Metal on a Monday

Peanut butter cookie dough with chocolate chips, marshmallows, and pretzels going in the fridge to hydrate for a day or two ✨

J built me a baking stand 😍

Hearing from the moms of lifelong friends on days I would never hear from my own mother just means so much to me I don’t have the words 🥹

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

If the Supreme Court is concerned about its declining public legitimacy and thinks too many Americans are calling the Supreme Court illegitimate, the majority could try not issuing bad faith rulings that illegitimately distort law in pursuit of undemocratic partisan power. That’s always an option.

Stumbled upon an account of someone I know on a social app that is most certainly meant to be anon or private and I feel so uncomfy knowing info they’ve shared there the algorithm showed me against my will

Secured a ham biscuit from TOS and I’m ready to trudge through this Friday

House cleaners came so I’m having a comforting bowl of mac and peas this don’t mess the stove up Thursday 😇

We have to reconstruct two multi-day trials this summer and I am already so tired

Spent twenty minutes between oral arguments squeeing at met gala attire and it was the best brain break I took today

For the first time in my five years here, my agency is recognizing public service week and feeding us 🎉

Sliced my thumb open doing god knows what and while it’s Fine, it hurts so bad idk how I’m gonna sleep 😵‍💫

A sidewalk connecting my neighborhood to Rosewood just got funded 🎉🎉

What’s it like to leave an event and not obsess over every way you could’ve existed in a social setting better

S let me blow dry and style her hair and I indulged her request for painted nails and she rocked that too 👏

How many times will I have to ask my toddler not to yell at me today 😵‍💫

Tempted to buy tickets for Brandi Carlile’s summer tour, but hesitant because every.single.time I have had tickets to see her, she has cancelled the show the day of

One of the coolest gifts I have ever received I am so excited

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

Haven’t had short hair since after my wedding so of course I’m thinking about getting a cunty little bob again despite the fact that I’ve immediately grown out every bob I’ve ever had

I’ve been the person who trains new hires in my role for a few years now, and for our most recent vacancy I was brought to the table for interviews. We picked someone I really liked for the role. She starts today and I’m super hopeful 🎉

We have outdoor family photos scheduled this weekend and in natural fashion there is a cold front, I’m having a breakout, and I’m also menstruating 😇

My brain immediately shuts off when people start bitching about “chemicals.” WATER IS A CHEMICAL

About another month before my college roommate and teammate moves back to the east coast with her fam 🥹

My kingdom for a brain that notices what I have more than ruminating on what I don’t

Been meaning to introduce a lifelong friend to my core group of gals now that she’s back in town and I learned last night she met one of my friends organically and they instantly vibed and I could CRY from joy 🥹

I’m so glad I learned this new concealer oxidizes orange on me before wearing it for family pics this weekend

Hosting a meet and greet for a good friend’s county council campaign tonight and having that “nobody’s gonna show up” anxiety

Really helpful new data @centeronbudget.bsky.social @joannalefebvre.bsky.social extends what researchers have known since the early 00’s Most voucher users were never in public school. These are subsidies for existing choices. And add new costs for states.

Love when someone advertises that their strawberries aren’t GMO. Of course they’re not, there are no GMO strawberries 🙄

$7.25/hr digitizing paper medical records in 2006

Remittitur

Thinking we’re gonna mix up our snowy Christmas tradition and head to Quebec this year 😍

Got a clear gloss for the first time in a decade and forgot how shiny my hair could be 🔥

I thought this was just a blood pressure check and it turns out I’m here for my annual 💀

Always getting high blood pressure readings only at the office with the worst support staff 😵‍💫

Carpal tunnel flare help me 😩

Wym you’re not thinking about a typo from yesterday still

Would love to be one of those people without an internal monologue. It must be so peaceful for y’all

My Gourmet subscription is the best small investment in my joy and this feature made me actually cackle multiple times

I gave one of my friends a carseat we don’t use anymore and forgot that J put an AirTag on it. We now cannot find the AirTag that chirps at my friend every day and we cannot remember where on the seat we placed it 💀

Weeknight happy hour with friends who also have early bedtimes and help you get home by 8 ✨

Someone made the mistake of misstating to me how open primaries work in South Carolina and ended up with civics lesson 😇

Midnight combination pizza rolls

Happy mail for S from a dear friend who traveled to China for work 🥹

Stumbled upon a devastatingly beautiful patch of invasive iris pseudacorus on my walk

I love it when you tell a physician your loved one wasn’t offered any pain management last time they had a particular procedure and they look back at you in horror and assure you that’s not the plan today 😇

Emotionally prepared for my summer trim and debulk for like a week looking at pictures of how we did it last year and here I am still feeling bald

Love how the two kids she toilet trained more than 50 years ago makes my Teta an expert 💀