Introduce yourself with the name your parents almost gave you Hiya, my name is Riley.

Books Not Bombs! #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #sanfrancisco #northbeachsf #beatnik #street #nikon

Anyways. I just stared at the word “time” for longer than should be right because I was questioning if I spelled it right (I did) but it didn’t look right.

In today's installment of Old Lady Yells At Clouds:

Anxiety is a bitch. I was having a particularly difficult battle with it earlier and was spiraling through all kinds of “I’m a failure because” internal dialogue lines. Like down to the meal I put in the oven for me and my son tonight. You know what happened; he ate it and loved it.

According to my son, Ghost Spider is helping me study. Cause Spideys don’t give up.

It is though #booksky

Damn it.

please join me in a moment of bebes

Tag yourself.

Accounting at end of year close is not for the weak.

Dino nuggz? No, my son is asking for pentagon shaped chicken nuggets. Toddlers are curious creatures. #parenting

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Ah shit. I think I just found a new hyperfixation food. Plain Greek yogurt, a scoop of vanilla protein powder, and raspberries. I foresee myself looking forward to eating this every morning for breakfast for a while. 😬

Are other parents of a 3 year old explaining gutters and erosion on a causal Thursday morning or is it just me? #parenting

Hi. If you haven’t read What The River Knows and Where The Library hides by Isabel Ibañez this is my formal petition to change that. Disclaimer; they are not spicy. But they are wonderful. #booksky

This jar of plastic coins may have just solved a major point of contention in our house. #parenting

Sometimes you just get cranky and need to put on your headphones, blast some screamy music, and dance/headbang it out.

It is too cold to leave my bed.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

This is @gettymuseum.bsky.social photographer www.instagram.com/john_abernat... John Abernathy. He tossed his camera to another photographer so it wouldn't be confiscated, while he put his life in danger to take photos of ICEstapo. Go to his Instagram. This is American journalism as it should be.

Remembered a really icky social interaction from today while in the shower and now I’m ruminating on it, annoyed and cranky because other people, and their habits of projecting their own issue on others, are fucking exhausting.

Me, with only 9 rides, when the Peloton instructor calls out people with 2k+ rides.

Me, when I get test questions so easy they feel like a trap:

Wherever in the world this is happening, I want to be there.

So I have until May to pass this exam before one of my other exam credits expires and I have to take another exam. FAR is my last. Failing this time has me maaaad mad and increasingly obsessive about making my next attempt THE LAST ATTEMPT. I’m in the hyper fixation flow state only anger can bring.

I did not pass my FAR exam. Womp womp. I shall endure and try again.

Enmeshed family systems scare me. I am so grateful my family and my husband family aren’t like that. Yeesh.

My nighttime skin care routine is basically my favorite part of the day…maybe second favorite after the first sip of coffee.

You don’t need that negativity in your life #booksky

Finally watched The Sandman season two (and rewatched season one) and I gotta say; I really enjoyed it. Strange though it was. I’m sad there won’t be more.

Made it through the first week of 2026

Fight For Good.

so are we flying flags at half mast for renee too? or doing tributes during major sporting events? or is that just for christian nationalists?

Been feeling real overstimulated by everything in my house. Which means nothing is safe from the trash or the donation box. I let you know if the husband and offspring make the cut.

December reading wrap up. It was a slower month for reading. #booksky

Took FAR today. Reenactment footage of me walking out of Prometric:

Went to war (grocery shopping on Christmas Eve) and now I’m completely over people and need a reward (wine and a snacky snack) for not stabbing anyone.

6 days until I sit for FAR. Everything’s fine.

Oof the optics in these “patriot games” just get worse the more you compare the current state of affairs to the books. Whomever is reading the tangerine toddler his night-night story needs to either choose a different book or get to the part where Snow doesn’t win asap.

Day 18 of Things I Don't Usually Draw.... Calligraphy. This isn't a wedding invitation, more of a Save The Date.

I’ve seen several posts along the lines of “if you woke up on Christmas morning and it was 1995 again, what would be the first thing you’d do?” My response is always the same. Sure, I could set myself up for incredible success and wealth. But I’d just want to hug my dad and hear him laugh again.

Ah hell nah! I like my anonymity on BlueSky.

Yuuuuuck

Anyone else’s family already starting to act a fool this holiday season?

I have new converse that I customed all black that are coming in today!