Happy weekend everyone, I hope you are all safe and well and taking care.

Is there a reason for the swipes taken at Sam Smith? I haven’t seen too much about them recently so not sure if there’s something about them that I’ve missed. Also, Cardi B’s “remix” is probably better than any actual music she’s put out.

Is the second entry in reference to Sam Smith? If so, please do not misgender them. Thanks!

Hey Joan, Sam Smith is non-binary, THEY/THEM. You just wrote a whole paragraph literally calling them a man over and over. Edit that, it’s gross.

We’re dying to put clothes on.

Well, I guess it’s a good thing I’m not famous, dress in casual clothes, and only have four friends I’d want to invite over for my barbeques anyway. 

That’s amazing, and cheese souffle and salad sounds like a fantastic dinner. 

I’m reading a book that’s set during the Spanish civil war, so I’ve had this song stuck in my head, and thinking about Pan’s Labyrinth, and how I had no idea going into the movie there would be fascists.  

Last week I posted to SNS (for the first time) after receiving a cancer diagnosis for my pup. He was put to sleep on Wednesday, at our home, and buried in our backyard. Tonight I’m sitting around a campfire (which he loved) thinking about him and what he meant to us. He was with me & my husband for 9 years, most of…

So, The Bartender and I bit the bullet and bought a (very old) car this week. When we were moving to Panama in mid March, we sold our cars a few days before our flight. Which obviously got cancelled when Panama stopped allowing international flights to land there, so we’ve been living without a car in a place that has…

After a long quarantine stuck with 3 teenagers, I’ve found my ultimate revenge shirt to wear with them in public. They don't understand my awesome taste in fashion and beg me to wear normal clothes. Fuck that shit.

What’s going on in your kitchen? I made raspberry ricotta cake, because in a few weeks, we’re going to have an alarming amount of raspberries and I had to get rid of the ones in the freezer. The cake is good, not too sweet. I also made a really good dinner salad this week, with a mix of romaine, butterhead, arugula,…

Nearly had somebody with Covid show up at work yesterday. (Not an “I’mma be Typhoid Harry” situation, but a “I need to do this and the app’s not working” situation. Gentleman in question is actually very polite. Other than, you know, having no common sense.)

Am...am I the first post this week??

god i miss deadspin

We went to visit my grandparents one state over when my brother was toilet training, over 50-odd years ago. There wasn’t room in the car for both his car seat and potty chair so the potty chair became the car seat for John.

And anyway, Grace is a footnote, a supporting character. The protagonist of the movie is actually her assistant Maggie (Dakota Johnson), a walking music encyclopedia with benevolent designs to break into the industry for real.

I have to say, I am very glad to be an adoptee from before the current thinking behind open adoption.

Yeah, I’m adopted, and at least back when my parents got me it wasn’t treated like a fucking errand. I remember books they gave me about being chosen, etc., and much later encountering Jamie Lee Curtis’s wonderful “Tell Me Again About The Night I Was Born,” where the adoption story is a beloved family tale.

This ‘family as performance’ shit is angering in ways I cannot reasonably put into words using my mushy quarantine brain.