I call this one: I just need a US size 8

I went to patch a hole in my office and next thing I knew I painted the entire room dark blue and now I’m painting stars on the ceiling. If you give a mouse a cookie, etc., etc..

Who works out in jeans in a sauna???

Howard the duck looks so over me and my shenanigans. Too bad for her she’s my favorite!

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

My school district announced that they had $4,000 in unpaid lunch debts and were considering sending those parents to collections. Or they could just, feed the kids for free with the super high property taxes that we pay?

It’s 70 degrees and I’m trying to get all the outside work done that I can but… I ain’t no spring chicken. Badum.

While you’re all poking around here, @joanofdarkknits.bsky.social and I wrote a book about Icelandic sweaters. It’s 1/3 travel diary, 1/3 knitting book and 1/3 fiber arts mystery. Warning: includes volcanoes. amzn.eu/d/0dNONkWD

There is nothing wrong with self publishing your book. There is however, something wrong with skipping an editor for your book. The number of basic mistakes I have found in this book I’m reading is driving me nuts.

Pardon the occasional brag but I’m so proud of her drumming. I know nothing but strings so watching someone just be naturally good at drumming blows me away.

Gee Knit 1 magazine circa 2005, what were you trying to allude to here?

Watching Princess Diaries 2 with my husband and he pointed out that Genovia seems to have a disproportionate amount of orphans for such a tiny country.

The logic of elementary school reading programs: book on the left has 30-40k words, large text and illustrations. Book on the right has 30-40k words and no illustrations. Book on the left is worth more points in the reading program because it’s physically bigger/thicker.

My daughter is on a live elearning day and she showed a book she’s reading. Her teacher congratulated her on reading the ACTUAL REAL book and not just the graphic novel. My head almost exploded.

Hello Bluesky! do you have a book with Turner publishing? Another author and I had our books sold from one publisher to Turner and we have some questions. Wondering if our experiences are outliers or the norm. If you have a book with Turner, could you send me a DM?

I sent my daughter to school with her favorite brand of peanut butter cup, in the wrapper, completely sealed. She opened it in the lunch room and caused a mini screeching riot as there was a living larvae worm thing wiggling on top of the chocolate. I’m gagging.

“Hi we are bringing our 8 year old in for her flu/covid shots at her appointment time. Could you do us a huge favor and make us wait 20 minutes past that appointment time so she could wait and get extra anxious about getting the shots?”

Someone saw me knitting at my daughter, swim meet and told me she wants to learn how to knit to save money. And when I stopped laughing I showed her how much my yarn cost.

Knitting friends: I’ve started using the knit companion app which I absolutely love, but I can’t find a way to zoom on it! What am I missing? My middle age eyes are struggling trying to read lace charts on my phone.

I refuse to just not enjoy whatever ride Taylor Swift takes me on musically.

I appreciate @scalzi.com being right above “Johnson county beef”. (But for real John thank you for donating to our little country school)

It’s true. We should just self publish.

Can we make a new rule that people who hate Taylor swift don’t get to write reviews on her new albums? This goes for Chad, Brad and your Dad.

My daughter got this answer marked wrong on a test and the correction/wrong answer combo makes my brain hurt.

My husbands band put out the most amazing stop animation music video. Everything was created by hand. The entire thing took a year for artist Kylie Kinkoph to create. Watch it and be as thoroughly charmed as I am! youtu.be/yDQq7DQPG5o

You know what I love about having an all female medical staff in an ER? When you’re a woman and you tell them your pain is a four on a scale of one to 10 they immediately say. “Oh my gosh that’s bad!!” Also, don’t step on a ground hornet nest if you can avoid it.

So who on Instagram has been contacted about creating an AI assistant? Because they literally called me and walked me through the process and it feels so creepy. They told me it will boost my profile in searches. I will not be publishing the ai and will live with never being an influencer.

Time to confess. @joanofdarkknits.bsky.social figured out the “duck picks” were my doing. I mean, of course it was. But also, I am terrible liar when asked directly. I haven’t given up my co-conspirators though… www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hn6Lns/

My kid getting perfect academic achievements in all areas (one of two in her grade level) : gets a piece of paper with a gold foil star. Kid who got perfect attendance: gets a giant heavy medal and certificate. Good immune systems are worth more than anything else I guess?

Just a reminder that a LOT of coffee comes from Brazil and you really don’t want 50 percent tariffs on that.

At a swim meet with three pools. The announcer just said we are only using one pool for the meet because using more than one would mean the meet would be over too quickly and “nobody wants that”. You sure dude? You sure we don’t want that at 530pm on a Tuesday night for 12 and under swimmers?

Had my first taste of being a “sports parent” this weekend. Outdoor swim meet. Two days, 8 hours each day of waiting around for her to swim in two heats, each lasting around 1-2 minutes. I think I prefer her wanting to be a drummer.

Facebook putting the sympathy react next to the laughing react is just diabolical

When the list is a mile long but instead, you’re baking your 34-year-old horse a birthday cake

I think we planted too many purple potatoes. Half of them are still in the ground.

The race you gotta race when you realize the Alexa is playing the unedited Eurovision playlist featuring “Serving Kant “ and your 7 year old and her friends are in the room dancing to it.

In my opinion Gattaca is a nearly perfect underrated movie and I will not be listening to dissenting opinions.

Two flights two times @delta has bounced us away from our 7 year old at the last minute.

For everyone complaining about parents begging people to move seats thinking it’s parents just being lazy or cheap: for about the 3rd time in my life I’ve checked in for a flight the night before and the airline has scattered my family apart from each other, despite us selecting seats together.

Iceland seems to have these bouncy things in every neighborhood and that’s pretty great if you’re a kid.

I spent today on a boat surrounded by about 20 whales. It was not a bad morning.

I am in a town that is very tiny but has a couple of nice coffee shops… that don’t open until 11am!

Almost at the end of phase one of the Iceland trip and I can confidently say I could absolutely live here during the good weather days if I didn’t have to work or drive anywhere and was independently wealthy.

I’m wearing a freshly blocked sweater but it SMELLS like freshly blocked sweater.

How do we get into the school district that had 104 days of summer vacation? #PhineasAndFerb

If you have 13 chickens and one chicken is everyone’s favorite chicken that jumps into your arms for cuddles and goes on car rides and will sit on your foot until you pick her up, which chicken do you think will get sick and die on your birthday? RIP Dandy.

“I’m not the first guy in this town to walk into the er with bloody napkins around his thumb” -my husband, who is fine but for effs sake we don’t have time for this today.

My daughter just marched into this Greek restaurant and congratulated them on their 6th place Eurovision placement.

My anxiety is that you have to invite me twice. The first invite is great but then I have to text you day of to make sure I’m still invited.

Quick question: if you married a manic pixie dream girl in the early 00’s… how are your chickens and goats?