Anyway we showed Babycakes some Bob the Builder and Ponyo last weekend and all week he's been wishing the TV good night and hopefully asking "TV? TV?" when we're doing other stuff. Also I think Ponyo gave him nightmares.

I swore off Bluesky, the YouTube app, and puzzles for January and regret to report that it was really good for me, especially in the arena of "concentrating on playing blocks with my 1-year-old."

YouTube video by Dismemberment Plan - Topic The Ice Of Boston

youtu.be/4ANBktpgcC4 Happy New Year's Eve y'all.

I demand 1) no oats, I'm putting my granola on top of oats already 2) easy to chew (no whole almonds) 3) nuts that I vaguely believe are "more environmentally friendly" (a shifty category that excludes almonds again) 4) elevating inexpensive ingredients (eliminating almonds a third time).

It's about 2/3rd sunflower seeds, 1/3rd pepitas, a bit of flaked coconut and currently I'm adding some flax seeds not because I especially believe in flax seeds but because I bought it because some person on the internet suggested it helps babies grip slippery fruits (not good advice) so I have em.

I sometimes make my own granola now because I've developed an elaborate hierarchy of nuts

YouTube video by FlorenceMachineVEVO Florence + The Machine - Hunger

youtu.be/5GHXEGz3PJg this is my favorite music video

Trying to decide how many apps I need to lock out to give up killing time with my phone for January.

Bad Blood meanwhile is good for rolling back and forth in a steaming pile of schadenfreude.

Unmask Alice is nice for if you're tired of feeling like we're living in the stupidest decade.

The Warmth of Other Suns just filled me with affection for America.

This year I read some decent nonfiction - Bad Blood, Kindred, The Warmth of Other Suns, Everything is Tuberculosis, Unmask Alice, and some autobiographies. Kindred and Everything is Tuberculosis really helped me feel how lucky and privileged we are.

Babycakes is just covered in bruises from his various misadventures in one week away from daycare 🧐 apparently they do keep him really safe there.

Avert your eyes while I type this snobby ass take:

It is bonkers to add sweeteners to applesauce.

at 9 I would have favored something both less profane and meaner, like "your friends are bad people and you're never going to have a job you like."

scab, brown-noser, fuckface, asshole, bootlicker, douchebag, numbnuts, dillweed, egghead, jerkoff, coward, liar, shithead, piece of shit, asswipe, whiner

Not big on "bully" or "cheater" cause they admit you've lost a round.

jaw botox worth every one of the five hundred and twenty dollars I paid

I'm not cut out for the toddler toy sensory environment good lord.

Christmas with a toddler is mentally repeating "I will not utter the word 'plastic' aloud" over and over until the new year.

YESSSS

Babycakes's cousins have button noses and look like the original models for the uncanny AI children 40% of Etsy children's products are advertised with.

"Keyboard unresponsive / Maps won't load" is my new "teeth falling out" and I hate it though I do prefer it to the teeth one.

I had a dream that I kept reading like group texts from ten years ago and then accidentally texting the whole group while meaning to text one person and then my phone keyboard kept crashing while I tried to write an explanatory text to the people I didn't mean to text.

I had an Uncrustable for the first time today, did everyone else already know how good these are?? It tasted almost exactly like I hoped it would.

are you seeing this shit

I started looking at construction and farm vehicle toys and uh how do parents not fill their entire homes with this stuff, these toys are dope as hell

kessler syndrome
kessler synDROME
*banging table*
KESSler synDROME
KESSLER SYNDROME

the worst was when I discovered it only takes like 60 seconds out of the work day to pee without my phone

why isn't google using AI to detect and ban headlines like this from google news

Older people at the next table exchanging all the injuries their friends have suffered from falling. Stay upright out there, pals.

My first thought is it can't be THAT bad, but like the adult(s) will barely be through the jet lag when you leave.