Currently at the store. Floss is $7 for a single pack. Something bad is going to happen soon

A year ago I was paying $40 a month for coffee. Now it’s $60. I’m going to **** *****

Predictive text in Word is one of the most INSANE features ever created. It’s the exact opposite of what you want your word processing software to do.

Ain't it the truth.

begging these people to read a single biography of a saint. a recurring theme in the life of the great saint is detaching herself from the cocoon of the home (usually to the consternation of the rest of the family).

It’s really funny that this guy wrote these two books 20 years apart. “It’s coming, you guys…. I swear“

I am 10,000 years old

The new “y2k” Taco Bell meal includes items that came out well after y2k, like the cool ranch Doritos locos taco.

In reaction to the genre’s obsession with hustle and grind for so many years, self help is now all about optimizing slow living. Really amazing stuff

About to pull a Don Draper and go see that new PTA movie on a random Tuesday at 2 pm

there are so many guys now whose reading lists are a combo of business books, pop psychology, and then Dostoevsky and Kafka. It’s very dumb

I wonder if my complete mania about home cleanliness has something to do w how I feel out of control in other aspects of my life. Best not think about it too hard

occasionally I remember how I got bronchitis while living in Japan in 2015 and the doctor prescribed me dextromethorphan pills to be taken 3x a day for 2 weeks and by the end of day 3 I was fully hallucinating

Baby dinner

You’re telling me the suspect is a disaffected young white man w incoherent politics????

One of the challenges of this age is these guys are basically moral chimpanzees and the rest of us have to both deal with the America they create while also protecting universal truths for ourselves to draw from AND for these people to rediscover someday.

Having a career is so difficult

I was a dorky rule follower as a kid so in my 20s when I wanted to “rebel” (I was a late bloomer) I would go to the gas station at night to buy a pack of cigarettes, smoke one, and never touch them again

I had a bad day so I’m going to take a night time trip to the grocery store

Putting out 400 gruesome “adult” Halloween decorations is a symptom of our nation’s perpetual childhood problem

Saturday

My life is often like a Barbara Pym novel: the church organist and his five sons are coming to dinner. Two seminarians are coming to dinner. Our old priest is on leave from his studies in Rome and is coming to dinner.

I wish I would not immediately descend into self hatred when I have an unproductive and slow-moving morning

On one hand it’s very hard having a kid who has never slept well. On the other I feel grateful to get to reassure him every time he wakes up crying

I have to finish the works of Thomas Mann so I can find something else to talk to my husband about

It’s hard to believe that it’s indifference that perpetuates the murder of children in this country and not intent

About to have an exceptional summer dinner

Thanks to his southern father the toddler goes around saying “Ew Wawd” (“Oh Lawd”)

I think Pingu might be the best kids show ever made

Aside from a few notable (and mostly independent) exceptions journalism these days is completely scoopless

Some of these selections are cowardly. Doobie brothers? Bright eyes? How about Bring Me to Life by Evanescence, How You Remind Me by Nickelback, Cruise by Florida Georgia Line, and most of Justin Bieber’s oeuvre?

It is impossible to put words to my hatred for JD Vance.

The thing about getting in shape is you have to work out when you’re tired

After sleeping on a 25 year old tempurpedic that was ruining my back and a year in research and deliberation hell, I have achieved an absolutely PREMIUM luxury bed set up for a fraction of the wirecutter recommended mattress prices.

I used to have a kind of scarcity mindset when it came to my energy levels ie I was reluctant to start projects because I was intimidated by the work. Changing my thinking about this basically cured my bouts of depression, though.

Ok they didn’t totally fail. But the custard was over whipped a little. Still giving one to the neighbor even if it subjects me to judgment

Baking pies while watching reality tv today 🫶

Learning to never preview a workout before starting. There is no past and no future during the workout

I really do see the appeal of athleisure. I want to be that comfortable all the time

Three weeks of consistent exercise and my back pain is gone. As much as I hate to admit it, it just works

Probably true for most people with kids but motherhood has made me significantly more disciplined with my time

There is a trend going around where people read one chapter of War and Peace per day with the goal of finishing the book in a year. I can’t think of a worse way to read a novel.

I put on Wallace and Gromit for the baby so I can clean up and then I end up watching Wallace and Gromit

This kind of thing is so indicative of how we think about reading now. “By pushing the button that makes the quacking sound, your child is doing pre-math.”

I’ve posted about this troll before but he appears as the top review for every masterwork of literature I read. He is a tasteless menace and should be banned from goodreads for life

Toddler spent mass running outside to get leaves and then running back inside to distribute them to everyone in his vicinity

Perhaps my most unpopular opinion is that I HATE linen.

did Warhammer 40k predict Trump?

So much of online writing now, I assume in response to AI, is about how you can/ should cultivate creativity, silence, and deep thought, etc, and not very much actual creativity and deep thought.