okay! i have sourced a tablecloth with a picture of the moon in it, paper wolf party plates, stuff to make steaks, and my mom’s buttercream frosting recipe. i think we’re a bag of cake flour and a container of crisco away from being ready to celebrate wolfenoot rites.

living with your partner will change you, we’re two not particularly christmas aligned people who are already talking about holiday mantlescapes, matching pajamas, retro-style lighting options, and spending all of black friday decorating

big iron ate a moth 🙁

i’m so hype to decorate our holiday MANTLE! ari has an old tin litho dollhouse that fits on it perfectly, and i’ve sourced fake snow, tiny trees, little wreathes, and miniature LED christmas lights.

last night i cut up our beautiful drapes because they were so long they dragged on the floor, but i made a real butchery of it and now i’m in a sulk. they were clearance at ikea, but now they’re no longer available unless you’re willing to front quadruple price on a GLANSHAGTORN off latvian ebay.

i think the hello kitty friends lego sets are sweet, but because there’s not a currently airing sanrio cartoon in my personal sphere of awareness i like to imagine up a hypothetical child who thinks kuromi is just a random character from their legos that everyone liked enough to make stationary of.

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reading moomins for the first time and i think these bitches are gay. trying very hard to be normal and unreproachable in my children’s lit consumption but every other sentence is like “moomintroll had a gay little crush on snufkin and felt sad but didn’t know why. also the pine trees were lovely.”

getting real moomin-pilled this autumn season. real moomincore. (if i moomin hard enough it will tramp down my terrible impulse to reread little women)

a sunbeam hit ari’s blue butter dish perfectly this morning and it lit up electric to cast weird LED-style shadows on the fridge. 10/10 morning moment, big recommend.

“can i get you anything?” “i need you to put my body in a bottle” “and then?” “throw it against the wall” “NO!”

getting instagram ads for weed communion wafers

i want our sweet smart handsome little boy cat to get everything he wants in his retirement years, a wish that is complicated by his fervent desire to spoon the space heater until his fur singes.

went bowling with my mom for her birthday the other day and it was so funny because there was an entire children’s birthday party playing the neighboring lane and stealing all the balls

somehow did not manage to kill my candy corn mums, which means i get to make myself some coffee and get them ready to hibernate on the porch.

i want elective laser nail shortening surgery where my nails stay short round and smooth forever

felt too sorry for our little pumbo to truly ditch him once he was past his prime, so i’ve made him a secret retirement home in the bushes by the curb where he can watch the dog walkers go by.

a sad day for our wasp nest, but a TREMENDOUS day to be this lucky woodpecker!

friday night we went to a screening of the lighthouse that included greyscale audience engagement toys - baked bean slime, a whoopie cushion, a little LED lantern, and instructions for making an origami sea bird (instructions unclear - we made little grey cranes from memory instead)

ran some errands in back bay, stopped to enjoy the gas lamps.

my warmest, most flattering and comfortable cardigan is covered in stars moons and jack-o’-lanterns and therefore is probably no longer socially acceptable this late into november 🥺

don’t know what got into me but i slept til nearly noon and then fixed us both a breakfast a hobbit wouldn’t sniff at.

moving my partner out of upstate new york to small town coastal massachusetts where the average wait time for a matcha is 30-45 minutes was the ultimate in evil girl behavior. 😣

I have the most wonderful story for you all today: baby alligator spotted in Charles River, then immediately rescued by local reptile enthusiast

i have obtained for us a festive glass glitter glizzy in anticipation of yuletide decorating

still reading the complete anne of green gables! after spending most of a book with the manse children i was really starting to wonder what else she could possibly write about next without introducing another entirely new family, when suddenly… the assassination of archduke ferdinand??? 😬

the charles river baby alligator was saved! 🥺

the very nice people at my office will NOT send a deep web assassin out after me if i take more than one sick day in a month but it sure feels wicked to even contemplate it.

the aurora is visible in the boston area right now!!!

an old reddit thread helped me perfect my sauce game and now this marry me chicken is *dangerous*

wow!!!! the new neighborhood cafe has so many customers today that the line snakes around the tables and through the entire shop - we ended up having to leave! heaps of people photographing their drinks outside and other couples turning away. that was crazy!

had a tin of smoked mackerel with chili flakes and a hunk of the leftover butter candle night loaf for lunch today and suddenly life is beautiful again. like, literally the sun came out in the sky to shine on me. 🐟✨🌞

once again cataloging things i find on the sidewalk

colcannon weather 😌

it’s cool that they’re releasing an anniversary edition for fallout 4, but could they please consider implementing some of the multiplayer features from 76 so we can finally play dollies with our OCs…

finished reading moominvalley in november, my first intro to moomin content and i guess also accidentally a weird choice for it because the moomins literally do not put in an appearance.

got too caught up in cleaning this weekend and missed the bow market renaissance fair, the last new england renaissance faire of the season! 😵

ari has such an eye for detail and a knack for making a night feel really special. 🥺 they arranged the flowers, picked out cheese pairings (we got moon drop grapes!) and set the table with the cantilevered serving tray we found at the vintage shop last fall.

for months now we’ve been lightly making fun of a video where a lady makes a candle out of butter and then takes her toddlers out to a gloomy fog shrouded riverbank to enjoy it with maximum moody day vibes, and, because it’s risky to joke about anything too often, we eventually became intrigued.

took tylenol PM before bedtime and when i got up to pee it was with the distinct sensation that i was my own ghost

brought a lava lamp out to the kitchen to help make a special dinner more fun tonight, but now i’m kind of obsessed with how it looks in its impractical and hazardous new location??? 👀

i don’t know who else i can save from this specific crisis, BUT: your fabric shaver might just have dull blades! there may still be hope for that sweater!

deep cleaned the kitchen with such zest and zeal that it’s somehow 4 o’clock instead of (as i expected) almost noontime

the sake bar with the mushroom miso soup that tastes exactly like autumn let us know that it was just made with kayanoya packets and the prospect of having it at home whenever we’d like is almost too heady for me. 🤤

Let Her Love Illuminate the Darkest Time of Year 🕯️ #art

reflexively pollyanna-pilled

my username was crunchwrap supreme for YEARS but today i tried one for the first time because i found out you could substitute chicken. ultimate stolen valor.