It's snake feeding day! Shai-Hulud was figuring out how wide to open his jaw, then just stopped and looked at me like, "I'm sorry! Did you want some of this?"

Naddo, ffrind, mae'r llygoden i chi.

I practice Welsh by talking to him, so I told him, "No, friend, the mouse is for you."

After a week of being sick, now it's my back. The coughing and chronic issues with the right side of my back do not go well together. But this gives me more time to sit and watch my sea monkeys, and wow...I had no idea that could be so soothing!

I seem to be having trouble posting video of the sea monkeys today, but the first ones to have hatched are getting noticeably bigger! And there are teeny tiny ones feeding at the bottom of the tank today, so I think they hatched last night.

@bfgreen Absolutely!

Y'all wanna see my baby sea monkeys swim?

@bfgreen I'm definitely going to have to bake Spice cookies!

The first of my sea monkeys have hatched! They're just tiny flecks skittering in the water right now. I was chanting, "Yes! Swim!" at them like a joyful Disney villian!

@mcfate What kind of monster would Lilo be if she fed Pudge TUNA??

I learned today that you can sing "Baby Got Back" to the tune of "Sound of Silence".

If I have to know that, y'all have to know that.

@thedisasterautist That's...wow, that's a lot!

I don't like the advice I give myself. It's too sensible.

It says I can't do anything to "fix" what's causing me distress today, and finding peace and healing has to come from outside of thinking of it that way. And trying too hard can just create blocks. Stay focused on treasured things that bring healthy support. Insight about the past can lead to growth and abundance. And while I don't want to hear it, yes...healing takes love and time.

I've been thinking of my 10th grade geometry teacher today. My dad told me a joke the year before, and every time that poor woman said "pi r square", she had to hear me say, "Pie are round!"

@amarand The secret is being middle aged autistic. I've had many years to collect weird little things that have significance for me.

I started divination with very structured systems, like tarot. I eventually started working with more personalized tools for practices like osteomancy and lithomancy. I resisted charm casting until someone pointed out how the idea of it not being a valid practice was elitist gatekeeping. They were right, so I got into it. But the set changes over time and mine is working its way back to mostly bones and stones.

@elizabethclarke Friends used to bet on whether or not I would try to hug a bear. Everybody said I would. When I finally actually saw a bear roaming across the road one day, I just jumped up and down on the porch chanting, "Bear! It's a bear! It's a bear!" 😄

@stueytheround Looking around on the Internet, it seems lots of adults are keeping Sea Monkeys and it's real easy to find tips for getting them to thrive.

Distilled water and "purification powder" added for day one. It's s actually some of the eggs and stuff that gives the water high salinity. But I guess that is purification for brine shrimp.

Hopefully tiny Deep Ones will come out and swim around their plastic
Y'ha-nthlei in the next week!

@Jennyfoo2u One landed for just a minute at the end of our driveway one day a few years ago. I was outside at the time and SO excited! There was good distance between us and it was still so big! It was beautiful! 🥰