Having a cozy cup of @fridaytea.com’s lovely, LotR-inspired Merry Fellow, and ruminating on my disdain for Tech Bros who appropriate Tolkien’s language without understanding his heart. (Give us our cool words back, assholes.)

What if I approached life with an attitude of Joy and Love, instead of Dread and Anxiety? 🤔 (This post brought to you by decades of Stage Fright.)

Tonight at 7! Tomorrow at 3! Come getcher holiday on!

Hey there, local peeps! If you’re looking for a cozy and inspiring holiday event this weekend, I’ve got just the ticket: Come to my choir concert! Saturday, 7pm; Sunday, 3pm, 1st Presbyterian in Vancouver, WA. You uplift local musicians, we uplift your heart…it will be GORGEOUS!

Hey there, local peeps! If you’re looking for a cozy and inspiring holiday event this weekend, I’ve got just the ticket: Come to my choir concert! Saturday, 7pm; Sunday, 3pm, 1st Presbyterian in Vancouver, WA. You uplift local musicians, we uplift your heart…it will be GORGEOUS!

My favorite thing about The Holidays is the day after The Holidays.

A blessed Stretchy Pants Day to all who celebrate! 💛🧡❤️🤎

It’s a Thanksgiving miracle! (Not really, but I was getting a little nervous.) My @white2tea.bsky.social Shulloween bag has finally arrived! I was not prepared for how large it is, it smells AMAZING, and I want to jump in it and swim around, Scrooge McDuck style.

Solo’s arch nemesis (the street sweeper) has driven by five times today, and he would like to speak to the manager about all this ruckus.

Sitting down to a relaxing cup of @fridaytea.com’s Harvest Spice; have been joined by this little bug friend. On the one hand: yay, cute bug! On the other hand, I’ve been reading @tkingfisher.com’s A House with Good Bones…and, well, iykyk.

One last little baby spider just showed up the arm of the couch, like it was asking me where its siblings went. Now settled outside on a leaf. 🥹

Giving the last of the baby jumping spiders a drink before they’re released in the wild. Luckily it’s still unusually mild outside. Go out there and make mama proud, little spoods! 🥹🩷

Y’all. The freaking ice cream truck just drove through my neighborhood. It’s November 15th. What is even happening?

Sometimes Tea Time isn’t gorgeous. Sometimes it’s on your dirty kitchen counter, in front of the microwave, next to a splatter of last night’s butternut squash soup. But it still feeds the soul. Take care & drink tea, friends! (Tea is @white2tea.bsky.social’s Blood Moon. ❤️)

Me after figuring out how to install the new toilet seat.

Best thing we can do individually to help hold back the despair and isolation of fascism is to make beautiful things and memories. Fascism wants to collapse all potential futures even those that we hold interior to ourselves, so to fight it we must embrace ourselves,one another and art.

OMG you guys a jumping spider had babies in my window and now my side table is a baby jumping spider nursery. One the one hand: LOOK AT HOW CUTE AND TINY IT IS. 🥹 On the other hand, this is starting to push the limits of my recently overcome arachnophobia.

29 years ago in college, I auditioned for 2 solos in Britten’s Ceremony of Carols. I didn’t get either of them. Devastated, I tell you. Last night, I auditioned for the same solos and got them both. I promise I’m an emotionally mature adult. But 19yo me is all “How do you like me now, Dr. G-C?”

Oof. Very Good Advice has become my go-to panic attack recovery tea. And I’ve been having a lot of panic attacks (can’t imagine why)! Time to stock up, I guess. Can I buy it by the bushel? 😬

So proud of my conservative little hometown! About 500 people lined Main Street, with tons of supportive honking and waving from passing cars. I usually head down to Vancouver or PDX for rallies/protests, so I was a little concerned what might happen out here…gives me hope!

Geeetings from War-Torn Portland! (Where there are no stores left, yet somehow I still managed to drop 300 bucks.)

Amen. 🐸

Whatever that praying means for you, get it done. That includes scientifically cheering for her wellbeing. Don’t fuss about it, just make good thoughts for a good woman.

Took Clement the Tea Pet (and my partner D, as well) out for a nice autumn walk…ended up having a long chat w/ some neighbors we’ve only greeted in passing and discovered we’re like-minded comrades. Community building FTW!

Brewing up some unsmoked Lapsang from @fridaytea.com, because I need some beauty and joy in the face of all the *incoherent omg-what-is-happening noises* It’s like the tea version of a comforting bowl of steaming ramen on a cold day. 🩷

It’s National Poetry Day. The greatest poem in the English language.

After 45 minutes of relentless bad news posts, this little guy legit made me all teary eyed. 🥹

I don’t know about y’all, but we’re spending an exciting Saturday night deep cleaning the washing machine’s entire detergent/softener mechanism. Nothing says America’s Date Night like “Well, there’s your smell.”

After staying up past 3am going down a research rabbit hole re:early Christianity, I’m starting to wonder where the line is between “I’m a Spiritual Person” and “I’m an AuDHD person with a special interest in religion”.

My can of fizzy water left me a smiley face. Sometimes you just gotta make the most of what goofy little joys you can find.

Yay, a proper cool fall rain! Which means a hundred middling photos of one of my favorite subjects: raindrops on plants.

Sad to miss NW Tea Festival this weekend, but probably for the best since I have that Post-Cold Cough and I feel like a public menace. 😅 (Tea is Milk & Honey oolong from Floating Leaves.)

Celebrating a return to tea with my very favorite Yan Hong from @white2tea.bsky.social! Been down for the count all week with a cold…last one was pre-Covid and I forgot how miserable a plain ol’ cold is. (Will kinda miss the nightly dreams from the NyQuil Cinematic Universe, however.)

Trying Golden Flowers Heicha for the first time. Got this sample from @fridaytea.com (& recommended by fellow sensitive-gut friends). What a fascinating tea! I can definitely taste the mushroom umami funk, but also…like a creamy sweetness? Almost like creme brûlée. Beautiful tea for fall!

This nice orb spider is currently putting on a show for us by building a web right outside the (yeesh, so filthy) window. Five years ago I would’ve been having a panic attack and shutting the shade—so shout out to cool scientists on the internet and the guy who created Lucas the Spider.

Fall vibes. (Tea is Tiltshift from @white2tea.bsky.social)

ADULT SUPERVISION PLZ

This aged white from @fridaytea.com smells so good, I just wanna take a bite out of it.

Made a little friend today at the Peace & Justice Fair/Farmers’ Market.

Spotted in my conservative small town today:

Ah, yes. It’s “neighbors leave giant boxes of tomatoes on your doorstep like an orphaned baby so you can’t say no” season.

The news continues to be a lot. Here’s the metric crapload of tomatoes my neighbor gave me, about to be roasted for sauce. Take care of each other. 🩷

Well, back at it!

The news is a lot today. Here’s two cute crocheted buddies and a cool rock I got this weekend.

Tea Mail Day is Best Day. Thank you @white2tea.bsky.social for the goods and the stunningly fast shipping!

HEY FRENZ GUESS WHAT

Distracted card pull today…The only thing I was really thinking when I pulled this was some vague form of “so when the hell is it gonna happen?” (Tea is [appropriately enough] Blood Moon from @white2tea.bsky.social)

Called it.

I don’t have soup art (yet) to QRP…I just want to announce that I require all future recipes to come in cute illustrated animal format, thankyouverymuch. Definitely gonna try this pickle soup!

Using one photo that’s already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?