Glad you three had a happy birthday! Dave should have taken advice from Boss Hogg from The Dukes of Hazzard and let all of you take his “Cheat Meal”!

“I dunno. If I eat too many doughnuts, Dave gets upset with me. I gotta limit myself to about 2 or sometimes 3.”

hey Theodore I was wondering if you ever heard of a trading card game called Yu-Gi-oh?

“I have heard of it! Yes! I didn’t ever play it though.”

hey Theodore did you know that in a live action film you were voiced by Jessie McCartney?

“I did know that, yeah. That wasn’t me…that was a different me, but I think Jesse did a good job!”

“Yaaay! Brittany recommends me! I wonder what she recommends me for.”

“Dave and Miss. Miller made us the yummiest birthday cake ever!”

“It’s okay! I’m just happy you had fun!”

“It’s so great seeing people be so nice to each other on the Day Of Mean Pranks.”

“Me too! I’m hoping we can play Monopoly! I love Monopoly!”

“I wonder when we’ll have family game night again.”

“I’m not going to trust anyone until at least April 3rd. Not taking any chances. Nope.”

“It’s so great seeing people be so nice to each other on the Day Of Mean Pranks.”

“Dave bought a bunch of ice cream sandwiches and now there’s only one left. I wonder who took them.”

“There’s nothing more fun than spending a weekend watching mystery shows with Eleanor, soap operas with Brittany, and Disney movies with Jeanette.”

all your stuffed animals love you. they're not sad if they're in a box, or on the floor, or not held/played with as much. they understand. they know that you might need another stuffie more, or that you don't have enough space. they're just happy to be with you, and if you ever give them away, they'll be happy there too. stuffies are for comfort. they understand. they love you too. it's okay.

i know it’s been said before, but it bears repeating: a big, big part of maintaining your confidence & self esteem as a creator is fully embracing the concept of “you don’t have to be good like them.  you can be good like you.”

for example, i’m not someone who’s particularly good at coming up with complex, elaborate plots or incredibly unique ideas.  it’s just not how i choose to write.  and it would be easy for me to look at someone with an elaborate, super unique plot & decide that because i don’t write like that, i’m not a good writer.  after all, unique plots are good, and my writing lacks those, so my writing must not be good, right?  well, no, actually.  i just have different strengths, like taking a simple premise & digging super deep into its emotional depths.  that’s what i do well & it isn’t any better or worse than people who do elaborate world building or come up with really creative and unexpected plots.

your writing is never going to be all things to all people.  it just isn’t.  inevitably, you’ll have to make creative choices that favor certain aspects of writing over others.  there is truly no getting around that & it’s honestly a good thing, because it means you’ve developed your own style.  but you’ll always encounter other creators who posses strengths that you don’t.  it doesn’t mean one is better than the other or that your writing isn’t good enough. 

comparing yourself like that would be like taking a piece of pizza & a cupcake & going “oh no, that cupcake is so sweet & my pizza isn’t sweet at all.” or “gosh, the garlic crust on that pizza is delicious and my cupcake doesn’t have ANY garlic.”  obviously your pizza isn’t sweet.  obviously your cupcake doesn’t have garlic.  a food can’t have every single delicious flavor at once.  the cupcake is good like a cupcake.  the pizza is good like a pizza.  so you don’t have to be good like them.  you can be good like you.

“Simon! Simon! I baked you a very berry Pi Pie!”

“Yaaay! Officer Dangus has an account now!”

“I was wondering when he’d show up.”

“Does Dave set off anyone else’s gaydar? Or is it just mine?”

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“Eleanor let me borrow her jacket.”