I need it to stop being 80 degrees for.... 3 or so more months. Why am I sweating in February? Where is my light jacket weather? Why is the northeast hoarding all the cold? Greedy.

Every time I see Joel Kinnaman in a new series, I get tense because that is Ed Baldwin who I haven't seen in years. Then I check if For All Mankind Season 5 is still coming and it says it is so I calm down.

I get to vote in 6 days and then mute everything TX Primary related until March 4th. 😀 I am somehow the vote arbiter for my relatives b/c they all want to vote for Crockett but they don't want to research the 7pg ballot for Harris County; I am making a very simple printout for them to bring along.

Cat tried to jump to his favorite lounge spot this morning, missed, fell once, caught himself, then fell again. I gave him treats and reassured him that he was still athletic and limber despite being almost 15. He just watched me trip down 3 stairs. I'm telling myself it increased his morale.

marty supreme is basically a fever dream/neverending nightmare; why did I start watching this when it's just the anxiety-inducing cadence of uncut gems all over again ugh

Spending a nice, tornado watch-free Sunday going through my, somehow, 7-page long sample ballot for the Primary so I can add 2 votes to every vote I make; I know my parents aren't looking at anything except the Senate and will just leave the rest of the ballot blank if left to their own devices.

Switched up my cognitive supplement from just Lions' Mane and Alpha-GPC to a new one that also had Ashwagandha. For the past month, I have been hungry 24/7. Satiety who? Finished the bottle yesterday and bought something that doesn't have it, and the bottomless pit feeling is gone. Never again.

No shade, but do the Patriots know this is THE game or do they maybe think it’s some sort of a scrimmage?

Trumpism is a backlash against racial equality and equal opportunity. At it's core, it is a white nationalist movement that is prepared to destroy democracy to preserve white supremacy. Cockblocking candidates of color won't stop it or appease the people drawn to it. Please understand that.

And just like that the TX Senate race becomes a shitshow. All everyone had to do was just be quiet for another month but noooooo. Messy leaks. Messy press releases. Messy responses.

The hilarious (sad) part about the CD-18 election is that, since Abbott left the seat open for a year, Menefee is basically just campaigning until March b/c he's up against Al Green now. He gets maybe 9 months of governance in the term if Mike Johnson swears him in soon and he loses the primary.

Landman is great if you just watch it with your brained turned off. Highly recommend. Any show in the Taylor Sheridan, Ryan Murphy, or Shonda Rhimes multiverse umbrella is the millennial version of Grandma's daytime soaps. Accept it. Move on.

Stocked up for the "freeze"...only 18 hours of below freezing weather on Sunday and Monday nights here but still. Got cat food, non-perishables for me, water and big Hot Hands packs on the way if the power goes out. If it stays out, heading over to my parents to use their heat via generator.

Me breaking into panic sweats b/c I'm switching internet services and they're asking me about line items on my credit report like I even know what's on there. "You may have opened an auto loan on November 2020" I assure you, I did not, but lemme check Experian just in case.

After a week of trying to figure out why my alarm wasn't going off, I've gotten to the bottom of it. Woke up at 7:30 after scheduling 2 alarms at 6:30 and 6:50 to myself silencing a call for a package. My sleep self has figured out how to silence my alarms. The traitor was me all along.

I do have qualms and questions about candidates door-knocking in TX in the current political climate, especially when ICE has threatened to go door-to-door to do immigration checks and the way to avoid that is to just not answer the door. It just seems doomed I'm sorry.

Non-Texans cannot be trusted with Talarico-Crockett discourse. If you're that bored and desperate for a hard-to-win senate seat, you can redirect your energy/funds to Brian Bengs in South Dakota. Leave the actual TX voters in peace. We're letting Platner-Mills play out in Maine. Y'all can get.

I need these streaming services to get their act together. When I type "For The Love of Money Bone Thugz" you know what I mean. Do I know it's called "Foe Tha Love of $"??? No. But you know it's close enough. Pull it up.

...why do we have the President of Venezuela? Uh...give him back.

Finally unpacked the Superpuff vest for the first(?) time this year since the low temps are finally in the 30s. Used to be my #1 article of clothing from 2020-2023. Feels like a warm hug.

I was born in the 90s and the first (possibly second, tbf) time I ever thought about Brigitte Bardot was after the "Me Too" kerfuffle in 2018. I've since separated the neckline from its namesake. V convenient to say someone is your "idol" and claim not to know their notoriously rancid views but 🤷‍♀️.

Did a little clearance day shopping at Aldi (because I needed food and also random $0.59 holiday-themed foodstuffs) and randomly picked up a stoneware/ceramic travel mug with a terrazzo silicone sleeve. I feel the ancients whisper to me as I drink my lil bevs, now. Water, mostly.

When did Christmas become a firework holiday??? Who is setting off fireworks on Christmas Eve?!?! Why.

Just finding out that Lamarr Wilson passed, too. Sending little check-in texts to my funny friends real quick.

In retrospect, "Is It Cake?" was really the harbinger that tried to prime us for recognizing AI-generated images.

I have a strange active listening face when I hear Spanish and am trying to muster all of the forgotten language skills from 3 years of high school and some fruitless days of Duolingo. I can read it but I cannot speak it. V earnestly trying to change so I stop giving off "Speak American!" vibes.

Told my parents about the senate race; they may even vote in the primary (I will drag them to early voting). The old Black church folks (apparently) love Jasmine Crockett because she's a "fighter". who knew? (A lot of people. Most people. Everyone)

Unfortunately, between Friday and now I have become Jasmine Crockett's strongest soldier because the way some of these pundits who have never stepped foot in Texas talk about her irks my entire being and now I have no option but to vote for her in the primary. My hand was forced.

No one else caught that Colin Allred, Jasmine Crockett, and Marc Veasey all caucused, huh? Allred stepped out of the Senate race to let Crockett have better odds, Veasey stepped out of his House reelection bid to the county level to clear the way for Allred's run in 2026. Interesting.

Marking it. TX primary in March goes to Crockett (name rec, fired-up resist libs who actually vote in the primary love her). Paxton "somehow" carries the R Primary. The state of the economy and immigration enforcement will have to be/stay apocalyptic for a D win. Sigh. Bring on the suffering ig.

Just got jumpscared by the price of eggnog this season. It has always been $3 or less for my lil 32oz carton of Lactaid Eggnog. Now it's $4?! The price of milk comma eggs is not that much I have all the ingredients to make it myself ig. 25% in one year ooooh someone will pay.

I was a Sydney Sweeney stan from Everything Sucks to the Make Sixty Great Again post. I did break my "ban" to watch Immaculate. SS was always a capitalist riding trends: Savage X Fenty, Syd's garage tiktok/Ford brand deal. She horribly misread the room and assumed an actual right-wing culture lean.

Started the year with Spotify, then switched to Apple Music for 3 months, Then 3 months of Amazon Music (the worst by far) and finally Tidal (which was just okay). Trying Deezer next and then probably Qobuz. I like to keep the people guessing. As a consequence, I have no accurate "Wrapped" to show.

I need a Tubi Wrapped/Recap/Year in Review. I am not asking, Tubi. By next year.

As someone who was born/raised/lives in TX, Oklahoma is actually what the rest of the country visualizes when they think about TX as backwoods/irredeemable. IMO, the most surprising thing about the OU essay is not that the instructor is being unfairly targeted; it's that OU had any trans faculty.

I keep thr*wing up because my body is disagreeing with my white cheddar popcorn and Candy Cane Kisses overconsumption. I appreciate that I'm trying to protect(?) me but, like, respect my choices. (It has been like this since my late 20s; my body auto-rejects my sad attempts at food sometimes.)

Oop. I have been under a tornado watch all day today and I did not realize. TBF it was on my weather app I just thought it was for someone else I guess. Still going until 1AM and we do not have tornado sirens but I am taking my phone off silent so hopefully it will yell at me if something happens.

My Aldi grocery picker has done me a solid on the avocados. 1 is ready to use today, 1 is a day or two off ripe, and the rest are firm. Yes, he was Latino. He knows ball. We live in TX so everyone should. But no. Usually all hard. (I know I could ask for ripe in the notes, but I keep forgetting.)

It's always cute (derogatory) to see a cult of personality form based on vibes alone from a group of people who are constantly telling people not to idolize politicians (that they don't like). An aside, I do wish mental healthcare were more accessible in the US. It'd cut down on a lot of this.

*Through clenched teeth*: Thank you, Gavin Newsom, for adopting Texas' non-R constituency and fighting our governor for us.

Ever since I discovered how to use dark brown lipliner at the ripe age of now, my life has improved. Black eyeliner at 12, a revelation. Brown lipliner at **, a renaissance.

I know we’ve already decided on Mamdanistan for NYC. What are we thinking for Seattle? Wilsongrad?? There’s already Lenin in Fremont. It would be on brand.

Seattle has quietly been having its own Mamdani mayoral moment with Katie Wilson, but, because of all vote-by-mail elections, the story won't officially break until...Tuesday next week. Throwback to being anxious every election for two weeks before I found out Sawant was still my council rep in D3.

Quietly relighting the Blexas candle.

how is this real

I actually do want a data center in my backyard so bad I want to grow numb to the endless drone of a million electronic beehives I want to get testicular cancer from people I’ll never meet generating shrek porn in their basements

I wanted to enjoy my extra hour of sleep but ...somehow... I started developing a caffeine withdrawal headache at midnight, so I woke up in pain an hour ago anyway. I DID drink my lil energy drink yesterday but I've been caffeining too hard post-illness this last week and did not drink my usual 2.

Moisturized too hard yesterday and people were apologizing for drinking beers in front of me... I am 35. If you are short and have neotenous features, apparently you have to wear an "I am old" pin or else people will baby you on your hoodie and leggings days.

Soooo much of the Black braiding/salon/barbershop experience is having a stylist that you think is insane but being stuck with them for hours. Like, sure, we can totally talk about prophetic dreams and prayer warriors and demons. I am. Stuck here.

Had my yearly October ration of caramel apple. Delicious. Will hold me over until next year when I remember they exist again. Last year was Chocolate Turtle. This year was just caramel and peanut. The chocolate is definitely necessary.