Mr Bait just came down and said, "Good job I saw you eating jam this morning!" I had cherry jam on my toast and, unbeknownst to me, a blob fell off onto my jumper. He found it on the bathroom floor and, because, well, I frequently have things go wrong, he thought for a moment I'd done something horrible to myself and hadn't noticed yet. Again. But no. Jam.
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Guests started to arrive at 3:00. Only 26 this Thanksgiving, a bit smaller than our usual family gathering. But we also had a bluejay join us, which we always refer to as "Dad is here", as he loved his bluejays! Good food, great family - it was a wonderful, fulfilling day!
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The first group of guests, 18 or so people relaxing in chairs and standing about chatting.
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A bluejay perched on a shepherd's hook, with a bird feeder below it
Hiked up Overlook Mountain in Woodstock, NY yesterday with my kids (3 and 5 yo). It was the best hiking weather.
When the knife is falling, both ends are sharp. So I do not try to grab, I just get out of the way. Which is good because this is where my foot had been a few moments before the knife arrived. Eeek.
I went into the city for a meeting yesterday, and for the 1st time in my life, I timed everything right. I never had to wait for a train and on the drive home from the PATH, I hit 0 red lights. Crazy.
When I was a kid... punishment at school involved going to sit in a corner away from the other kids. I quickly realised that if I started a fight with other kids, I could sit in the corner in the nice chair and read. I started a lot of fights.
It's my birthday! I have lived 27 years more than I ever imagined as a child. Today I woke up and heard thunder, which is proof that Thor loves me and wants me to be happy.
Younger daughter "I need a fake moustache" Me "When for?" YD "Tomorrow for school" Me "Bit late to ask" YD "There is literally a box marked Moustaches and Wigs" Me "You've known me long enough to realise that might be a red herring" YD "Is it?" Me "No." YD "You are not tuff"
Drove out to our family’s farm house north of Edmonton for our Thanksgiving feast. As I drove through Sturgeon and Westlock Counties, I kept my eyes peeled for separatist signs. Didn’t see a single one. But I did spot four Canadian flags, for which I gave thanks! Happy Thanksgiving to all. #Alberta
Went to a birthday party for one of my kids' classmates. There were a dozen white dads all in Carrhartts, hoodies, trucker caps and the same beard, and there was me, regretting my shirt with buttons and pants with stripes. An gathering of Amish or Orthodox Jewish men would have had more variety.
FMD. Old mate (US based) is visiting again & trying to organise us to do what he wants—put on our rose coloured glasses & dance down his memory lanes. His latest idea. A *school* visit at noon, pub at 7. Won't that be jolly... 🤦 No. I rejoiced when I left school. "but it's where you met all your mates" ...who I stopped seeing within a couple of years... We still generally get on, but aren't close—some have gone full boomer (or always were & I didn't notice).
When I was a kid, I loved stories where a lord, count, or baron answered the call of adventure. So, I wanted a title of my own and to answer the call, too. The closest I ever came to that was the day the pizza delivery guy called me "Chief" and invited me to have a few beers in his rusty van.
Encounter in hospital lift: toddler stares at me. "Why's that lady wearing a mask?" I answered: because I'm protecting myself. His mum: there's lots of bugs in a hospital. 🙃🙃🙃 And yet no other masks to be seen.
Next week: * Drive my stuff to Hallstahammar * Move into my new 27 sqm part-time home * Begin new job at Västmanland County Museum * Mind my ex's dog over the weekend * Housing area's cleaning day with me cooking soup for the neighbours * Game-master Trail of Cthulhu And you?
Kicking open (and breaking) the glass door to the coffee shop and demanding, “Your biggest cartoon sandwich, right neeeeooooww!” The beating I receive shortly thereafter is understandable but maybe a bit lengthy.
Unlike the past years of my life, when it gets late, I just completely shut down. Need sleep. No helping it. Girlfriend has taken to calling it "turning into a pumpkin." Humiliated and adored any time I start to get super sleepy and I hear the loving coo of "oh no, she's turning into a pumpkin!"
Do you want to come to my apartment warming party? “Who’s going to be there?” Me. “Who else?” You. “Anyone else?” Probly not. “Does that count as a party?” Depends on what we do I guess. Oh, I forgot. There’s also a mannequin!
Journey back to London from Liverpool took EIGHT hours. Should be more like 3 but trains. I met a young person who was telling me all about their job buying “sold out” designer clothes for clients (and marking them up for profit). It was a long and strange conversation they claimed to have traveled around the world even going to china first class. But apparently they never took photos.
Mono Lake, California. The weather was perfect, and most of the time we were the only two. So quiet. #Roadtrip
First year university hall residence I was voted "most likely to appear on the 6 o'clock news". I have no idea what that meant. My entire personality at the time was "depressed".
me on weekdays: I'm so busy with work. I'll do this housework on the weekend. me on weekends: Wow that week was stressful. I need downtime. I'll do this housework during next week. me today: Why no clean underwear?!
Realizing my son will be 3 in less than a month is wild to me.. Where did the time go? He's getting so big now, before I realize it, I'll be picking him up and setting him down for the last time. I miss the days just sitting in our rocker while he slept. But he's growing into his own person now
Friends are renting a cabin in Mt. Hood and this was one of the notes left in the guestbook. What the hell does this even mean???
On the plus sides: - I finally feel well enough to do things like diagnose printers, including moving the 12kg box around to different places - Having fixed the printer “enough”, I now have the paperwork for my Portuguese permanent residency appointment on Tuesday!
haha I love just checking out all the wild mushrooms this time of ye- what's that? no, actually we didn't see any chantrelles, which is a little weird but no big deal that's just how it is with mushrooms I'm fine with it personally because it's all about like just getting out there right *sobs*
I was sat on the bed the other day pulling my boxers off and my wife said 'You spoil those dogs.'
Being lonely is talking to an OF Phish on Snapchat for the entirety of my grandmother's noon nap because there might be a real human behind it - sadly, seemingly not. But at least I know that I can still ignore the lure.
im giving a last mopping down the lobby before my shift is over because it is quite rainy and the lobby begs extra mopping my workmate is in the office watching me through the plate glass window and he yells thats a lost cause ! and i kinda just blow him off because i fucking know its a lost cause but someone dragged really muddy streaks through my bathroom and out the door !! then he claps for me sarcastically i guess ? which i dont even really get but it pissed me the fuck off
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Mrs Fieldhaven and I have (alas) returned from holiday down in Cornwall. We got remarkably lucky with the weather, so much so that on the Sunday and Monday we were on beaches sunbathing! Already missing the quiet, and the swimming pool at the converted barn we stayed at, but it was a good week away for my birthday.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Designer: Yes, if you turn the page over you can see all the words are printed on that side
Sitting in the café with my friends post bike ride when I get a WhatsApp call from my son. I answered it and put it to my ear only to notice that it's on speaker anyway because... WhatsApp. Everybody is now listening. Dad, you'll never guess what I just found on the floor of your bedroom. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, where's the fucking off button? Speculation round the table commences 🤦 It was a dead bird. One of the cats had brought in a bird. I have now cleaned it up. Kitty has not been reprimanded.
But this is the same person who has told me, "That's it? It's over? You quit school?", SOOO many times!!!!!!! So, whatever. I'm going to have a good week. I'm already off to a great start. I'm approaching Rochester soon. My mother asked for my hotel name "in case something would happen to me." I'm not going to talk to her about my trip when I get back, and she's going to instantly going to assume that my trip was so awful despite all the positive reports that she'll be getting from my best friend. I don't know if I said this, but being told, "You WANTED to take the train!", is useless. Planes also smell and people are also difficult for me to tolerate on planes.
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That's like how I was told, "You didn't WANT to be on campus!", when I was suffering feeling stuck in my apartment. No, that it NOT relevant. My mother said that it was. One, being on campus was not enjoyable for me at all. Two, what schools were there that were appropriate for me after NJIT didn't work out? Stevens Institute of Technlogy is horribly expensive, AND it was going to feel prissy to me...so it would've been WORSE than NJIT was for me. My mother already told me that I "would've hated Farleigh Dickinson" just a few towns over. So I'm doing something about "being stuck in my apartment" by going on this trip. I'm not the one who's "never happy with anything."
Dad passed on Friday evening, surrounded by his wife of 37 years (as of Oct 7), and me and my sisters. So much love in the room, I am deeply thankful we were able to be with him in these last days and months, and in his final breaths as he passed into peace.
8yo: What does “procrastinate” mean? [A few moments later, after having her question answered and being asked to clean something up…] 8yo: You taught me a new word, and I’m going to use it!
You know, I used to think I was smart: there was a time, in my own life, when I had assessed that I was a smart (or smart enough) person. Then I tried to read my electric bill.
When I was a kid, we had scheduled fights. I don’t know why. It was called getting “called out.” Someone called you out and you had to fight them. I attended many of these and participated in just one. Some kid I knew called me out one day. I heard about it during school. I went home, changed my clothes, and showed up behind the grocery store for the fight. I punched him in the face until his nose bled and his friends stopped the fight. I don’t know why he wanted to fight. Status, I suppose.
I wore a Monty Python and the Holy Grail knight costume that I made myself complete with coconuts to school on Halloween in 10th grade.
Looked up the actual elevation gain on a trail I've called "flat" for six years. It isn't flat. I have been lying to several dozen people with total confidence. #hiking #outdoors
Today I am waiting for my immigration appointment in Dublin. It's been a few years since I was last here (I came annually as a student), and it's amazing how it barely changes and yet steadily creeps closer to looking like a dystopian cyberpunk office where we queue for jobs at the murder factory.
"Welcome home, we're having dinner! Oh, no, we didn't make enough for you, why?" The only meals I've eaten in this house in the last week were ones I cooked. Including ones I cooked for them, too. No wonder I can't afford to do anything like get a hair cut, all my money goes to food.
Apparently I am the grungler. I am sober enough to walk home but not to fully understand. I assume this is a good thing. If so I am happily the grungler. If not wtf is a grungler?
I rented a white tux for my senior prom, only to use the jacket so I could look like Indy in Temple of Doom. My gf (now wife) and I got dressed up and then skipped the dance entirely to hit the local pizzaria/arcade. We played the TMNT machine for an hour. I am immune to popularity.
The wedding was amazing. We all crowded around on the point to watch and then went back to the woods for a huge party in the rain.
I had a couple olives from the jar in the fridge, 3 yo noticed them for the first time, and begged for one, insisting even after I said she REALLY wouldn’t like them I gave her half of one, and I stg, the combo look of disgust with the olive, and disgust with me for eating them, it was priceless 😂
Have you ever gotten shitfaced and then tried to quietly cook something while every other person in the house is sleeping? I can't believe how loud everything is. I'm stirring pasta and it sounds like there's a cement mixer in my living room. Okay I'll check back in later.
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Over coffee this morning, Collette asserted that I had a strong dislike of X. I told her that wasn’t true, why would you think that. C: Because you said it. S: I don’t recall ever thinking it, let alone saying it. C: Well you said “I fuckin’ hate X”, doesn’t that sound like something you’d say?” S: You can’t just put “fuckin’” in a transcript as proof that it’s authentic. We had a good laugh over the exchange. Neither one of us changed our mind. (I do say it A LOT)
A nice weekend camping trip at the Johnson Branch of Ray Roberts Lake State Park.
Forgot to mention, I’m back in #Málaga!
On the phone with my mom: "Yeah its been a pretty boring week, not much to note. We don't do much down here" three minutes later "Oh you'd find this funny. Last week when I got my photo taken with Bidens I told Dr. Biden..."
3 good things for yesterday * Visited my sister * A mostly sunny and relaxed day * Managed another drawing #3goodThings #ReasonsToBeCheerful
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie. A student made me a bracelet and asked me what I wanted on it, I said “my name” so naturally he gave me one with HIS name, spelled wrong. This describes my energy quite accurately. Patric energy.
so we have a slight burglary problem at work with our storage container, and our managers bright idea was to chain it shut with dog leads because “it will deter them since they will need to bring bolt cutters” guess what happened next
I wish that I was pretty. Oh that scar? That's from banging my head on the wall. Didn't get me far. I'm lacerated and mutilated. I got abrasions. That skeleton in my closet is trying to bite me. Is it wrong to say that scary things excite me?
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1. Cuddles. 2. Powerwasher game. 3. Partner's books came. #ThreeGoodThings
I've lived in my current neighborhood before, and last week I rejoined the council-run gym. I was doing squats today when a staff member approached me. "Have you been away for a while? I haven't seen you here for a bit" Reader, the last time i was there was 2013.
Good morning, comrades. You creatures of light and darkness. Shining etherea and monstrous beasts that shuffle around in the gloom, always just slightly out of sight, but waiting with jaws and tentacles for those travellers who stray from the path. Hungry. Always so hungry. Anyway you know what day it is? That's right! It's another one! I hope you have a tolerable day, friends. That you find some joy and spread it about a bit. Really get that joy out there. Force it on people. TAKE MY JOY. There's no escape. God I wish I lived on a desert island. Sleep sleep sleep. Coconut collecting. Make friends with some fish. Sunbathe. Have a nap. Dinner. Bed. Bleurgh.
Far be it from me not to just let my past works speak for themselves.... but in case y'all didn't know, I once got paid a $20 bonus to instruct a flock of K-mart shoppers in how to perform the Macarena. Where image-fragility is concerned, I am unfuckwithable.
My wallet is a little tight this month since I try to repay my loan as soon as possible. Additionally, the car needs new MOT / inspection early next year. Aaaand then there's Christmas upcoming. So, I have a question. Can someone please step on the brakes a little!? Jeez…
Good tram ride home chatting to stranger in wild clothes while a mean lady rolled eyes & harrumphily moved away. Stranger & I talked archaic hobbies (think: painting miniatures) & philosophy & thoughts on DV. As I got off, stranger & new person started chatting. Score: mean lady 0 vs Strangers 3.
I am quite happy to report that I finished a pen (instead of losing it) after 20 years or so.
When people younger than I am lament their age online I frequently say to them that I am wearing a shirt that is older than they are, and it's true, I have three shirts that I bought in my junior year of high school, 1987-88. I just took off my favorite and I fear it's reached its end. 😭
Morning All! It's SUNDAY - Praise The Lord! Yesterday: Day went OK I think. Made to the Lego show but didn't last longer than an hour, head was starting to struggle so I left before it got too bad. Enjoyed having people here in evening but again wore quite quickly and had to excuse myself not long after 8. Today: Church this morning then straight to Biplob for lunch with friends.
Just written ' you have 15 days' letter to carpenter about door lock bill. Feel terrible, hate being mean - but it is his responsibility and he's been trying to get out of it. Will not let people think just because I am nice that I am also a pushover!!
The shop is open when I arrive. I carry the papers in and the shopkeeper hands me the scissors. I ask if she is getting earlier or I’m getting later; she says she is getting earlier. I’m reassured.
Saturday: reconfigure hot water system to burn negative price electricity Sunday: reconfigure hot water system for free electricity Happy Hours Monday: forgot to put it all back to normal, showers are cold, I'm in the doghouse
Oh my god I forgot at the gay bar last night I was peeing, which can take a hot sec bc I get pee shy, and the guy to my right looked at me and shouted “FOCUS… FOCUS” like I will light the dynamite right now and take us all down
i want to walk through the snow at night on a full moon where it the sky has cleared out and its warm enough you dont need a hat. i want to look at all the fresh snow and the quiet from when its like that. i wan to smell the way the air gets. i have this emory like that. i uesed to go out in the
Sometimes I hyperfocus so much, I lose all ability to function outside of my task 🙂 So I put salt in my cup of coffee today and bumped my shins into 3 tables today 🙂🙂
