If that happy little Valentine’s Day flash caused concern that I’d been bodysnatched, here’s some reassuring(?) trauma, slow-burning rage, and malicious compliance iiiiin spaaaaace. Click the title or image to read “I Want to Understand Their Screams.” It’s not paywalled at the moment, but being paid for my labor is a pretty reliable way to […]
I’ve been doing the slice-of-life thing for a year now, which is a long enough trial to conclude I’m not a fan. Rather than engendering empathy, it seems to invite people to view other’s lives as entertainment and complain when the season doesn’t live up to expectations. There’s no benefit to me, but there is
Just found out that for a mere additional $1800, Kiddo’s driver’s ed class will do what we actually needed it to do. Cannot emphasize enough that I do not have a car and therefore do not have insurance to put her on and therefore cannot clock 60 hours of practice driving, hence the entire purpose
Night before last, I got 2 hours of sleep. So it would be easier to take a nap if the opportunity presented, I didn’t take any of the caffeine I use to self-medicate the ADHD. I stole about 2 more hours during the day[efn_note]The floor is perfectly comfortable when the divine hand of Fatigue is
I’ve always preferred the ease of sheet cakes to the hassle of un-panning, stacking, and fussily frosting layer cakes, but I’ve figured out that if I make the layers, top-frost one in its pan, and wrap-and-freeze the other, not only do we not have to race to eat a ton of cake before it gets
To compensate for my terrible mood herein, here’s a bop about being possessed by the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe. I wish I still had a car so I could get in it and badly sing this song at the top of my lungs repeatedly for the 20 minutes it takes me to get to
Today’s surprise knowledge bomb was about shagbark hickory. Nature is inspiring. *toddles off to write horrifying things* And hey, it’s super cool that one can be as ancient as I am, be referred to by others as “a walking encyclopedia” (thanks, unlimited storage capacity for useless information!), and still, on a fairly regular basis, have
I had to make a dessert with slim pickings in the ingredient department, and this is how we get things like cranberry-orange coffee cake with a layer of thinly sliced canned cranberry jelly instead of studded with whole berries. It felt very much like having to incorporate the groan-inducing “surprise” ingredient on a baking competition
I’m replaying Planescape: Torment in 10-minute increments between meetings and also rereading The Dark Tower[efn_note]My kid recently finished reading the series for the first time and wants to have deep discussions my memory is too hazy to participate in. She was expounding on something, stopped, and said, “This is sucking up a lot of my
Between whatever’s causing my 1 a.m. anxiety attacks and those cutting short my already limited sleep, I’ve attained heretofore unimaginable levels of irritability. It’s an excellent time to not have social media to breathe fire all over.