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Random Ominous Bangs Sunday

Like, we read "Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War" out loud to each other while trying to get the baby to sleep when he was an infant, so I can sort of see it

I work building affordable housing in Chicago. We have several pairs of this scissors. The temptation to take them home is great. Also have access to gold construction hats, which i feel i could find a good use for at home a well 😀

How bad at your job do you have to be to be called out by the Blandest Man in America?

I have not shopped there since the beginning of Lent. Gave up both Target and Amazon and haven't really felt the need to go back (except one item I can find at Amazon I need to buy twice a year)

That's wonderful

Proud of my priests for speaking up today. The only way we get through this is together.

My mom texted tonight to tell me that she hasn't seen anything like this since she and my dad worked for the Lindsay campaign

I think maybe you could pay to be unlisted? But the point stands

Wow, that's perfect for you! Strongly endorse wearing every day if you want!

As I often say of my own children when they make bizarre choices: Raised by wolves in a barn

I still have my Consumer Safety and Protection Bureau baby and child product Alerts emails. My youngest is now 14.

Yep. I'm using "understand" generously. She was ignoring the spirit and the nature of my Acutely Anxious AudHD child's accommodations. She is no longer his teacher.

Excellent thread on ICE in court today in Chicago.

And ICE is all over my neighborhood, abducting neighbors and threatening observers. This is too much.

Have a pinched nerve in my back that means I can't move or lie down without pain. And my Handfasting Engagement party this weekend only has 3 of my friends coming. I'm hurting, body, mind, and spirit.

Friends, I'm having a hard week. My child is spiraling because a teacher doesn't understand his accommodations and now has an F. Spent so much energy dealing with SPED admin to convince them to move him out of the class.

A road hazard sign showing a bicycle hitting a curb and throwing its rider off violently

This wins the internet today (scroll up to see original post)

The House in the Rock is really something!

www.thehouseontherock.com

Cancer sucks. He was a good guy.

Done

A little lightness on another heavy day in this timeline: my fiancé is from Michigan, I grew up in Texas. She refers to the triangle chips used with salsa as "corn chips" and every time my brain goes "why the f is she using Fritos with the guacamole?"

I am "pinched a nerve taking off my shirt" *and* "giant zit on my face" old, which is i guess what they call perimenopause

Another day of telling rich people to give away all their wealth to house their neighbors in their backyard (aka affordable housing fundraising)

Two quotes:

"Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all who take the sword will die by the sword." Matthew 26:52

"America is a gun" Brian Bilston

I love Chicago

The church bookstore at Transfiguration in Dallas started me on so many book journeys, especially Susan Cooper and Madeline L'Engle. What a gift it was to my little nerd self! Plus all the cool stuff for a prayer life at home that I grew to appreciate as I got older.

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