Husband just left to take the kid to school...I guess we'll find out if school is closed when they get there. 😬

I’m reaching out again to ask for support for New Orleans immigrant families. We’re seeking $3,000 to keep these two families housed. #AbolishICE #NOLAsky

"Happy Employee Appreciation Day! We've arranged to have lunch delivered to the office that nobody actually works at. None of you will bother driving in for mediocre food in a conference room with a bunch of people you never see but it's cheaper than paying you more. It's the thought that counts!"

Every time I get motivated to get my shit together and have plans to do things for myself, I get sick and I am so over it. Had to cancel all my friend plans for the last few days and now I am also way behind on basic life stuff and the world is even more on fire and ugh I just want to breathe

It just occurred to me that maybe kiddo and I are getting sick more this school year because the majority of her classmates are boys and I'll bet money they don't wash their hands enough. 😷😬

2.5% isn't even a cost-of-living raise in this economy so it is insulting your employees' intelligence to call it a "merit" raise when everyone is getting the same thing. 😒

Ugh. I can't breathe through my nose and I am so over it. 🤧 So no, I will not be turning my camera on for any Teams calls and if your email must find me then it will find me in my pajamas.

I just need the corporate overlords to understand that I don't want virtual team bonding activities, employee appreciation lunches, wellness challenges, or $25 Amazon gift cards. I just want clear expectations and a raise that actually compensates for the actual increase in cost of living.

I have a cold but the meds are working so at least I don't feel like my brain is getting squeezed through my sinuses anymore. But also, bitch, I don't leave the house often enough to justify how many times I have been sick in the last 3 months. 😫

Very grateful to live on the west bank today and work from home (while I manage the kid & her school work at home unexpectedly for another day). What a mess.

After all that, school is cancelled because of the water main break 🙃 Literally just turning cars away at drop-off.

I see we're all having a Monday. 😫😫😫

Forgot to set my alarms back last night & woke up 10 minutes before time to take the kid to school and somehow managed to get her out the door so she might not be late but obviously Monday is Mondaying hard this morning.

Cooking dinner is for chumps. I ordered Indian food because I'd rather cuddle with the dog.

Nothing like finding out the metrics for your performance review on the day of your performance review which are different from last year and might be different again next year but also everyone is getting same 2% raise no matter what. Corporate America is so unserious.

Even the dog doesn't wanna walk today and she didn't even go out with us.

I got my kid to come out with us & hand out flowers, hung out with the neighbors on Frenchmen, got a pork banh mi from the deli, saw a bunch of friends I haven't seen in a while, took a nap with the dog, helped a drunk neighbor get home, & now we're going for Mexican food. Happy Mardi Gras, yall!

See you in the streets, friends. I have a flower for you if we find each other. 💜💚💛

oh god, we're in the ferry line with a bunch of church dudes going to the quarter to shame us in the name of Jesus.

We're way behind schedule but I put some bourbon in my coffee and bought ferry tickets and we'll get there eventually. Happy Mardi Gras, New Orleans. 💜💚💛

In this house, Lundi Gras is for hot gluing together a last minute Mardi Gras costume from the scraps of past Mardi Gras costumes and craft projects because we couldn't be bothered to plan ahead. (Or we did plan ahead and we just got behind.)

A beautiful day to have a NOMTOC party. New Orleans still got it 🥰

I love Iris, don't get me wrong, but I am gonna be a little smug today about enjoying a leisurely walk over to NOMTOC without a ladder in sight.

new phone, who dis? also why are phones so big i hate it 😭

My new phone just got delivered so my old phone, which has been barely more funtional than a brick for two weeks, is now on its best behavior. 😑

My laptop is still on for now but come 5 pm it's getting shut down and nobody better email me shit until 8 am Thursday.

Had to cross the bridge at 11:30 to pick up the kid from school and traffic suuuuucks. No more east bank for me until Tuesday.

We had some jerks pop up but we also had a lovely gang of college-age girls settle in next to us & make friends with our kids & a fam set up before us made room for the kids to have a better spot in front with them. Even when I hate people there is somebody proving why people are actually great tho

Had a good time as Muses with friends but sounds like our house collectively decided to skip the crowds for Iris this year in favor of staying home to catch NOMTOC and hang out with our neighbors. Taking it easy this season. Our house is tired.

But seriously if anyone managed to catch more dish towels than you know what to do with, I'd love to make a trade for some earrings or a small art or something because I love my old one. One of my favorite, most-used throws.

I didn't manage to catch a Muses dish towel last night but we did manage to help a friend & her kid catch their very first shoe of the very last float and that is the true spirit of Mardi Gras.

We did it, y’all! ✅🎉 Today we officially qualified for the ballot — and turned in double the number of signatures required. That’s what people-powered momentum looks like! This is just the beginning. Let’s build something big together. 💚🩷 #LaurenJewettForCongress #DoItJewett #Election2026

When I tell you that you will never guess my Aunt Cissy's given name...And I didn't earn that my Grandma Bonny's name wasn't actually Bonny until I did a family tree project in middle school.

Work has been actually making me use my brain lately which is not bad (its been a while since I could flex my maritime insurance mental muscles) but why they gotta be like this right before Mardi Gras? 😂😫

Got a sick kid on my hands and we haven't even done any parades or anything. 😭 Can't have the house full of crud this close to Muses, it's a crime.

Turns out the security updates have been borking my (otherwose perfectly good) phone model in particular and no one seems interested in fixing that over the last year or so which means I am forced to get a new phone and I am very annoyed by capitalism right now.

I wasn't sure if I was gonna watch the new show...I've actually been working through a DS9 rewatch (again)...but now I am obviously required to get caught up.

Kiddo is studying for exams tomorrow and hasn't decided if we're gonna try to see any of King Arthur later. Lots of friends in that one but we obvs have time before they make it downtown.

Wisdom. Being upset that people remember your favorite writer/musician/artist as a creep is on the creepy artist, not on the people who note, through voluminous evidence and/or personal experience, that the artist was a creep.

Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas. Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member. We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.

Someone is about to finally come home today...

Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet. But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

My kid asked to stop at the LASPCA on the way home from school and I agreed even though WTF AM I DOING? WE DON'T NEED A DOG so we're coming back tomorrow to test out a couple candidates with our current dog and this is why I don't have money. I'm operating a zoo.

In case there was any doubt in anyone's mind about whether the Constitution means shit anymore...Rights? What rights?

This is the CDC map for homicide rates by state for the most recent year on their website. Gov. Landry, who leads one of the states in the nation with the highest murder rate, is on television chiding Minnesota, one of the states with the lowest murder rates.

I told kiddo we would go back to the SPCA while she's at school today to ask some follow-up questions and maybe--maybe--see about bringing the dog home for a test run with the rest of our zoo.

Kiddo's school had a field trip to the SPCA this morning and now my child is calling me in tears, begging me to adopt a 60lb old man hound the day after I told my husband I, theoretically, want a big dog but we don't have the house for a big dog. 🤦‍♀️

This much is clear: Stephen Miller is in charge. They've shipped off Bovino, they're hanging Noem out to dry, Trump is using slightly conciliatory language...and Miller is still running a blitzkrieg in Minnesota. He, not Trump, is in charge. And he is the one Democrats should fight to remove.

Not my middle schooler giving me a look asking me if I even know what "girl talk" is like "girl talk" hasn't been a thing as long as humanity. Obviously, child, I'm just asking you to clarify which girls were girl talking.