Colleen Weibel

wife. mama to J & Hestia. morning hater. coffee lover. HOBY alum. old YE student. oswego alum. rotarian. leafs fan. entrepreneur. critter.

[Colleen Weibel @csillag84]

Sad to see @OswegoMHockey lose to @TrineUniversity 4-1 this evening. Someone should explain what a shutout is to the Trine announcers, though. #oswegolakers #lakershockey

[Colleen Weibel @csillag84]

What in the actual...?! 🤦‍♀️

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

A judge on Friday delayed Donald Trump’s hush money sentencing until after the November election, so voters will cast ballots without knowing whether he could face jail time for his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records.
https://t.co/rEsH0XWlbD

[Colleen Weibel @csillag84]

My GM sent me this.
Definitely apropos.
#CurseOfStrahd
#AvariciaArcana

[Colleen Weibel @csillag84]

Had my first #DnD session last night. Jumping straight into the deep end...
#CurseofStrahd

[Colleen Weibel @csillag84]

@DCMichaelA @LINKstrategic Happy Birthday, Charlie!

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

Another reminder that this man, in totality, is a fraud. He is a scam artist. He steals from the public, his workers who have not been paid, the students of his “university”, his lawyers, his associates and business partners, and now his followers in donations that he pockets. If you have any sense at all you will beware Donald Trump. You mean only to him, what he can take you for. https://t.co/ePZ574yvgJ

[Colleen Weibel @csillag84]

Shoutout to @KorvaColemanNPR for pronouncing Budapest correctly on this morning's @NPRNewsNow 🥰

[Colleen Weibel @csillag84]

@TMClark25 Thank you. After having him around for over 13 years, it's surreal he's not here anymore 💔

[Colleen Weibel @csillag84]

Hug your doggos tonight for me.
We lost our Popeye today and the house is empty.
#dogsarefamily #furbaby #firstborn

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date.

I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this.

Enjoy the story...

“It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying.

Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable and comforted and safe and important.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.

Love,
Fiona”

[Colleen Weibel @csillag84]

All the cool kids are singing along to the #CriticalRole theme song in their kitchen while making cookies at 10pm.

[Colleen Weibel @csillag84]

This was such a sad story to watch unfold locally last week.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Three teenagers stole Faye, a swan who for more than a decade was a fixture at a pond in an upstate New York village, killed her and then ate her, the police said. “They believed that it was just a very large duck,” an officer said. https://t.co/XeXpeoVL4j

[Colleen Weibel @csillag84]

@CanmoreRobb How's your blood pressure?

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

The red line is when Republicans ended the national assault weapons ban.

[Colleen Weibel @csillag84]

@DCMichaelA I was so sad to hear about Javier's passing. Thinking of his family & friends 💙💛

[Raina @RainaSunshinee]

To all my critical role fans remember that Grog didn’t win the first time he went to fight in the pit. But he came back the 2nd time with more heart and strength than he ever had. This is just @Marisha_Ray’s Grog arc. She’ll come back for Creator Clash 3 and win! #CreatorClash2

[Liam O'Brien @VoiceOfOBrien]

America’s refusal to enact meaningful gun control like countless other countries around the world is a miserable, abject failure.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

We had an assault weapons ban from 1994-2004 that prohibited the manufacture or sale for civilian use of certain semi-automatic weapons and banned magazines with 10 rounds or more.

Mass shootings dropped during that decade.

We did it once and should do it again.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Republicans will force a 10 year old to carry her rapist’s baby to term, let a 6 year old carry a gun, permit a 12 year old to work an 8 hour shift in a meat packing plant and allow a grown man to marry a 14 year old with a Judge’s consent, all while telling us that the reason they’re banning drag queens, gender affirming care and books about Rosa Parks is because they want to ‘protect our kids.’

Bullshit.