He sure sighs a lot for someone who sleeps all day 💜

Eyeball monster! 👀

Mr kitty you don't get fed for another hour. I'm not that big of a sucker lol

Coworkers really being spicy today dang....I get we're all stressed out but woof. ....yes we do have to meet our commitments that we made months ago...no you don't get to yell at me about why the things I'm working on and asking for help with aren't actually important 🫠

Yay it's done! (Except for the ironing and framing etc.) I started cross stitching during meetings again cuz it's nice to have something to do with your hands. But also I had a lot of meetings so it got done faster than I thought

The 3 main flavors of pride float were politician, church, and big company. But somehow I didn't mind at all when the company was like Marta or the local weather station (they had good floats and are like a net good)

The scarecrow thing at the botanical garden is funny cuz half of them are like people who wanted take something cute and half are straight up ads. Here's a cute one "Yarnold Kniterblocker"

Didn't realize how much I lean on my elbows til I got tattooed there and now I can't lean on it. Or maybe I can I guess it just doesn't feel very nice. Lines from earlier this week. We ran outta time to shade it so I'll go back for that in a few weeks. It's some diamorpha (a weird succulent)

Anyway I'm like 2/3rd of the way through the cross stitch so maybe I'll finish it by Halloween...maybe 😅

I'm happy for my friends who didn't grow up around or have personal experience w/ abusive or manipulative people. Unfortunately they are everywhere with varying degrees of intensity (eg coworkers who occasionally exhibit those behaviors), and as people get more stressed by the world, it gets worse.

Idk if I'm just being paranoid but I feel like I'm seeing a lot of for sale and for lease signs around, especially in wealthier neighborhoods...so like...is everybody with money just noping tf outta here...? I don't blame them at all. It's just sad if true and not a coincidence/ me being paranoid

Idk how road closures get reported for maps but like....bro we got stuck in traffic for almost an hour trying to get on the highway because several highway entrances weren't marked as closed. So maps kept trying to route me (and everyone else) to go where we could not actually go. It was nightmare

One battle after another was pretty good and didn't feel nearly 3 hours long. It was definitely goofy (affectionate). Like parts reminded me of a Wes Anderson film and bits reminded me of Dr. Strangelove with respect to like the absurdity.

The benefit of library books (besides it being free) is I feel compelled to finish them before they're due. Idk if I would have finished Harrow the Ninth if I hadn't had to return it. I spent the first 2/3rds of the book being like "wtf is going on" but it did turn around and get good at the end

It's my favorite time of year again: looking at other people's Halloween decorations and how they get added to over time. One of our neighbors goes all out, so they're just adding stuff weekly until Halloween and it's amazing 🎃

Some flowers from the other day

I do love that our neighborhood has a monthly newsletter printed on like actual newspaper. It's so old-school, and it's lovely to see the section that has reader-submitted nature photos (usually small critters from around the way). Also good for like events I woulda missed otherwise

Saw these mushrooms yesterday and they're huuuge and look like sponges?

Apparently, a flapjack is not a synonym for a pancake in the UK...huh en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapjac...

I picked my big cross stitch again and lol I'm never gonna finish this thing. I'm so slow. 😅

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I cringed so hard at the headliners bad jokes, I put my head in my hands and a festival safety person came over to ask me if I was ok 😅

Weird Al rocks! Also he did the Devo cover right after Devo had their set which was great

The number of people I overheard talking about parking for this festival seems bonkers to me like....I understand a lot of folks are visiting from out of town and don't know better, but I cannot fathom attempting to park in midtown rn. I know our trains are lacking, but there's one right there 🙃

I do love that (at least based on lookong around the show) MCR fan fashion hasn't changed that much since I was in high school. It's just a different set of teenagers wearing it.

Idk when cigarettes got popular again but...pls go back to vaping festival people...it smells so bad. At least before it smelled like candy

What I do appreciate about music festivals is I can be like, "wait I got the names mixed up. I actually really don't like this band.", and then just walk over and see something else.

It's been 8 years today, and I still miss him all the time. The only upside is at least Eric didn't have to experience all of this.

Foothills parkway was lovely. Really improved the drive home over like just being on the interstate. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is awesome and I'd love to see more of it. Did get to hike a couple days which was nice.

I do love that Pigeon Forge has the same tourist store with a shark mouth door and pirate show as Myrtle Beach even though we are nowhere near a body of water 😅

Dang these library holds get here quick, woo hoo! 🥰

I know every cat in a movie is just a little guy doing tricks for treats, but the caught stealing cat is the best little guy doing tricks for treats 💜

I knew the library was cool, but like you can check out free passes to some museums and stuff and register to vote here. Heck yeah

We moved the couches cuz we're painting the living room tomorrow and it revealed my stolen hair tie (and several actual cat toys), which the cat then immediately stole again (it is apparently the best toy, I have to hide them)

Mushroom content for @theporkofcrime.bsky.social

I encountered bubble wrap that is sticky on one side at work for the first time (for wrapping big stuff in bubble wrap without the need for tape I guess?) and it felt so wrong. Horrible sensory experience 🙃

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Alien earth spoilers . . . . . Oof this is why ya don't eat or drink in lab 🫠 ...or get lax about safety, but like I've seen/heard about people doing unsafe shit at work without being stuck on a ship for 65 years, so at least it's realistic I guess?

I'm glad my cat missed me. I just wish he had a different way of showing it than licking whatever bit of skin is closest

Favorite costume today was the waffle house witch who had little raccoons with breakfast food on her hat and black and yellow striped stockings. Close runners up were the lego dudes and the hobbits dancing through the food court playing "taking the hobbits to Isengard"

Favorite costume yesterday was a lady who was some kind of forest witch with a crocheted baba yaga bag and the house part has lights inside it. There were also other crochet pouches shaped like acorns and other stuff but I was distracted by how fucking awesome the baba yaga was.

I used to be like (in college) "damn it's con nobody is around to hang out for my birthday" but actually con is an amazing birthday present. I'm having a great time. I'm drunk at a concert of a band that never comes here 10/10

I've never like dressed up for dragon con before and I was not prepared for how cute everybody is about it. It was so nice how happy it seemed to make people. Also cool to see how many younger folks like even know what Courage the cowardly dog is lol.

Favorite costume today was Gideon the Ninth themed Ms Firzzle complete with skeleton lizard buddy.

I have seen several Queen Amidala's in various of her gorgeous outfits. 10/10 my childhood self is happy. I always loved her clothes

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Neither me nor my cat like that I've had to into the office 4 days a week the past 2 weeks. Hopefully it'll stop soon, the commute blows lmao

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I do appreciate that the emissions place and the Kroger with the registration kiosk are like 2 minutes from each other...especially when I kept putting it off and now it's due very soon 😅