How did it get to be December?

You’re welcome!

Is it really that hard to be kind?

Let sleeping doggos sleep.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

Wouldn’t it be nice if tech companies made AI an opt in only feature? I don’t want AI. On anything.

Farewell Diane.

John Carpenter’s Steel Magnolias

"Since strangers will call the police if kids in the Goon Docks wander around on their own, the boys don’t get a chance to search for One-Eyed Willy’s gold. Instead, they compete in a Mr. Beast challenge in hopes of winning enough money to save their parents’ home."

Stop calling a computer generated image an actress. This is not a human being. This does not display human emotions. This does not care for you.

Dear Jane.

Wanna play?

Hey @vaveros.bsky.social Let’s go!

I consulted a variety of US, UK, CA, AU, and NZ English sources and the definition is the same. I include the results here, in case you aren’t aware of what fascism—or a fascist—is. Oh, look, an em-dash or two!

WELCOME SPRING! What took you so long?

There is a not-quite-dead-yet rat in my garden. I have now qualms to take care of it once it dies, but I can’t bring myself to… you know. Bernie knows it’s there and really, really, really wants to take care of it for me.

Goodness in the world.

Extreme BOOP

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

I am SO OVER winter.

When you’re a trad published/indie author, you’ve adapted one of your books into a series screenplay, and now stand in a new publishing field of managers, agents, and marketing WTF worse than book publishing.

It’s taken me 2 weeks to adapt At Your Service into a series screenplay. Draft 1 done.

I had ice cream for dinner because adulting. Adulting isn’t hard when there’s ice cream. And when I adult, I adult like a badass.

Hey, @vaveros.bsky.social did you know J&J are meeting up this month?

Update on my succumbing to peer pressure screenwriting: In 4 days I’ve turned 4 chapters into Episode 1 of At Your Service. I am beset with maniacal laughter.

Keep safe, Japan!

The hardest thing about screen writing so far is getting the damn formatting right. For the record, I hate the Courier font. Easier to read? My arse it is. A minute to a page? Ok, yes. I am spot on w/time, give or take 10 seconds under or over. But I still hate the font.

“Try it,” Megan said. “It would make a cracking series,” Ms P said. “All you need is Final Draft,” Bek said. I believe this is the first time since I was 11 that I succumbed to peer pressure.

What idiot is trying to adapt their book about a middle-aged butler and the spy who loves her into a screenplay? I am that idiot. You may now point at me a laugh.

When you’ve been out weeding the garden, getting all sweaty, and then you come in, ready to shower, but you’re all sweaty and you can’t get your sports bra off because it’s stuck to you because you’re all sweaty and no one else is home to help you pull it off…

I would rather clean a filthy toilet than weed the motherfucking garden. I love gardens, but I hate gardening.

Two weeks ago I was beside myself about a new Dyson vacuum cleaner. Today it’s the new Bosch dishwasher. Not so much unboxing as de-styrofoaming and plastic wrap peeling. @mportuesisf.bsky.social

Anyone remember “Toothbrush the magic brush!” Sung to The Who’s Magic Bus? Was it an 80s Saturday morning thing or something my mind made up? #GenX #callingGenX

Whatcha doin’?

There’s a little hotel called the Shady Rest at the Junction…

My New DYSON Vacuum arrived!! Lookeee! @mportuesisf.bsky.social

The tendonitis in my elbow can fuck right off. And the shoulder bursitis can munch a giant-sized movie bucket of popcorn dicks.

My in-laws, aged 86 & 94, have Covid. Their symptoms are mild; a general feeling of blah fatigue, which worries Mum more than when they both had fevers, sore throats, and coughing fits the first time they had, as Mum says, “The Covid.” Time for antivirals.

You know you are an adult when you get excited by ordering a new Dyson stick vacuum.

Bernie is totally unimpressed that he had to have his stinky, sore ear washed and scrubbed by the vet.

"Your Sterling Service" by Sandra Antonelli herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/y... via @azteclady.bsky.social #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia

Hey.

ICYMI:

This non-drinker says Thank you. I appreciate your time and thoughts. @azteclady.bsky.social

Well, duh.

Because dog

It’s raining. Again.

Bernie & Biscuit! Best frens! Because dog!

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