Some people feel like their families don’t understand them. Some people tell their families cloaks are awesome but not practical for real life so they don’t really need one and then their family buys them one for their 37th birthday anyway and tells them to find reasons to wear it. I’m some people.

Nothing like sleeping zero minutes all night, then getting out of the shower to find your dog threw up in the living room in two different places. Time to make some coffee and the drive through a snow storm to visit family for the thanksgiving holiday celebration!

I will say this once, and only once. Go birds. We will never speak of this again.

Happy Thanksgiving! 🧀💚💛 #gopackgo

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Amelia is working on creating more sticker designs for Patreon backers over this long weekend and we would love your ideas! If there are any designs you would love to have in your collection now is your chance to let us know!

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Power is back. Apartment only got down to 64° so I live to see another day. Boss still says I can be done with work but I’m gonna do stuff anyway because people are now gone for the holiday so I can finally be left alone enough to get actual things done maybe?

Well. It is crazy windy (the windchill is at 5°F) and my power is out. On the plus side my supervisor said that means I can stop working for the day. The downside is that it will get pretty cold in here if it doesn’t come back on soon lol

And thus it begins.

“we need to be nicer to men” bro they overturned women’s constitutional right to an abortion three years ago

Giants gonna be the giants I guess.

It’s Sunday and you know what that means! Dogs. It means dogs. 💛💚🧀🏈🧀💚💛

Happy birthday to me! So far I got a text from my mom and cried in the parking lot of the mall because I was overwhelmed and sad that my day was not going well. Hooray for turning 37 I guess.

Scheduled the first 3 therapy visits for Eleanor now. I have every other Friday off for the next month for Eleanor’s appointments. Plus a Monday off for Kate’s next doctor appointment (still haven’t scheduled her therapy). My therapist wants me to schedule a physical and ECT. But when???

Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Today I did hard things and spent like two hours checking insurance and putting in appointment requests for therapists for Kate. Tomorrow I get to do it again for Eleanor. And if there’s time, I can make my own doctor appointments maybe. If there’s any energy or PTO left…

I am once again begging people to stop making pedophile jokes. They are not funny, and you are re-traumatizing people. Source: I AM TIRED OF BEING TRAUMATIZED

Thank You (Part 2/2) - Gator Days

Teenage scoffs and heavy sighs would be a great source of renewable energy if we could just find a way to harness them for good. This post brought to you by my kids being asked to take out the garbage.

I have so much to do but my sweet puppy is asleep on my lap, snoring. It’s so soothing.

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Listening to a book and you suddenly hear @kdimerc.bsky.social and your brain shorts out because this isn’t where you expected it… Enjoying As Good As Dead though…

I heard this once as "In a just world, only a few people are guilty, but everyone is *responsible*" and that has really stuck with me.

Still terrifying

Neurodivergent food aversions are bad because like what do you mean I went to the store to buy the food, got home and made the food, and now I’m smelling it and I want nothing to do with it???

Hanging out with my sister is the best because I just looked at her and said “sorry I’m not talking much. My brain isn’t working” and she said “same.” So she is literally just in my house, texting me pictures of pants she wants to buy while we watch tv together. And that’s sisterhood.

I WILL NOT - dashare.zone ADMIN

The one bit of good news in the last week or so: the doctor that does my ECT is back in network. This makes the prospect of winter much less daunting, since that’s generally when the low moods for my bipolar disorder really hit. It’s a relief to know that I have a safety net.

It's Monday, and that means a new episode of C3! We end this month's series with @nerdburgercraig.bsky.social joining us to discuss how the Cosmic Corsairs character creation went along with how this plucky group found themselves as a crew together in our fanfic! open.spotify.com/episode/0XqB...

Struggling with motherhood this week. Feeling overwhelmed by being asked to carry the weight of everything but also being blamed for all of it too. Ex’s family blaming me for what’s going on with Kate, ex just letting it happen while also expecting me to handle her care too and saying he supports it

I am begging the mainstream media to talk less about the East Wing & more about the loss of SNAP funding for the next few days. The East Wing is gone. We can’t change that. We *can* help people prepare for the loss of SNAP. We can urge folks to donate to food banks. We can give them warning.

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein during a sunless summer while on the world’s worst sleepover party with, among others, LORD BYRON. This book’s ongoing popularity is testament to the power of teenage girls who are FED UP, and how we can all relate to a monster, abandoned and unloved.

It's Invisible Disabilities Week 🫶🏽 Not all disabilities are visible and that doesn't make them any less real. Chronic pain, mental health conditions, neurological disorders, autoimmune diseases & more deserve awareness, respect, and understanding ✨

Apparently things got worse last night. The grandparents found and it’s really bas. And ex was not home to be a buffer when it happened. They said some really awful shit to my kid. And about me. I think my mom is fully prepared to commit a murder on our behalf, so if something happens, no it didn’t.

Empty cupboards and stomachs are the real and near consequences of Republican dysfunction in Washington.   The Trump Administration must use any federal resources available to make sure 700,000 of Wisconsin’s kids, families, and seniors don't go hungry. www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

Let me get this straight, Trump is: 💰Asking the government to pay him $230 million 🏰Spending $250 million to build himself a ballroom 🇦🇷Sending $20 billion to Argentina But, he is refusing to lower your health care costs. Trump is showing you his priorities.

Took Kate to her first appointment with the UW Health gender care folks yesterday (literally drove past the hotel I stayed at all weekend for Gamehole). Our social worker is amazing and I’m happy we’re getting the process going. But getting an even longer to do list is overwhelming.

You’ll hear a similar refrain from me on Character Creation Cast all the time. “We had this amazing session where we did x, y, and z!” That’s great. But you did all that in spite of the game mechanics/rules. Not because of them! And how much better could it be if a game supported it instead?

I wasn’t working with the vendor, but I think this kind of mirror is my experience at Gamehole. We only had two people at our panel. The majority of the games on offer were 5e. I liked the panels that I went to, but three panels per day wasn’t enough to really make it worth the effort. 

And if you want in on the kickstarter for this wonderful game, you still have time! Head on over to the crowdfunding page here and see what goodies @nerdburgercraig.bsky.social has to offer: www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

Series 88's character creation concluded with today's episode! @nerdburgercraig.bsky.social joined @gingerreckoning.bsky.social and @lordneptune.com to finish up our rebellious Cosmic Corsairs characters and it was a fun time all around! Check out the episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/4yd7...

Gamehole was a decent re-entry point to cons for me. Not too overwhelming. Haven’t been to a con since 2019, when the podcast was only about 18 months old and I hadn’t been an ennies judge yet. Some people knew who I was and that was wild to me. I missed my sweet puppy though 💚

My dearest Green Bay Packers, What, and I mean this with the utmost sincerity and passion, the actual fuck was that first half? Congratulations on that amazing field goal though.

Wrapped up my time at Gamehole Con today! Got to talk to some amazing people, pointed to a lot of books I already own, and sat in on a few great panels. Plus @lordneptune.com and I ran a fun panel of our own. Possibly best of all, I drank two extremely classy drinks (Shirley Temples).

Is this the worst lighting for any picture ever taken of me? Possibly. Were the tacos here absolutely incredible? Also yes.

On the way to #GameHoleCon day 2 with @gingerreckoning.bsky.social! Fell free to say hi if you see us!

I am at Gamehole Con starting today! If you see me please say hi!! Or come to the Character Creation Cast panel tonight at 8!

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