“One of the conundrums of life is that just because the big is happening doesn’t mean the small stops.” -Trevor Noah If you haven’t watched his new Netflix special, do it right now.

And it shows. There’s a reason no one can concentrate or read or even think for themselves and it feels like it’s gotten so much worse and instead of recognizing or preventing it, we’re outsourcing our thinking to tech companies who are anxious to oblige and profit.

I feel seen.

How soundly a doodle sleeps when his family reserved a VRBO for the weekend just so that he could come on his boy’s college weekend, but they left him in a travel crate in the house instead of taking him to campus, so he had no choice but to chew his way out and wander the house in their absence. 🙄

Nothing like being out of town and seeing these tornado pictures less than two miles from your house pop up on social media. 😬 Have I mentioned I’m really not a fan of tornado season?!?

I knew when Sharon McMahon started getting sucked into the Utah celebrity machine that it was going to end badly. She’s not one to shy away from telling it how it is, and that feels uncomfy to the conservative right. They will turn on anyone for speaking the truth. Shame on them. This is ugly.

Without saying your age, post your favorite film that released the year you turned 18.

Would you all love me more or less if I did a masters degree in medical history from Hopkins online and then the PhD program in Magic and Occult Science in Exeter, England? Guys. I’m seriously considering it, since I’m going to be an empty nester at the ripe old age of 48. Is this crazy? 😬 Discuss.

I’ve sworn off meal kits forever, but this Hello Fresh burn has me reconsidering my life choices…

Why we left summed up in one picture. #exmo That they can’t see that there is something wrong with this speaks volumes about what else they can’t see they’re wrong about…

“The research suggests that when people face information that conflicts with their deeply held beliefs, they tend to reduce their mental discomfort by denying the allegations, focusing on policies over personal behavior, or claiming that other politicians commit similar acts.” They double down.

I’d like to thank the Mormons for both the dirty Mountain Dew Baja Blast Zero that I just got from Taco Bell and the two cases of dirty Mountain Dew cream soda zero that just arrived in my grocery delivery. May they nourish, strengthen, and caffeinate my little exmo body. 😇 😈

🧵. Fun reminder that my mother died of Covid in 2024 because Fox News and conspiracy theorists convinced her to be more afraid of the vaccine than the virus. Here’s more peer reviewed evidence that she chose poorly. Get vaccinated and boosted. For everything. Vaccines save lives.

Just a picture of my doctor hubs and his two besties.

Sirens going off, had to wake the doodle so we could shelter in the basement gym. Hubs is sheltered in the hospital parking garage. Hail just started pelting the house. There’s a tornado south of us. Are we having fun yet? No we are not. I despise this season in Minnesota.

“We groomed our girls for this. We’re not teaching them to question authority. We’re not teaching them to be critical thinkers. We’re teaching them strict obedience.” Watching “Trust Me: The False Prophet” about the FLDS church on Netflix. Holy. Feeling a little triggered right now. #exmo

Of course they did. 🙄 Nothing like distracting the members with minutia so they pay no attention to real problems.

I’ve just got nothing today. Waiting for potential “tennis ball” sized hail and tornados this afternoon has me feeling a certain kind of way. Also, for what it’s worth, my husband, a doctor, does not go to work wearing white robes and a red stole, and never has. Just in case you were wondering.

He’s going to try to make himself pope. Isn’t he. ISN’T HE?!?!?

Does this feel like hope?!? I think so… “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

Having been a member of a high demand religion that believes this about their “priesthood holders,” at the extreme detriment of women and children, I would punctuate this statement with a thousand amens. Replace him with a woman.

Ladies, it’s time for the female uprising. I’ve had enough. These men have been in charge for far too long, and they’ve done a terrible job.

Ask us how it’s going… (We’re not even half done. I’m in hell)

Shout out to everyone who waited until the last possible moment to do their taxes like we did this year. Feeling not so passively aggressive about funding our own oppression and will be popping copious amounts of Cadbury mini eggs to keep from losing it during the process today. 😡

Alright, hard hitting conversation time (again). Tonight’s topic- tension pneumothorax. Dear writers of television shows- there are other maladies. Seriously. Unctuous ones, even. 😉

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but pardons aren’t necessary if you don’t break the law. That goes for the 5th amendment as well. See how easy that is?

In which pints of strawberries and blueberries were upwards of $9.00 when I ordered my groceries today, so I promptly stocked up on cans of freeze dried fruits and vegetables and more berry bushes and fruit trees.

What are we even doing?!? Brigham Young would like a word. The return to polygamy will start in 3… 2… 1… (Also, uh, in my day we were taught that teen pregnancy was an epidemic that needed to be eradicated, so… well done, maybe?)

Can confirm. This is one of the rare shows that makes my entire family guffaw at the same time. It’s quotable and shockingly brazen about today’s goings on and hilarious. Watch it.

Onions ruin everything. They have no place in food.

Found out today that a jerk has been badmouthing my husband at work, and I have a strong urge to put on my big diamond earrings just so that I can rip them off right before I give this guy a find out moment. If you know that I’m a little tiny white girl, this mental image should give you a chuckle.

We’ll allow it. (I haven’t been able to get my hands on any yet, though) #exmo

Minnesota farmers are saying the same thing. Meanwhile, I just ordered garden soil to fill the three new garden boxes I ordered for spring (to go with the three we already have). Let’s see if I can keep all of our tomatoes from blowing away like they did last year… 😱

Our Goldendoodle, the happiest but clingiest dog in the world, was prescribed anxiety pills today if you want to know how things are going… If Fauci, in all of his cluelessness, is not ok, there’s no hope for the rest of us. 😆 (He’s only going to take them when he gets nervous on trips)

We have officially turned our heater off until next fall and words can not express how happy I am about it. It’s the small things (so of course we’ll probably get a foot of snow in May…).

Yes!!!! If you have not read Parable of the Sower, now is the time. It’s incredible and so prescient and the world needs this message right now. #booksky

The day has devolved into an emergency order of a pineapple ham pizza, to which I am morally opposed, but a still small voice whispered, “Do it.” Nothing matters anymore.

Mood.

We should not have to worry about the mundane while bracing for the terrible. I’m going back to bed.

Just finished reading Judge Stone by James Patterson and Viola Davis. It was basically a modern day retelling of To Kill a Mockingbird with Annalise Keating (How to Get Away with Murder) as Atticus Finch. A MODERN story. About the new horrendous abortion laws prosecuting doctors. Read it. #booksky

Ok, time for another hard hitting question. What are the clothing styles that you associate with Mormons? I’m getting ready to purge my closet and my dress collection especially needs to be pared way, way down. So, what do I get rid of? I’m thinking anything that hits mid calf, to start…

Did we have an Easter egg hunt just for our Fauci doodle? Yes we did. He loved it and has been asleep all afternoon because he worked so diligently to find those eggs. May your day be full of magic and wonder and love and copious heaps of chocolate, ham, and funeral potatoes. Love to you all.

Hello! I’m an unapproved (exmormon) voice in an online space! Nice to meet you! 🤗 Here be dragons… 😉

I completely forgot it was #genconf until just a few minutes ago. Is this growth? I think so! (Also crazy MIL who is supposedly still active called us during the first session, so she also wasn’t watching. Curiouser and curiouser) I have since glanced at summaries. They’re super bugged we all left.

So… uh… just because something isn’t growing uncontrollably doesn’t mean it’s dying. Y’all need to deconstruct that American pseudo-productivity BS and simmer down. I like Bluesky small. Historically societies fall when they get too big and unwieldy, and social media is basically a society, so…

And thus we see why the LDS church is trying so desperately to assimilate... Nothing to see here, fellow Protestant Evangelicals!!!! 🙄

In which he wants those tea towels and he’s plotting how to climb onto the counter to get them. He doesn’t even care that we’re standing here watching him. Be ungovernable like Fauci. 😂 #faucifriday #dogsky #goldendoodle

Ok. I’m witch adjacent, but I feel like I could totally do this. Our HOA president is one of the Mormons who shunned us when we left and he’s always wrong about the bylaws (he clearly doesn’t read) yet so condescending and gaslighting with a huge ego and he makes us crazy. Where’s my coven?!?

LDS friend who downplayed every single thing that I was worried about happening right now in the US, “We were on a trip and there was a really scary lockdown, and the friends we were travelling with refused to admit what was happening right in front of them.” Me- Huh. 👀

Periodic reminder that I saw the Challenger blow up live in the sky on a playground in Florida when I was in 3rd grade. No. I did not watch the Artemis launch. This little tiny person can only handle so much trauma.