Husband let the dog out, went outside with her to keep her company. She didn't do anything. Came back in. She immediately pooped in the shower. Kinda hard to be mad at this face though. (Poop censored.)

the thing about being married to an extrovert is that sometimes they'll say something like "everyone's meeting up at this bar before the birthday dinner!" and you just want to scream because you did not anticipate socializing BEFORE the socializing?!

we watched Dungeons & Dragons (the chris pine one) again last night and I laughed so hard when Xenk pulls a kitten baby out of that fish's mouth that I wept

my eye doc gave me samples of a flatter contact lens (my eye is kinda flat so usually they bubble away from my eye and it's really uncomfortable) and like, what do you MEAN there are all these twigs on that tree outside relatedly, I think my glasses prescription needs updating

if i see one more person say it's just a distraction i'm going to lose it

me cutting 8000 unnecessary words from a draft

since we last checked in with each other about baldur's gate 3, I have - started again - as the Dark Urge (but like, the "good" kind of Dark Urge) - romanced Astarion (I heard you gotta) - played through to Act 3 and now we're really in it, folks

shockingly pleasant experience at the DMV this morning

Me struggling to breathe on my left side while swimming freestyle: "I'm not an ambiturner!"

WHEN AMONG CROWS by @veronicarothbooks.com is currently 25% off in the Waterstones Books Coming Soon Promotion! #WPreorder Use the code FEB26 on their website or app, now until 23:59 February 20. https://tinyurl.com/2fwpdfdr

Today my PT— who I’m seeing for my hips— was like “lady you gotta find a way to down regulate your nervous system.” I have seen him twice. I have been very cheerful both times. I must be radiating Stress like beams of tense sunlight right now.

I am way too proud of this (the game is here: colormatching.vercel.app)

I've been skiing, I know how much skill is involved, but somehow when I watch downhill skiing it just looks like everyone is toppling down the hill at incredible speeds

oooh it finally happened, one of the pro-AI "this is inevitable, why fight it?" writer people came into my newsletter replies

i think when my spouse is out of town i eat like a modern day puritan. if the puritans had access to frozen chicken tenders and frozen peas, they'd think, yeah, that's a decent, plain, boring-ass meal that serves the lord with its humility, sure

Things the algorithm "should" be showing me: - books - movies - television Things the algorithm is actually showing me: - slo mo of owls - chihuahuas (as previously discussed) - wacky cat antics - a video of that one sea shanty round

I've been getting twice-daily scam calls about a loan for about three months now, and I know the best practice is not to answer but I'm so angry now that it is requiring all my self control not to pick up and tell her she's been approved for a 67,000 dollar loan

are you an introvert or are you the kind of introvert who stays home alone for fourteen days while your spouse is out of town and it's amazing* because that's the kind I am *I do miss him, I just don't miss People.

sometimes i just think about how there's a whole house around me. a kitchen! a living room! a bedroom! a bathroom! an office! so many cozy surfaces! multiple dog beds! and my dog still chooses to curl up right next to me 🥲

Ah the yearly jump scare of blood test results Results: ALERT! ABNORMAL VALUE! KIDNEY FAILURE IMMINENT! Me: 😨 Results: 😱 My doctor: you're fine, you're just tall Me: 😐 oh right

My entire IG feed is chihuahua videos. Is my dog a chihuahua? No. Have I ever had a chihuahua? No. Do I want a chihuahua in the future? No, I would give that dog small dog syndrome SO FAST. I just think they are the funniest little guys ever.

I reached the Gauntlet of Shar and my interest just abruptly petered out. I missed a lot of Act 1 in my first playthrough so it was fun to play it again, even so soon...but I was thorough about Act 2 so it's now feeling tedious.

this is just a PSA for readers that I think every author I know is DELIGHTED to sign your beat up old version of our books, so there's no need to apologize for whatever state of disrepair it's in. I love to sign a beat-up, cracked-spine, water-stained Divergent.

Everyone say happy book birthday to @veronicarothbooks.com and @scalzi.com -- these two are out now in paperback!! 🧀⚔️✨

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I'm watching Derry Girls and I guess I have no choice but to go listen to Enya now

i saw someone say re: halftime show yesterday "i miss when halftime shows were just fun, not a big statement" and it's honestly haunting me. what part of what you just watched was not fun. was it the dancing. the wall to wall hotties. the actual honest to god WEDDING.

This novella was great! It comes out on February 17th! Here's what I said about it! @matthewkressel.net

Nobody warned me she’d get so much cuter as she got older

I have a friend (older), a Hungarian living in Romania, who was arrested at age 2 and sent to a camp. He wrote in an essay about how after Ceaușescu was gone, he found the records of his arrest listing him-- a 2 year old!-- as an enemy of the state, and said, "Nothing is more surreal than reality."

So, when I write YA, I always get a lot of editorial pressure to ensure that the characters have agency over everything that's happening...but I have never heard that feedback when I write for adults. I don't think it's because my adult characters are naturally less passive.

I am playing Baldur's Gate 3 again immediately after just playing it (I'll keep going until it feels tedious, anyway) and it is honestly a whole different game when you know how to play the game before you play the game also it's fun to be a drow

a thing about Threads is you'll step into a conversation that you don't realize is big until an hour later when suddenly your feed populates with the entire thing all i want is a chronological feed

Did you guys know swimming is hard? It's currently my only source of cardio now that my hip has decided it hates the rest of my body, and turns out: it's hard.

when I did the programming for Yallfest I liked to throw contemp authors on worldbuilding panels and a surprising number of them insisted they don't do any worldbuilding, which...I mean, no, everyone does worldbuilding, but also, just watch Veronica Mars and you'll get what I mean

First generation American here! Mom and Dad both came as kids, I think for “land of opportunity” reasons. Maternal Grandfather survived a concentration camp, which I didn’t really understand until a few years ago. (He was Polish, not Jewish. “Roth“ is my dad’s side, and they’re German Catholics.)

technically I worked out this morning, but in another sense: did i

It’s done! And I might have to play through again because looking at the BG3 quest list online I realized I basically only played half of it and met half the playable characters. don’t ask me how that happened, I have no idea.

35 hours left!

i now have what all the ladies want: the Orphic Hammer and the gauntlets of hill giant strength

Going on tour for Seek the Traitor's Son in May! Come say hi! veronicarothbooks.com/tour

I have never gotten a more difficult-to-figure-out note on a manuscript than "this character's grief is not working well in this section"-- I completely agree with it and do not know how to fix it and do not understand this character after loss. It's kind of exciting? Puzzle-solving brain activated!

😀 THANK YOU, SFF! In our 3x Matching Campaign w/ @veronicarothbooks.com, we're well on our way to the $3,334 needed by JANUARY 31 at 11:59PM PST to receive the full $10,000 pledged by this SFF Best-Seller. Will you join Veronica & help us reach our end-of-month goal? sfwa.org/winter-worlds-of-giving

me: i'm fine my body: *mid-sleep panic attack* me: like, everything's cool my shoulder: *twitches all night* me: really, i'm good my head: *migraines*

Nothing like the sound of like a thousand Chicago mittens applauding

when it's too late to complete Karlach's quest because you let a guy die in Act 2 😭

i'm afraid that i've gone over the edge of despair mountain and have landed in a patch of hysterical nihilism

Uuuuuugh 🧸

This post was VERY interesting, I am still chewing on it

rival construction companies: Concreted Rivalry