tori

why on earth would I want a dresser with built-in outlets, USB ports or an LED light?

my anxiety says that's a house fire waiting to happen

A Paypal screenshot of a $28.36 class action settlement payment from Facebook

I feel like Facebook owes me 100x this amount but ok

I deactivated in 2016 or 2017 so I at least spared myself from years and years of hell, and that's its own reward

I recently considered whether I'd need to find a vet specializing in neurologic disorders if he stopped responding to therapeutic doses of phenobarbital. So I guess that search can begin now 😢

But our vet was so great, and only a 7 minute drive from my flat (my cats hate the car).

FUCK. The only vet my cats have seen for nearly a decade is retiring and the office is closing.

With the way private equity is taking over vet practices, and with one cat having a seizure disorder, it's going to be so hard to find a new vet and vet staff my cats and I are both comfortable with.

😭

And tbc I think mid is excessively generous based on the extract quotes I read

This saga kept me well entertained through a largely sleepless night

They're calling Olivia Nuzzi "Joan Midion" on Twitter

A screenshot from a TikTok slideshow where someone posted cities they wanted to visit. A picture of four San Francisco Victorians has text overlayed that reads “I’ve wanted to visit San Fran for a while now. Scared it might not live up to what I envision especially with the direction this city has gone 🥲”

Ngl I’m losing my ability to welcome this type of person to the Bay Area

They should stay home, parked on the couch while Fox News rots their brain

SF is too good for people who wrongfully malign it based on the same societal issues every city and state is facing

I lost track of my row count because I picked it up after sitting for months, and my row counter is only 2 digits.

I’m so far in but not at the nearly 10 inch width, so I’ve started alternating between increases every 6 and 8 rows. Will have to replicate on the other side. 🤞

Debating whether I should restart my Sophie hood despite being quite far in. I’ve made passable mistakes, but I wonder if it’s just worth it to do or to keep going, hope for a good enough end result, and maybe try making it again one day.

I will just have to suck it up and try to get back into embroidery, or give needlepunching another try (my first attempt was a gigantic fail), so I can make art tributes to my babies

If someone could go back in time and tell trinket makers and artists to feature tortoiseshell cats (including dilute torties) that would be great.

It’s easy to find orange cats that look like my boy in vintage mid century tchotchkes and art, but never anything that resembles my girl cat

Gourmet Haus Staudt in RWC! They have a great beer selection as well + a market at the front with a bunch of imported food and drinks! Highly recommend.

Just stopped myself from being too earnest on here

Where’s my award

I think I will drive 30 minutes for spaetzle (plus fries and curry sauce) for the second Sunday in a row

I’m sure there’s some nearby by I do love my spot on the peninsula

So happy we both got an epic show this week!!

The only thing that was dicey was when 880 turns into 17, it was pouring and two big ass oil tankers made my car feel like hydroplaning was a real possibility.

But tbh having Tame Impala be the last band I saw would be a worthy note to end on.

Tame Impala was INCREDIBLE omg

It feels so rare to have a headliner play a two hour set with nothing but bangers but those Aussie babes did it

I was like a moth to a flame with the lasers: I could not stop looking directly at them

10/10

Looking at set lists for Tame Impala’s last few tour dates and I’m SO pumped to go w my bestie tonight

Mushrooms and fungi have had a big year in creepy ominous novels

Being a good mom this morning by placing a second heating pad on my bed after monopolizing my girl cat’s for 16 hours

After many months of dormancy, I broke out the motion-activated laser pointer for the cats and they are delighted.

Tbf though I’m looking at the trees and mountains and keeping an eye out for cops when I’m on 280 driving up/down the peninsula

Ngl I don’t know if I’d have ever known to pay attention to the 280-visible part of the decommissioned 2 mile long Stanford Linear Accelerator building had I not been made aware of it through work

Once you know it’s there, you can’t exactly get the scale of the building, but you can’t unsee it

I have tried at least 10 liners trying to replicate it but there is literally NOTHING close.

The best I’ve been able to find is using a griege mauve maybelline liner topped with a nude liner from the same discontinued Sephora line.

A bunch of nude neutral lipliner swatches with a cool toned purple mauve gel liner on the bottom

I cannot escape my lost, discontinued favorite lip liner - even when scrolling on TikTok

It’s the bottom shade and it was PERFECT

Possibly my greatest L

Anyway… fell off a little bit this month due to being social and sad but I’m at 88 books read this year! Aiming for 100 🥳

Goodreads is currently overcounting the number of books I’ve read in 2025 by thirteen

Owned by one of the richest men in the world yet operated on a shoestring budget

“Now a perc 30? That’s the good shit.”

That’s incredible omg. Especially for west coast flights. I feel like it’s always $1k+ to Europe. SO excited for you.

I’m restarting the hunt for a cat sitter so I can at least get up to Seattle sometime 🫶