I’m a general hater of living in the area I live in. I am here against my will and I’m very forward about it.

Abusers really never stop. Ever. They won’t let it go, they won’t let you go. And then people ask why we just try to vanish and focus on dealing with life as it stands. Because this!

You want me to pay for an article trying to tell me I’m just not willing to admit that I’m doing well. That sounds about right for these people

Today in “Things that are fine”

Finally did the thing and washed some Lovesac covers after the kids did their worst to them. Drying in the sun bc you can’t dry them in the dryer. This is taking foreverrrrrr But this is supposed to be one of the benefits

Whaaaat no way

I know things are bonkers out there, but I could have sworn he had his annual physical last month. Oh well, I’m sure it’s fine!

We have Chinooks flying overhead, noisy traffic, a neighbor mowing the lawn, and sounds like some kind of construction. Or maybe those booms are distant firing from the tank range on base. Idk. I’m not handling all the noise well though, I’d like to go live in the woods

I made this meme some years ago and it just popped up in my phone photo memories and… welp.

Blue eyed grass still bloomed this year, even though I broke up the clump and moved it to a different area of the garden. Flowers are now fading and seed pods growing. It was very upset with me at first but we seem to be recovering just fine.

It is exhausting to be the interesting patient. I would like to not do that anymore, but somehow the army has made me very interesting. I don’t like it.

It’s a strange year for the garden. Some of my seeds never even came up. Some things are thriving. My roses came back but a few of the new stems have the rosette virus expressing. So I suppose the whole thing is compromised. We keep on.

Finished the latest project. This teal leather is very soft and it’s been a bit of a handful to work with. I really do love this cut of dark brown leather though.

What works for one kid in the family would completely backfire for another kid in that same family. It’s all survival mode all the time lolsob

Wildflower garden year 2 is looking pretty good but very different from year 1.

Slow slow progress on this one as life has been relentless lately… but lots of assembled pieces and clean edges have been achieved so far. The vision is coming together at least.

Grad school. Writing my dissertation. A veteran student’s funeral in the chapel right before a big sendoff for friends deploying to Afghanistan.

No medical training budget: oops, guess “lethality” takes on the opposite meaning now?? I took a whole lot of those courses- all of them based on hard lessons learned and taught by the saltiest war hardened medic NCOs you’d ever meet. You can’t replace that experience.

We're losing-losing the next war abcnews.com/US/army-cuts...

#DaysToGo 10 #SoloAcrossIceland #IrishDogsForTheDisabled #MappedBy #SplashMaps Almost at single digits now to heading to northern Iceland & starting the 480kms south to Vik using my Benpacker hiking trailer.

Dear earth, Thank you for the rain The garden really needed it And the heat wave already cooked one of my hanging baskets Plenty more is very welcome this week if you’d like to drop more water in my vicinity Happily, Moose

As a collector of tattoos myself, I have not had a problem with being uninteresting to men. I have had a problem with men being boring as all hell to me and being unwilling to do all of the work to connect on a date Also, my partner is more tattooed than I am. (More emotional baggage? Tough call)

So my concert days are definitely past tense but… Tom Petty Alkaline Trio Get Up Kids New Found Glory Radiohead Foo Fighters Avenged Sevenfold Buck cherry Godsmack Smashing Pumpkins And a lot of openers nobody ever heard of!

Lmaoooo this was on purpose

Springtime attempts at reducing dog hair shedding are going about as fruitlessly as these things typically go. Baths - damp brushing - dry brushing x 2 - just petting the fur off the dog - omg when will it stop - I’m gonna vacuum one more time - washing dog blankets - despair

The very existence of billionaires is powerful evidence of policy failure and is its own challenge facing the country. Jackass.

It’s the middle of May wtaf

Last year I put together a guide to help people get off US tech — and that includes Google. There are a lot of alternatives there they will help you make a plan to pull away from Google services, and all the rest of them too.

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

First time one of the kids broke a bone last night. Thankfully only slightly displaced and it was easy to reduce in the ER. But oh man did that hurt me to see him feeling that way. Third kid with the exact same break to visit the ER yesterday. So this is a common one.

Hi. 😊 Black American here. Norway is an almost entirely white country. The United States is racist as fuck. That's why we don't have a social democracy or, like, healthcare. Follow for more glimpses into a racist society where white people* would rather die than see a Black person succeed.

Beautiful day for some puttering outdoors

Critical thinking and reflection require us to pause and slow down. Time pressure is an old sales and manipulation tactic. Very few things are truly urgent.

It’s been a weird few days. Making slow but steady progress on this latest project. I like to try out different color contrasts to see how they play off each other. This light color leather is SO soft though, I needed something heavier to give the whole piece some more structure.

Wildflower garden year 2 is very different than year 1. Lots of sweet William this year as the big early flowers. Coreopsis plants growing but not ready to bloom yet. And minimal bachelors button this year. They didn’t reseed very well I suppose

Starting a new piece with these two colors. The darker one isn’t black, it is an extremely deep brown, it’s so pretty. The teal one is new and I haven’t used it yet. It’s a bit softer than I expected, but that’s okay.

This was the hardest kick in the stomach I got in my life. My kids’ primary memory from my time in the army is that I was gone a lot. That really made me reconsider my thinking on a lot of things.

So inflation reports are wild today and also the stock markets rally. Tell me shit is broken without telling me shit is broken

Got to talk to @feltman.bsky.social about protein! Every time I see a transcript I feel bad about how much I just....laugh as a reflex. www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

It’s peony season. Enjoy these different colored versions. I think the magenta ones are my favorites - reminds me of the farm back home. The pink ones are very nice though.

Just rewatched Sicario last night, even. I’m sure this is fine

I love my kids, I wanted two and I had two, but istfg these unrepentantly dumb motherfuckers are actively resisting understanding why people aren’t having 2.4 kids these days. Gas just to drive them around is unbearable! Housing, food, clothes, consistent effort, presence - all hard to wrangle rn.

Look how happy he is among the flowers. He was so overstimulated (joyful) at the plant nursery. The owner of the place came by to talk and everybody loved to watch him be so happy. Tall stick son in background - he doesn’t want to be in pictures tho

This and no water or electricity (It isn’t one of those posts, it’s a warning)

Please enjoy my service dog taking in the smells at the giant plant nursery we visit every Mother’s Day. He LOVES flowers. (He doesn’t eat them, thankfully.)

Ohhhh, here I am trying to find payment options on myschoolbucks when I should be using schoolcashonline. My bad, those are indeed different names huh

Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Bluebirds are laying 😍🪶🪺 (You might have to open the picture to see the egg)