Elizabeth Blackstock

If this tree had given me more than 3 years, I think I could have accepted the defeat. But man I JUST GOT THIS 😭😭

Lunch's response to the cold front today:

Secretly I love those terrible phone games where you sort screws or blocks so this is like a 3D version of that hahahahahaha

I understand that I could have just bought more strings but I fear that the look of the dead bulbs would drive me insane (more insane than I feel changing every bulb)

Tree update: I guess it's a 1000 light tree because I added 400 more today and it barely made a dent and also most of them didn't light up because I fully lost track of the light strings in the bottom half

I'll duck tape a pontoon to a canoe and put a Honda in it on water certified to not contain gators.

The Sacred Texts

Why has our yard become an example of the full circle of life

what news does he bring

A Fifth Vulture Has Joined The Fray

There are four vultures fighting over what appears to be an eyeball in my yard which is clearly a good omen for December

Our little tabby cat Pizza curled up on my lap

It is a mere 44 American degrees in Texas today which means I've got the heated blanket out, making my lap the most coveted destination in town

You're exactly on point! I really appreciate that a team actually respects the responsibility of fielding/developing two strong young drivers, but it feels almost like helicopter parenting. You can't protect them from everything, and if you try, it can make everything feel worse

I love that you pointed out the sibling/parent dynamic because all year long, for some reason, the papaya rules saga has felt like the time my younger brother got permission to say "crap" before I did and I was real annoyed about it for WEEKS😂

I have so many things I need to do, but all I WANT to do is sleep for one thousand years

I think the logic there was that it was a call from Mercedes since there's a benefit to a Merc-powered car winning the WDC even if Mercedes' actual team is still trying to battle for WCC points

I'm going back to the way things SHOULD be: mailing a typewritten race report to a publication to be published one month after the race took place

New Substack after the #QatarGP: McLaren is so focused on a future outcome it believes to be inevitable that it's fumbling its 2025 season.

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I don't think the existing motorsport media ecosystem helps much either; there's such a reward for publishing inflammatory comments instead of stepping back to be like "perhaps this is merely an 'old man yells at cloud' moment"

I have a PRELIT tree and I refuse to admit defeat so it will REMAIN prelit

no

My husband suggested that but I refuse to let the dead bulbs mock me

the 'RC' in RC Cola stands for "Roku City"

I ran out of bulbs

undertaking the most insane side quest possible: changing every single one of the 500 bulbs on my prelit Christmas tree because they all burned out last year

I have one in the freezer and I'm hyped to try it

The Championship Maths are super simple this week. One race to go, that will decide it all.

This is how many points the rest of the grid need to gain on Norris in Abu Dhabi to take the title:

Verstappen: 12.0 points
Piastri: 16.0 points

1/3 🧵

Do you think David Coulthard has seen Joker (2019) starring Joaquin Phoenix?

HARD???????

Johnny Sack was not cake