Never allow perler beads in your house if you can help it.

Husband: I'm not sure if it even matters which way we go in this parking lot.
Me: this is Trader Joe's. There are no rules.

Arriving home after a flight to a bowl of homemade jook with chili crisp is the best way to end a trip.

ugh that's such a bummer. I'd probably accidentally trip them since I am so clumsy.

The thing about cradle Catholics vs converts is that the Beatitudes are so antithetical to capitalism/modern Protestantism that if you don't learn to live them while you have at least a little bit of neuroplasticity left, it is really hard to get there.

I do! But they're currently frozen and I've been eating the cardboard fiber disks from mission tortilla since I'm old now.

No store does more, like you know, step in for FEMA. And now I want tortillas. 😭

I was in the bathroom and the toddler and the teen just walked right in to show me something they made. Sooo if you have a little and you're wondering when you get to pee by yourself again, idk what to tell you.

I really wish that rasterbator was called like nearly anything else

thought I'd stepped on a horror show of a bug and I was trying v hard to not have a meltdown in front of the kids but it turns out that it was just a wayward blueberry, which is better than a bug but also means that there are mushed blueberries from the couch to the kitchen courtesy of the toddler 🫠

Random PSA. Not only is OPill (the over the counter birth control) over the counter, but in many places with limited reproductive healthcare access, there are organizations providing it for free. It isn't comprehensive, but it is worth looking. I'm happy to look if you have a region of interest.

The I Am Sam soundtrack is sooooo good. I remember going to the record store to get the CD in my horse and buggy.

incredible that the lifelong Catholic in this specific situation is The Pope

99% of the reason we never get permission slips filled on time for the kids is that they usually require student id and the discovery side quest is too long to bring me back to the original form.

Dismantling of USAID is one of the worst political acts in history and all those involved should be haunted by these acts for the rest of their days, and their memories should be soiled with their culpability.

I meannn the switch controllers are pretty small soooo

Is Pokopia really the thing that will bring a switch 2 into my household? Touché, Nintendo.

My teen is also way cooler than me at that age but tbh that's not a huge accomplishment. She is, however, much more sure of who she is as a human at that age and that feels big.

grubhub orders like 📈📈📈

I like the notion of ben affleck being completely exhausted trying to decide what street to frogger his way across to get to a DD.

but what if there are multiple?

it's my dad's birthday and my gift to him is listening to him tell me all about a fifth wheel trailer that he had 10 years ago.

I know i liked that post, but if i could publicly dislike it, I would.

Why have 2 streets intersect when you could have 3??

A big consequence of moving to Chicago is that I basically stopped driving bc 6 way intersections are terrifying and apparently stopping at stop signs makes you look like a cop. It turns out that driving once a half has not made me a better driver.

The toddler, who is the reason why the husband is drinking a large glass of wine, just poured water into the husband's wine glass.

You mean oh dEar?

P sure that's when the ENT shines a penlight in your ear to try to get to the bottom of your tinnitus.

Close up of print in blue and brown inks on white paper. Says ‘we are all just figuring it out’ in cross stitch-style type with an ornate border.

Latest Print Club print. One of my favorite wonky metal typefaces in the shop. @bowerbox.com can weigh in!

it’s not surprising exactly but it is still shocking just how fast we’ve moved from “woke was excessive” framing to open and explicit white male supremacy