@kdcaseywrites.bsky.social is that u

This is so cool???

Oh man you’re going to be ahead of us on this one, we are dying for blueberries but have to wait til all the construction is done to find the right place to put them.

weekly Adonis digest

The only TV I was allowed to watch was PBS Nature and the MacNeill-Lehrer Business Hour.

Remember when you could get on Twitter and point out when companies were doing something wrong and sometimes they would fix it? Anyway @cignahealthcare.bsky.social isn’t actually here, but feel free to have a low opinion of them, I guess. Hope they’re ready to pay for my kid’s tuition.

Anyway her surgeon is requesting a peer to peer review from a live person at the insurance company; if that fails, her physical therapist will ALSO have to request a peer to peer to ask them to approve the PT they are requiring she have. Which physically cannot repair the kind of injury she has.

My kid athlete has an injury, which needs surgery. Insurance denied any more PT after 2 months, then told us they were denying surgery because she hadn’t done 3 months of PT. Planning to send them a bill for the athletic scholarship money she’s anticipating for college if this continues.

I’m in this picture!

I’m not really an author anymore but a fun thing about this liminal space I exist in is I get to pack books by people I still hang out with in various online spaces for vacation. (Shout out to @stephanieburgis.bsky.social and @valerievaldes.bsky.social who will be vicariously on the beach with me!)

I don't talk about it a lot but one of my niche interests is celebrity gossip because I'm deeply basic. Anne Hathaway and I are exactly the same age - here's a thoughtful article from my fave gossip columnist about a good interview she gave about aging and work. www.laineygossip.com/anne-hathawa...

It’s my favorite time of year: when I get to go through my own social media to prove where I was and what I was doing for tax purposes.

If you are a person who a) backs into a parking spot at Costco, b) on a weekend, can you just… explain your worldview to me?

This is my burlesque name, starting immediately.

Sources say. I was at the library, of course.

I worked at Home Depot and took shifts answering the store phone in college and we regularly got prank calls asking about caulk. Joke’s on them, I know a lot about it. (All kinds.)

Ice luges and mysterious purple drink mixed in trash cans. Or so I hear.

We are introducing our children to Star Trek and my daughter has just referred to Jean-Luc Picard as “the cool uncle.”

Getting mad about people being mean to my friends, while cooking vast quantities of food: the Jamaila Brinkley lifestyle

lol shoutout to my fellow only children of narcissists

Me, enormously pregnant and lying down in a hospital bed with a scrub cap and hospital gown that barely fits, with a dubious expression in a darkened room.

Two very fresh babies, asleep and facing each other in a single hospital bassinet, each wrapped in a blanket and wearing a pink and blue striped hat. Bonus points if you know which is which kid.

Twelve years ago right around this time, my husband took the single most unflattering picture of me that has ever been taken. (Turned out okay a couple hours later, though.)

A grocery store display stand from the spice brand McCormick advertising a line of limited edition “finishing sugars”.

This is not a media tie in I expected to see in the grocery store.

does the grink live there too

A bag of Starburst FaveReds jelly beans sitting on a white countertop.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

DUN3

Watched the new muppet show. My only note is that there should be more of them.

We saw The Great Gatsby musical yesterday and it was great but the hook of the song ‘New Money’ sounds exactly like the Fairly Oddparents theme song and now my brain is doing some VERY strange associations. (Also good luck getting this out of your head if you’ve seen both. Sorry.)

how dare

Listen. The greatest moment of television in my personal lexicon is an episode of Barefoot Contessa in which Ina’s friend Susan brings a ‘surprise guest’ - the doorbell rings, Ina opens it, flings her arms in the air, and shrieks “IT’S MEL!!” upon finding Mel Brooks on her doorstep. AS WE ALL WOULD.