When a place looks and feels exactly like a teenage memory 💕

Soft opening dinner (burrata, cold veg, then sausage-seasoned tofu + pasta, wrapping with meringue berry something or other- amazing) at the relocated + beautiful Sybaris Thursday night…particularly poor (half) protein bar in a rental car last night 😂 Summer dining seems to swing between extremes

I know this isn’t for everyone, far from it- but sometimes, when we are worried about our pet-family, a petition for spiritual intervention can feel useful. This is just for anyone who might want it- I’ve seen a lot of sadness and worry over pets the last week or two, and I do pray for them 💕

My crow friends stopped leaving me things, so I thought I’d earn back their affections with peanuts. I did not plan for blue jays, who can obliterate a whole bag within a few hours.

Not sure if any of the kids in your life love Jellycat, but if they do, you need to see this: englishcountrymarket.com/collections/...

I kept thinking “give grace, this must be shocking” But posting lyrics to “Still the One” on your anniversary when your girls-basketball-coach spouse was charged with online sexual corruption of a child & luring a minor 3 weeks ago & OSP thinks there’s more victims? Man, this is where mercy dies.

"For Fox to turn a man as partisan, bullying and unlikeable as Lalas into American soccer’s figurehead is the media equivalent of getting John Wayne Gacy to perform at a children’s birthday party." www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Time flies 🥲

Got a little sneak peak today of the refreshed, revived, restored, reimagined (but also preserved!) Oregon Electric Railway Station in Albany. The original green tiles on the roof and the interior walls are such a beautiful feature. @pdx-streetcars.bsky.social in case you are interested 😊

Minor panic this morning. Thought Aherlowe kicked the bucket, which is unfair because even though he’s an asshole, I think certain others should meet their maker first *cough* Of course, the breakfast banana was placed in the traditional spot and he miraculously came to life 🍌

I could watch this on repeat just for this

My cousin Jen posts daily her sorrow over it not happening- “another day of disappointment” Unrelated about my cousin Jen, she’s maudlin about these massive soda pop jugs they used to sell at darimart when she lived in Oregon😂 Behold, the 24 hour chevron has begun stocking something similar.

Have I mentioned I’m a big fan? I’m a big fan.

Kiddo & dad are two peas in a pod, and their closeness notwithstanding, she went into a crying spiral tonight that she wants to change her last name; I said absolutely no. “Ours is too boring”. She wants *audible sigh* to change it to my mother’s maiden name. Given, it is distinctive but…come on 😩

The world feels gross in so many ways and World Cup is especially tainted, but there was something exceptionally lovely about seeing a trio huddled over a phone in the breakroom, watching their team together ❤️

No part of me on Monday thought I would be explaining anything to anyone about Ireland/the Irish/loyalists today.

Context for Belfast riots

Please take a moment: do you know someone who would be a good fit? Is it you? Can you share this in your network? This little town needs a good person.

“Stop hurting people, discriminating, and interfering with their ability to live their life” shouldn’t be considered a move “leftward” but that’s 2026 for ya. How do we ever roll this dystopian nightmare back

Flock cameras vote late last night was 4-2, and they will now be disengaged in the city of Albany. Apologies for not wrapping this up here last night! Anyone who would like more details: DMs open

Still taking public testimony on the flock cameras at the Albany City Council meeting. 🤯 You love to see people show up. That said- I’m getting kinda hungry 😆

There was a large group of families here for an awards ceremony for APD, which was first on the agenda. Most of those folks appear to be leaving; seats being filled rapidly by those here for flock cameras item on the agenda. Still many folks standing outside chambers.

Packed house outside of chambers for city council as they discuss flock camera usage by the police dept tonight

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Also please tell LB I’m sorry his little bday surprise is running late, @scousepower8.bsky.social -also very sorry for my choice but I thought he’d enjoy it 😂 🍪

In the proletariat uprising, I do realize some old “friends” are headed for a slice 😂 tell me again from your custom home on the hill in one of Eugene’s toniest neighborhoods how $600 is really gonna kill you 😭 Also I shouldn’t have to explain levy renewals to college educated adults but here we are

Election cycle weirdness: media referring to where I live as “rural”. I had a umatilla county early childhood- that was pretty rural at the time; I know rural. But my house is within 2 min of Costco, Target, Winco, Safeway, plus standard mall offerings like Ross, Marshalls, etc. how is that rural? 😂

I was trying to find some info on a grave marker dated 1890, and due to a similar name (and also at rest in Portland) stumbled upon a 15 year old girl who was shot to death in Delta Park in 1987. I can’t find one thing about her online. May be time for a newspaper archive dive on Charitale Henry. 🤔

Nice try Nextdoor but I’m not taking the bait this time

I have spent enough time in Kentucky to know that anything can be made close to glorious if you simply cook it with undrained bacon

For those of you not on Facebook who have been following (or trying to follow) the most recent Eugene Police Department racism “stuff”

c.org/vd5BMFBFqh This shocked me- looks like we are about to lose our mid-valley indoor soccer facility. Please sign if you’re so inclined. I don’t know what difference it will make, but I signed anyway.

Podcaster suggests he has inside baseball reporting that Dems will somehow dispose of TK after the primary and replace her with Tobias Read 🤔 can you imagine if you could just randomly do that 😂

Help me find a thingy that I haven’t found on my own: An electronic notepad that you can ***type*** notes into (not write with a stylus) that also doesn’t have any internet access options

“Birthday dinner” means ice cream after steak at the restaurant, then a couple more scoops at the ice cream parlor a few blocks down (restaurant ice cream: valrhona Madagascar vanilla, parlor: vegan Thai iced tea)

My surprise level is honestly not even a blip at this point. What will you do, Eugene 😔🤢 youtu.be/RqKaFcpE6Uo

Going in to work quite late due to bday gift pickup in 😮woodburn😮 which is neither here nor there, but something terrible happened at work as I was leaving yesterday and I’m afraid coworkers will think I’m staying at home, traumatized. (And honestly feels weird I’m carrying on like nbd 😬)

So random but: if you’ve somehow got kids that have outgrown “friendship is magic” era #MyLittlePony toys but you didn’t let go of the actual ponies, this is on kid’s list of birthday requests 😩

Go ahead, guess what she was getting at

Any recommended books for teens with interest in politics? I feel like I’ve bought everything teen-appropriate, but “books on politics” is on her birthday list. 😬

Dear friends: @joannarobinson4or.bsky.social is running to unseat Shelly B o s h a r t D a v I s & I can’t begin to express how important that is. SBD wrong for our state, & barely bothers to even show up when legislature is in session. If you can support Robinson in any way, please do!

Best news you’ll hear today, probably

Remember when I said that I’m still looking to get my all manual 2001 Chevy cavalier back? Feelings intensified rn 😰

Many enclosed trailers with racing Porsches today and yesterday on I-5 🤔

In addition to needing to find someone who wants to fill my seat at #LebanonHanover I also need suggestions on trendy teen gifts since we are on a great needoh famine, apparently

I may be the only Lebanon Hanover fan here, but in case I’m not: would anyone like to take my place at the show tomorrow night? Nice balcony seat with a chill friend. M will be out of town, which means somebody has to watch E, and I’m somebody. 😆 Not looking for $, just someone to enjoy the show 🎶

“Oh but can I tell you more about my opinions on law enforcement?” …God bless the surveyor on the other end of the line with her, he or she is probably in for a ride they couldn’t have expected from a 14 year old girl

Coworker sent me something that opens in VLC media player and until today I didn’t even know what that was 😂 he thinks I can turn it into a social post but it doesn’t even appear in my download file 😬

I initially thought it was @theonion.com 😭