Red Ginger Sonja

It’s unlikely to happen (on account of them both having been dead for decades), but I want to watch a movie about Andre the Giant and Andreas Katsulas as mismatched brothers on a road trip.

might give to my tax preparer just so she can laugh & have a funny story

if i can scrape up another dollar i can afford a chai latte frap thing.

photo of an old Monopoly Community Chest card that reads "from sale of stock you get $45"

i have about a hundred bucks in stocks on Robinhood.
Just got a dividend of 30 cents!
shit, do I have to pay taxes on that?

my mom doesn't hear anyone's No.

I let my mom give me anything she's willing to part with. items I want, I keep, the rest goes to the charity shop or trash.

lots of my friends loved that series. I couldn't get thru the 1st book, just wasn't for me.

would watch

Nobody Wants This should have been Kristin Bell's show about what do with all that crap in your boomer parents basement.

weird af

don't hate me, but I had the opposite side effect. got to meet my long lost libido.
fwiw, I've had other long term meds over the years (not on them anymore) that I nicknamed "never want to have sex pill"

imagine if I'd had this when I was in my 20s?? so fucking angry that I grew up in an environment that did & still stigmatizes mental health.
I could have started working with a doc to find a solution 20+ years ago.

like, my first couple yrs on med was me recovering from burnout, learning healthy boundaries, lots of basic stuff.
doc let me try a higher dose, and holy shit, it's like now my brain can find words & understand what was bad coping mechanisms, I've never been able to do that before.

get that CBT recommendation! lol, the cognitive behavioral one, omg lol! I've heard very good things about that therapy, that it helps you better understand what's happening so you can help your brain better recognize rewards. I'm not phrasing that right.

day 3 of I'm not falling for that stupid af shit because I know it's a stupid lie.

@deadparentswhatnow.com do you have any recommendations on how to get my local public library to buy a copy of your book?

win!

asking "are we the good guys?" is the point.

that's even worse, tbh 😭😭

how the fuck is it only Tuesday.
also, thank fuck I'm medicated.

that is a lot of spoons

Thousands of U.S. trucking schools could lose accreditation under DOT crackdown The U.S. Transportation Department is threatening to shut down thousands of truck driving schools and trainers, part of the Trump administration's widening crackdown on industry.

this is giving Corinthian Colleges energy.
www.npr.org/2025/12/01/n...

18° out & I'll be driving to work with my car windows open.
yay hot flashes?

The Quantum Magician by Derek Kunsken The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken published 2018 Where I got it: purchased new . . . . . . . . Belisarius Arjona gets bored easily.  A homo quantus, he’s able to enter a savant trance to access…

oh cool, i was still blogging in '18, described this as Locke Lamora landed in The Culture.
littleredreviewer.wordpress.com/2019/03/13/t...

this book came out in '18, its fast paced scifi with clever characters, in a post-"what could possibly go wrong?" world.
Kunsken has written more in that world, & i think some stand alone shorter works.
worth looking at, imo.

paperback book of The Quantum Magician by Derek Kunsken. cover are shows a small space ship flying in front of a large manmade structure.

Was going to read this for the 5th (6th?) time but I don't feel like ugly crying in 3 days. complimentary AF.
highly rec The Quantum Magician btw. if you don't cry at the end we maybe can't be friends.

next time I visit my parents I'm going to ask where is their Coat Bath.

Harker isn't too bright.

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whole day has been "huh. wow", gonna do it again tomorrow.