@LarsTheWanderer no

@LarsTheWanderer Saying women should “have balls” invites them to be weaker, as testicles are incredibly vulnerable and tender and sensitive. Just saying. 😛

I’ve never felt so lucky as this Christmas, when visiting family moved the tin of butter cookies ASIDE to get at the candy tin that was underneath. Which means I still have butter cookies to eat. There is a Santa!

@LlamaMountainStudioArts Excellent clicky sounds! Win and Mac. Wire or Bluetooth. Brand - will have to get back to you. It’s in my office, and between my office and me is a sleeping MIL in the guest room.

Merry holidays to all. 🎄Now can they end so I can write (using this gorgeous keyboard my husband gifted me)?

@Vonzales You got me curious, so I went looking. They’d already gotten into making it pre-COVID & COVID inspired them to heighten the message, but here’s where it started:

“In a conversation with The New York Times, McKay revealed a scene from the 1975 action-thriller Jaws initiated his vision for Don't Look Up. "It's not the most high-concept, bizarre idea — the idea of a disaster movie in which people don't necessarily believe that the disaster is coming.“ https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/is-dont-look-up-based-on-true-story-48613032/amp

@Vonzales @BlueStateBabe Was that what was said in an interview? I must have missed it. Enjoyed it, either way, and think it’s better that it doesn’t try to be time- or topic-specific about the human folly it’s exploring. Since, well, it didn’t begin and won’t end with COVID.

Whisker sours: all the rage at pet holiday gatherings

@ianthealy What a pile-on of hard things for your wife and you. I’m sorry to hear about her parents - it must be tough to see one go and worry about the other - but am glad to know your daughter is ok.

@PowerpuffGeezer Large amounts of sympathy. (Truly. Hope it passes quickly and is mild.)

@BlueStateBabe @BlueStateBabe I thought it was commentary on our nature to want what we want, ignoring consequences (“never happen!”) in general because they’re inconvenient rather than a story pointing to one particular event or figure.

OBSERVABLE SELF: Regular-happy married. It’s fine, it’s great. Of course I love him.

AUTHENTIC SELF: Have goo-goo-eyed love dreams about him instead of dreaming of random fantasy men like a normal person.

@ianthealy That's the cold of stories you tell your grandkids.

@Katydiddance Worth a try! Scrolling is the new constant channel-changing (that used to drive me CRAZY).

@spacesloth An adventure?

@VictoriaLandis1 People can get hung up on the first sentence (first line, paragraph, chapter), thinking it needs to be perfect before they move on. How can they get past that stuck point of, "But is it RIGHT? Is it PERFECT?"

My husband's first genius idea was creating a shared shopping list in reminders on our phones. His second one was creating a new shared list for movies/series we want to remember to watch. (That one might be better than the grocery list.)

There's no better feeling than finding the 2,000 words you wrote today that your computer pretended not to have saved, nearly resulting in that computer's demise.

"There is no one way to be a girl." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-history/2022/10/11/girl-power/

It's much easier to strength train if you don't do it mindfully.