Timelies! It has been forever and a day since I've been around these parts, but I wanted to make sure to send the family Zmayhem all my love.
Awww, thanks, Anne. Love received.
Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.
'Touched'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Aug 05, 2023 12:55:47 pm PDT #23501 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Aug 05, 2023 1:22:57 pm PDT #23502 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Lunch update:
English muffin tuna melt consumed completely! Two for two on meals today.
Jesse - Aug 05, 2023 2:29:31 pm PDT #23503 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well done!
Hang in there, Steph.
Hi Anne!
Susan W. - Aug 05, 2023 2:52:23 pm PDT #23504 of 30000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Yay meals! (And now I want lemon curd.)
lisah - Aug 05, 2023 3:10:18 pm PDT #23505 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
English muffins ftw!!!!
meara - Aug 05, 2023 3:16:34 pm PDT #23506 of 30000
I’m standing in a long line for fancy croissants in downtown Melbourne but it wasn’t until I was already in line and waiting that I realized this location (a couple blocks from our hotel) doesn’t have their coolest flavors!!! Boooooo. I wanted the chocolate orange croissant!
erikaj - Aug 05, 2023 4:15:43 pm PDT #23507 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
wow, one of my favorite flavor combinations, meara. Good news about the returning appetites, Hec. Can't believe someone from our Disabilities team meeting is spending time on the weekend worrying about the agenda for next time already. If we were friends in addition to being comrades, I might tell her to get laid, sniff a flower, paint her toenails, but we kind of don't get each other anyway. I want momentum, too, but I don't want to be a machine. Even for social justice... Because I am even more burned out on Zoom meetings than usual after spending yesterday on what seems like a worthy-but-doomed attempt to solve the caregiving crisis in our state. The reason why it seems doomed is because the best solution would be to offer better pay and benefits for people that do caregiving. That's it. But the suits don't want to hear that so we talk about pilot projects, and partnerships with schools and colleges. Of all the things I wanted to be when I grew up, not one of them was a "stakeholder"
erikaj - Aug 05, 2023 4:29:05 pm PDT #23508 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Sometimes my work is so collective, I feel like I am losing touch with myself and might not even have a reflection anymore(Mixed feelings about that, since I usually don't like what I see, either)
DavidS - Aug 05, 2023 10:01:44 pm PDT #23509 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dinner Report: Mission Abort!
She wanted fancy ravioli. I made her fancy ravioli as requested.
She took one bite and said, "Get it away from me!"
Oh well. It's a process. 5 meals out of 6 is pretty good.
We start again tomorrow. It's hard to get the calories in.
DavidS - Aug 06, 2023 6:32:11 am PDT #23510 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Welp, the rejected dinner last night is related to her having urinary retention issues again with her kidney.
Distended belly and pain. Might need a catheter.
Taking her to the ER.