Today, I'm kicking off the Emergency Trans Meal Fund (in beta). In short, if you're a trans hungry person in dire straits, I want to order your dinner. (Limit: 2 per week). Blog with more info: www.patreon.com/posts/announ... Form to request a meal: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Nissan: So we think it might be that this subscription service that we didn't tell you about is what's causing the problem. If a car requires both a phone app and a paid subscription to function, that should be right up front in the details.

Baltimore. The first time I went, as research for a book, I fell in love. It was January & 5F. I didn't care. Everyone was so friendly. I've been back twice and would live there if I could.

He just called, sounding contrite. I got Yes, ma'am'd about a dozen times.

I tried to call one of the mechs yesterday and it going to "this voice mailbox has not been set up." So I asked Boss to text &ask him to call me. The mech didn't. I just told Boss I hadn't heard from him. Boss texts: I specifically told you to call Isa. Why haven't you? Boss is fed up with him!

5. With a bar at the bottom that has a view of the mountain that I'm never getting closer to

Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall

One of the chipper guards asked me how I was. I told him I was having a third Monday.

At first, I thought it was just a crack across the bottom. Disconcerting but not threatening. Then I saw a vertical crack going up from the middle of that to the top. 😬 I put that in the review.

Great. This Lyft has a cracked windshield. I have such confidence. 🙄

I never forced my kids to eat anything. Not once. If they didn't want to try something, I got them something else. One ate a turkey sandwich for lunch every day for 3 years. They both went on to be very non-picky eaters. They will try anything. You really don't have to traumatize your kids.

Look at Halayah's beautiful art!

My ARC review of The Lord of the Wood by @elizmanderson.com One of my highly anticipated reads of the year, and it did NOT disappoint! 🥹💕 5⭐ on GR: www.goodreads.com/review/show/... 4.75 ⭐ on SG: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c678...

Dammit. Tomorrow is #NoStabWednesday. I'll have to find alternate ways to express my displeasure.

Out of food money and Maple's appointment at the end of the month will be about $300. Please help me get by if you can!

I approve

I have to take my car back to Nissan AGAIN.

Do it for Halaylah! Do it for Bon Jovi!

I filed them in their folders. But not the ones from the week before. 🤦🏼‍♀️ Now I have to go through them and figure out where else I fucked up.

Name a song with girl in the title but replace with squirrel: Material Squirrel

2 weeks ago, I sent the wrong set of invoices to be processed. Then sent the correct set. I can't find the paper copies. I know I have them because they're what I scanned to send. But there are discrepancies between my spreadsheet and the corrected scan. Where the fuck are they??? I need to fix it!

I think I'm gonna announce that exciting thing I was excited about on Friday. If you've ever considered reaching out but thought developmental editing would be too expensive for you, keep an eye out. 😉

Sigh

Evergreen

Nissan claims my car is fixed. Well, actually, they said they couldn't find anything wrong. We shall see. 😠

I put a breakfast bar on my desk to eat with my coffee. Then I drank the coffee, completely forgetting to eat it. ☕️🚫🍫😢

Trans people are not: An ideology A trend Confused To be debated A social contagion Trans people are: Human beings Deserving of love & respect Diverse and beautiful Hoping you will listen to them See the person, not the label.

The EFF warns that Google's developer verification creates "a pathway to censorship." Developers in restrictive countries, anonymous open-source contributors, and privacy tool maintainers are among those most affected. @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.org

Some nights, I wish mice could build a castle. Some nights, I wish they'd just fall off.

This was a lot of fun! They also signed us up for a toy-making workshop. However, they didn't tell me it was a "make a horrifying teddy bear." I would have said no thanks.

33 minutes past the appointed time. Still not here. I expect this. I don't like it, but I expect it.

last day for this sale!

Pen takes after me and is never late. The only time Oldest has been early was when she was born. I wonder what time they'll pick me up.

Working on a quilt this week has been wonderful. I'm finding fabric in my stash that I'd forgotten about. I'm playing with colors and my brain finds the whole process both stimulating and soothing. I finally hung up the sewing machine clock Middle Kid gave me and it ticks! I love ticking clocks.

Oldest and Penultimate are taking me to brunch and then to the World Oddities Expo today! worldodditiesexpo.com/about/

It doesn't seem like I did a lot, but my body says I did. I cut about 60 2.5 inch squares. The bottom row of blocks are new and I changed out a few squares from the other blocks.

I love how German bees say "summ summ!"

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

Thanks for the perfect opportunity to share this!

Turns out, the kids don't know the reason they got their names. Boy honestly thought he was named after a guinea pig I had in college. Youngest just learned about hers. I need to make up a good story for Pen instead of: I hadn't slept in 4 days & it was at the top of the page in the baby name book.

Look what I got from The Boy!

Does this yellow fabric look like honeycomb?

Today on Questions You Don't Hear Often: Is this too much cow? (I can cut out the black/white cows print with some going the opposite direction.)

Speaking of which, I forgot I had this meme saved.

My favorite non-spoilery line from The Lord of the Wood by @elizmanderson.com

Pale rays of light tiptoed across the waters; and by and by there was to be heard a sound at once the most musical and the most melancholy in the world: the mermaids calling to the moon. - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan 🖼️ Gustav Klimt, Mermaids, 1899 #BookWormSat