i love how our vet’s office takes such good care of our dogs they remembered that Greta has trouble standing back up from slippery floors, so they put a yoga mat in the exam room for her 🥹

YES. Great game, I’m glad the last home game of the season ended on a high note.

“for the person, too” 🤣

Having arrived at the point where next steps involve torches or angle grinders, it might just be time to buy a new washer. No point in cutting apart the basket, replacement parts (if even available) would probably approach the cost of a new machine.

Eye protection is CRUCIAL if you followed previous advice to pour in boiling water—that’s still sitting in the outer tub (now mixed with rust penetrant and any other chemicals you’ve tried), and it’ll splash up through the holes of the inner basket, high enough to get droplets on your face.

Still no luck with these alternate strategies. Now I’ve moved on to advice like “hit the driveshaft with a sledgehammer as hard as you can (careful not to chip the porcelain coating of the tub!)”

washing machine repair tutorials are full of lies, always using nice new machines with no calcium or rust. “lift the inner basket straight up out of the machine” the guy says, demonstrating with ease meanwhile, diy forum guys are using boiling water, 2x4s, and a car jack to get one unstuck.

my face is so itchy but it feels like too much work to go shave.

I don’t have many pictures of Greta playing her new trick on me (she’s too wiggly and I’m too busy petting her), but it’s adorable.

i wasn't sure if i should get a fisheye lens--too single-purpose? i haven't even gotten out of the house with it yet, but it makes my dogs look like cartoon characters, so we're off to a great start!

while I'm complaining: if apps are going to analyze my behavior they should USE THAT INFORMATION. if all I have ever watched in your app is NCAA women's basketball, why is it so determined to show me the PGA tour?!

trying to watch sports on TV is impossible. i subscribed to espn+ so I could watch our women's basketball team's away games. but surprise! today's game is on FS1 instead watching it would require a second subscription costing $45/month. i'm not paying $45 to watch ONE GAME ON TV

Well shit, Tucson Pride is shutting down. Sounds like they were already having some financial difficulties for a while, and then were also losing nonprofit status bc of some missed filing deadlines.

RIGHT, the crushing sense of futility is probably because my meds were out of stock. I mean, also the general state of the world. But it’s nice to tell myself that I could maybe feel marginally better by next week. Might not be true, but staves off some despair 🫠

idk if we’ll be able to see the aurora in Arizona, but I guess getting out of the house beats doomscrolling

The dogs approve of our new truck!

I accidentally squirted soap into my eye this morning (twice), but while that did hurt, what REALLY hurts isn’t my actual eyeball, it’s that I rubbed my eyelid skin raw while trying to rinse my eye.

If pharmacies are going to demand an Rx to buy hypodermic needles (not a legal requirement in AZ), they should have to actually order the correct ones instead of subbing in whatever random needles they had handy Time to ask my doctor to prescribe a wholesale quantity of needles I guess 🙄

Greta's birthday party!

Greta around when we adopted her and now 💚

Our vet’s office loves Greta so much! they just called to wish her a happy 12th birthday!

Mine is the LA “river.” (I’ve never seen the revitalized sections, just the concrete channel)

Why would you design a HOSPITAL with a GRAND STAIRCASE?! Hospitals have so many visitors with fall risks! and mobility devices don’t do well on stairs!

the thing about “ICE needs training” is that Jonathan Ross was a ten year DHS vet and a firearms instructor he’s the kind of guy they get training from the whole institution is rotten, throw it out

My current WIP for #ShowMeYourKnits 🧶 I’m excited to realize I can do two-color brioche without purling!

26 books according to my kindle stats, so the actual total is probably 30+

Funny how quickly things (in this case, my cholesterol med) can go from awe-inspiring to annoying. Then: "An antibody that's kinda like an SSRI for my liver's cholesterol receptors? wild!" Now: "the injectors take up too much space in the fridge", "those little bandaids hurt my leg hair"...

My first great horned owl! 🪶

My gift-wrapping masterpiece (we already had the main part of this weird stool; the wrapped portion is a new accessory)

My meds dragging my depressed ass into the holiday season.

Oh the streetcar isn’t running the entire route due to a road closure for an event. This disruption is not mentioned anywhere on the website or in the app. Public transit here is such a shitshow

Apparently the SunTran “real-time tracker” just shows where the streetcar WOULD be if it was on schedule (lol), not where it actually is 😡

I took a day off of work to rest, but it wound up being pretty busy - wrapped some Christmas presents, put up more decorations - went to the UA women’s basketball game - my therapist is moving across the state (but is still doing telemedicine) - big plumbing emergency (but it’s fixed now)

If you don’t like the look of LED Christmas lights: - Swap the green bulb covers for the blue ones - Swap the white bulb covers for the red ones The hanging strand here is swapped, the one on the ground original.

I just misread the label on the “small ornaments” box as “small armaments”, so I guess that tells us how much stress I’m bringing into the Christmas season 😆

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Christian: The Holly and the Ivy Secular: Lonely This Christmas

The turkey was also a success, our friends liked it. Last night’s slightly-scorched pies were a good warning about how easily things burn when close to the sides of the oven, so I was pretty proactive about shielding the turkey with foil. I am so worn out.

…and now I’ve used up the excess pie filling by cooking it like a crème brûlée.

I guess this is fine. I am just being crazy with the self-criticism. I am completely over the pumpkin pie craving, though 🫠

Decided to make pumpkin pies, having THE WORST time. This recipe is completely unmanageable when doubled. While two pie pans can fit in the oven simultaneously, the edges closest to the walls of the oven will be BURNT less than 1/3 of the way into the cooking time.

This is your reminder to also check that the turkey and roasting pan fit in the oven.

Cooking the turkey? This is your reminder to check if the turkey fits in the roasting pan. We’re spatchcocking ours; I have to go out to get a bigger baking sheet tomorrow.

Me and my anxiety disorder

My Netflix profile thinks I’m a Scorpio (I am not) Nothing Scorpio-related is appearing on the profile of the actual Scorpio in the household, though. 🤨

There’s a product recall for some batches of Vyvanse / lisdexamfetamine. You might need to contact your pharmacy to check if you’re affected; as far as I can tell the prescription labels you get from the pharmacy don’t typically include the lot numbers. www.pharmacy.ca.gov/about/recall...

There’s a product recall for some batches of Vyvanse / lisdexamfetamine. You might need to contact your pharmacy to check if you’re affected; as far as I can tell the prescription labels you get from the pharmacy don’t typically include the lot numbers. www.pharmacy.ca.gov/about/recall...

I should start tracking my answers to the little anxiety/depression questionnaires at my psychiatrist visits. My assessment of how I’ve felt over the last 2 weeks depends on my mood while filling out the form. If I’m in a good mood I’ll convince myself “surely I didn’t feel THAT bad EVERY day” …