The bird equivalent of footsie.
Also, we do this all the time. Are my honey and myself secretly magpies?
I have always called those escapeas
Tiny painted turtle baby
Found it in my pool while I was getting it ready for summer. Rehomed it to the neighbor's pond where it will have lots of turtle friends.
I'm bringing snacks!
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I've had a few relatives with this mindset. My advice is try the comfortably now and find a little part time gig later to supplement income and provide activity.
I was not taught to cover my mouth but I married a mouth coverer. Am a convert now. But I don't think I cover when I'm alone.
Pfff, fake news. 😄
I do sometimes at yard sales or craft markets, like if I've found a big pile of stuff I want, I'll offer a reasonable round number for all of it. If I'm only interested in 1 thing, I won't haggle unless it's priced a little too high.
When I hold my own yard sales, jeebus, nearly everyone wants to do it and it wears me out. But I'm looking to unload my clutter so I wheel & deal.
And then there's car buying...
He asked for a thirteen but they drew a thirty-one.
The covert ops of gameboard warfare
The last time I flipped a coin, I got half my face melted off, and now I have this overwhelming desire to stick it to rich people. One annoying dude in particular.
Friggin hot flashes
Also sometimes I get ideas for potentially solving random projects I have going or are toying with starting. I should get up and write that stuff down so I can clear my head to go back to sleep, but rather I tend to attempt to capitalize on the inspiration and keep fiddling with the idea until I forget what it was that was the original spark.
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In fact asking dad to buy new headphones could be a way to transition into that conversation.
"Hey, dad, will you buy me these?"
"Um...why?"
"11 and 6 dad. I need them for 11 and 6. Y'all ain't subtle."
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And daddy never sleeps at night.
Why is Jean-Luc Picard so hot 🙏
Keep it in your pants, Janeway. 😂
Cats that have cats for pets? Or are the ones on all fours the children of the species?
"Tommy is growing up so fast. Before you know it he'll be walking on his hind legs and singing Primus songs."
- Ahhhh-oooooo-ga!
- turkey call
- the Star Trek door swish
- windchimes
Hm, I guess dealing with parental quirks tilted me the other way. I feel now like I want to be perpetually 20, but I had a chronically depressed single/divorced mom and an alcoholic dad (I'm pretty sure he was self medicating for his undiagnosed ADHD, and have come to terms with all that went on). So yeah, I parented my parents.
So smol
Found him in the skimmer this morning. My hand must feel more cozy than the basket as he chose to take a nap once I picked him up. I carried him across the street to the wildlife refuge marshy area. Be free, little 🐢
My Busch Gardens (The Olde Country™) name badge from 1996
BG was sponsoring the Atlanta Olympics that year, and some marketing person thought it would be a fun idea to put our home state on name badges as kind of a US ambassador-like gesture I guess for all the extra visitors the parks expected.
I don't know if we saw an increase in visitors that year. Williamsburg is like a 12 hour drive from Atlanta. But I did have one guy complain to me about the Italian food we sold in the cafeteria, that it was horrid, and his wife was Italian, and she couldn't eat this. Almost 30 years later and I still remember that guy. Why was he remotely expecting decent food at a theme park? I have no idea. And I still have Funiculì, Funiculà running through my head on occasion. Thanks BG.
I just realized why I and so many women sometimes carry things in our bras...because pockets on women's clothing is usually non-functional decoration
It's just a handy place to put my phone down for a second. Or stash a pen or a credit card.
Google tv screensaver at my FIL's
This came up in the rotation on the tv and it amused me. I tried asking it for a pattern but it was unresponsive 😂
There's "when the penny dropped" and someone can "drop a dime". What meaning would you give to dropping nickels and quarters?
Motorcycle
Motorcycle-sized tuna fetches more than $1 million at Japan auction By Jay Ganglani, Lisako Neriki Ancheta and Chris Lau, CNN
Updated: 3:18 AM EST, Mon January 6, 2025
Source: CNN
A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious fish market, setting the second highest price on record during its new year auction.
I've squirreled something away and now I can't find it
I'm so frustrated with myself. No clue when was the last time I've seen this thing (wallet of crochet hooks). Yesterday I searched every project bag, every bag of my yarn stash, every drawer, nook and cranny where I might have put it absent-mindedly. I just went through them all again today. I have memories of seeing it on the breakfast table, on my desk (where the cat tried to annihilate the decorative tassle on its zipper), and in a project bag. I've moved it somewhere. I want to start a new project but need a hook of unusual size that is in the wallet. I haven't been motivated to crochet in a while, and I caught a spark over the weekend by finishing up another project. Blegh. Fuck.
Thank you for reading my rant while I wallow in self-loathing.
P.S. This thing is neon fucking pink and bigger than a paperback book. I must have a forgotten project bag smushed into a closet or left out in the camper. I thought I accounted for all my half-started projects though.
Bears pilfer MREs on Alaska military base
On Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (aka JBER aka "J-Bear"), a literal bear broke into a storage room and ransacked the MREs inside.
While not unusual to have bears encroaching onto base, it is unusual to have them breaking into buildings.
Another bear was discovered in the motor pool building... sitting in the front seat of a Humvee!
(...when you're a bear and you can't do drugs but you wanna go whee!)
Too little icing in the cinnamon roll package
I feel giddy. I had an idea and it worked beautifully.
Are you a fan of canned cinnamon rolls? Even as a half decent baker, I frequently don't want to spend the time making rolls from scratch and I just want one ▪︎right now▪︎. It never mattered if I made the 8 pack from Pillsbury with soft little delicious puffs of dough or the 5 pack of actual rolls holding generous shmears of cinnamon filling. Neither of those varieties ever comes with enough damn icing!
I scrape and I scrape the little plastic container but it empties too fast. I tried warming it a bit, liquifying the icing just barely and drizzling it over the buns to make sure I got every last molecule of sugar out. Too soon and the hot buns finish melting the icing and it all pools down on the plate. Not enough. It's never enough!
Then about a week ago, I had an epiphany during an all-nighter sugar craving. I recalled the tubs of cream cheese icing I hoarded from Lidl for when I want to make a quick batch of cupcakes.
What is your favorite memory from spooky season?
Mine would be the time my dad rigged a harness and "hung" himself from the carport beam, dressed to look like a stuffed Halloween decoration. He would grab at the bigger kids and parents when they came up to the door for candy. Scared the living bejeezus out of them.
I wonder if they dyed it this color or found sock yarn in hi-viz yellow?
Husband sent me this pic that he found on the site formerly known as Twitter. I'm impressed that they either found sock yarn/#10 thread in dayglo yellow, or that they used basic cotton thread and found dayglo yellow fabric dye.
Whoopsiedoodle!
A dramatic image captured from a VDOT camera showed the crashed tractor-trailer appearing to be leaning on an overhead highway sign.
...The semi was headed west when its raised bed slammed into the overhead sign near mile marker 200 as it approached the I-64/I-295 split.
Virginia State Police said the crash happened shortly after 9:30 a.m.
"The cab continued on and then stopped, obviously, because it had separated from the bed of the tractor-trailer," Matt Demlein, a spokesperson for Virginia State Police, said. "We're still investigating as to what led up to it actually hitting the sign. It was empty at the time."
Troopers do not know why the bed was raised or how long it was up before the crash. But officials said the truck had stopped at a weigh station about a mile earlier, which is equipped with cameras...