingham Palace says
https://t.co/I1hA0c7mlm

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

Jesus Christ 🤯😢

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

Oh...WOW. Brilliant. My docs are a mess...

[Neville Medhora @nevmed]

Google Docs now has tab support, this is huge!

Now a simple Doc can keep all your notes organized in one place. No need for 5 different Docs for a project.

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

Phenomenal. Loved re-living this today!

[Derek Alberts @derekalberts1]

One year ago today we witnessed one of the greatest, if not the greatest, rugby epics.

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

This was an incredible life. So much anguish, yet so much perseverance.

[Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr]

My mom, Ethel Skakel Kennedy, passed peacefully into Heaven this morning. She was 96. She died in Boston surrounded by many of her nine surviving children and her friends. God gave her 34 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren, and the energy to give them all the attention they required. He blessed her with a rich and eventful life. Even as she declined in recent months, she never lost her sense of fun, her humor, her spark, her spunk, and her joie de vivre. She wrung joy from every moment, but for 56 years she has spoken with yearning of the day she would reunite with her beloved husband. She is with him now, with my brothers David and Michael, with her parents, her six siblings, all of whom predeceased her, and her “adopted” Kennedy siblings Jack, Kick, Joe, Teddy, Eunice, Jean, Rosemary, and Patricia. From the day she met my father, her new family observed that she was “more Kennedy than the Kennedys.” She was never more enthusiastic about the afterlife than when she considered that she would also be reunited with her many dogs, including 16 Irish setters — all conveniently named “Rusty.”

The cognitive dissonance that allowed her to keep two inconsistent truths in her heart at the same time without budging made my mother a collection of irreconcilable convictions. Among these was her ironic combination of deep — nearly blind — reverence for the Catholic Church and irreverence toward its clerics. She was at once starstruck by America’s presidents, all of whom she came to know personally, and at the same time skeptical of government and toward all figures of authority. She balanced her contempt for pretension and hypocrisy with a boundless tolerance for error and mistakes in others.

God also endowed her with a perpetual attitude of gratitude that fueled her taste for adventure and an irrepressible buoyancy in a life beset by a continuous parade of heartbreaking tragedies. Her sunny optimism eventually brought my shattered father back to life following the assassination of his brother and then helped her children to thrive after her husband’s assassination five years later.

Among her most defining qualities were moral and physical fearlessness. She was a peerless equestrian and held the high jump record on horseback, jumping 7′9″ on a Quarter Horse. Critics named her among the best female amateur tennis players, and she was a competitive diver. But she did every sport well — from football to skiing, waterskiing and kayaking. Her disciplined stoicism and her deep faith in God enabled her to endure over ten years of pregnancy without complaint. She also suffered the murders of her husband and Uncle Jack, and the early deaths of two of her children. Various air crashes killed both of her parents, her brother, her sister-in-law, and her nephew John. She never enjoyed flying, but her worry never stopped her from boarding a plane. While giving short shrift to her own monumental suffering, she always showed intense compassion for others.

My mother invented tough love, and she could be hard on her children when we didn’t live up to her expectations. But she was also intensely loyal, and we always knew that she would stand fiercely behind us when we came under attack by others. She was our role model for self-discipline, for resilience, and for self-confidence. She deeded to each of her 11 children her love of good stories, her athleticism, her competitive spirit, and the deep curiosity about the world, and the intense interest in people of all backgrounds, which caused her to pepper everyone she met — from cab drivers to presidents — with a relentless cascade of questions about their lives. She also gave us all her love of language and for good storytelling. I credit her for all my virtues. I’m grateful for her generosity in overlooking my faults.

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

Delivers, once again!

[Randy Rainbow @RandyRainbow]

“…And we best not make him number 47.” #TBT #whatwoulddollydo parody 🗳️🎶👠

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

Can confirm

[star 💫 @stxrinsky]

hahaha

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

It's particularly unnerving to WAIT for a known disaster to strike. I'm horrified for what's about to be unleashed on #florida. I cannot even begin to imagine being in that situation.

[Eve D. 🍎 @EveD]

Clever