Megan King

Ah yes! Clearly modeled after Janis Joplin of course!

Miss Piggie in her Muppet Babies era and the hippie muppet who’s in a band with Animal with the long hair and eyelashes (Lips?).

Don’t forget Trader Joe’s!

I love Costco but it’s not a true substitute. Completely different kind of merchandise and shopping experience.

Do you have Meijer in WI? I don’t know whether the company is politically active but I’m always impressed with their competitive pricing and selection. I didn’t grow up with Meijer so I always forget it exists, but every time I’m there, I’m like “This is nice. I need to come here more.”

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Does anyone know if the ebooks at bookshop.org work on a kindle? I can’t find specific info about it. I prefer reading on my paperwhite over other formats. @bookshop-org.bsky.social

I’m still not shopping at Target!

I had a dream last night that #Target launched a new furnishings department that was basically a Targetified IKEA. It took up an entire floor and it had everything you could ever want to furnish/decorate your home. There’s a free billion idea for them. Take it, you’re welcome.

lol. I feel like no matter how long I live here I will still not know how to drive in the snow, but many of these other drivers should know better. 😅

Is it a thing in the Midwest to not stop at stop signs when it’s snowing? I saw it twice today! I’m used to seeing people make rolling stops but these were people just flying through.

Now is a very good time to be good to each other. In part because you never know what anyone is going through, but also because you know that all of us have already been through so much.

So I made my own village of friends plus I seek help from experts. We’re making it work despite it all. And my heart breaks to think that my children may be worse off in life than I was/am. But goddammit, I’m giving them a happy childhood and I’m proud of that.

But it’s incredibly hard. We have zero help from family other than occasional money and gifts. I left the full-time workforce to stay at home with my children. I’m exhausted and burned out.

It helps that I’m educated, white and middle class for sure though. We can walk to our safe neighborhood school, we go on trips to fun places, we have a yard where the kids can explore and play. We take them sledding in winter or to the pool in summer. They get to touch grass.

I am definitely not parenting correctly at all times and my kids definitely get way too much screen time, but I am determined to give them a real childhood experience and break generational dysfunction.

You can’t control how people read what you’ve written.

4 pictures from the book Bear on a Bike that features a black child as the main character. He is depicted with large lips while other children are not.

Is it just me or do the illustrations in this book seem racist? Why do the black children have big cartoonish lips, but the other children have none?

The way boomer parents have failed their millennial children who now have children is so egregious and yet so unsurprising. Have they all just rotted their brains with TV, alcohol, mental health issues and addictions to the point they can barely function? Or is it just the boomer parents in my life?

There are a couple of consignment stores where I live that have dedicated plus size sections. Considering how high prices are at Goodwill these days there isn’t much of a price difference between thrift and consignment.

Reminder that Target gift cards are 10% off this weekend. Today is the last day. Get those teacher gifts!

Picture of what seems to be Turkey Tail Mushrooms on a log in the woods

I found these yesterday. Are they Turkey Tail Mushrooms?

Four albums that dropped when you were in high school and warped your mind forever

Tori Amos - Boys for Pelé

Ben Harper - Fight for Your Mind

Ani Difranco - Out of Range (really any of her albums from the mid 90s)

Nirvana - In Utero (Although I think I was in middle school when this released)

Pinterest feels unusable now. I tried getting some garland inspiration for my mantle last night and everything was a sponsored post that opened a product listing if you clicked it. The creator-generated content is gone.

I was singing the Clapping Song to my daughter tonight and my husband thought I was just making it up. He’s never heard it before so I showed him proof that the song existed, but he still thought it’s weird. Um, UB40 got that line from somewhere. 😁

Everyone is talking about #Wicked and I know there is a new interest in the book (and series) by Gregory Maguire. But can we talk about how incredibly bizarre and unhinged his new Maracoor series is?

We’ll be doing Thanksgiving alone this year, just the nuclear fam, for the second time in a row. I’ve been feeling pretty sorry for myself about it. At least I don’t have to clean the house.

Gregory Maguire 💚💖
Lee Smith
Margaret Maron
Charlaine Harris
Leigh Bardugo

I requested a limit increase on my most used credit card as a safety net. I pay the balance off every month, I never miss payments, I have excellent credit (800+), and my only debt is the mortgage. I was denied because my “obligations are too high.” It’s not making sense to me.

Lots of people are sharing their “intuition” & “premonition” about something big coming. I feel it too. But I’m not expecting anything to happen. No one is coming to save us. Perhaps what we’re sensing is just the new world order coming. Or maybe a last kernel of hope after feeling utterly helpless.

I can’t be on this app without humming “You’re my blue sky, you’re my sunny day…”