Fell asleep after dinner, woke up to my phone ringing, misread 7:30 PM as AM and thought, "Did I forget to set my alarm and overslept? Wait, yesterday was Wednesday, how is it Wednesday again? Am I re-living Wednesday?" before I finally registered the PM.

no potbelly menu survey you cannot record my eye movements

could we PLEASE stop labeling a movie a bomb if it isn't profitable after only three, four, five days in the cinema? this is honestly so ridiculous. give people a chance to go to the movies!!

citation needed, as though there's not two award-winning books and an HBO miniseries about this 😆

Friends, an irregular reminder that this exists if you'd like to join us! There are usually only three of us. The next three books: We Lived on the Horizon by Erika Swyler (July 4), Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove (August 1), Terms of Service by Ciel Pierlot (September 5).

Today at check-in for my mentally disabled sibling's summer camp one of the other campers asked me my favorite Looney Tunes character (out of the options on his shirt). No one has ever asked me this before.

It only took an entire year but workplace finally changed my official position to match my business job title, whoo!

I love it when drugstore makeup brands don't even try to hide that they're doing dupes of something high-end. There's a new Essence face palette that is SO obviously knocking off Hourglass. (I kind of want to get the Essence one even though I have the Hourglass, since for the price, it's not great.)

I should know better than to click through on SCOTUS in the Trending box here, because it's always something terrible. Ugh.

Today in catching up on The Night Agent: Why does this guy look familiar? It's Stephen Moyer from True Blood. Why does the actress playing the FLOTUS look familiar? It's Jennifer Morrison from House. Why does this other guy look familiar? It's Timothy Hutton.

special guest Sarah McLachlan? close enough, welcome back Lilith Fair

every time Stratt gets people to clap for Grace in PHM I think about the "if I had lame ass boyfriend I would hype him so much" post and cry laughing

best birthday gift: allowed to pet the Oranj's fluffy belly

Where do I recognize this guy in S2 of The Night Agent from? Oh, it's CHAD from The Pitt. 😂

I have seen the Timothy Olyphant sushi chef episode of The League like 25 times now and it's still a surprise every time I get to it.

Seriously, why is it taking two and a half hours for an oil change/tire rotation when I had an appointment!

me: How's my Orry? 🍊: gets up from his end-of-bed spot, meanders to where I sit, stands on my boobs and mushes his head against my face because apparently he needs a kiss, then returns to his spot me: 🥹🥹🥹

I'm watching To Die For and looked up Joyce Maynard (author of the novel), to discover she's also Wilson Bethel's mom.

the Oranj almost never wants to be the little spoon but last night he crawled between me and my side-sleeper pillow setup /twice/ so I guess turning the air conditioning on meant he needed to be super cozy?

my first "wow AI Overview you fucked up" (I'm watching The Best Thing I Ever Ate and couldn't remember which Food Network chef had passed recently):

He wants to eat this tortilla chip but he can't get a grip on it. 😆

friends I seriously spent fifteen seconds thinking "what the hell is numpa d minus" before I realized this meant the minus key on the number pad (this shortcut did not work, btw)

Seconding Ruth's rec - I went into this novel thinking it wouldn't be my thing (which I should have realized it would be, since I DO like fairy tale retellings/reworkings) but the writing is SO lovely and it made me cry several times.

I realized the other day that I have been using this pseud for eighteen years, which is a lot longer than I used my previous pseud, and it blew my mind.

I'm so excited for this samosa chaat AND the delivery person found my place correctly.

yeah broad daylight was a good choice for this episode of Widow's Bay 😂

Oh, to be the Oranj on a Saturday night. 🤣 (He did get out of bed today, I promise.)

me suffering in the heat on book club zoom earlier: the temperature isn't that bad but it's so sticky... (pause) oh I sound like a Midwesterner (which I am)

Oh, to be as cozy as the Oranj on a Saturday morning.

My dad's reply when I texted to ask how the house painting was going involved a lot of exclamation marks, so I am excited to see it. (We had a living room wall painted teal, a bathroom done kind of a vine green, and the room I'm moving into is two shades of purple.)

I got a Minute Maid agua fresca in the lime flavor at a gas station/deli this afternoon and it tastes like melted lime jello. I'm going to end up obsessed with this.

I really struggle with where to shop in person, to the point where it's becoming a problem. Like, I need a new bathroom shelf. I already don't shop at Target or Walmart, Meijer mostly donates to Rs, Menards is owned by a super MAGA dude, and we don't have a Shopko or KMart anymore.

Picked out carpet in five minutes, fast enough that the other person browsing the store commented loudly. 🤣 I am my mother's daughter for sure.

Widow's Bay is so ridiculous (complimentary); the number of "wtf?" expressions Matthew Rhys makes per episode is astounding.

"aww yiss mutha-f*ckin label maker tape" when you are perhaps too excited about your work Staples delivery

The Oranj is usually allowed to sniff whatever I'm eating but the only human food he's ever been interested in is popcorn - until tonight, when he licked the potato chip and was then offered a dime-sized bite. He crunched.

!!! I saw these on Annie's insta the other day and YAY they are here so I can re-post them. ❤️

Propped office door open bc it's super hot in here in the mornings (giant sealed windows, sun) and a bird flew in... ran itself into our plexiglass twice, then sat on the countertop and stared at me. "You must... that way..." I said, pointing like an idiot.

The problem with Justified is that this show is at minimum 50% characters I don't care about. The Boyd & Ava show is fine but I'm so tired of Dewey Crowe and his idiotic relatives.

Today in Lake watches Mozart in the Jungle, I thought, this weirdo character sure sounds like Finch from Person of Interest!! Yeah, it's Michael Emerson dressed up like a 16th century composer. 😆

One of my summer work duties is requesting crime stats for some nature preserves that workplace owns... one of these departments sent me back what appears to be their entire village stats for the year, as I do not think that 70 fraud offenses occurred within this beech woods.

Jeff Goldblum as Ruxin's dad on The League is seriously the best guest casting in semi-recent history.

I have seen every Star Wars movie since Phantom Menace in the cinema but I'm not sure if I want to bother with Mandalorian.

Going with the bigger acts and not the 950 baby bands... Tori Amos U2 Britney Spears NSYNC Incubus Wilco (multiple times) Panic! at the Disco Fall Out Boy Jonas Brothers (multiple times) Harry Styles

to create is to love

"a wet drunk borzoi who [Healy] hates and is in love with" is the perfect description of Holland March as a devotee of The Nice Guys it delights me that so many people are (re)discovering it

The classical musician cameos in Mozart in the Jungle are hilarious. Emanuel Ax playing what I think is Dance Dance Revolution has me howling.

I'm watching Mozart in the Jungle and Rodrigo insisting to Ana Maria that he's not sleeping with Hailey, "she plays the oboe!", 😆. Also the Joshua Bell was a jump scare, fourteen year-old Lake was hopelessly in teenage love with him in 1995.

WHOO I'm mad at the Will Trent finale. 😡

Rudely awoken earlier this morning by a small bird ripping pieces out of my window screen. What even.