Claire

A grey cat lounges on a chair in the sunlight with his legs folded under his chin. All 4 of them.

At least Tom is pleased with himself

(Seriously, how do cats do this?)

Just ate some dinner. Let's see if I can keep that down 😮‍💨

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You're always welcome to reach out, even though I may not always be in a position to respond right away!

Congrats, Morgan!

If you're writing a message in the Discord desktop app and your Internet connection goes out, your message gets erased. Which is fun when you're about to drop a novella into a channel.

Can we please stop using electron?

I don't start work for a while yet (I'm the dummy who took a Pacific job from the Atlantic coast). This all personal apps!

Weird things, today.

There's an ominous feeling to having *several* people typing to you at once across multiple different chat apps. It's going to be crazy, today. It's not even 10:00, either 🤷‍♀️

Ah yes, part two of "woke up too early" syndrome: signals from my tummy are off so I feel hungry and upset at the same time

So glad to hear that! Your recovery seems to be going really well and I'm happy for you!

Everything feels jumbled in my head. Too many things to keep track of and too much to do.

Some days, I just want to turn my brain off for a while 🩷

Years of taking the first flights out have me associating "wake up early" with "get on a plane". And now I am awake because of the cats again, but without a flight booked, so my brain is freaking out.

I just want to sleep!

Hey guess what? You can still take estrogen and wear a skirt while the world is on fire

We'll make our own spaces
Even if we have to chisel them
Out of flesh

Sunday self-care! Skincare mask time and fragrantly flowery new soap after a pleasant walk makes happy Claire

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New bandaids seem less irritating. Also showed my spouse, in case they have to help after surgery.

Yes. And folded in half. I'm gifted.

If I can twist my tongue completely upside down, does my raid party just retreat?

I shouldn't lead raids.

Is it still celebratory if you're like that every day, though?

Two loaves of chocolate cherry bread cooling on a rack

A slice of fresh chocolate cherry bread

Naptime is over. Time to dig into that from-scratch chocolate cherry loaf.

Oh yeah, we honored the closing of Metropolitan Bakery by baking my favorite thing from them. Snagged the Chocolate Levain recipe from the King Arthur "Big Book of Bread" and added cherries. Yes, we started this Friday

First day of DST is a false spring and it's leaving me napping on the couch. What a wonderful weekend 😄

They know, and they do it on purpose

Not all of us care about likes and reposts and ratios. I came here to find out people! You're a ray of sunshine in the gloom and I'm glad to have found your account 💖

A photo of Claire on tan boots, maroon dress and a tan shrug with the bee bag and a cherry wristlet

All prettied up for dinner and the brewery

You look pretty 😍!

What a stunning photo!

This isn't about other people. It's about *you*. Make yourself happy. Other people will or won't adjust, and you'll know what relationships were real and which ones were facades.

DO. THE. THING.

(Plus, you know. Boobs are great and skirt go spinny 💖)

😊

A woman takes a selfie wearing a blue exercise skirt, a white tank top, and a progress pride headband

Exercise day!

400lbs of salt in the water system: ✅
25 minutes on a Zwift trainer: ✅
Yoga (pelvic floor): ✅

First zwift ride in almost two months. I am definitely out of shape 🚲😮‍💨