OMG, it is like someone took a picture of my tape collection. Except all my labels were in green ink, for some reason.

Mom had her pain clinic appointment, and this literal angel of a therapy dog named Libby was there. Look at her eyelashes, omg.

I am all for pricing smoking out of existence, but holy hell, how does anyone afford to buy these? I regularly see people leaving the grocery store with 8+ cartons. A pk of Marlboros now costs almost as much as a whole carton did when I was 18. (I never smoked but I was a cashier at a grocery store)

I have in my hot little hands an actual non-expired passport, which means I could actually travel if I wanted to. It took two weeks from the appt at the post office to delivery, and that is without any expedited processing. Now I have to find a safe place to put it that I will actually remember

I don’t make the rules, but when it’s reposting this, I damn well follow them and YOU’D BETTER TOO. youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

Somebody on Threads is fat shaming my perfect chonk Mal. Is he round? Totally. Could he stand to lose a few? Probably. But he is almost 15, can still reach all the important places to groom, and eats diet food out of an autofeeder. It is not like he is going to start the kitty Couch to 5K

I wouldn’t be able to wear these as I would trip over the horns and wings, but part of me really wants them.

Chewbacca took me out. BTW, the Throne Room track is my absolute favorite on this soundtrack.

Now that I have been unemployed for 3 months, I know for certain that if I fell off the face of the planet, no one but my mother would notice or care.

Part of me wants to do trivia at 9, but part of me just wants to curl up in a ball and cry until I fall asleep.

Maybe it is almost good I am not working right now, because my internet is sucking donkey balls and my old boss would have made me work out of a McDonald's or drive the 40 minutes to my mom's.

I don't know why I keep forgetting how much the theme to Back To the Future slapped. I think this might have been one of the first songs I played in matching band.

Why am I looking travel ideas for my birthday? I am turning (gulp) 50, and should really do something. Plus, if the tracking is correct, I should have an actual passport by then and won’t have to limit travel to car or bus. I am just really sick of doing nothing and going no where.

"Walking in Memphis" came on the radio, and it took me a while to realize why the song didn't sound quite right and why I kept picturing Mulder and Scully. Maybe I should rewatch Post-Modern Prometheus.

It is probably good that they are out of my size. I have a weakness for black watch plaid.

Oh, no. I must have these.

I may have to give up doomscrolling for a while. All I am seeing is how horrible the job market is, how many months and years people have been out of work, how they can’t even get seasonal work, how only connections will get you a job. I have no hope for a job, and not a single connection.

At this point I think it might be easier and/or cheaper to buy a new phone than it would be to find a case I actually like for the perfectly functional phone I already have.

I have already been crying all day, so it probably wasn’t a good idea to start watching Babylon 5 scenes. So many people gone.

Inspired by @abbieprime.bsky.social touching grass, I looked up botanical gardens to see if there were any near me that weren’t in Boston, and lo and behold I found the New England Botanic Gardens in Boylston, and coincidentally today is their last day for Night Lights, so I am going to go.

I probably should be doing something other than looking at pictures of Crake and crying.

I don’t know if it is something I ate or because I was wearing the “wrong” glasses, but I feel like I am going to hurl. Just what today needed.

Is there some reason Congress seems to be doing fuck all concerning the illegal war this administration just committed? And from some posts, it looks like Greenland is next, and soon.

Can someone call Quinn Mallory? I would really like to slide to a different timeline now. Even the one where dinosaurs still rule the earth seems like a better option than the current one.

New superpower unlocked: Buying what looks like pigmented eyeshadows that somehow completely fail to be visible when applied.

Back home. Mal is happy, mostly due to not being in a carrier. Now I have to get ready for my appointment to FINALLY apply for a passport. I am going to try to put on some makeup so I don’t look like a semi-animated corpse, but given my track record with official pictures, I am not holding my breath

Got my hair cut, and the hairdresser actually got my curls to make an appearance. Yay for TikTok recommendations.

I am watching a webinar on how to optimize use of LinkedIn, and it is an introvert's nightmare. I am supposed to reach out to random people that have a negligible/tangential/non-existent connection to me out of the blue?!?

Enya is out there living my dream.

Today’s headache is brought to you by the ridiculous hoops I have to jump through for unemployment.

Can someone please just send me a job? Every week I am getting more discouraged. I have had not a single nibble, even a teeny one.

How the fuck did I not remember the end of of S2 Broadchurch?!?

If I had wanted to not sink into an even worse funk than I have been in I probably should have watched something a bit cheerier than Broadchurch.

My mom got a Christmas card from a friend of hers that she thought was dead. Mom called her immediately and has been talking for more than an hour now. It is great to hear her so happy.

That time of year again!

Anyone who has met Mal would know that he is a chill cat. Rarely gets his hackles up. He is much more passive-aggressive than plain aggressive. Well, except for neighbor dog Charley. Charley wants to be Mal’s friend so badly, and enthusiastic Charley is a lot. That is apparently too much for Mal,

Well, that was frickin scary. I was napping, and got up to go to the bathroom. As soon as I stood up I got really, really dizzy, and could barely make it to the bathroom with all the weaving back and forth. It got so bad in the bathroom that I just sat on the floor and cried. Mom checked my blood

Mom is home. Everything went pretty much as expected. She is in quite a bit of pain, which is expected but sucks. And we won’t even know if it worked this time for maybe 6 weeks.

I probably should have asked the surgeon how long this was going to take. I have literally not a clue.

They just wheeled mom in for her surgery. Please keep your fingers crossed for her, if you are so inclined.

Like many of my choices, going to the post office the Saturday before Christmas was not wise. Hey, but they had a cute reindeer

People who have applied for jobs recently: Do you upload a cover letter every time, or just when asked? I hate the whole concept of them, so I want to only do them when absolutely necessary.

If I was home right now, I think I would be close enough to hear the helicopters for the Brown shooter hunt on Rt 28 in Salem, NH.

Mom was supposed to have her surgery today. We were already in the cubicle when the doctor said that it had been cancelled for an emergency surgery. Now we have to be back at 6 AM Monday. That should make Christmas fun.

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

It is a minor miracle. Oliver actually is using the cat tree mom got. We thought the only use he would get out of it was sleeping on the huge shipping box it came in.

Again, I really need to learn how to crochet. #MoisturiseMe

Mom’s neighbor just knocked. I thought it was to have us babysit Charley, but nope. She wanted to show us her first homemade loaf of sourdough bread. It was gorgeous, but now the apartment smells like bread and my stomach is growling.

I was looking for a new flatware set for my mom, and came upon these cursed listings. Why are the knife blades so short, the handles so long, and the spoons just…wrong? One knife looks like it belongs in a Play-doh set, while the other one looks disturbingly like a scalpel.