In San Francisco for the first time and it’s been a lovely 24 hrs here. Had the most amazingly scrumptious dinner delivery from a place called Brenda’s French Soul Food. Literally the best beignets and seafood pasta I’ve ever had.

I’m already trying to find reasons to come back just to eat there in person the next time. 😂

Hope everyone has a lovely and wonderful weekend ahead! 💖💖💖

It’s my oldest’s birthday. Hope she has a good one

Some happy news! My flat tire is completely covered under warranty and the tire shop is replacing the lug nuts that were stripped. Car should be ready tomorrow. When the guy called to give me the news, his first question was whether I was ok. (I was calm and polite but obviously angry when I got my car to the shop this am.)

So this shop will be keeping my business ongoing. They stepped up and are making things right.

Hope everyone has a good day 💖

Thanks for all the care everyone, means the world to me. 💖

I ended up getting my neighbor to come get me after roadside never showed. Theoretically a new provider will be there in a couple hours. Couldn’t have changed it myself as for some odd reason I have two different kinds of lug nuts on that tire.

Going to be an oh well, let’s keep moving forward day. 😊

Y’all, just need to vent a sec. Having a hard day, went to see parents to help them with some things about 5 hours later than I really wanted to because Mom told me not to come. But I had this voice telling me I needed to be there, so 90 mins later I get there & it’s a good thing I went, they really needed my help. So glad I went but now I’m just 25 mins from home sitting in a parking lot waiting on roadside assistance. I’d normally change the flat but my back is tweaked. So ready to be home

Been trying to decrease sugar in my diet & in the last year have discovered coconut sugar as an alternative. It has a not so heavy as sugar sweetness w/a bit of a caramel tone, & I started by replacing brown sugar with it.

I recently made a delightful homemade vanilla whipped cream & just sweetened my cream of wheat 💖. I’m replacing all sugar in recipes now.

Made from the flower’s nectar so no actual coconut flavor. The lower glycemic index is what attracted me but flavor has made me stay.

@homebird Such a great life hack, way to go!

Alexandra Petri’s latest is just perfect. Here’s the last few paragraphs of her delightfully sarcastic piece in The Washington Post entitled: To clarify, I meant ban abortions except for Republican politicians

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/08/abortion-ban-hypocrisy-republican-politicians/

Hi Lovely CoSonauts! Hope whenever you are in your day it’s going great and you have more wonderfulnesss ahead. 💖 💖 💖

Been up halfway through my sleep the last hour (freight train level spouse snoring intermixed with moments of no breathing). I think I’ve got him nudged into a better sleeping position, still some snoring but not the struggling to breathe kind 🤞🤞🤞 Can’t wait till his turn comes up for a cpap machine.

Off to sleep again hopefully. Take care all 💖

Any other GenXers out there having flashbacks to childhood with all Putin’s threats about using his nukes? I literally used to pass spare time in class drawing super detailed plans for fallout shelters. Mom used to talk about the Cuban Missile Crisis a lot those days (no wonder I have chronic anxiety 🤪).

The anxiety has about run out though. I get to a certain level of scared & guess my brain just shuts that feeling off so I can get on w/life. Here’s hope we all get through this 🤞

@awnaves I really wish this was real and they would. I’m so embarrassed they are from my state 😳

@danjconn
Congrats on the new job, hope it’s even better than you expect it to be 😊

@damselfly59 This is so distressing, all those involved in the bombing of innocent Syrians (hospitals, kids, etc.) should have been brought up on war crimes and now they’re going to likely do it again in Ukraine. My heart aches for them all. 😔😭

@brian64 Yeah, it’s the nobody but the GOP can do it syndrome. Sigh