The sun is shining, I made the Meghan cake, and tomorrow I *might* get the go-ahead to be weight bearing on my foot! It’s really the best I can ask for right now.

Holy shit, episode 7 of #ParadiseHulu is truly one of the best hours of television I’ve EVER watched. Hats off to Fogelman & the writers, and such brilliant roles for Sterling K. Brown and James Marsden.

Hey mamas of the US, ready to use your mom voice? Join me in speaking to your Congressional reps on maternal mental health bills & funding. You don’t even have to leave your couch! I’ll be leading the Minnesota team & would love to work with you. Link: www.mmhla.org/advocacy-day

Trying desperately to learn to garden, but with my raging ADHD, every video has me like this in 9 seconds…

I got an F on a poem because the teacher said it was “inexplicably good” and I “wasn’t that smart,” so I must have cheated. I was really proud of that poem.

Y’all, that post-surgery OC rewatch was a bad idea. Between the fall of democracy and the death of Marissa Cooper (and not being able to move…), I want to crawl under a rock. Please suggest something fun or at least not depressing AF!

Several times a day now, I reflexively open social media, see 9 new things have emerged from the Hellmouth, and then I close it again.

Welcome to Minnesota where, once again, my child has asked to wear shorts because “it’s hot outside.”

Do I have any fantasy-writing mutuals? I have a talented 13yo nephew who’s started writing fantasy, and I was hoping I could hire someone to give him some guidance/point jim toward further learning? Fantasy is not my genre, so I don’t want to steer him wrong!

I feel like a trip to a Wegman’s would fix me emotionally. Why can’t they move further West??

So many homes and places that have meant so much in my life - in so many lives - are just GONE. The latest fire has evacuated the house we sold in 2021, where my kids learned to ride their bikes. Where we hunkered down during the pandemic. I can’t fathom any of it. I 💜 you, LA.

Gute is a wonderful guy to work with and has such a deep of his neighborhood. I’m not at all surprised to see him staying and helping, though I hope he (and everyone else) is safe tonight.

7yo, telling his class about his grand European Christmas adventure: “You know the best thing in Europe? They’ve got a lot more stairs.”

No parenting book prepared me for a child becoming obsessed with Cotton-Eyed Joe.

Increasingly convinced every city needs their own Ferris wheel. (This is Budapest)

Someone please explain to me why my 7yo is watching a documentary on the stock market crash of 1929? He said he felt like he “needed to learn something.”

My neat new ADHD tax is that I keep throwing out the tops to things right after I open them. Butter, cream cheese, pickles. Got a lot of foil tops in the fridge right now.

When I first held my sweet babies in my arms, I had no idea 7 short years later I’d spend my Saturdays using a magic eraser to wipe their boogers off the walls.

You know you’re getting old when you chose the dance workout class because learning choreography is “good for brain health.”

Just finished the whole four seasons and I stand behind the statement that #FromMGMPlus is the best show you’re not watching. A little bit Lost, a little bit Fringe (with some horror thrown in), I can’t wait til next season.

The first ad I saw this morning: “is your makeup aging you?” I did not need this kind of violence on a Saturday morning.

My brain is so writing fried, I tried to suggest stuffed shells for dinner and could only come up with “taxidermy pasta.”

Minnesota is full on Wuthering Heights tonight. Let me mend some socks and stare wistfully out at the blowing snow.

Thanks so much to my child’s teacher, who told a class full of 2nd graders (but didn’t warn their parents) that if they left their boot out tomorrow night, St. Nick would fill it with candy and prizes.

Given the state of the world and, you know, EVERYTHING, I found out I need foot surgery at the start of the year and my whole reaction was “huh. Okay, sure.”

It’s snowing, dark, and this orthopedic clinic is playing eighties music. I feel right at home.

Where’s a flaming table when I need one!

Can we all agree Jenna Maroney would’ve mud-wrestled Kimberly Guilfoyle for a shot at Don Jr?

I love family and guests but man, I also love when everyone finally goes home.

As true now as when I wrote it last year.

About to crush some wings at the Alamo Drafthouse.

My neighbor stopped me for 10 minutes, complaining about clashing personalities & being stuck with people she hates. I thought she was hosting Thanksgiving… turns out she was talking about Real Housewives.

YOU GUYS… My favorite keto bakery - 4 hours away - posted these and my husband and my in-laws conspired to bring me 3 packs for Thanksgiving. I have sugar cookies I can eat! 😭

Most of the time, I don’t mind being diabetic. I’m the healthiest I’ve ever been. But this time of year… I would climb a mountain if it meant I could eat a pile of Christmas cookies.

What’s a movie you love that most people haven’t heard of? Mine is Grace of My Heart, a fictionalized biopic of Carole King.

I’ve held on and done holiday cards every year since I got married - and then there was that crazy year it ended up in Vogue - but now… some of y’all can make your own damn holiday cards.

I watched one TikTok about everyone waking up between 2-4am on election night and now my entire feed is psychic predictions that absolutely will not happen. (And they’re all different, so they definitely can’t all happen)

Does anyone else feel today is moving like a tortoise climbing uphill with molasses on its feet?

Yes, Georgia dismissed their entire maternal mortality board for showing how dangerous the state is for expecting mothers.

My 7yo: Have you heard of this thing called a newspaper? You can’t even update it, you have to wait for someone to print out a new one.

My office is now 102% cozier.

Fuck it, every room gets a Christmas tree.

Alternating between episodes of From and Shrinking and somehow, From is more uplifting.

What a funhouse mirror of a year 2024 has been.

Does anyone else crave spicy things when they’re stressed? I just ate half a jar of hot chili peppers and it immediately calmed me down a bit.

I’ve been in Wisconsin all weekend staring forlornly at water, what’d I miss?

How much you wanna bet Trump has his own face carved into Mount Rushmore?

It’s been months and I still can’t convince my 7yo Sia’s song is called Unstoppable. He insists it’s “Unpoppable,” about a happy little balloon.

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

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