@amarand wow! Thanks for sharing. Some of these are just stunning 🤩

@amarand 🙏🏻 I hope so. I really do. But I have the receipt still with the details in case we need to buy another.

@BenA or… just don’t use a mandoline 😬

Husband lost his wedding band today. No idea how or where. Also the big canvas print of our visit to the Taj Mahal (from the day we got engaged) decided to fall off the wall. 😬

Wow, if I believed in ill omens… today would be a really bad day.

Power restored. 🙌🏻 Now the heartbreaking task of discarding spoiled food. 😭

@BFBucky1 northeast Ohio. 😳

I’m having just the worst deja vu. Going on 12 hrs with no power. No estimated restoration time.

https://counter.social/@MotherDucker/110951657312066606

@ellesu this time last year we had a 5 day outage. 😬 our ERT went from 11:00 to no info available at this time. Fortunately we have an obscene amount of little solar charging banks for devices. But it’s been so damn hot lately. I really hope we get power restored sometime overnight.

Big thunderstorm rolled through. Power is out. Hubs on his way to get a bag of ice. Estimated restoration time is 11:00pm but when I look at the outage map, our neighborhood is in a massive orange triangle of about 1000homes with outages—making me skeptical about that ERT.

#TFW your coworker asks you how you plan to spend your birthday and you dissolve into a tearful meltdown about your kid’s #anxiety.

Well it finally happened, the discussion about chicken (🍗 being the same as 🐓.) It started out a little wide and crazy-eyed for a minute… then dipped into a super gross line of questioning… but we overcame and asked for the other drumstick. #parenting

Making potatoes O’Brien from the backyard harvest of bell peppers and potatoes.

Not me, sitting here counting down the minutes to 3:00 pm when the teacher assignments and meet the teacher sign-up drops as though it is New Year’s Eve ball! 😭 What have I become?

Kiddo asked if we can paint her room a new color. I said, “How about we rearrange your furniture instead? That went over well.

Then hubs comes home and asks why we rearranged her room? I told him so we didn’t have to paint her room. He laughs. Then not even five minutes later he said he would go get some pain color books.
I honestly should have known he would want to do the thing I was trying to avoid. #parenting #Marriage

I’ve loved this family since their early Covid era songs. This one is brilliant 🥹
Parody of Dancing Queen “Vance VP”
https://youtu.be/vYILYILPrXs

You can find the free freeze function only if you put on your hazmat suit, grab your shovel and dig through the bullshit that is everything that should be simple but just fucking isn’t so someone can make money off of your fraught existence.

Lifelock (expensive af subscription) alerts husband a payday loan application has been submitted in his name. Suggests lock/freeze credit. Clicks the link to do so. This opens a page with links that sent him to each credit reporting agency’s website… where he has to create an account to manage the lock/freeze. But wait, you can only lock if you sign up for a $24.99/month subscription.

The fucking fucked up clusterfuck of #capitalism.

What is the point of lifelock then if they cannot lock?

@KarenSohne honestly, I’m okay with the noise. The songs she makes up are a constant delight and help me keep up with the things that might be on her mind.

But I did buy a sound proofing door sweep for hubs WFH office. 🤣