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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
chilli cheese bread is being made, sewing kit set up to sew badges on my fluffy jacket ( I have a Ukraine Che Burashka badge, buying things from Ukraine is one way to support them ๐ป๐ซ ) , calligraphy set to do one page of practice in purple ink , tv on but I'm not really paying attention, fighting russian trolls on the newspaper in progress, tab open for doing some reading
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The last few days have been really low
My applications are progressing slow
Like glaciers taking a thousand years
To slide down into an ocean of fears
Heart sinking down down down
Mind thinking round round round
Blood rushing without a sound
Threads unravelled, coils unwound
Melancholic sheets between fields of pillows
Speckled with heavy sighs hanging like willows
Their leaves are tears feeding the streams
Of fears that this is all that it seems
oh god every time I vacuum now I get the Cars "You might think" stuck in my head
(the way the Dyson cycles up and down reminds me of that riff from Depeche Mode's shake the disease and part of that then seagues in my head into the do-do-do-do-do from you might think. Send help. The earworms are rube goldberging)
Theory: drivers in utes and SUVs are less likely than regular cars to give the thank you gesture if you let them through on a narrow road, even accounting for the frequency of each vehicle type on the road. Does this hold out for you?
I drive an SUV and always to the thank you wave. Sometimes twice, once out the side window for letting me in, and again in the rear view just in case the first one wasn't noticed
It's so cold, I don't know how anyone exists in this weather
Outlander be like, beautiful Scottish scenery and costumes, but first softcore porn with a side of sexual assault. I won't lie, I don't mind the show (well the first couple of seasons), but I feel like it really could've done well if it had dropped certain things and picked up on others.
Lament to a Technological Masterpiece
I'm missing my old CD player,
It had a tape deck too.
Where it came from I don't remember,
But it was grey and transparent blue.
Recorded hits off the built-in radio,
Replayed until the tape wore thin.
I guess I sailed some shallow seas,
Before I knew what it was to swim.
If only my PC had a CD player,
I'd burn them all into ones and zeros;
My collection inscribed to the aether.
A future-task for a flush Stud-Hero.
Does anyone know/remember this CD? My Dad had a copy when I was a kid (90s/2000s) and I was able to buy this from the ~~VicPol~~ Blue Ribbon website (which I was stoked about). Anyway, if you're able to get a copy, it has some of the best covers :)
It's still squarely mid-Monday over here in the States but I am in fact having tacos for lunch today. Today is a good day. Crack a Foster's for your boy and I'll join y'all in Tuesday soon enough. ๐ค
Enjoy your tacos!
