Manually updated Goodreads with all the audiobooks I read this year from Libby. I also read a few eBooks. 16 books total.

Tons of birds chirping in the backyard with the rain but having trouble putting eyes on any Merlin picked up black phoebe, goldfinch, yellow rumped warbler, cedar waxwing And of course the perennial house sparrow, starling, scrub jay

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

Hey it's a new year, here's some life advice from me: - any time you think to yourself "I'd love to do [creative endeavor], but I could never" — just do it. Learn embroidery, write a novel, try doing synchronized swimming, take a ballet class. The worst that could happen is you suck at it.

George: Blinking! Can you believe it? Jerry: Blinking. Blinking! George: They caught me with the blink, Jerry!

Sprout is having fun making jokes "Guys, I haven't showered since LAST YEAR" "Guys, I haven't brushed my teeth since LAST YEAR"

If you still have an old LiveJournal, time to archive it ASAP Russian owners are likely to shut it down for non-Russian users (see thread)

A message for you all to carry through the year

lol I forgot the original post covered this

That was a very intense first game of Sorry! for Sprout 😁 He was literally rolling around on the floor in anguish lol

Plan for NYE today: ✅ Hair cut ✅ Go to movies with Sprout & my parents ✅ Homemade pizza for dinner (with champagne!) Board game night Scotch & s'mores for dessert

Plan for NYE today: Hair cut Go to movies with Sprout & my parents Homemade pizza for dinner Board game night Scotch & s'mores for dessert

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

Rochester, NY Geneseo, NY Davis, CA Sacramento, CA (many zip codes)

For anyone who's thinking about buying Divinity Original Sin or Original Sin 2, don't buy them seperately in the current sale. Instead google "Divinity: Original Sin - The Source Saga", You can't search for it on steam. That bundle is cheaper than the second one on sale and contains both games!

I'm so tired now. This is why I don't make these damn cookies without help lol

Cookies! Sprout likes to do flags so it's mostly flags and a few stars and trees

I don't want to jinx it but after 16 days of being sick with goop and cough and 4 days of augmentin I think I might finally be turning a corner on this illness 🤞🏻

a better world is possible

Used our KitchenAid for the first time to make cookie dough. We've had it for like 3 years but as I have previously established: I do not cook Am now hot and sweaty bleah Anywho. Will be making cutout cookies with my parents later.

While still dating we went to dinner at Yard House. A young woman I recognized came up to us to say hello. I couldn't remember where I knew her from! Made vague pleasantries. After she walked away I whispered "who was that" My bf, disbelieving: "Your new housemate?"

hello, catholic person here to tell you that the catholic church recognized and renounced the crusades a long time ago based on the violence and hatred and the not being in line w wwjd so you should also reject the crusades as bad

Your local librarian here to say that it’s great if you read lots of books this year, alright if you read barely anything, that audiobooks, romance and graphic novels are all valid formats and genres, and that some authors suck but we’re still not stopping you from reading them.

I honestly can't think of one but my mom met John Walsh at the airport while she was selling Girl Scout Cookies (she was our troop leader) It in the 90s when America's Most Wanted was still pretty hot. He came up and talked to her about keeping kids safe, stranger danger etc

Tech Billionaires Threaten To Flee California Over Proposed Vest Tax https://theonion.com/tech-billionaires-threaten-to-flee-california-over-proposed-vest-tax/

At the grocery store, 4 siblings, aged 12-ish to 4-ish, are peering into the frozen desserts. No parent in sight. 12yo: “Bruh. BRUHS. Here’s the strat: we all ask for ONE thing. If we ask for different stuff, she’ll say no. But if we ask for one, she’ll be so happy we agree that she’ll buy it.”

Nope nope nope, bad idea folks

As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.

Brrrrr. We went on a walk before dinner and it was crisp out there 🥶 App says it was 47 but that seems high

How many texts does it take for my parents to get the 20 min from their AirBNB to here? We are at five already

Why is my left buttcheek itchy, and other medical mysteries 😑 Clobetasol propionate take me away

My husband has been watching the 2026 World Darts Championship and now he's got Sprout totally hyped about it too In the living room yelling about some guy we've never heard of two days ago lol

I need a new photo wall calendar and so many of them are highly edited HDR photos Which is better than AI slop! but I just don't like it, aesthetically

Oooh almost forgot to order my @thelatestkate.bsky.social daily calendar for next year

when you get isekai'd into somebody's first half-life 2 mod

It's that most joyous time of year when I post that one Folger's ad on my sister's Facebook wall. youtu.be/yOQk_pWmisA

Didn't get coffee or breakfast until 10am but the house is clean so: worth it Of course Sprout immediately starts pestering me to make hot chocolate & my husband had to tell him to leave me be lol

If you see this post a random fact about yourself (if you feel like): In college I worked in a warehouse one summer. Driving forklifts. So I got my forklift license I was the only woman on our shift 😅

My husband has been trying to schedule the cleaners to come for like two weeks but it's the holidays so they were booked up Husband wakes me at 7:50: "cleaners can come in ten" "Do it" So I rolled out of bed, went pee, helped tidy holiday stuff, and now am hiding in our bedroom 😅

Famously Sauron is known for never allowing his home to he penetrated by intruders.

The lad is now torturi- errr playing Hues and Cues with my parents I hear frustration from all parties lol Quality Time!! 😁

I made baked ziti for dinner from a new recipe and it came out really good 😋 I always have some anxiety cooking for my parents bc my mom is a good cook. But they genuinely seemed to enjoy it

This will forever be my favorite way to explain why I don’t get competitive as an artist.

A small victory for people and direct services organizations who help their unhoused neighbors in California: As of January 1, it should (theoretically!) be illegal to punish people for offering outreach and support.

My parents are en route from SoCal where they were visiting my sister and my sister's family Should be here around dinner time. Fingers crossed for safe travel and minimal drama this visit 🤞🏻

Finally assembled the piano bench, now maybe I'll actually play the keyboard!

whats Mandarin for "oh lawd he comin"