I once again don‘t feel ready for baseball season. I haven’t even had time to miss baseball yet. I suppose I can just ignore spring games and still have a month to miss it and mentally shift. But not having a real winter also messes this up!

Everyone. I’m pooped. And as of now all my special little projects are done and finished. And I am pooped.

This has been a really fun day for watching women do really cool sports things and I’m having a hard time mentally shifting, but I have to! (Except I’m 100% spending the afternoon/evening chattering to people about the women and the sports who don’t care lol)

Sports are so good.

ALYSA GOLD MEDAL!!!!!!!!!

“That’s what I’m f—ing talking about!”
 Alysa Liu as she leaves the ice 🔥

I don't know what words I want to say about Alyssa Liu because that was one of the best sports things I've ever seen in my life.

The only time I’ll ever yell this: USA!!!

Trying to do my hair and attempt to look presentable for an event this evening and the Olympics are making it very difficult!!

The happenings in the US women's hockey game at the same time as a skater skating to "Selections from The Handmaid's Tale" feels uncomfortably symbolic.

The people I love the most in the Olympics are the people who have no chance of medaling and are just there to be there and then go out and have a great performance. That's the best.

I feel like when baseball players challenge a call, they should have to go to a Kiss and Cry to wait for the verdict. It might slow things down, but the drama!

I really enjoy Olga Mikutina, but I admit I wish it had been real Metallica.

I like the skaters who are all, backflip? Psh. CARTWHEEL!

It's very annoying when men watch 2 minutes of ice skating and have to twist themselves into contortions about how much they hate it, like, yes, I get it, you're very masculine, which is proved by how allergic you are to figure skating. Congrats.

Just lodging my complaint about having hockey and the women's free skate happening at the same time.

Oh! There are dainty little snowflakes sporadically falling from the sky!

I'm actually fine with an MLB salary cap if it comes with a cap on ticket prices at like $25 for the best seats and $5 for the worst, and free MLB tv with no blackouts. How will teams make money you ask? That is simply not my concern.

Ahhh, look at the Mariners re-signing Mitch Garver, as a treat for me!

I feel like I won’t be a real Tacoman until I find a Monkeyshine, but I’ve also never specifically gone out to look for one.

I love this! The highlight of the Olympics right here. And quite honestly, anyone who views sports (or life!) like that should be laughed at derisively.

Random memory. After the Olympics that Tara Lipinski won my French teacher was talking about it and said he didn't like her because her smile was annoying. And in hindsight, that's extremely inappropriate! But on the list of inappropriate things that happened in that class, it's near the bottom 😬

NBC sure gets rid of stuff fast! I was going to go back and watch some of the ice dancing stuff I missed and the team competition and it's all gone 😭

I have accepted that there will be no snow this year. Bring on the crazy spring weather, sun to hail to pouring rain to pouring rain while it’s sunny to sunny with dark clouds to light, sprinkling rain. I love the weather whiplash. I’m ready.

I'm sorry, I know everyone loves dogs for some reason, but if there was a gigantic dog chasing me while I was in the OLYMPICS!!! I would lose my mind and flip out. Like, wtf is a dog doing there to begin with?!

Back to normal life tomorrow. It’s been a good long weekend, full of leisuring (Bridgerton pronunciation).

It’s hailing, which is not snow, so yeah, we’re still in a fight, weather.

Afternoon coffee will fix me.

Sucks to have to cancel the Olympics, but I think we can all agree that we're too emotionally destroyed to go on.

Sports are so brutal. I hate sad crying at the Olympics.

I mean, if you're gonna have an inappropriate relationship with your sister-in-law, you gotta do it in the most public, messy way possible, right? Go big or go home.

I asked for snow and it gave me a dusting of graupel. My complicated and unfulfilling relationship with the weather continues.

Quit playing games with my heart

Long weekend reading! It's like reading about now, except the names are different and it happened 80-70 years ago!

Just sitting, waiting, wishing at the window because it’s basically 32 degrees and the clouds are heavy. I already know the weather is going to tease me all week and keep me on tenterhooks, but I want snow so bad I’m going to let it, even though I know better. Le sigh.

Kids are watching a newfangled version of Carmen Sandiego and the theme song is all wrong! Where’s Rockapella?!

Made up a new bedtime song for the kids to the tune of Golden. They love it (narrator: They hate it) We're goin' up, up, up, up to beeed You know our teeth we're brushin' Going to, going to beeed Oh, up, up, up to our beeed Going to, going to beeed

Kid, whining: I'm soooo tiiiiiirreeeeeeddd Me: Do you want to get into bed now? Kid: Huh? Why? Honestly, though, relatable 😂

Got some VERY conflicting responses to this 😂 Which is exactly why I need to read it. I want a strong opinion on it!

Snow is, for the first time this winter, legitimately in the #Seattle forecast. But sorry to say for snow fans, it's not the most exciting snow forecast we could bring you. Get the latest in the ECW Blog: emeraldcityweather.com/seattle-puge... #wawx #wasnow

I’ve never read Wuthering Heights, but all this discourse about it is making me think I should.

I really need to bleach part of my hair more, but I’ve seen too many videos of people bleaching their hair for too long and having it just break so I’m going to just live with it like this. Bleach is scary. It’s so crazy they just let you do this at home without adult supervision.

State patrol plane just flying around and around in circles it’s so effing loud and droning I’m going batty.

“We’re goin up, up, up, to the surface, you know this huge yacht we’re sinkin’, it’s gonna be gonna be sunken”

The inventor of powdered sugar:

I’m not normally a cookie decorator because it‘s so much time and detail work that I’m not good at and don’t like, but for some reason I thought, why not spend all day decorating cookies, and I think I did okay! Strawberry sugar cookies and strawberry icing. They’re pretty okay for cookies!

Not sure if there's another holiday today, but in our house, it's Marshmallow Making Day!

How can you not be romantic about baseball?!!

Love to remember John Marzano! I talked about him a bit on the @toloveamariner.bsky.social podcast (online if you haven’t!). He definitely makes the list of my all-time favorite Mariners. The post below has video of him punching Paul O’Neill, which is a great moment in baseball history.

I am once again thinking about dying my hair nonhuman color(s). It’s just so much work. Multistep work. But I am bored of my regular hair and it’s a long weekend.