Ellen M.

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I would love to see more skating commentary from Ashley Wagner, I feel like hearing more from someone who came up in the current scoring system with less affection for Russian style skating would do wonders for improving on some of the issues with Weir and Lipinski.

Why do they hate kimchi?!

I’ve always fed my cats high quality food—so they’ve always had good coats. But I swear with the new fancier food I’ve needed to switch them to, Beatrice is as bunny soft as Ramona now.

The men may do the impressive athletic jumps, but pairs skating seems like it must be a huge magnitude of difficulty harder.

You see it in the teams that are clearly fighting to nail their elements, and even more so when teams like Miura Riku and Kihara Ryuichi just take it to a whole new level.

A yellow-green eyed calico tabby with large tufted ears, a white bib and front leg stands up to put her right paw on the arm of an office chair and look up expectantly.

Ramona doesn’t believe me when I tell her I don’t get paid to chase her around the apartment.

‘First feline’ Larry marks 15 years as Britain’s political top cat Larry the cat is marking 15 years as Britain’s Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street, a symbol of stability in turbulent political times.

Extremely important foreign leader news

He clearly is very committed to celebrating Presidents’ Day.

William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night

What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!

Sometimes the ice dancing choreo is very aggressive.

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We need to demand a curling version of Heated Rivalry. I’d even settle for a remake of “Men with Brooms”.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Our now-deceased beloved cat once decided that she needed to teach my daughter to be a good mouser. She started by catching a mouse and crippling it and releasing it in my daughter's bedroom in the middle of the night . . .

Phew, I nearly put on shoes to go outside and figure out who to glare at.

A gorgeous black cat strides toward the photographer on a worn sidewalk near bright-green grass. One hind leg is in the air. The edges of the image are blurred.

true love will find you in the end
this is a promise with a catch
only if you're looking can it find you
'cause true love is searching too

Photo of Daniel Grassl

Photo of Daniel Grassl

Photo of Daniel Grassl

Photo of Daniel Grassl

My favorite photos from the Olympics are of this Italian figure skater Daniel Grassl. He looks absolutely insane in so many of them. It's great.

I was driving at 60 and caught up to it, so less than that? It was my first time spotting one!

Far too excited to have raced a train across the I-90 bridge coming back from dinner with my parents tonight.

As someone who has been taking a GLP-1 for years, the current conversation is so depressing—the assumption that all fat people long to be thin.

GLP-1s haven’t made me thin, so I’m still a “failure” with regard to health.

Nevermind everything they can’t see.

And all the folks it’s not right for.

And that service hours have never gotten back to the Seattle funded frequency we had in 2019 definitely contributed to my decision to buy a car last year after nearly 20 years without one.

I don’t have answers, I’m not a transit expert, just a transit user who has always wished for better service.

I have so many mixed feeling about this. Most personal—the 10 is “my bus” and has been for decades. I work downtown, and it’s current configuration is generally better for me on neighborhood connections, but it makes the light rail less convenient—especially as my mobility decreases with age.

I wish I were still surprised by the people who watch Star Trek who fundamentally don’t understand Star Trek. I dread what Skydance era Trek might look like.

RIP to an Oregon legend

Cats were fed, breakfast was had, but frankly we’re now back in bed because my feet were cold and Ramona wanted to warm her giant ears under the covers.

We’ll begin the more active part of Caturday… soon?

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

“We had a lot of fun hanging out with the Nation as the Seahawks headed for and ultimately won the Super Bowl, but I hope they understand it’s over without us having to tell them anything,” said Seattle, sighing as it ignored more incoming text notifications.

So loud!

A medieval illustration of a hedgehog with grapes skewered on its spines

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

I was excited to “sleep in” this morning after having to wake up for 8am meetings in Central time the last few days.

The cats are not interested in my priorities.