uhh unpleasant discovery that miss rachel is closer to ai slop youtube garbage than mr rogers. baby had figured out the remote... I was curious...

lmao i called it man scifi to bf and he didn't understand what i meant... it was so hard to define

i'll sometimes add -ing to chinese words if i'm in a more english-y chinglish mode

cute!!!

does it ....not?

toy makers: if you have the sound puzzle activate via a photoelectric sensor, a) baby can activate it by covering it with his little finger instead of the puzzle piece, and b) every night that we don't reassemble the puzzle... when the lights go out, we are greeted with pigs

now that baby is in daycare, we can make and eat POPCORN* again

*the most forbidden of foods; the app that tells you what babies can eat is kind of dubious about if adults should be allowed to eat it

it's 'how dare you' which is very watchable, but i think the politics is going to be too thin for a full hearted rec)

it turns out not socializing for a month and a half has driven me a bit nuts but i'm still not well enough to like, properly maintain even an online async chat q_q i am saved only by groupwatch (the first cdrama i've watched in like two years!

one day the daycare illnesses will be over (for us adults; baby is unbothered)... one day... i've been congested for over a month straight at this point

We use a bit of an old exercise band which is perfect

Media roundup Jan-Feb I was finally able to rejoin group watch for a glorious few weeks, but daycare then majorly felled our whole household with illness, so that stopped again. Maybe one day...<br /><br />Luminous, by Sil...

Media roundup Jan-Feb superborb.dreamwidth.org/508269.html

Luminous,by Silvia Park; Searches by Vauhini Vara (DNF); Her Story; Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan; Left-Handed Girl; 18x2 Beyond Youthful Days; Love Letter; KPop Demon Hunters; Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Me: Baby loves the amoxicillin so much he's refusing to eat and demanding more
4 of 5 friends: Pink flavor???

So TIL that US mostly has pink flavor, but this one (and the one bf loved as a kid) is banana

the problem is they are one of those fruits that have to be peak to be any good. a mid one sucks. (dried ones can be okay if mid though)

i think that might be when they taste the worst, actually?

yo the red lentils at the Turkish grocery are way better than the Goya stuff. much creamier and blended better in the stew. bonus: cheaper

do you think that defense is targeting zuck's apparently low ability to understand how to play catan

bf relayed an anecdote from careless people about how people let zuckerberg win at catan, and I looked it up and one of them tried to defend himself by saying he was doing a tactic (eliminating weaker players first) that blatantly doesn't work in catan at all.

The bao are not beautiful enough to take a picture of, but did rise the best of any of my attempts, so the kitchenaid did help... Though it did make an alarming burning smell

Enjoyed the smitten kitchen pizza recipe (arguable pizza)

belated resolutions post superborb.dreamwidth.org/508008.html

#uspoli learning that the middle name of the five year old who was abducted in the rabbit hat is conejo (rabbit) broke me

journal page that says “✨translatable core experiences✨: sucking nectar from flowers” accompanied by amateur drawings of honeysuckle and ixora flowers

today’s NA-SEA cultural exchange

So funny because our complaint is always that the grapes are too sweet lol

learned how to patch because bf DUCT TAPED the baby jacket and snow pants and that can't go through the wash

NYE menu notes superborb.dreamwidth.org/507719.html

........ i guess no bananas for A

The grocery store should have pasteurized eggs?

I have... a few needles. And a scissor for fabric now! Ahahaha

feeling accomplished: did all the easy mending (i.e. solvable with a running stitch) and sewed a cover for a nalgene to use as a hot water bottle

contemplating the more advanced patching... not really sure about that