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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Patient
HAZEL: Can he walk yet?
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i wrote a new piece, if you care
"Is it really that you wish him comfort or do you not feel comfortable seeing him struggle? Is it that you don't want him to struggle or you just don't want to see it? If it's the former, I want to
assure you that he is having the time of his life on the mic. If it's the latter, don't listen, but do think about that and what it means for people around you who might be struggling."
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i love that idea
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
exactly. i never let them have the right of way on the crosswalks. they are not people!
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the big dumb eyes must work to humanize them to me because it’s hard to hate something inanimate this much
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
imagine an old delivery robot painted white on the corner of a busy intersection 😢
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ok, question, why do the delivery robots get to go on the sidewalk but bikes have to ride in the street? is it because it’s too dangerous in the street? if so, isn’t it interesting that they are more protected than bikers? what i’m asking is, should we give robots gauges?
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
thank you so much!
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
always feel free to tell me if you love my substack.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
as she sat me she said the 4 most beautiful words in the english language “i love your substack” depression cured.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i have been depressed lately. i forced myself out tonight to have a small bite. for self care, as i’m told im supposed to, to avoid burnout. which im well past but still trying to scrape off the burnt edges & find a soft inside. the hostess of a hip restaurant found a spot at the bar for me.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
all of this sucks but on a brighter note i messaged the chat for my daughter’s school and 2 families had extra window units that they brought to school for me to take home. community rules.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
but i cried on the phone and someone is coming tomorrow instead of saturday.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
oh yeah, the tech didn’t come back today.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
update: i threatened to contact lawyers at disability rights california and the management company texted within minutes to ask if i was home so they could bring a window unit. so they could do that the whole time??? why does it have to be like this?
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ME: I can’t believe she put her plate up on the counter found your cookies & opened the bag herself MATT: I know! I saw her open the bag, that’s incredibly difficult! She was straight eating them out of the bag. ME: She’s amazing. Our dogs must be so annoyed, we’d never call them amazing for that.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
we rent, so i would love for them to say that. it is under the home warranty so im sure they’ll do everything possible to avoid that. but also they try to make it so difficult to get help that i give up. i’m not giving up. i love sludge economics.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
in fact i did it before the last tech, but he doesn’t know what the last tech checked because they don’t talk to each other they only talk to the boss 😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂 each time they come they give a 7 hour window of when they will show up. i’m doing great. not cracking up at all.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AC is broken, tech came for the 3rd time, well 3rd tech from the same company. this one said we need to leave the AC off overnight and he’ll come back tomorrow. he said we need time for the coolant to defrost so he can check the levels, which i would’ve done if they asked.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
my 2 yo daughter just punched me in the eye and laughed and when i said “ow” she started crying and said “im going away, i need space” it’s not even 8am
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
hey, it worked for those kids in mary poppins
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
not just any link but a WALMART link. you know the store famous for rolling into towns and undercutting all the other stores so they can be the only business around, then raising the prices. oh and they treat their workers like shit.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i wrote about how being a caregiver for my husband after his stroke has reinforced my belief that we need to dismantle capitalism bc of the barrage of products recommended to us. and someone put a link to a product from walmart in the comments. i cannot get over how funny that is.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
i went from the car back into the house 3 times before actually leaving to pick up my daughter. adhd is great for getting my steps in.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
toddler: no! i don’t want to eat the banana! me: that’s ok, just leave it on the plate toddler: no! i don’t want to leave it on the plate! she wants to not have her banana and not eat it too
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
after all this matt asked hazel what her favorite ride was and she said “the bus” we could’ve saved so much money! open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
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Happiest Place on Earth
ME: I have two more images ordered.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
aww yay! ours got a kick out of it too
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
re-plating is a game changer in not wasting food for us
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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 18/04/2026
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
i’ve been thinking about this too! they were like “but what will they look like when you’re old?” um… cool? i don’t understand the question
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
my toddler left half a banana out for an hour and then didn’t want to eat it because it was “old.” i sliced off the brown end, then cut the rest into “banana coins” and she ate them all! that’s the type of shit i get excited about these days.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
the second is in response to a comment i got on that screenshot from the first substack.com/@amberrollo/...
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Well, Shit
HAZEL: I hate you, Daddy.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
i forgot to put my most recent shit posts here. first one is for paying subscribers only. but i did post this @frigidairecare.bsky.social review on insta substack.com/@amberrollo/...
This is not like me, I would normally not do this, it took me 2 ½ years to do this, but it has been tough recently. First, a couple months ago Hazel got walking pneumonia, which then Matt and I caught, which then developed into bronchitis in him. Then she got walking pneumonia again.
Then our fridge broke, it took a month for Frigidaire to fix it. Side note, afterwards they sent me a survey to ask if I'd recommend them to friends. So friends, if you are reading this and love just the ice chests part of camping, buy Frigidaire. If you love kinda soggy babybels and being not quite sure if that cream cheese is good, buy Frigidaire. If you are lonely and want a technician to come to your house every week but you want it to always be a surprise, just outside the specified 5 hour window, sometimes early, sometimes late, buy Frigidaire. If you want to have diarrhea for a month, buy Frigidaire. Yes, during all of this Matt started having stomach issues, for a month. He has always had IBS but this was a new level, every day I was cleaning up
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
i am a mean witch daddy. would you like to hide? - our 2 yr old just now
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
i know, it just i’m a caregiver and my wants are not the only ones to consider
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
going to a pool party today that says it’s 4pm till midnight. i’m up at 5:30am every morning, kill me now.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
i do mean to be dramatic and it feels like a god is playing with me like a doll. like i am their sims character and they’re the type to put me in the pool with no ladder.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
He makes a dracula face at me, the shadow of a soy face. open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
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Give a Care, Take a Care
I am driving Hazel to school and I remember that I wanted to talk to her about something.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
tonight our 2 yr old said “live with arms wide open and hug your seltzer” so true
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
she’s fucking amazing.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
last week we transitioned our toddler from her crib & into a toddler bed. first couple of days i ended up sleeping on the wood floor next to her. but i just heard a “clunk” & checked the camera. she clearly fell out of the bed & looked annoyed, but she just crawled back into bed & went to sleep.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
i’m pretty sure the whole building is part of the same medical group.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
it was the fanciest office he’s ever gotten blood drawn at too. the had a beautiful waiting room with big windows and fancy sofas and cube shaped marble tables. very different from the bare cement labcorp with folding chairs, if you’re lucky. i would think they could afford a fedex pickup 🤷‍♀️
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
matt got blood taken today. we see a lot of doctors and have gotten a lot of blood drawn, but i’ve never experienced this before. they put a vile of his blood into a box, gave it back to us, along with a fedex bag and told us to drop it off at fedex. it was bizarre.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
staring at the blank post before you. i wrote about explaining “unwritten” by natasha bedingfield to my 2 year old. but it’s really about the power in facing discomfort head on. open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
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Arms Wide Open
HAZEL: What’s this song about?
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
it’s national caregivers day. about 1 in 5 people provide unpaid care to a loved one. you probably know one. it’s hard to understand until you are doing it (and you likely will) but it is heart wrenching, backbreaking work. do something nice for a caregiver you know. no advice please.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
i wrote about the way strangers approach matt and the way it makes me feel open.substack.com/pub/amberrol...
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Nunya
STRANGER: Did you break your arm or your leg
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
i am so tired of ai on google. not a promo but just switched to duckduckgo and it was super easy to turn off all the ai features in the settings. you can hide ai generated images too. still unfortunately plugged into google for email, but nice to have a simple way to search.
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
i don’t want to brag but our fridge has been broken since last friday and i still didn’t buy anything today 💁‍♀️
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amber rollo @ambercrollo.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
oh also, if you have a library card you can print up to 25 black and white pages a day for free!
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