Homemade truffle cheddar mac & cheese, crispy bbq chicken, baby arugula salad. #cookingsky #whatsfordinner

My husband was passed over in the final round of interviews again. One more blow in a really shitty week. I miss my therapist. I’m not okay.

I’m filling out sparse scenes that were just “get the words on the page” bits in my book in my quest for 100k words and the word count is coming much easier than anticipated. I’ve now written more in this book than anything in my past.

The frustration of seeing my family come together to donate to my brother’s GoFundMe when none of them donated to mine when we needed it. My friends all came together to help so I can’t complain too much, but it just goes to show family for me has never been about blood.

Chicken, broccoli & baby corn stir fry in homemade ginger garlic sauce over riced cauliflower; sesame chicken gyoza. #cookingsky

A year ago today I lost someone I love very much to addiction and alcoholism. Here’s art I wish I could send her from @kilkennycat.art. It’s too fucking perfect and I hate that she’ll never see it. It’s never too late to enter recovery and its never too late to try it again if it didn’t stick.

Fried flounder po’ boy with pickled radish, red beans & rice, fried green tomato with homemade remoulade. Amaretto cherry bread putting with amaretto glaze. This is how I spoil my gamers. #cookingsky #gamenightdinner

I really loved Mandalorian & Grogu so if you needed to hear someone say that, it is me. I had a great time and left very, very pleased. I thought it was super fun and exactly what it said on the tin.

No Tiara, you should not start a batch of muffins at a quarter to midnight. It’ll be okay to make them in the morning. Take your meds and go to bed ffs.

Roasted chicken breast; risotto with fiddlehead ferns. The husband made the risotto and absolutely killed it. #cookingsky #sundaydinner

Leftover vegetable stir fry with shimeji mushrooms, papers, spam & Chinese sausage. We’ve been enjoying salad wraps all week so tonight I pulled everything together into a tasty, spicy rice bowl. The spicy sauce I made was perfect with everything. #cookingsky

My client booked my flights to San Francisco, and I cashed out all my Southwest flight credits so he can come along!!

I’m baking a chocolate cake (technically a Guinness chocolate cake and not true Devils Food) for tonight’s Pathfinder game night but I really hope it doesn’t aggravate anybody’s IBD!

Spending my day making more recycled candles when I already have too many candles because making candles makes the horrors feel less horrible.

Hey who wants to test read my smutty m/m demi/allo romance novel full of queer characters and queer community? Just kidding, I will never ever get up the guts to share it with people in case they give me Actual Feedback. Which stinks because I think it’s really good? Why am I like this? Sigh.

Today I grocery shopped, caramelized onions, started a batch of fresh yogurt, went to the home improvement store, planted my herb garden, made lemon poppyseed scones, and made short ribs and collards for dinner. Holy smokes, what a day! #cookingsky

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

I made mango butter!! I found this recipe in a box of cards from my husband’s late mother who died long before we met and it’s so yummy! The card from 1987 is from a little “what are mangoes” pamphlet.

I’m coming back into the gaming realm for graphic design, art direction, and layout! Have a project that needs me? Let’s talk.

Slept through most of the day feeling like garbage due to new meds and now can’t fall back asleep at 1am. I’m sure that’s going to help get my week back on track. Blaaah!

I can’t believe I made this key lime pie from scratch. Historically my pie crusts have been NOT GOOD but The Book On Pie has had nothing but perfect recipes. I’d put this up against anything I’ve had in the Keys. #cookingsky #imadethis

My bestie just got a Real Job (as opposed to freelancing sporadically) and she's not available during the day and I have nobody to talk to! It's making for a loooooong day.

I have a gig for May!! All o need is one gig a month to keep my head above water. Do I know anybody in San Francisco??

Slider Revolution’s latest update destroyed my website right before a really important job application and I don’t think I can ever forgive this company. My husband is rebuilding everything from scratch and I’m canceling my SRev subscription. This is madness and I am so stressed out.

Made our own Friday Fish Fry tonight with beer battered whitefish, potato wedges, and cucumber dill salad. It was a good idea. #cookingsky

So I’m just supposed to relax while my husband is in a job interview. Right.

Holy moly. I went on what can only be described as a 6-hour writing bender til 4 in the morning last night and wrote nearly 5k words. And they're good ones. I'm up to nearly 50k with solid conflict where I need one and I know where it's going. This might be the one I try to publish.

Palak paneer, coconut curry chicken, yellow rice, homemade whole wheat naan. I don’t usually make my own naan i found my new favorite recipe! I got to use my homemade yogurt in the naan and the chicken marinade, which was a big bonus!! This was super yummy. #cookingsky #whatsfordinner

It’s me, getting my hopes up again over a good call spouse just had with a recruiter. This whole process is so agonizing.

[louder, as if that'll improve reception] THE BLUESKY DEVS WOULD BE VERY UPSET BY YOUR JOKES ABOUT VIBE CODING IF THEY COULD LOAD YOUR POSTS

I made ropa vieja and yellow rice and it was incredible. This dish takes all day and it’s absolutely worth it #cookingsky #whatsfordinner

I spent today in my studio for the first time in months today and upcycled about 20 mostly empty jar candles (and a little fresh soy wax) into 11 new ones. It’s been really, really satisfying!

Friends can you see this post? Suddenly Bsky is tagging my name with “invalid handle”?

My current obsession is Black-fronted emo bands, whose algo I seem to have fallen into entirely on accident. I’m super enjoying it, though, and they’re bringing some joy in the hellscape.

Of all the depressions, stuck-in-bed-because-everything-is-pointless depression is the hardest on me and I’m struggling to snap out of it.

Daylight licked me into shape I must've been asleep for days And moving lips to breathe her name I opened up my eyes And found myself alone, alone Alone above a raging sea That stole the only girl I loved And drowned her deep inside of me

GenAI memes used to dunk on the enemy are still GenAI memes.

Filled with existential dread that my husband is never going to get another software job again and I just don't understand why he isn't getting hired. He is good at what he does. He communicates well. He's charming. His confidence is just so shaken that it's diminishing him.

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

My favorite game lives!!

Congratulations to JD Vance & the International Council of Nationalists for helping cost Orban the election & providing a road map for defeating our fascists at home. If a Dem nominee won’t clean house & punish the monsters administrating concentration camps on American soil, they’re a collaborator

Joshua Weismann has a killer copycat recipe you need to try if you DO love their nuggs. Spoiler: there’s no pickle juice involved. Look up his recipe. It’s perfection.

So I dyed my hair using bad advice from a Sally associate (I know, but I’ve had good luck before). This morning I’m stripping the color from my hair to start over. I hate this. I’ve always been so good to my hair.

Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

I have so many friends who tell tales of being unemployed for a year or more and just… how?? We’re at 7 months for my husband with no end in sight and I don’t know how much longer we can keep up.

Is Bristol Renaissance Faire in Wisconsin really the only Faire that has legendary Garlic Mushrooms? If I say Ren Faire Mushrooms that means nothing to most of you???

I’m hitting 40,000 words on my current novel this week, possibly tomorrow. I think I might want people to read this one.

When I trust the words of the Iranian president over that of my country... Trump is a cancer on the world.

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

How is everyone not watching the Artemis II launch?