I came in at 58 this year (won’t quite make it on #59). It was a really good reading year for me!

Many people have probably posted this, but

I’ve been out of the country a few days and not looking at the news as much and I gotta admit, when you’re only checking it once or twice a day rather than constantly, American political news quickly becomes pretty incomprehensible.

Nesting impulse and the spirit of the New Year have joined within me to create a powerful vortex of To Do List making. Fortunately, I am currently overseas and can’t actually clean my oven or dust my baseboards.

Just learned from a very reliable source (infographic on Pinterest) that January is National Hot Tea Month. Better place a @rakkasantea.bsky.social order to be ready.

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Every Trump appointee if they were honest

Visiting England right after Christmas = leftover mince pies for breakfast

Oh sure, the president can make 200 social media posts a day, but when I do it my mom calls to ask if I’m okay and suggests I log off. I see how it is.

Let it be known I tried really hard to find a salad or something at the airport and had walked very far in the terminal before I gave up and got five guys. Couldn’t resist the smell of the fries.

They like Trump and want to help him rule us.

Wow I am so sleepy. This is good. I’m leaving on an overnight flight at 6pm and if I can’t sleep on it, my day tomorrow will be ruined. Let’s all root for a few more hours of exhausted trudging through the airport followed by 7 hours of restful plane sleep.

To me, my X-Mas!

The things she knew, let her forget again— The voices in the sky, the fear, the cold, The gaping shepherds, and the queer old men Piling their clumsy gifts of foreign gold.

Yep, Muppet Christmas Carol still slaps

FOR UNTO US A CHILDE IS BORN

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.” -Jacob Marley, A Christmas Carol

should I go to bed after we finish Muppet Christmas Carol or should I pull a @casey.com and stay up way too late watching it’s a wonderful life

THERE GOES MISTER ASSHOLE THERE GOES MISTER BITCH

It is good and correct for the weirdos to all hang out together

Time to sit down with the little one to watch the best version of A Christmas Carol.

White Wine in The Sun by Tim Minchin

Lady next to me at church caught me with my hand on my belly while the pastor spoke about this season of hopeful anticipation, embarrassing

"A Cat's Life - Wonder" Art by Gerard du Bois #MenWithCats

Oh easy. Got pregnant the same week beloved housemates were having a baby. Yeah, two babies eight months apart, genius move.

I am so beyond hype to experience this film

Making a thread of grievances for Festivus

Just a reminder that Trump has, on camera, bragged about walking in on Miss Teen USA contestants changing and explained his 17-year-old daughter asked him not to “date” girls younger than her. I’m not sure what’s true in the Epstein Files, but when you recall those facts it all seems plausible

pretty lucky professor xavier's last name started with a cool letter or we might have gotten the l-men or something

Getting the seasonal depression special at the drug store rn

I have been a slug recently for very boring and seasonal reasons (illness! Holidays!) but today I did some yoga AND went for a walk so I’m basically an Olympian

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

Woke up all ready to cook but Tekla beat me to the stove, they were already making red bean pancakes. Begun this breakfast war has

My main pregnancy symptom at this stage, other than becoming more spherical by the day, is vivid, completely deranged dreams. Gotta admit I’m kind of digging tuning into Surreal Subconscious Hour every night

When they ask me what radicalized me

What do we think, should i make a frittata tomorrow or what

He’s gilded the entire White House, slapped his name on both the Kennedy Center and Institute for Peace, installed a new Trump Gold Card, and now proposing a new “Trump class” of naval vessels. I know we keep saying this is insane but this is seriously fucking insane.

How many Christmas cookies is reasonable to eat before lunch? Like 12?

Please for the love of god someone post about Christmas cookies or something. I only needed like 3 posts about CBS to conclude “that Bari Weiss is a hack and a scoundrel!” and instead I’ve had to read so many posts.

i feel like the solstice happens too early in the winter. i know it doesn't but it feels like it does

We’re halfway out of the dark. Of course, that means we’re also still halfway IN the dark

you are all 38 years old, none of you have been either a theater kid *or* a debate kid in two decades, be serious

Guys I made the ugliest muffins today. They are astonishingly lumpy. Please join my prayer circle that they taste better than they look.

I’m doing a bunch of chores today, so here’s the “Katie’s chore advice” thread everyone has been asking for* * no one asked for this

Fun fact: It’s easy to keep premiums low when you only have to insure healthy people.

Spoke a little at church today and someone called me “Rev Katie” after and I will admit I did like the sound of that

The women in this 1964 photo of Beatles fans (yes, that's what they used) could not get a credit card at Bank of America without their husband or father cosigning. So, no. The answer, CBS and Bank of America, is no.

Today!!