Let’s goooooo! 📚💙

Tonight I finished Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. It was a wonderful story about the life of our immigrant founding father and the struggles he had to endure to become so. A testament to a tireless man and his incomparable widow, Eliza, and at times spooky with just how much history does… 📚💙

“The man [Aaron Burr] whom the grand jury in the county of Bergen, New Jersey have recently indicted for the murder of the incomparable [Alexander] Hamilton appeared yesterday and today at the head of the Senate!… It certainly is the first time—and God grant it may be the last—that ever a man, so…

Hachi and her green for yesterday’s St. Patrick’s Day. We received a beautiful monstera.

King George III is down in hell dancing around to Hamilton’s “You’ll Be Back” right now.

“men the most zealous reverers of the people’s rights have, when placed on the highest seat of power, become their most deadly oppressors. It becomes therefore necessary to observe the actual conduct of those who are thus raised up.” - Alexander Hamilton 📚💙

Saturdays are for Hachi. 🐾

Bap. #corgi

“The first great skeptic of American exceptionalism, [Alexander Hamilton] refused to believe that the country was exempt from the sober lessons of history.” - Ron Chernow 📚💙

Getting ready to watch the movie adaptation of #Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. I really hope it’s decent, even good if I’m being honest. 🤞🏻 📚💙

Forever my silly Hachi 😹❤️

“Congressman Harrison Gray Otis of Boston set a strident tone when he declared that America should no longer ‘wish to invite hordes of wild Irishmen, nor the turbulent and disorderly parts of the world, to come here with a view to disturb our tranquility after having succeeded in the overthrow of…

“‘Self-sufficiency and a contempt of the science and experience of others are too prevailing traits of character in this country,’ [Alexander Hamilton] wailed to John Jay. (This attitude was of a piece with [Hamilton’s] dismay over the Jeffersonian faith that Americans had much to teach the world…

The cutest face of the best snuggle buddy ❤️🐾

LFLLLLLL (let’s fucking learn). 📚💙

“All power is now in the undivided possession of those who have directed against us those hostile measures of which we so justly complain.” - John Marshall

HI FRIEND!

🏳️‍⚧️ The other day I had to use the restroom while at Menards. I walked into the women’s and there was a man in the first stall with the door open standing to pee. I double checked that I walked into the women’s and then went into a stall a few down from him. Nothing happened. So I never want to… 🏳️‍⚧️

Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️

Yesterday was Hachi’s FOURTEENTH BIRTHDAY! She’s still so youthful though and enjoyed playing in the snow this morning. If you see this, wish this goofy girl a happy birthday! 🎂

Impromptu games night was full of maturity 🤭

Huge shoutout to @0asfaloth0.bsky.social and @hailztobailz.bsky.social for addressing their mail to me with my future married name. It is so exciting to see and brings me so much joy 😻😘

I pulled up MSN at work to look at the weather and was given this. Thanks, I guess?

Yesterday I treated myself to two chocolate covered strawberries at lunch for my birthday. They were so good 🤤

I had a dream last night where I got to swim with manatees again. It was absolutely magical. Oh, what I would give to swim in the ocean with them right now. 💙

“… factions can become ‘potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government.” - Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton. 📚💙

I don’t care who you are, this is THE BEST Rose x Ten song in existence. #doctorwho open.spotify.com/track/4YdJlB...

“So long as we are a young and virtuous people, [the constitution] will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind us no longer.” - Alexander Hamilton

Tell me you’re from the Midwest without telling me you’re from the Midwest. I’ll go first: The first birthday card I’ve received was from Menards.

I have never listened to an audiobook on Spoofy, but was given this recommendation. Doesn’t seem to have a strong rating. Thoughts? 📚💙

Being the older sister means I can use my little sister as a foot rest.

“To see the character of the government and the country so sported with, exposed to so indelible a blot, puts my heart to the torture. Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American ground? Or what is it that thus torments me at a circumstance so calmly viewed by…”

I’m trying so hard to keep going with Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow. I’m over halfway. Knowing how far the nation came just to dive off a cliff is hard, though. I persevere. 📚💙

I love seeing so many people getting their library cards and being active with them. I plan to join y’all ASAP. To be educated and well-read in a nation that wants you stupid and gullible is a powerful act.

I was pretty today. My mirror not so much 😬

This is Ryoko (left, Pembroke Welsh corgi) and Hachi (right, German shepherd/husky mix). They’re sleepy and very cute.

Victoria Aveyard continues to ensnare me with her writing. I’ve finished Realm Breaker for the second time and will be starting Blade Breaker for the first. I can’t wait to see how this trilogy develops.