Every day I sit down to finish my mom’s taxes and every day there is a new snag I didn’t foresee. Yesterday I couldn’t get forms for her IRA, today I remembered that her dad put some of his work in her name so she’s an ASCAP member. That earned nothing last year thank the stars!

I was reading on the couch when I looked up and found a neighbor looking in the window at me

I can’t remember who recommended The Tainted Cup but I enjoyed it, thank you! Recommended if you’d like a book where a Holmesian person is working a case while kaiju are attacking

What do you call it when you have a bunch of really good stuff on your watch list but instead you keep watching the same silly police procedural? Anyway they made a second season of High Potential so I’m watching that.

Oh no, my local cheese shop has started a monthly cheese club for rare and limited production cheeses

My book club is trying to pick our next book and the two top candidates are both books I’ve read and liked. Feels like I won this round of book club, which is of course normal to want and possible to achieve

I had to be finger printed and my ID run through an FBI background check to VOLUNTEER at a school. In the 1990’s. There’s no way this checks out.

lol just got a message from Google saying that they couldn’t verifying that I’m an adult so they’ve changed my search settings to enable safe search, etc I’ve had my Gmail account for 20 years

My brother asked to have a family meeting to talk about the house, and I knew he was nervous about it because he scheduled it days in advance and then day of pushed it back a little bit and then another little bit and then again until we actually had it about 5 hours later.

I’m amazed that no one was hurt in that giant sinkhole collapse in Bangkok, I don’t even know how you’d start to fix something like that? Just a gaping hole in the earth that sucks everything in around it like a black hole?

I didn’t want to go out and water the plants, and now it’s raining! 🌧️ Wait, don’t stop! More rain please!

Oh no, going through my old recipe testing notebook and there’s a random page titled “Good things about being A L O N E (aka apocalypse gratitude journal)” Honestly some good points there though

lol just got a letter from Target telling me my circle card has been flagged as inactive

Rare double feature but I gotta sneak this in before the clock strikes midnight @erinbiba.bsky.social

This is so cool. Nature! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I got my fall vaccines yesterday and tonight my brother is completely stuffed up and when I mentioned it says yeah something’s going around at work*. Anyone want to take bets on whether I get it while I’m waiting for the vax to take effect? *he works in healthcare, I always knew this was a risk

I’m going in

Extremely minor pet peeve: jars with thick contents like pasta sauces should be wide mouthed. Narrow mouthed jars only exist so that things suspended in liquid (pickles, fruit, etc.) are wedged in and don’t float up out of the liquid at the top. Don’t make me strain to get the last of a purée!

Heart, Stones, Billie Holiday, or that first Wynton Marsalis trumpet concertos album

FYI I didn’t see thiswith *waves hands* everything going on so maybe you could use this news too? oaklandside.org/2025/09/17/c...

Okay, today is starting to look up! Just saw a fuzzy yellow and black bumblebee the size of my (fairly large) thumb! Buzz buzz motherfuckers!

The thing that sucks most for me about getting old isn’t any of the changes to my body, it’s that all the older people who cared for me and let me rely on them are gone. I do not always want to be the grown up! I still need to be the baby sometimes!

Mentioned this to my brother and we’re gonna get a “household” account 😎 Did you know it’s fun to do fun things, especially with other people?

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We’re supposed to get our first rain of the season tonight, and it’s so beautiful outside right now. Foggy but not cold, about 70°F. Feels like a perfect morning somewhere tropical.

Okay gonna go prep carrot cake and watch A Walk In The Woods, take care of yourselves my friends

I used to go every year, now I’ve only of… 23 of these acts

Got my hair cut at the city college’s cosmetology school, I wanted a very simple chop and it’s only ten (10!) dollars plus tip there, including scalp massage and blow dry. Best deal in town! I also got to eavesdrop on a young doofus trying to flirt with his lesbian stylist, hilarious

Just had a realization that investing in the stock market means betting on income inequality to increase, i.e. for capital to accrue more to investors (and less to everyone else) That was really clarifying

I’ve been trying to cancel one of my mom’s recurring donations for four months. Every time they say they handled it and then it’s charged again. I’m sure it’s just incompetence but I got pissed off this time and told them not only to stop charges but to refund the last payment. Now I feel guilty!

Just saw a huge line of big trucks and a few cars, maybe two blocks long, all waving enormous flags and I thought “Those fuc- Oh wait, those are Mexican flags.” 😂

The more I see how wealthy people live the more I reject the idea of luxury for myself. I don’t want to worry about valuable and rare things! I don’t want to own anything I couldn’t let go of without more than a slight wistful feeling. It’s a trap!

Conan, what is best in life? To hang out with your buddies, eat wings, and dare Rob to take his shirt off

I sold out of the things I thought I’d have leftover today (yay!) and now I don’t get to have any (boo!)

In other news, I was delayed by not one but TWO road closures on my way in to set up my pop up today. The second one was just a road closed sign blocking the street, no detour or anything, so I had to back track and get on the freeway for a bit to reach my destination.

@rococopacetic.bsky.social thought of you when I read this: whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-fordit...

I was out of tea this morning so I made morning coffee for the first time in… years? God it’s so delicious, there’s a reason why I switched to tea and the reason is that I have no self control when it comes to coffee 💔

STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING here’s my cat

I’m eating tomato and avocado on white (gf) toast with duke’s mayo and a little salt and man these Kat’s summer tomatoes are so good

My cat Diego was ready for his dinner so I prepared it for him and set it down. Then I went back into the kitchen for a minute and came out to find he had completely ignored his dinner and jumped up on my chair trying to steal my baked potato

Oh man, there’s a house for sale in my neighborhood which is always an occasion for speculation. It’s tiny, they don’t list the square footage but the lot is 1/10 acre and the house was built in the 1920’s and is 2 bdrm/1 bath. They whited out the interior before putting it on the market of course 🙄

I'm not reading past the third paragraph of this review to avoid spoilers but this sounds like it's made for me! www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

I’m alone in the house for the next few days, gonna eat the stupidest food imaginable

Dude. Dude!

The local art house theater is showing the 25th anniversary remastering of The Cell next month, and I'm debating going. I've never seen it, I tend to be a wimp about horror and I don't often like dream sequences. Then again I like stylish fantastic stuff like del Toro's a lot. What do you think?

Just when I think I know every possible US-UK pronunciation difference I find another Today's is lichen, or as the Brits say "litch-en"

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.

Nature!

Geology!