Me: look kiddo, you need to hop in the shower or if you are really too tired for that, get your jammas on and go to bed. 9yo: you know I hate showers. FINE MOMMY. 🤬😡🤬😡😠 That was at 5pm. She curled herself up and went to bed.

If I lived alone this is the kind of night id play feel like I'm fixin to die rag over and over very loudly until I put on Piaf or Nina and cried. Not sad at all, just want to break shit.

One of the reasons I love my kiddos school is because USUALLY they treat the EOG as the bullshit we all know them to be but somehow my kiddos otherwise lovely teacher has been impressing upon them that these tests are IMPORTANT. So 9 is an anxious mess for 2 weeks stressing about it.

Getting LinkedIn prompts for dead friends is on par with the grocery store recommending I buy certain sale items that I purchased for Bill when I did Bill's grocery shopping. I'm sure they had fun figuring out the cart of organic produce and gallon tubs of ice cream and soft chewy cookies.

Carolina explicitly recruited that this was NOT the case. Cohorts were cooperative not competitors. Then the chair died and someone took over who thought it best if we competed for funding. However. Enough of us had letters guaranteeing 5 yrs of funding that we were 'protected'. Later students..

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Voting for this year's Beaver Queen Pageant contestants is open at beaverqueen.org. Don't miss our event on June 6 at the Duke Park Meadow starting at 4 PM.

Giant ass house. No one has any space. It's not helpful but I sometimes remind my children that my Granny had 7 siblings and grew up in a 1,400 sqft house in Homepark that he dad and uncles built. They shared a light bulb on the street for when the social worker came by

We're going to paint the house this summer/fall and maybe change the color? I like the color of the house, but the back is full south west and my vibes say a lighter color will help with cooling. Right now the body is dark blue (faded) with white and yellow trim. Maybe peachy orange? Yellow?

Today 9 cleans out her room for $20/ an item from locoshops or tiny

So yesterday NC Dems called me and asked if I would volunteer Told the nice volunteer "I'm busy. Tell Roy and Josh if they wanted Durham to turn out Durham for the election they shouldn't have messed around in the NC4 primary. Thank you for volunteering to make calls but I'm not"

Scattered, smothered, covered, diced, chunked, and capped

Bring back lining up outside of Turtles.

I’d pay double for this ticket

Getting Paperless post scams and am reminded of @rahaeli.bsky.social describing LJ password breaches and just flummoxed that the reporting on this is just 'it's okay, no one was hacked' when they have social graph information from 7 years ago.

Yesterday 9 was playing disease 'would you rather'. After several rounds, i had to let her know that very few things are not preferable to smallpox. (Minipox she originally said). We introduced Ebola, Rabies, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy but yes, I'd take the flu over smallpox.

I have a bottle for when it happens and I kinda wish that was today bc I want a little champagne.

We're going to paint the house this summer/fall and maybe change the color? I like the color of the house, but the back is full south west and my vibes say a lighter color will help with cooling. Right now the body is dark blue (faded) with white and yellow trim. Maybe peachy orange? Yellow?

I like to remind myself and the huz that Friday nights are hard for everyone bc tired. Case in point. 9 just yelled at me and ran from the room bc I ate three of her beans without asking and 'got my spit all over her spoon'

Somewhere, someone is digging out the 'file in triplicate' grade forms we used to fill out to report grades at Carolina.

My over under on canvas starts at 7 days

I just said "meter stick" to my kiddo who took ap physics and wow the reaction.

Can I please get a reprint of my favorite shirt now? I can only mend this one so many times.

We have what, maybe 3 more days of window weather?

my kiddo works really hard to manage her adhd and anxiety. Testing always spikes it. But so many people think NBD bc girl child has all As. Yes, part of adolescence is learning to independently cope with change and self advocacy but adults should not make that harder than it already is

Yay DPS and all.

Oh, nothing big, just the test administrator for my kid's ap exam running an hour late. We've been waiting outside at the school testing site since 7:20am AND ya know, if she doesnt show up in the next 30 mins kiddo can't take it.

Thawed my frozen puff to make a sausage roll and the sausage is bad. Ideas of favorite savory puff recipes?

Bird flew into the house this morning and it's just been like that all day H got the robin outside and it flew away

Hell yeah, one of the high school bands that played the strawberry festival went out on master of puppets

Helpful for Spirit Halloween that the planes are already brand compliant.

My youngest came in with this from her walk @lisasorg.bsky.social

My The Onion subscription just renewed and it was honestly a little shocking to think SWEET! when I saw it on my cc statement instead of a steady stream of expletives at myself for forgetting to cancel something before it renewed. Is this feeling joy?

I just, watching the Philip k dick alternative WW2 show and reading hunger games fanfic I'm just asking the writing room for a little more effort to compete.

Couldn't catch me being an 80yo with a clotting disorder falling and getting grabbed

I got sucked into listening to a conservative financial advice show on my never ending drive home this week and wow those people's advice is soooooooo bad for most people.

No chill mommy means the breakfast playlist was Der furhers face followed by the last time I saw paris and I'll be seeing you. Wordplay to longing to the inherent nature of propaganda

I have been driving for over 2 hrs and I'm still in VA. Rage.

Notes from my teenager "Is "white supremacist" like calling someone a nazi or like calling them a republican?"

virginians, if you planned to vote in today’s election & have not already: don’t forget we have same day, in person registration AND if you’re 17 but will turn 18 before nov 3, you can register and vote today. (post from the charlottesville office of voter registration & elections)

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

Me and the oldest went to REI for one thing and left with that item and a seemingly brand new ultralight tent that was on the return section more than half off.

95 in april is bullshit

Been reading ya fanfic to calm my brain and I'm reading one right now that is really so far good that it will get an actual name on my 2026 book list and not go under 'millions of words of fanfic'

We have a loud tent and quiet tent for the younger girls and the older girls and the loud tent is currently saying the quiet tent is too loud and allllllllllllll of these girls need to fall asleep. Girl scout camping day 2

Clue 1 my electrolytes are off: chomping on fritos and thinking, hm these really arent salty

The family bible shows a Sauce born in Ohio before the war and all of them born in Savannah after the war. WONDER HOW THEY GOT THERE???

We're all gonna die, but the teen made pot roast tonight and it's delicious

A quiet house and Roberta on the record player.

It's really hard when you dont view success as zero sum to encounter people professionally who are jealous or threatened by success, aptitude, or drive. It's so simple and catches me off guard.