Literally talking to my bartender this very second about how cool they are!

We have to do a massive, allergen-focused profesh deep cleaning of our condo (related: we had to rehome our beloved parakeet Benvolio and we are gutted about it).

Any twin cities recos for thoughtful deep cleaners with HEPA everything filters?

No, damnit! I’m unfathomably old and no one else on earth can possibly understand!

I’m turning 40 next month and have given myself permission to be insufferable with my whining and complaining for the two months on either end of my birthday.

You make it sound way more sophisticated than it was :) I was mostly just trying to make myself laugh!

Nope, I’ve been disappointing myself since year 30.

SAME. At the time I felt like I was born for that job. Crack jokes and make stupid memes online all about my favorite frozen food aisle snack?! SIGN ME UP (and pay me a salary, lol).

And the pizza rolls, yes :)

I ran the Totino’s socials for years and got out of it *riiiiight* as TikTok was starting to blow up and I am just…so fucking glad I don’t work in social anymore.

But let me just say: I was extremely good at my job pre-2017.

Standing up the second the pod hits the water, even though they won’t be able to exit right away.

Special circle of hell for you if you tap tappy tap tap, even lightly, on your laptop with your long fingienails, for the duration of a 3.5 hr flight.

I have a new least favorite airport! I’d like a word with the civil engineers of Humberto Delgado in Lisbon!

“I think I’ve got time to stop at the sardine store before the tuk tuk gets here” is a sentence you’re only really ever gonna say in Lisbon.

PHEW. I did not like having Main Character Syndrome forced upon me!

The Caldiera Volcano on Faial, island of the Azores, that formed most of the island.

Capelinhos volcano on the western side of Faial, part of a complex that includes 20 scoria cones and lava fields

The tip of Pico island from our stateroom balcony as we sailed away from Faial.

A very cute black calf standing on green grass with the bright blue Atlantic Ocean visible behind him.

Today was a 3 Volcanos Day (actually it was a lot more than 3, there were dozens of little Volcanettes). Also, cows.

I love internet hugs! Well I appreciate knowing it’s being wonky :) only three more days until we get to Lisbon and then maybe it’ll stop having a time zone freakout…

I don’t see your post in my mentions! I’m sorry I missed it! Aaaaaah now I have posting anxiety!

Oh shit oh shit oh shit is it me, it’s me isn’t it.

Ugh I’ve been imagining all these elaborate scenarios in my head! A cruise ship would make for such a good horror movie setting!

I have!!

Met so many interesting characters so far on this cruise!

There’s Matching Shoes Couple, Smelly Guy, Velvet Suit Guy, Crypt Keeper Lady, Smelly Guy Again Oh God He’s Everywhere, Trivia Heckler Jerk, and Helen and Ron from Scotland.

Horta is so sleepy and beautiful.

I don’t even think I’m on the right island of the Azores! So close and yet so far!!

LAAAAAAAND! (Specifically, Horta in the Azores)

Ooooh I’m due for a re-listen.

Thanks!! It’s been a wild and yet tremendously boring (in a good way) cruise so far. And we on this boat appreciated the No Kings post from over there!

Update: spent some time in the hot tub on the deck, which I think is probably where my and those 17th century explorers’ experiences on the high seas diverge.

Yes! The very same island! …taco scavenger birds…

LOL. Very good point.