Here are the two things I made today to get into the holiday spirit!! I embellished a tshirt with appliqué and updated the Halloween cat window vinyl to make it more seasonally appropriate. (Note: the word “ding” appears in multiple of my chorus’s Christmas songs) #HolidayDecor #SweetAdelines

A day in which I get to make a thing is top tier. A day in which I get to make TWO entirely different things AND sing for holiday shoppers for two hours is downright unfair to the rest of the world. How’d I get so lucky? (Thing photos to come…)

The only remaining acceptable hate on BlueSky seems to be targeted at barbershop quartets. Punch up not down, people.

Every post and video saying “MAGA is crumbling, they’re getting desperate!” just irritates me because who cares when SCOTUS is handing them new seats and gerrymandered wins in 2028? #NotDefeatedJustTired

My friend needed the sleeves shortened on her polyester jacket. The sewing machine was not a fan of this material so I spent a quiet evening slow stitching the hem with a blind stitch. Heck, even a sharp hand needle needed to be convinced to go through this stuff. #Mending #HandSewing

It’s no fun singing to an empty auditorium. But I was kind of pleased to see that the holiday store where my chorus has a 3-weekend caroling gig was much emptier last night than previous years. Proud of everyone participating in the shopping blackout!! #Blackout #BlackFridayBlackout #MassBlackout

Today is my birthday and I did my first honeycomb mend. That hole was so big that TWO toes poked through it. #VisibleMending #Mending #Darning #SockMending

We neither forgive nor forget. And we bust our asses to get a progressive in that seat.

My son came home from his shift @ the bakery & I started talking about dinner, but he said he was going to his Friendsgiving. I asked what he was bringing & he looked at me blankly. I insisted he needed to contribute, & a text came through right then from the host asking people to bring dessert. 1/2

My husband and son are about to start replacing our over-the-stove microwave and I’m wondering if I can just close the door to my office or if I should actually lock and barricade it.

I think I’m going to start yelling “Thank you press! Thank you press!” when trying to avoid answering questions that I don’t know the answer to.

I appreciate the YouTube essays and Reddit spoiler threads for body horror films. I like to know what happens in them but I don’t want to watch. Yes I’m talking about Together. #Horror #HorrorFilms #GiveMeANiceQuietTerrifyingSpecterPls

To save money I cook at home and watch movies at home and communicate with the outside world through text, then wind up depressed from being isolated and irritated with my family and drowning in all the bad news social media can feed me.

I’m so grateful that today #nyc made a loud and proud statement about valuing and protecting #trans 🏳️‍⚧️ people who live there, especially since that includes my beloved Elder Child and their kind and lovely friends. #MayorMamdani #TransLivesMatter

As the results roll in, this feels like the beginning of a new version of the Left. One that comes together around the value of human decency, having seen how very easily it can be lost. I have renewed hope.

I remember those halcyon days when I thought the They Might Be Giants song “When Will You Die” was about Dick Cheney.

One of my favorite things about BlueSky is how typos and other random use of certain words lands you in a completely unrelated feed. Today’s giggle came from a guilt/quilt typo. I don’t want to go on a guilt trip but I would love a quilt trip!!

Here’s the full Stitch Witch costume featuring my cottage core quilted witch hat and my oldest’s old Joann Fabric apron, maybe a collectors’ item someday. The apron not the hat. #Quilting #Sewing #Quilted #QuiltedAccessories #Halloween #DIYHalloweenCostume

My #quilted witch hat is done! See alt text(s) for more costume and pattern info. #Quilting #Sewing #QuiltedCrafts #Halloween #WitchHat

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

I’m navigating some guilt over not attending No Kings 2 to attend a memorial for a good friend’s mom. She would even understand if I didn’t go, but the things we’re fighting for include community and support for the vulnerable, and I feel like that’s what I’m doing by going to the service.

Me and my barbershop quartet, aChording to Plan, as our “drag” alter egos aChording to MAN. We did a demo and sang a few songs at our chorus’s recent open house night. #SweetAdelines #SAI #BarbershopHarmony

In honor of our two new roommates, we’ve added a bit to our annual Halloween decor. #cats #halloween #HalloweenDecorations #WindowVinyl

My husband is neurodivergent and so are both of our kids. I think I may have taken Tylenol once or twice per kid while pregnant. The kids themselves only took it with a very rare fever, they were healthy tykes. If we’re speaking anecdotally, our type of autism is clearly genetic #FuckJunkScience

All MAGA Christians please drop your address in the comments so we heathens can come check your homes for abandoned yarn tomorrow. 🧶 #rapture

Name this band with a new album dropping this fall. #cats

I don’t want to unsubscribe from the bajillion email lists the Democratic Party put me on after I donated and signed up for various events. But I don’t have the bandwidth for all of them and just delete more often than not. Exceptions…(1/2)

My office is in the basement and with our elder kid having moved back in it’s messing with my compulsion to intuit where everyone is in the rest of the house. I can’t tell which kid is walking around. But now that they started emptying the dishwasher I know for sure it’s the younger kid.

Today’s the day. Moving Elder Child (26) back home after being on their own for 5+ years due to a very sad breakup. They’re taking this opportunity to go back for a masters but feelings are so mixed. Everyone’s life is going to change dramatically. It’s going to take lots of love and patience. ❤️

People like to compare our current administration to 1940s Germany & I get that. But it feels like so much of the population is 100% aware & complicit today, cheering on the fascism. Did average Germans know the depth of the depravity going on during WWII? What’s a good website with accurate info?

It’s amazing how my creative willpower kicks into gear when I find a project someone already did that I can copy. 😳

I’m not having a pity party for a change. But I’m realizing that sometimes even the people you think care about you most aren’t really interested in putting down their own shit for a minute to listen to the struggles you have carrying yours. But I do it for them all the time.

Today I made about a dozen trips up & down stairs carrying furniture & boxes, walked about six blocks & back, drove almost 3 hours, & changed a flat in 93 degree heat on the side of the LIE. And it still felt like a holiday because I wasn’t reading the news of our country on the brink of fascism.

Instead of making a quilt, or knitting a toy bunny complete with wardrobe and carrying case, or visible mending my husband’s pants, I’m sitting here looking at photos where others have actually accomplished these things. #AmbitiousButTired

Dear NY and CA govs: even if TX backs down, do it anyway. I’m tired of playing fair against people who rig the game. Balls down, tits up, fight fire with fire. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. The senior citizens are ready to stand up to protect this country, its kids, and their future! FUCK FASCISM!!

If a YouTube creator clicks the heart on a comment I made on one of their videos, I will not unsubscribe for the rest of my life. It’s like automatic loyalty.

I got a butt cushion for my office chair and I swear my life is 17% better now.

Literal crisis. Help me. Took some photos of my face without glasses and realized my left eye is just a wee bit lower on my face than my right. That’s not the crisis. Now suddenly every face I see has one eye slightly lower than the other. Have we always been this way and I never noticed?

Thinking about how I mended the giant rip in the back of my dressing gown but only did a utilitarian job of it rather than decorative. But for something like that I will sacrifice saying “look how pretty this is!” in favor of “look how done this is!”

Like, I have to figure out how ask Google “how many girl cucumber flowers can one guy cucumber flower impregnate” without turning my search algorithm into a nightmare.

Oh my lord I just learned that because I have no bees on my cucumbers I’m going to have to pollinate them myself. I now know what a male vs a female cucumber flower looks like and how to couple them. And I feel vaguely grossed out.

I’m a horror fan. I love Stephen King books. I loved the first season of Stranger Things so much I wrote to the Duffer brothers in my one and only time using Twitter. Yet here I am 9 years and four seasons later, S5 premiers ON MY BIRTHDAY, and all I can think is “Meh?” #RuinedFranchises

My son and I picked a second batch off the blueberry bush today. We’re calling it “Round 2: Electric Bloobaloo.” #Gardening #GrowYourOwnFood

You know how some husbands look at pictures of girls when their wives are out of the room? I came up behind mine and he was looking at pictures of grills.

Salmon coated with pesto made with basil from my garden, plus pine nuts, olive oil, garlic, and salt. I measured nothing meaning I will never replicate it exactly (per usual) but OMG. So creamy and flavorful. #Gardening #GrowingFood

I think I forgot to share these when I completed them. An example of how I like my sock repairs to be EXTRA visible with contrasting yarn. #VisibleMending #Weaving #Darning #SockRepair

We picked almost a full quart bag of blueberries off the bush yesterday, so the bird netting has been a great investment. Past years I’ve been lucky to get a handful for the whole a season. #Gardening #GrowingFood

We all watched President Obama at President Carter’s funeral showing great class and restraint by chatting with Trump and even apparently joking around. I hope at their next public appearance together Obama snubs that fucker three ways to Sunday. Treason my ass.

Elder Child got accepted into their first choice grad school today, and I have three new books in my Libby app to read. So things are looking up from yesterday. 💕

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