Hey friends. Shana tova and/or happy equinox. My dad and i made challas.

Alfie (short for Alfalfa) says hi.

What in the shrinkflation? I count on a can to have accurate gram measurements. I usually make two things this time of year with one entire can of pumpkin (cake and cookies if you care). Tell me why my Trader Joe’s can of pumpkin was short 15 grams?

There’s these cooking reels I watch on Instagram. The woman cooking speaks Spanish. The other day I saw one and she was speaking English. Same tone, voice, cadence. After seeing a couple I realized it was an automatic AI translation. Worse than that, the AI changed the movement/shapes of her MOUTH.

I just remembered I had a dream that I was being driven somewhere and a baby cow jumped into my open window. I cuddled it some and when I opened the door to try to convince it to leave, the calf curled around my arm like an otter and it was so damned cute and now I’m sad I don’t have a baby cow.

I don’t watch morning news anymore, but it rained overnight. Is still lightly raining. I figured that would be the main story on the local news because rain, especially after so long, is a very big deal here. But I’ve had it on 20 minutes and not even a regular weather report yet!

I hate feeling guilty any time I buy myself anything unnecessary. Fucking everything is unnecessary except for rent, meds, gas, and basic foods. We can’t take shit with us. If a chai makes the day more bearable, who gives an actual fuck?

I was up ungodly early this morning. It’s an in-office day but I was up an hour before my alarm (which is an hour earlier than my wfh alarm). I mean I got stuff done without rushing which is nice. But I know I will hit a wall soon.

Target sent me a letter threatening to close my account since I haven’t used it in several months. I bet you anything that wasn’t their “policy” before this year.

I haven’t watched any US Open this time. But I guess I’ll watch this final. Glad fuckstick got booed already.

Thanks, Facebook, for telling me to wish my dead aunt a happy birthday. 😣 She would have been 95 today. She passed away nearly 6 years ago.

I didn’t go outside for lunch because I suspected it was too hot, given how gross it was this morning. Well I just went outside to politely have a coughing fit (just choking on myself nbd) and I haven’t felt air that oppressive in a long time. 100°. Extreme humidity. It’s raining not far away.

All the food went over nicely this evening. But I’m very tired and I need to be up stupid early to stupid go into the stupid office for stupid work. Meh.

Cupcakes are frosted. I hope they don’t taste like garlic. 🤞🤞 Because I made some bomb ass chocolate frosting even tho I had no heavy cream. Substituted with a little butter in whole milk. It’s not a whipped frosting and it worked really well.

Okay so I’m going to be making chicken parm burekkas for my friends. Because I’m all about cultural food mashups. I’m going to be baking them at bff’s house. I still haven’t decided if I should assemble them here and bake there, or do it all there.

Now I’m hanging out in my garage to paint my toenails because I am not adding another weird smell to the mix! I use gel polish on my fingernails and that has no smell at all, but toes get traditional polish and that is nasty and it definitely lingers.

I made cupcakes and now I’m roasting garlic. I hid the cupcakes on their cooling rack in my bedroom and closed the door with the air purifier in there going preemptively. My home is very small. Scents can linger. And the overhead vent above the oven going full blast. It’s too hot to open windows.

If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.

Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September

Tentoo & Rose appreciation post ✨

BritBox: We’re raising your monthly fee. Me: Okay, I’ll cancel then. BritBox: How about a free month? Me: Ugh. FINE. But I really will cancel this time when it’s done. It is not worth it. The app is terrible (would it kill them to put years on things?) and there is never anything I want to see.

Still wandering around my kitchen because someone knocked on my door twice like 40 minutes ago and I want to know why (I don’t open doors in the dark if I don’t know you! And I was doing dishes). But I have to go to bed super early tonight for work reasons and I can’t just pace around being paranoid

I haven’t washed my new car yet because it still has paper plates but it’s been lightly rained on now and needed a wash anyway. Not sure what to do about it. Taking off the paper and taking it to my parents or a drive thru (can’t wash here, HOA forbids). But I don’t think it’s happening today.

Tried to run some errands before it got too hot. Errands were run but it is absolutely disgusting out. I grew up in a desert and now live in the tropics. But it’s the same place. 😭

It’s not much to look at, but this hearty lentil/barley stew with some warm spices (ginger, cumin, cloves, nutmeg, turmeric, chili, paprika, fenugreek) is so delicious. It’s a flavor profile like thanksgiving meets shawarma. But just lightly spiced, so it’s not overwhelming.

Took a strange almond and chocolate tart to my parents this evening. I made it early in the morning before work since it was far too hot to sleep. Made up the recipe as I went along. My dad seems to like the desserts I freestyle the best. Then he asks me to make them again and I can’t. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Hey we hit 110° today. Which broke a record. I wouldn’t have thought so but it did, 109° in 2006. But I bet you it wasn’t this humid 19 years ago! There have been (nearby) thunderstorms!

I would like to state for the record that I eyeballed 71 grams of butter *perfectly* tyvm.

Cut off the last of my pretty color jelly bracelets this morning, for another medical thing. I’ve worn them in some form, pretty much continuously, since the 80s. And I need them to keep my watch off my wrist tattoo (it won’t work properly otherwise). I can’t find them (with glitter) anymore. Woe.

My neighbors have taken the occasional night off lately from their weird and ridiculously loud noises. But of course tonight, when I have to be up at 4am and unlikely to sleep such even if I had ideal circumstances, of course they’re making all sorts of stupid loud construction type noises.

First extreme heat watch of the summer issued this week. Comes with fire weather watch too. We’re still traumatized by winter fires. I’m in no kinda mood this week.

Linked my car profile with my financial car stuff (something that was impossible to do on mobile, had to do it on my laptop). Signed up for all paperless communications/invoices for my new car. That worked. But try to setup autopay and the website hangs forever before even getting to the setup page.

Being fully decaf, dairy-milk-free (I use Coffeemate liquid here and powder in the UK), and American means being a daily British tea drinker is hard. I had a go-to British decaf for years and it was brilliant, tasted real, and easy to get. But then PG Tips changed the decaf recipe and it was awful.

Then my neighbors saw me in short shorts, a ripped t-shirt, and no bra, when I went to get my medicine at my front door. 🤦‍♀️

Today involved visiting 2 doctors’ offices, multiple calls with my parents (who are leaving on a cruise and aren’t springing for wifi so will be out of touch and are panicking), phone call with another doctor’s office, visiting the fucking DMV (not even car-related!) and multiple major work crises.

How tired are y’all this evening? Personally I’m ’almost put my hot kettle in the fridge instead of back on its base’ tired. 🫠

I went to bed without washing the dishes last night. And oddly, it didn’t occur to me till this morning at 5am. I am and continue to be very distracted by life stuff. Well, they’re washed now, at the expense of my sleep.

Okay what sort of math is Costco using? I’ve shopped there way more this year than ever in my life and my “2% reward certificate” would barely buy me a hot dog.

Anyway, while we’re here, someone randomly liked this post from December yesterday, so why not repost myself. Remember when I was in London and David Tennant was in front of me being amazing a bunch of times, and also it was cold? Remember?

I have to go to the store today. Like my week is otherwise completely full. Work is so uncooperative that I probably won’t even get a break today, let alone time to go the store (currently in the midst of a procedure that takes a lot of time and needs my presence but not my attention this second)

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This is why physical media is still so important.

Really didn’t need to see a giant ass cockroach in my bedroom right as I was getting ready for bed after a really long day (I killed it don’t worry). I haven’t seen a roach in my house since the night I moved in, 4 and a quarter years ago. I spray regularly. Wtaf. I blame my new(ish) neighbors.

Never forget today, when, on this day in 1988, Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day.

Told my parents I’d be at there’s early so we could go to the beach (taking my car for a proper spin). I’ve been here an hour and my dad has bread proofing and both of them are still in the bathroom and stuff. Like didn’t have stuff to do too?

I owe a response to a writing challenge. Probably I’m not going to do it. I hate that. I wanted it to prompt me but it just made me angrier that I can’t write anymore.

If my handful of previous posts didn’t make it clear, they are connected. The adulting this week was about getting a new car. I did it all by myself pretty much. I avoided getting fucked over. I didn’t let myself get pushed unduly. I walked away when necessary. I have shiny new. I sold shiny old.

I am thoroughly done with all of this week’s adulting. Thank f.

Was trying to remember the timing of something that happened 11 years ago and I was like, bet I wrote about it on LJ! And I did. Found it in a few minutes. Posting was already sparse then, but I did sometimes do long updates. Kinda wish I’d kept it up. But it got no fun mostly just talking to myself

I handled my big decisions! I adulted so hard today, y’all. Everything is mostly resolved (to be finalized tomorrow), but it was a crazy day.