Jess What-the-heck-am-I-doing Jones

TFW you're a Stephen King fan and you take the back off an old painting and it's completely normal and boring 🙄

A fantastical depiction of outer space where gigantic oceanic creatures like an octopus, whale, and stingrays swim amongst stars and planets

I painted a thing. 😊

I edited it a little on my phone but just to correct the poor lighting

You should check out Monkey Man (2024 starring Dev Patel).

The film features a group of trans antifascists who take down a sex trafficking operation

also I just think Patel is a good looking dude. 👍

Not a feel-good movie per se but gives me some serotonins by the end

This morning was usual cuddle time with spouse and Azzie because Azzie demands cuddles in the AM.

Spouse gives me a smooch on head.

Azzie acts all needy and offended until she also gets a smooch on the head.

Cats.

Happy:
Black history
Black present
Black future
Black love
Black joy
Black health
Black healing
Black people
Black community
Black family
Black kids
Black culture
Black creativity
Black ingenuity
Black legacy
Black innovation
Black liberation
Black resistance
Black existence
...month🖤

And then the designers have to reflect on what they learned about being poor 🙃

OH and the family gets a nice contract of some kind where the landlord isn't allowed to randomly evict them or raise the rent because of the changes 🙄 BUT if the family moves they can still take with them storage options and stuff cuz it belongs to them now

and the family gets set up in a nice hotel nearby while designing going on and gets their rent paid that month

And the designing must be limited to things that can be undone because RENTING

Like sorry Ms Farr but we cannot take out that wall or put in or paint new cabinets. Here are some command hooks and contact paper. Mr and Mrs Marrs, keep that chainsaw out of here. Here, have a stick on backsplash.

(Which is slowly beginning to be a bigger and more ridiculous number cuz WHY THE RENT SO DAMN HIGH but still nothing like the designers are probably used to spending)

so WHAT IF one of those restyle your homes shows BUT the home is a rental AND the stylists/designers are limited to the amount of money you normally pay for rent to do the restyle?

one basket of cat

a cartoon cat with the words who me written below it Alt: a cartoon cat with the words who me written below it

tl;dr: cats are toddlers and like to play games but sometimes they're nice about it I guess

This morning, I walk through my usual routine

BUT

sometime while I was in the bathroom, one (or both?) of the cats LEFT MY PREVIOUSLY MISSING EARBUD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BEDROOM DOORWAY WHERE THEY KNEW I WOULD SEE IT

Then both stand in the hallway & look at me like "What? Find somethin, Mom?"

After they've nibbled a bit of breakfast, the cats like to hang out in the hallway while I get ready; it's one of their favorite spots because they can see into our room, human child's room, AND the bathroom. So they can see all their favorite humans.

Now, when I get up in the morning, I usually go to the bathroom first, step out of the bathroom to find Azzie and Whisp patiently waiting, and then they walk with me to the food bowl because they know it's breakfast time. Then I grab a v8 energy for myself and walk back to my room to take my meds.

I couldn't find the other despite deep cleaning and looking under all the furniture and in the spots kittens like to hide things. Oh well, a hazard of having two kittens I guess.

I discovered my charger on the floor and searched all over. I found one hidden under a throw rug (where Azzie likes to hide things so definitely makes me think she was the mastermind).

A couple days ago my cats figured out (Azzie, I think) that if they(she) knocked over my wireless ear bud charger, a couple little toys (the earbuds) would pop out.

Me: Ah, what a cute basket. I'll put a blanket in it, and the cat can nap in it.

Cat: Nah

Me: Oh, well. Guess I'll put folded socks in it instead.

Cat: Oh look a bed

post show feelings be like:
I can... do other things right now...? Not rehearsing...? Wha...?

A Barred Owl stares at the camera through a line of trees on a dark, rainy evening.

Barred Owl on a cold, rainy evening.
#wildlifephotography #birdphotography #owl

large orange cat laying on his side while smaller seal point cat lays on her side and headbutts the back of his neck

affection headbutt

guess who checked/filled her tire pressure all by herself

(yes it's easy but I'm still proud of it dagnabbit)

a seal pointed kitten playing by a scratching post and a slipper

a fluffy orange and white kitten playing by a scratching post and a basket with a blanket in it

my pretty bbys

Stephan's Quintet from JWST

Yesterday we did powdercaps, today let’s do some bleeding mycena/Mycena haematopus. This is 1 of 5. #fungifriends #mycology #forestfloor #naturephotography #fungi

once I was in a relationship where my dietary restrictions were a nuisance & I'd go to family things & just not eat

now my in-laws go out of the way to get me turkey bacon AND cook all my food first to avoid cross contamination & I just–

it may seem like nbd but. it IS