Ruth Sadelle Alderson

Does anyone know where there's a clip (or a full gifset) of the Javadi doing a hip reduction scene from the first season of The Pitt?

On the one hand, it's good that my ankle has healed so much! On the other hand, I have now transitioned from PT appointments where the PT mostly just massaged out the stiff parts to PT appointments where they make me do a lot of hard exercises.

Re-upping this post. I already went to the post office this week, but I can mail things next week. The kink/polyamory books, the Teen Wolf DVD, and one of the Harry CDs are gone, but everything else is still available if you want it.

It was then bright and sunny this afternoon.

I feel very accomplished, and this leaves me just two errands to run tomorrow - and I already put the stuff to take somewhere tomorrow in the trunk of my car. (I took today and tomorrow off as the last good time to take some random days off before work ramps up into a two-month busy time.)

Me: Oh, good, a break in the precipitation. Time to run errands.
Also Me: Huh, interesting that the shipping place was empty when I got here and then four more people came in while I was there.
Anyway, I mailed some things, dropped off some donations, and went to the grocery store.

Um. I was extremely skeptical about the weather predictions, but it is snowing outside. I genuinely can't remember the last time it snowed here. (It's not sticking - it's been raining and it's just falling into the wet ground and becoming part of the water.)

If you want any of them, you can reply and/or email me at rsadelle at gmail. If anyone wants anything, I plan to go to the post office at the end of this week.

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DVDs and CDs: 1D: This Is Us (Blu-Ray and DVD), Mighty Ducks trilogy box set, Teen Wolf season 1, 1D Up All Night and Where We Are concert DVDs, Harry Styles Fine Line (2 copies), and Louis Tomlinson Walls.

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat and "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and 19 Other Myths about Fat People by Aubrey Gordon; Chartbreak by Gillian Cross, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Córdova, The Band Never Dances by J.D. Landis, The Labyrinth Gate by Alis A. Rasmussen.

Books: The New Topping Book, The New Bottoming Book, and The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy; God Is Here by Toba Spitzer, The Secret Power of Yoga by Nischala Joy Devi, Burn It Down by Maureen Ryan;

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US friends, here are some books/DVDs/CDs I'm giving away. I will mail them to you if you want them! Books in these photos; lists in the next post(s), followed by DVDs and CDs.

Sensible people I know/read on the internet are horrified by the Ring ad promoting surveillance culture. Meanwhile, at least three apartments very close to me have put up Ring cameras in the last week or so. I do not wish to be recorded just walking through the complex.

One Night to Fall by Alexandra Hale is a good m/m romance novella with a relationship I enjoyed. The implied to be kinky sex scenes are all off-screen, which was disappointing.

Dick Move by TA Moore is a relatively enjoyable m/m romance novella that needed copyediting - there are places where a word is clearly missing so it doesn't make sense. The setup is ridiculous, but I liked the relationship.

The Forest of Missing Girls by Nichelle Giraldes is a feminist thriller with a horror/supernatural element. I was very invested in the story. It has one paragraph near the end that belabors the metaphor that I would have cut. CN: body horror, kidnapping, murder.

The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers is a thriller about two women investigating what happened to their missing sisters. I enjoyed the investigative elements. I'm not sure how much I liked the solution, but the last sentence was really good. CN: substance abuse, murder.

Sci fi book club read Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell. It's an adventure novel about a queer monster. I liked that it was funny in bits, and mostly enjoyed it. It's very violent at the beginning, and a little heavy-handed in places. CN: violence, abuse.

My mom's surgery went well! Medicare makes you stay overnight if you have a hip revision, so I left work early to visit her in the hospital. She's in good spirits, if a bit out of it with her pain meds. Thank you for thinking good thoughts for her! <3

Friends, my mom is having surgery tomorrow - her hip replacement didn't heal as expected so part of it is twisted out of place and has to be replaced. If you're the type to pray or send good thoughts out into the universe for healing, please include her.

I didn't need the cop to be his own character, but I guess that's how they parceled out exposition. I do love suburban women who are set up to be enemies actually become friends narratives (and Dakota Fanning), so I really liked the Marissa and Jenny relationship in this.

I have now watched All Her Fault the miniseries. Hmm. I think the book did a better job with the reveals, but I can see how they would be hard to do in a show. (There was a moment where I thought they were changing the motive and I was very mad, but they were just concealing it.)

Haven't Killed In Years by Amy K. Green is an interesting thriller about the daughter of a serial killer who someone is coming after. I wasn't sure about it at the beginning, but thought the character evolution was really good. CN: past murder, genre-typical danger.

It would have made a really good book club book because there are a lot of things I would talk about with other people. CN: genre-typical paranoia and violence, attempted murder, past accidental death.

With Friends Like These by Alissa Lee is a good thriller about women who were roommates at Harvard playing the last round of an annual game that now has a monetary reward. It didn't quite show why they keep doing this, but I think that worked for the pov.

I have Black Lives Matter and Progress Pride flags in a "treat fat people like people" mug on my desk at work. Today someone I don't know stopped in my door and said, "I walk by a lot, and I love your flags," and then made heart hands at me. A+ interaction.

All Her Fault by Andrea Mara is a solid thriller. It had a good red herring that I thought was going to be connected to the crime but then wasn't. I haven't watched the show, so no idea (yet) if it's also good. CN: murder, child kidnapping, past child death.

I know it's the least of all the problems with, you know, everything, but I sure do wish there were some sort of regulation prohibiting order shipped emails when actually they just created a label and the order will ship at some unknown time in the future.

Shout out to any fellow Jewish Pitt fans who also spent Shabbat thinking, "Robby's Reform??????"

I am drowning in a soup of hormone-induced bad feelings today, so we can be miserable together.