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Ray Mullen's avatar

That is, indeed, how calculus works. It is similar to where if you break a cookie in half, but still eat both halves, there are substantially less calories involved.

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Becky in Ohio's avatar

This is because the calories fall out when you break the cookie.

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Xan Rubey's avatar

SCIENCE.

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Julie's avatar

This substack is the best investment I have ever made. It makes me so happy.

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Katy's avatar

Right?! I stand by my subscription.

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Jan Baumann's avatar

Agreed.

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Dani's avatar

You know if I were to draw plants, I’d still find a way to kill them 🫤

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Maria Neff's avatar

😂😂😂this made me so happy!! I needed the love and light today,thanks buddy!! 🥰🥰🥰 I love the grandma hobby theory! Im down. I doing it. I cross stitch, draw and kickbox. And your plants are beautiful, I love the lines they are hypnotizing... I love tue simple as well. Well done! Hope you have a great week!

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Karen Walrond's avatar

In defense of dabbling, baby! 😘

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Pam's avatar

I've been doing grandma hobbies ever since I was four, aided by my own Grammy. Her hands held lightly on top of mine as she helped me do those first few (admitedly wonky) knit stitches. I've picked up so many other Grandma hobbies since then that I think there must be a distribution system for those in addition to the universe having a cat distribution system.

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KnitsWithPenguins's avatar

My Nonna taught me to crochet, knit, sew, and embroider, when I was 8.

She would rather have sat stitching all day, than do housework.

And, she often did.

Come on over to my place.

I have SABLE, more knitting/crocheting/weaving/embroidery/tatting/various miscellaneous crafting stuff, than one 65 year old woman should own.

(No, really, I just winnowed down twelve 90 Liter storage bags of yarn, down to six. We no longer have a guest room. It's........not good. LOL)

We also have 2 cats, which The Universe dropped on our doorstep, so I agree with your "Distribution System" Theory.

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Sharon Hays's avatar

I have a favorite sticker I got from the Gray Muse that says, "I'm not a craft hoarder, I'm the curator of an extensive private art supply collection. " I live by that notion. Artists are natural collectors and I think part magpie. I'm in my natural habitat.

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Patti Sullivan's avatar

I just typed wonky too! That is a grandma word for sure 😂

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KnitsWithPenguins's avatar

I, absolutely, love that line drawing.

Simple, elegant, soothing.

Brava, you!

What that study doesn't note is exactly WHY "Grandma hobbies"* extend our lives.

It's a simple reason, really.

It keeps annoying persons from annoying us with banter, by us simply raising one hand, palm out, and not looking up at them***.

Great stress reliever, that.

Also, keeping our hands busy with "Grandma" stuff keeps our hands from tightly squeezing, and twisting, annoying persons bodies, in the general neck area.****

Which keeps us from being incarcerated, for attempted murder.*****

But, then again, incarceration would give us more time for "Grandma hobbies"..........hmmmm......******

*Yes, I absolutely detest that phrase. Grandchildless Grandmas REPRESENT!

**Well, more than they do, normally.

***Crafters, and those who live with them, will understand this gesture.

****Not that I EVER would actually commit bodily harm, but we can picture it in our heads, on repeat.

*****KIDDING! Kind of.

******Also, KIDDING! Kind of.

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Sarah Ruckelshaus's avatar

A good grandma is the best. I'm happy to be compared, I hope you are, too. Grannie hobbies rule!

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Deb Lund's avatar

Love this! Yay for Badass Grandma Hobbies and the grandmas behind them, or in front of them, however they may be. Especially those that create badass communities, tell it like it is, and know how to turn unfortunate words into mottos to live by!

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Ellen Fucich's avatar

Does snarky cross stitch count as a grandma hobby? A lot of my work has the word fuck in it.

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NPE's avatar

I learned to embroider so I could copy one that said, "I love beautiful things and the word fuck."

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Lori Rose's avatar

Trust me on this: we grandmas (or Nanas, which is what I am) pretty much have total "Fuck this shit and fuck you especially" attitudes. We wear it proudly!

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Cicely Robin Laing's avatar

As a fellow artist. I understand the feeling of "I haven't finished this." But really, if you look at it and you like it as it is. Then it is finished. Give yourself permission to do something simple and stop. It's taken me a long time to learn how to do this.

Love your drawings. They are beautiful complicated or simple.

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Cynth's avatar

Gosh! I just LOVE your posts! And I guess “gosh” makes me a grandma, too! Thanks so much for adding life to all of us!

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Judy P's avatar

I've had little old lady hobbies since I was young adult--paper crafting, puzzles, letter writing, reading. Now that I look old enough for these hobbies maybe I should take up skydiving??? I mean, apparently I've banked a lot of extra time on my life already.

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Hope Griffin Diaz's avatar

I really hope after this carpel tunnel surgery I can knit again.

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NPE's avatar

My hands were good as new after but I couldn't knit. Of course, I couldn't before either. (Grandma joke? :))

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Hope Griffin Diaz's avatar

I'm sure they were. Unfortunately, the surgeon for my left hand botch it. Two different PTs said never to use him again. (One not knowing I had.) I'm with a different one so I feel better about it.

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janelle olivarez's avatar

And I know plenty of people in their 20s and 30s who are unabashedly doing all the grandma hobbies, so whoever called them that doesn't know what they're talking about. Let's add kayaking, bungie jumping, and carrying 25 pound babies around!

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