Archive (Page 2) • Brieana Garcia • Buttondown

December 7, 2022

Hello friends! Happy Thursday. I hope you and yours are doing well! In case you were wondering, I had a wonderful time on vacation! I also truly didn't know...

Why can't someone just plan my trip for me??

November 16, 2022

Hello everyone and happy Thursday! Things are going in Brieana land! I slammed my finger in a door while trying to run out for some groceries. (If you see...

So much is happening this week and yet I have a cup of tea and I could use maybe ten more.

November 9, 2022

Hello! Welcome to Thursday. What a lovely day. The election... happened? (I'm a PA baby so YESSSS FETTERMAN, but also a NY-er so thank god kathy did okay.) A...

Apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime.

November 2, 2022

Hello! Welcome to Thursday, the first Thursday I am not sprinting across the globe trying to do something. I want to brag for a moment that a book I worked...

Did I cry a little while hiking up a mountain??? …Maybe!

October 26, 2022

“Brieana,” you may yell, “it is late as hell o’clock why is the newsletter so late??” First off, mind your business, I’m doing this for free and second I am...

My clothes smell of smoke and yet it is delightful

October 20, 2022

Hi hello good day I hope you are well I am a little more stressed than normal but all of my vacations are planned for the good year of 2022 and I...

I used a blowtorch to make a LAMP

October 12, 2022

Hello! Good day. I'm exhausted because I got home super late last night after USING A BLOWTORCH to MAKE A COPPER LAMP. Yes! I decided to truly embrace my...

I got so much left to prove.

October 5, 2022

What a weird waiting period. By this time next week, I will have turned 31 and will have done *insert awesome thing that she has not planned for her birthday...

It's been one [year] since you looked at me.

September 29, 2022

Would you believe I am once again on a break! I have the ability to rest and if you know me at all, you know that resting is not a thing I do. But apparently...

May you ride eternal, shiny and chrome.

September 21, 2022

Sometimes you have a week where nothing is redeemable and you immediately give up and go to sleep. And somedays you have a week where you successfully...

"You just triggered my fight or flight response... and I am a flightless bird."

September 14, 2022

You know, it's quite weird getting older! I was in a situation recently where someone asked me for advice and me of five years ago would've truly been like...

"Looks To Me Like You're On The Wrong Side Of The River!"

September 7, 2022

So, as many of you know, the newsletter normally goes out between 11am-1pm, but if y'all had the weeks I had, you would understand why it wasn't even written...

Summer is just rolling away

August 31, 2022

Hello friends and welcome to Thursday! I am so exhausted. The Thursday before a holiday weekend which marks the end of summer is truly a *choice*, and one I...

"Listen up, let me tell you a story!"

August 24, 2022

Oh! Shucks! It's Thursday! I only realized this because I was sprinting out of the subway this morning as it changed over from Wednesday to today, trying to...

Apparently breaks are good actually?

August 17, 2022

Hello humans and happy Thursday. I'm on the first vacation I've taken this year (yes it's August. No, we will not talk about it), and I don't have a single...

"I want you to know that I will never want that wagon wheel coffee table."

August 10, 2022

Happy Thursday! I would update you all again on my video game adventures but wow - I am bad at Bioshock! I'm on easy and I cannot get past a certain level...

How many gaming hours is too many hours?

August 3, 2022

So last week I was saying how I couldn't focus on anything except for one video that didn't deserve the publicity my newsletter could give it so I wouldn't...

Does anyone even still watch Riverdale??

July 27, 2022

How is everyone's focus doing? Good? Mine is truly beyond the garbage! I cannot look at anything for long without becoming bored and throwing it away. Except...

*stares into the unending void*

July 20, 2022

Hi y'all - the rona got me. No worries, I'm fine - just living the fact that when you don't rest, your body will make you rest -- by catching the plague that...

Please give me movie recommendations!

July 13, 2022

Hi everyone and happy Thursday! This weekend is going to be hot, hot enough that even I gave up my suffering to turn on an air conditioner! Did you know that...

maybe i should sell my pottery...

July 6, 2022

Hello there friends and happy Thursday! To be fair, I know it's Thursday because of the calendar, and not because my soul feels like it is Thursday! It's...

just emailing through the apocalypse, am I right?

June 29, 2022

The fun thing about these newsletters is when I write them really depends. Sometimes it's obvious that I've written them the night before due to the frantic...

of course you won't break my soul; beyonce said so!

June 22, 2022

Welcome to a new week my friends! I’m assuming you all heard about Beyoncé’s newest single drop (and if you didn’t, here you go). Beyoncé understands the 9-5...

anyone else crawling towards a long weekend?

June 15, 2022

Someone said to me recently was that if I wanted to start figuring out next steps for my life goals, I had to... *gasp* figure out life goals??? It honestly...

anyone want to take some books off my hands?

June 8, 2022

Good afternoon, friends! Welcome to the end of another week and we have made it! Almost! Idk about you, I have Summer Fridays, and if you don't, suffer!! How...

always carry an umbrella just in case it rains!

June 1, 2022

Hello friends! The world is still garbage and as I'm writing this there is a massive storm going on outside but I got to sit and gossip about work, life, and...

what a week

May 25, 2022

I don't know of a funny way to say that this country is a trash fire and every day is a new disappointment but truly it feels like we're just seeing a new...

it's non-fiction book recommendation time!

May 18, 2022

Well gosh dang, I'm so glad I have a newsletter because sit down y'all do I have a tale for you! And sorry in advance - this one is long! As a member of the...

keep fighting the good fight, y'all

May 11, 2022

I really don't have anything today, y'all. This week wiped me the fuck out, highlighted with a migraine that almost made me throw up on camera. :/ But still...

apparently drop-kicking a laptop into the ocean is....bad

May 4, 2022

Hooooo boy it has been a week. So if you're able to take a few minutes to chill with me, I'm honored. If you need to go like, scream at the sky instead, I...

no, I'm not talking about the nickelodeon slime

April 27, 2022

Hello! It's Thursday. How are these weeks speeding by and yet also not moving at all? It's truly amazing! This one will hopefully be a short one, but for all...

tony stark built this in a cave! with a box of scraps!!!

April 20, 2022

Fam this no plant buy is going badly - I bought four more plants. :( But I'm all done! Promise! But maybe I'm not because I tried to propagate my three-foot...

how much could a banana cost? $10??

April 13, 2022

Fam, if you can believe if, only weeks after my long Kingdom Hearts newsletter, they announced Kingdom Hearts 4. Incredible. Amazing. This newsletter will be...

this letter inspired by me almost buying another monstera

April 6, 2022

Whew boy! It has been a week! Not in a terrible way but in a "why is everything happening so much???" way? Goodness me. And now that I've woken up three...

thinking of you, wherever you are

March 30, 2022

Twenty years ago on March 28th, 2002, Kingdom Hearts came out in Japan. On December 25th, 2003, I put the disk into my PlayStation 2 for the first time,...

relaxation? what in the world is that??

March 23, 2022

Friends, I have a question in general - what do you do to wind down from work? Maybe you never wind down, and have in fact been working 365 days a year, all...

what do you do when all your enemies are friends?

March 16, 2022

The best part about having a newsletter is being able to write about anything you want! Anything! What a weird concept. And you all don't have to read it,...

sometimes, when making art, I just screeeeeeam

March 9, 2022

Ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh -- anyone else have a week? I barely slept. I MESSED UP MY WORDLE SCORE. Everything is coming up garbage. Speaking of coming up...

luckily, flowers at Trader Joe's aren't too pricey...

March 2, 2022

So these last few weeks have been... a lot. I always try to have a topic ready to go no matter what but wow, sometimes it's really hard to put on the charm...

looks like it's time for my daily silly little walk

February 23, 2022

Happy Thursday everyone! Weirdly enough, this week has sped by - usually four day weeks are slow and painful but whew boy, for once in my life, I'm like...

something, something, mom's spaghetti

February 16, 2022

Happy Thursday y'all! We made it!!! We endured!!!!!!! Let's get into it! So I finally sat down and watched Marry Me and hooo boy! That trailer was truly a...

if I read 365 books in a year, do I win a prize?

February 9, 2022

Happy Thursday! Why is this week speeding by oh gooooooosh! Are you the type of person hate consumes media? Or even consumes media that you halfway don't...

sometimes failure IS an option? what a concept!

February 2, 2022

Sometimes, life gives you lemons. Other times, life gives you a leaking ceiling for multiple days as well as a multi-day migraine! We love to see it! But on...

my friends are my power!

January 26, 2022

Another week has trekked by and somehow we made it! I don't know about you all but last week was one of the longest and most terrible weeks of this year! But...

friendship is a weird thing

January 19, 2022

You know, why is it that short weeks are somehow always 1000% longer than every other week. Yes, that is how I'm starting this newsletter out! No welcome -...

if Chris Pine reads my books, you should too

January 12, 2022

Oh god it's Thursday. This week was fascinating. Monday and Tuesday moved as slow as molasses, and now it's Thursday. Wow is time a cyclical thing. I hate...

a plastic water bottle and a paper towel roll

January 5, 2022

Welcome back to a "normal" working week and what a week it has been! Emotionally, I'm still processing all the everything that has happened, from the fact...

time to ring in the new year!

December 29, 2021

It's almost 2022 so happy Thursday y'all. I know most people are enjoying time off (or, well, if you're not, you're so zoned out that you might as well be...

all i want for Christmas is a break

December 22, 2021

Happy Thursday y'all. We're so close to the holiday, I can almost taste it. Sense it? Idk man, idk. The world is truly bleak! I don't have positive things to...

how many dead plants is too many dead plants?

December 15, 2021

Happy Thursday everyone! We! Are! So! Close! To! A break! Keep going y'all! There is nothing more humbling than turning on a stand mixer and either a) the...