Muck Fichigan. Go OSU!

Someone made her first trip to Ye Olde Christmas Tree Farm right before her Thanksgiving feast. I bet she picked out a good one. No Charlie Brown Christmas trees for this girl. No fake ones, either. 🎄🎄🎄🎄

Be honest: How old were you when you learned that cranberries in the wild are neither cylindrical nor indented with a series of rings? I think I was about 11.

Caviar flavored potato chips: A delicacy? A joke? Or the perfect metaphor for a society that wants to have both and ruins each in the process?

Our local Catholic Iconography shop has a tacky little secret. My only question is where are the gnomes???

A. Dayton sucks. B. Dayton is kinda cool. C. Both A and B

Y’all thought I was effortlessly gorgeous, but I want you to know, this level of glam takes work. Why else would I be wearing a snail mucin face mask right now? Thank you, Korean beauty industry—now I don’t have to hunt around in the yard for a slime trail from a slug to rub on my face any more!

I just spotted this outside a cannabis dispensary. Munchies? We got you covered. 🤣 It actually restores my faith in humanity a little. I should build one of these as a gratitude project.

So it’s come to this: I’m seeing articles that recommend foraging as a way to deal with food insecurity. Even better if you forage for edible invasive plants. Did you know you can eat kudzu? Um, no. I did not know that. You know why? Because we haven’t been hunter-gatherers for 50,000 fucking years!

I’ve lived in this part of Ohio most of my adult life—long enough to know that we have two types of winters: those where we get no snow and those where we get slammed. Having our first snowfall before Thanksgiving does not bode well. Sigh.

The cake smashing was a great success and yet somehow she managed to stay clean. This girl is going to be a world-beater.

Someone is celebrating her first birthday today.

Heads up, NCAA scouts. See you in about 10 years. 🤣

☎️ Ring-ring!! Hello. We are looking for a project manager with clinical research experience in nuclear medicine and molecular imaging for a radiopharmaceutical project. Do you happen to know anyone with that background? Me: My friend, you just made the luckiest cold call of your life. 😆

@pamnation in her natural habitat.

On Saturday, I’m going to “Freak Show at the Phoenix”, a promotional event for local artisans and a historic theater. Not sure what to expect. Maybe some bizarre performance artists and momento mori art? I hope I hook up with some dude in attendance so we can tell people we met at a freak show. 🤣

It’s kind of hard to complain about having to work when you work in a place that looks like this:

Everyone should have a pathologically helpful best friend. If you don’t have one, I highly recommend getting one. Mine has saved my ass more times than I can count, like this morning when I came to work half-dressed and she ran across town at 7:00 to grab my scrubs and bring them to me. 🤣

Um—is this a black mold sitch-ee-ation, or is that just 80 years if filth behind the original built-in cupboard?

Meanwhile, 40 Halloweens ago…

I assembled this IKEA bookcase all by myself today and got the doors (sold separately) on straight and level with no weird gaps or janky-ness. Quite a feat considering that 6 hinges were involved and the substrate was particle board. Anyway, my point is that I am functional as well as decorative.

Fire Chief Wyatt and his dalmation, Willa go trick or treating at the local fire station.

“The caterpillar doesn’t know about metamorphosis. All it knows is that it’s dark inside the chrysalis and it can feel itself dissolving.” —from Tuesday’s Child by Pamela Moss (2025).

“The caterpillar doesn’t know about metamorphosis. All it knows is that it’s dark inside the chrysalis and it can feel itself dissolving.” —from Tuesday’s Child by Pamela Moss (2025).

The saga continues: My cat had 3 kittens sometime this weekend plus 2 that were stillborn. Obvious name choices for 2 of the survivors are Michael and Misty. Taking suggestions for the third one. Also: Anybody want a Siamese/Balinese kitten??

Aside from the wedding itself, my favorite part of the weekend was the pre-wedding party at the gay-hockey-live jazz bar Lapin Bleu. I especially liked the fat old dachshund that was dancing with the band. His boy-dog parts were swaying with the beat and in my head I dubbed him “Mr Balljangles”. 🤣🤣

Scariest Lyft ever! Granted, I booked the ride by mistake while I was pricing rides and didn’t realize it, causing him to wait a few minutes. I apologized, but he was pissed off, speeding and weaving the whole way and making me car sick despite multiple requests to down. Jesus. Glad to be alive.

OMG!! @irynacranny.bsky.social sent me the most adorable tutu for my grandbaby Willa! I cannot wait to get home and take pictures of her wearing it. I love you, my friend. Big time!! Lets make sure we get together soon!!

I got a bargain on an airbnb in North Carolina except i have been locked out of my room all night. It could be worse. I was offered a spare room to sleep in, which is fine, but ALL my stuff: clothes, meds, makeup, contact lens case, money is in the original room. Any locksmiths out there???

I was a pre-med major, but I minored in airport floor-sitting, wall-hugging and electron-stealing—skills that serve me wrll to this day.

Ready to roll:

Concluded something tonight that I never should have devoted any energy to in the first place and I don’t know what I resent more about it: the time-suck or the mind-fuck. When will I learn? God help me.

An actual text message rhat I just sent to my brother: Went to the eye doctor today. My new prescription is a dog and a cane. I really hate you for getting all the good eye genes. Jerk. He’ll send a witty comeback, but I won’t be able to read it.

Getting a pre-wedding pedicure today. Oh, the sacrifices I make for my friends! 😉

Yesterday, I had Thai for lunch. I ordered fried rice w/shrimp. They brought it w/tofu instead. I didn’t mention the mix-up, but 5 minutes later they brought the right dish and said I could have both. Same thing at dinner at 5 Guys. Woo-hoo! Twofer Sunday!! Too bad I wasn’t buying a car or a house!

We buried my dad with a Steeler’s blanket and a Terrible Towel in his casket. When my kid learned to talk, we used to ask him, “What do you know about the Bengals, Dillon?” And, like a baby genius he would answer, “They STINK!” Yet somehow, 30 yrs later, I am Pam-ma to these two misguided souls:

The Designated Reading Couch.

Last week in California I taught my 7 y/o niece how to play UNO. Clearly, I didn’t think the implications through because tonight we had our first cross-country UNO tournament by Face Time and I think this is going to be a nightly thing to until she discovers boys and beer. What have I done?😆

That feeling you get when your friends are getting martied in a month and you don’t have a damned thing to wear and then the heavens open up and angels play trumpets and the cutest outfit in the world magically appears and it doesn’t even need alterations. Yay!!

My neighbors have a pumpkin patch.😊 They also have a Ring doorbell camera to keep me from stealing a pumpkin. 😔

Officially added “minor plumbing repair” to my resume this morning. Amazing! Is there ANYTHING Pam can’t do? Well, yeah. Obviously. For starters, she can’t find a man to do this stuff for her. 😆

Tradition: Get off the plane, head straight to In-n-Out for a burger.

Long weekend off. Going to Carmel in the morning to see my bestie. Short trip, but she’s worth it.

10/25: Consider me RSVP’d for a seat at the #BWG kids table.

Hanging out at my ghost town of an Alma Mater today. It’s beyond abandoned. Everywhere I turn there’s another liminal space. Kubric could have made a movie in these halls.

This is the first night all summer that I’ve been able to go to bed with the A/C off and the windows open. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s good sleeping weather, but at least it isn’t 95 degrees with 95% humidity. Tell me again how climate change is a hoax.🥵

Is it just me, or does this guy look like he’s about to open his trench coat to display a dozen fake Rolex watches that he’s trying to sell?