Apple pie breakfast

It’s 0415 and I’m up thawing out my turkey because despite it being in the fridge since Sunday, my turkey is still frozen nearly solid!

I hope everyone has a calm, relaxing, and comfort food-filled day!

Gimme recipes

What I said... I should have just taken this week off. Work has been absolute shit fucking sandwich.

I need ideas for a cake for The Kid who is turning 23 soon. So far the only songs I can think of that have 23 in the lyrics are “23” by Jimmy Eat World, “What’s My Age Again?” by Blink 182, and “Right Where You Left Me” by Taylor Swift. I’m kinda leaning towards Jimmy Eat World unless someone has something better? Help!

Going to a NHL game tonight - Penguins at home to take on the Winnipeg Jets. Y'all got a favorite hockey team?

Although I'm in western PA, I'm a Tampa Bay Lightning fan

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It’s 0230 and I can’t sleep. Thought I’d check in and see how everyone is doing.

How are you? What’s going on in your life?

Mother of god! https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/14/onion-info-wars-alex-jones

How does everyone take their coffee?

Just working..coping. Time to dive into anything I can!

As a woman, the mom of an LGBTQ woman, a federal employee, a veteran, and an educator…how do I—how does our country—survive the next 4 (or more) years? What do I tell my kid? Like…seriously. There is so much hate out there. Trump has vowed to gut the federal workforce, he’s called veterans hateful things, he wants to remove protections for the LGBTQ community, he wants to dismantle the Department of Education, and he wants to completely do away with women’s’ rights, autonomy, and healthcare. I honestly do not understand how anyone could vote for him. He is a convicted felon! I can’t wrap my head around it.

Sorry for bringing politics to this normally safe space. I’m just deep in my feelings/fears right now. I am not okay. Feel free to delete this if it doesn’t follow sub rules.

Would y’all believe that I experienced the clocks rolling back TWICE within the past week already? Crazy.

Know what’s even more crazy? We haven’t had a sponsored post since the one I made last week about DST! Wild! Y’all slackin’ here! 🤪

The weird one-week period is baaaaaack! It’s going to be a four-hour difference between the UK and EST until next weekend, which coincidentally is when I’ll be back home in NYC!

Also it 100% is Sunday here in London. I just have a very messed up overall sleep schedule (not caused by jet lag)

Whelp, I'm 40hrs away from my trip to Ireland with no solid plans beyond the work conference I need to go to. I have a rental car reserved and am trying to build myself up to driving on the opposite side of the road! Hoping to put together an actual travel plan with hotel reservations during the 4 day conference. Wish me luck ya'll!

It’s bad enough they split into a hundred pieces trying to remove them, but I swear they all use a stronger and more cleaning resistant adhesive than any other industrial use sticker. This may be the last time I ever buy anything wood or even faux wood from Ross, because this shit sucks, it’s right on the front, and there’s no clean way to remove it without potentially damaging the item in question. End rant.

Hope y’all are having a fantastic day.

I’m not about it, but I did offer to save these folks some hotel money after coming up this way. Buddies from school years ago that are driving to the area for a different event but want to stop by and visit over the weekend. I’m sweating because the place is in a state of flux with projects going on (painting, etc) and the guest room while clean is very barebones. I don’t think I’m as not-put-together as I worry I’m gonna convey lol.