If I dress for Spring, will Spring show up?

Nice day outside! I'm getting out my hula hoops!

Okay... it's been too long. I accidentally slapped myself in the side of my head with a 10 pound hoop because I know the moves but it's been too long since my body last did them.

Maybe go lay down for a while. One trip to the ER for a hula hoop injury was enough for this lifetime. Not trying to do it again.

I have decided to read the Percy Jackson books because everyone I personally know makes references to them, but I haven't read the books or seen the movie. I'm not opposed to reading YA fiction because even most adult fiction is below my reading level (thanks, hyperlexia...been this way my whole life) and it's mostly safe on trauma triggers.

I already love page 1!
#CoSoBooks

The new dice will go well with the ones I already have for divination work. Similar, so they all go together. Different, so I can easily tell them apart when used together in a reading. And having a whole second set opens possibilities.

I will still be frustrated that I cannot find the piece that repeatedly goes missing.

My favorite d20 goes missing from time to time. I've had it for nearly 20 years, and it disappears for months and then shows up again. None of my other dice do this. I can't just replace it. I would know it's not the same piece.

And that's how I ended up ordering a whole new set of dice today. 🤦‍♀️

Oh! I have the story up on AO3!

The Call of Sockthulhu

https://archiveofourown.org/works/3273095

Years ago, I wrote a version of "The Call of Cthulhu" that is like Lovecraft meets "Toy Story". The whole thing is played out by toys. (The policeman comes from the Fisher-Price family.) Cthulhu is Sockthulhu...a doll made from socks.

I also made Sockthulhu at the time, and found him this weekend while going through some boxes!

Well, I've sat locked in fear and despair long enough! Let's see what I can go disrupt just by daring to exist in that space! 🥳

I'm finally getting started reading N.K. Jemisin's "The City We Became"! This one's been on my list of things I intend to read for a while.
#CoSoBooks

I found a spot in my current knitting project where the yarn had frayed nearly to the point of snapping! It wasn't easy for me to fix it, as those stitches were already finished. It would have been even harder to fix if it snapped and things started unraveling some day in the future when I'm wearing it, though.

Woke up to find this in messages from my husband today. 💜

https://youtu.be/Lxwcmhj63l4

@Alfred Why does my snake keep taking spiders in as roommates?

My guitar strings need to be changed. One of my favorite plants isn't likely to make it to the start of spring. Everybody in the house misunderstands what I'm saying except the cats and the snake. The dogs and ferrets aren't even paying attention. They're so focused on how happy they are that we exist in a shared space.

It's Sunday and I'm already done with the week.

I am done with today. It seems like everyone within several miles woke up In A Mood, and I'm just done. I'm going to go lay down and read. I finally got Stephen Rule's book "Welsh and I". And a cat wants to lay on me. That alone is reason to go lay down. I dare not disobey the cat's orders.

Yes, he pointed out that within the world of Sesame Street Elmo is a child. And he acknowledged his own trauma reactions and personal view. He was mostly focused, though, on how Larry David was pitching a disruptive fit - acting like a child - because he wasn't happy with the focus on mental health as a topic.

Obviously, lots of people hate Wil Wheaton because of how he speaks about politics and his activism. But I also think a lot of people became very uncomfortable with how much they have enjoyed his childhood acting when he opened up about how he hadn't wanted to do it. But he did also say knowing people enjoy it has given him some happiness to be found in it.

Larry David was being an asshole, and I doubt anyone really believes Wil Wheaton was literally accusing him of child abuse.

The articles said a lot of what Wil Wheaton said, but from a removed perspective. Not with that personal touch of being an abuse survivor. And not many people seemed to notice or react.

But today! Today the news has a lot of Wil Wheaton Accuses Larry David of the Same Shit We Did a Few Days Ago, But We Make It Sound Ridiculous When Wheaton Says It! And people are reacting! Because Wil Wheaton needs to shut up! Because it's popular to want him to shut up!

So, a few days ago, I saw some articles about the whole thing with Larry David and Elmo. I wouldn't have known about it otherwise. It seemed the whole thing was unplanned, which was very disrespectful to the hosts and the Muppet performers, and words like "assault" and "attack" were being used in the articles.

Larry David was quoted in the articles, and he said he "throttled" (his word) Elmo because he just couldn't take it that they kept going on and on about mental health.

(cont...)

Since everbody keeps talking about it, I went and watched the video of Tracy Chapman performing "Fast Car" with Luke Combs.

Oh, y'all! I CRIED. My younger self cried. My current self cried. Me and myself cried together.

And now my fingers are crying because I haven't made enough time for playing my ukulele over the past few months. My fingertips went soft and they had to play "Fast Car" over and over today. Because I HAD to!
#CoSoMusic

I was asked to tell the pirate story tonight. That made me want to share it with everybody again. It's one of the things I use in social situations sometimes. Meeting new people is a little easier when I just did something they think is cool. Adults are sometimes even more impressed than their kids are.

https://diydiv.substack.com/p/the-pirate-story