my first repeater of the non-single album tracks ✨ and it should've been a single! (p.s. it's just the best when you listen to an album for the first time and you're like, "oh that's MY song" 💞) youtu.be/LVwgSIheW1Y

in more positive news, i thought 17 tracks would be a little bloated, but Syndicate is so damn good top to bottom; all 6 singles being bangers wasn't a fluke 🥹 absolutely my favorite The Midnight album since Horror Show EP open.spotify.com/album/58ZdIU...

i try not to get into shit like this, but don't watch fucking Monster. this is disgusting. evelyn's case is out of one of my hometowns and it's deeply involved with la crosse's history; we still take her case seriously, and in reality it has NOTHING to do with Gein. www.news8000.com/news/local-n...

this one is for my fellow crust haters, or those who want an easier option than dealing with pie crust: impossible pumpkin pie! all the smooth, flavorful, and sliceable filling but no crust 🎃 (pls forgive the lack of whipped cream btw, the gf's bringing some home 😊 but it was good without it, too!)

take me to the frog and toad ballet 🥺

i felt so seen by this moment in the pod after months and months of joe completely accidentally quoting this scene with that horrid tiktok 😆

she did WHAT to her sister under the table??

and bc i can't just sit around (and bc the gf's going into the office tomorrow so i can offload most of these) i made my own bday cupcakes as an excuse to test out some of my new sprinkles 🥰🍂

monday birthdays are the worst, but still we diva on 💃

brother and a few nephews stopped in on their way up to lake superior, and one of the kiddos loves baking with me so i couldn't help but say yes when he asked 😆 (he wanted donuts and it was a gr8 excuse to test if my cinnamon roll dough works for baked donuts too AND IT DOES 🎉)

aaaaaaand at the very last minute as i was getting into bed i dropped my phone on my big toe so severely that i had to hop around doing suppressed lamaze breaths like i was in a cartoon so i didn't wake the gf 🙃😵‍💫

thank god this week is over

found the version of frog and toad from my childhood and those noises toad makes are the same ones i do trying to put on a one piece swimsuit now

summer's lingering so this week's bake is my "nearly-no-bake" cheesecakes, this time made with chocolate ganache and strawberry rhubarb topping 🍫🍓

my crocodilian tism is so obsessed with this mini doc that it reminded me to set up my recurring donation to pbs www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPeT...

i got my sprinkles but i didn't buy them from there, it seemed like bad luck 😆

her poor BBL migration 🍅

my internet cut out just before the end of the stream and the final thing i heard was "that's what the penis is for"

i know it's friday but i really am just trying to buy sprinkles 🙃

chat waiting for joe to get back from his cruise

now that i've figured out my chocolate chip cookie cake recipe i've moved onto sugar cookie and it's somehow more difficult than the cccc, despite being plainer and less ingredients 😅 i guess that's why, you can tell when it's not absolutely perfect if you can't hide behind brown sugar and chocolate

the gf and i rewatched Fire Walk With Me in full this weekend (bc they'd never seen The Missing Pieces before), and i fear it's reactivated my twin peaks obsession, i've been thinking abt it so much. it's so profoundly sad, but still so beautiful 30+ yrs later laura palmer, you're my forever girl

i'd been chasing this high since i taught my middle school english teacher how to pronounce cacophony

spooky boys getting ready to cause mischief

the ominous survivor horns as joe turns to look at the camera if i was ashley i would've turned to stone like joe is medusa

insomnia as of late means i'm way ahead of schedule on my yearly autumn Dracula reread 🍂 i even caught up to the epistolary device and Lucy's taken a turn for the worse, poor thing 😔

i zoned out watching the vod while making alt texts for this post and when i zoned back in joe was saying "imagine lots of guys spitting on you- picture it!" ...

it's been getting cold at night so it's time for the green onions to loose their heads 😊💚

piggie howard birdsong-(redacted) when he gets yoinked from yelling at the neighbors in the hallway

a gr8 cozy watch for a sunday evening 🤙 youtu.be/ZhtkT0IeavA

i don't really vibe with most of cr's music, but her rock covers... whew... 🧡🤍🩷 youtu.be/VR-elyfPpWY

30 lbs of tomatoes later 🍅 was quite a bit of work yesterday, but i found it fun 😁

had to pick one of my minnesota mini melons bc some critter decided to have a little nibble, and even two or three weeks early it still has more flavor and is better texture than ANY of the storebought cantaloupes i've had in the past five years 😋🍈

breakfast freezer meal prep for the gf and i for the next few weeks is scones (chocolate chip & cinnamon) and some intensely delicious bfast burritos 🧡

!!! turns out i don't hate my job, i just needed to shut off my brain and do nothing for a few days what a revelation

i feel like i was run over by a truck-- i need approximately 24 more hours alone in a dark room to recover from the baby shower we went to yesterday. in IOWA.

i was halfway into making strip danishes for the gf's work brunch tomorrow when i realized we're out of cream cheese 😢 they've gotta deal with plain strawberry rhubarb and plain brown sugar cinnamon

i learned how to make clips just for this one

i'm so impressed that they've been 3/3 on the singles for the new album; TM's been on his A GAME for production (which is particularly important for synthwave, compared to other genres). so far it's been familiar, but with a twist of something new and refreshing! 💙 open.spotify.com/track/2bvYWr...

hmmm... something about that...

i loved this recipe so much that i had to try to modify it for plain muffins, so i made a batch of blueberry muffins for the gf's freezer breakfast options and omg-- they're just as easy and the perfect texture, but with the added benefit of not being too sweet and !no sinking berries! so obsessed

i tried so hard to get out of work today for silent hill but couldn't, i'm so glad i had representation in the chat

the gf n i rewatched dirty dancing last night to determine if the eldest niblings are mature enough to watch it (not yet 😭), but more importantly i realized that the ost is KILLER?? it gets memed now bc of 'time of my life' but?? the ronettes? hungry eyes? you don't own me? she's like the WIND??

i fulfilled my tiny goal for the garden for the year 😁 choco chip zucchini muffins, fluffy moist and delicious 💚

i hate to reference the silent hill movie, but the way joe was referencing the tattoo healing process made it sound so much like he wanted pyramid head rip his skin off in one piece like in the flaying scene youtu.be/0P3xDB5q2YQ

What perfect album(s) came out when you were 16? (aka "what a rough year for music")

not a ton of baking going on with it being so hot, but i had some lemons that needed using so: lemon poppyseed loaf 💛 i used all of the zest that i could get off the lemons, plus fresh squeezed juice in both the batter and the glaze, so there's zero question what flavor it is when you taste it 🍋

i broke a needle on my sewing machine today for the first time in probably 5 years, and the piece that broke off flung at high velocity and hit me directly in my !glasses! absolutely no lasik in my future, i need these goggles:

does 🤟 mean anything to you??

one final baby cucurbit update (the ONLY baby updates you'll ever get from me, lmao) trying not to jinx it, but it's looking like i'll be getting at least one zucchini this year! this is the Italian striped Cocozelle variety and SHE'S SO CUTE 🥰