Kacie

Feels like 1930s France

Crate&Barrel’s marketing team really didn’t think this one thru huh

yep! I’m not at the point where eating mango flesh is a problem, but I have had a strong enough reaction to poison ivy that I’m not supposed to handle unpeeled mangoes

y’all both look so happy, and I’m delighted for you

pro tip: it’s easier if you just stand there and dissociate for a few minutes while they do what they need to

as someone who was stuck with boring running shoes for years because no one made motion-control shoes that weren’t gray:

if you can get fun running shoes, you should

come on, Luis, do your thing

my mom’s previous dog once licked a palmier cookie that my dad was holding in his hand and about to eat, stared him dead in the eyes, then took a bite out of the cookie while he was still holding it

we love a brazen thief dog

jockey on one side; cotton farmer, WWII bomber crew chief, and maintainer of military trainer planes on the other

I feel like an F1 car should be well-engineered enough not to shake like my then-15-year-old Celica on the TX-130 bypass

fuckin’ Maps Georg over there skewing the statistics for the rest of us

losing a primary by FIFTY points because you backed ICE should tell everyone where the zeitgeist is right now

I don’t remember there being any photos on the wall

it closed before I finished grad school, and I was so sad that I never got to take my younger brother’s friends there when they ended up going to A&M

Pho John’s in College Station

it was run by a very kind older man who I can only assume was the titular Pho John, who always came over to the table to chat with me and my Corps classmates as if we were lifelong friends of his, and the pho was spiritually healing for a weary cadet

and my parents didn’t get a slice of Dad’s incredibly rich, Death by Chocolate-type groom’s cake because nobody thought to set aside any for them

my parents had an afternoon ceremony, so my mom’s hair and makeup and whatnot kept her from going to get lunch, and the well-meaning best man fetched what every bride wants to eat right before her wedding: Church’s fried chicken

and, depending on what time the wedding is, to make sure y’all have something to eat BEFORE the ceremony too

A person lies on a couch chaise with a black blanket over her legs. A smallish Black Mouth Cur mix is snuggled up between the person’s knees, with his paws and a tangle and his ears sticking out to either side of his head. He’s VERY sleepy.

A smallish brown tabby cat with medium-length fur stands in front of a black fridge, looking up at the camera. His eyes are narrowed, and he’s loudly and grumpily meowing at his owner.

my brother and I both had to fly to Dallas for the weekend

my dog is happy to have his favorite snuggling spot back

my brother’s cat, however, would like to register a strongly-worded complaint

Pokémon has released a 30th-anniversary logo for every single Pokémon, quote with your favorite!

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also, your fancy plating doesn’t really matter if it’s too dim to see it!

🚩 Liverpool FC marked safe from FK Bodø-Glimt today

Donate to Helping Mallory Through This Heartbreaking Time, organized by Patrick McConegly Mallory Hogue experienced the unimaginable, the sudden loss of her b… Patrick McConegly needs your support for Helping Mallory Through This Heartbreaking Time

Chris was one of my younger brother’s very best friends from school and Scouts, and he passed away extremely unexpectedly, leaving behind a pregnant widow and a 3-year-old son

I’d sure appreciate it if any of you are inclined to help Mallory out

thanks and gig ‘em

my mom’s dog, Biscuit, acts like he’s at a fancy restaurant and the waiter brought an entirely different dish from what he ordered

just walks right back inside without doing anything and looks at my mom like “excuse me, this is not what I requested, please remedy this immediately”

even on the days I have to go into the office, Virg gets 10-15 minutes of couch snuggles while I play my daily games

bullying works!

A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading: JUST WALK OUT work social thing movies home class dentist figure skating too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!! Real winners quit You can leave!! Da Gold Zone

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

honeydew melon

a good, ripe honeydew is delicious, but they’re so much more often underripe, flavorless filler in hotel breakfasts’ fruit salads

A medium-sized Black Mouth Cur-mix puppy perching on a window seat designed for cats.

Biscuit approves

A snippet of a tweet by @Maladroithe, in which a rabbi tells someone “I age Greatly every time you speak” in response to a strange question.

my brother’s troop and my Venturing crew had one adult leader, Mr. Miller, who served in the armored cavalry in Vietnam and who ran the adult leaders’ kitchen and all the shooting ranges

I think he and your Scoutmaster would have gotten along great