Kate 🦇

I did get the wyverns book! I had a search alert on for a while and finally found one at a price I would agree with, haha.

But yes on crafting. Maybe some crafting time at Penn Lite?

Thank you so much!!! I have my handout but didn’t diagram the stitches — you’re a lifesaver. ❤️❤️❤️

@nittanyknits.bsky.social Was the stitch we learned at Penn Lite last year just tent stitch? I forgot how to do it and was looking it up and tent stitch isn’t crossed, but what I have is crossed. I never finished my practice piece and want to pick it up, but I can’t remember the steps!

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It wasn’t one email. It was a pile. Just the one real headliner, though. IT pulled them back before most people saw them. www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/...

It didn’t go to all Feds. Yet.

I know there are mixed feelings on app ordering, but I appreciate the fact that I was running late and able to sprint out of the happy hour and close my tab (with a healthy tip) from the train.

Maybe? I don’t have parenting skills. There are a few mature-er themes (cancer, fighting) and some sex. It seems pretty innocuous to me, but what do I know.

POV: sunset from urgent care waiting room on Christmas Eve Eve. (Just sick, nothing exciting.)

“Pepsi” is short for “is Pepsi ok?”

Everyone has an “it’s not the holidays until” list. One of mine is seeing the Brookside Gardens Christmas Dragons. Ho ho raar, y’all.

Very surprised that the box isn’t a planned component of the set. 😂

My holiday cards are out! A couple of observations:

1) I’m 90% positive a few are dated “December 2025.” Happy holidays from the future?

2) I started writing them on Nov 1. There was a vibe shift on November 5 and you can probably tell which side of it yours was written on.

But they’re mailed!

If my info is still current, there’s still a non-profit section of NGS that Disney does not own. That’s the part that has to do with grants to explorers and such. However all of the media-based parts do belong to the mouse and have for many years now.

Oh that’s lovely!

It ended a while ago. cwa-union.org/news/new-yor...

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles movie poster.

Pieces of April movie poster.

Home for the Holidays movie poster.

There are three Thanksgiving movies I watch every year. We both like Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, and watch it together, but the other two are my own private little rituals. (Honorable mention to Knives Out which isn’t a Thanksgiving movie but somehow totally is.) Are there any you watch?

LMAO, it definitely does. I see that message every time I text you. But then I never text urgently so it doesn’t bother me to know you’ll see it when you see it.

Screencap of iPhone “focus” options.

Do you use the focus modes on your phone? If so, how do you find them most useful? I’m considering them as a way to enforce the divide between work and home and to reduce the noise of *gestures at world on fire* at times, but haven’t really used them yet.

Overhead view of cranberries covered in sugar and orange zest in the metal bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment.

Overhead view of cranberry sauce in a glass container ringed by green and black bats.

Mm. Cranberry sauce. It’s also stupid easy. Add cranberries, sugar, orange zest to a stand mixer. Turn in mixer and walk away for an hour. Turn off mixer. Done.

Victorian ghost story. ‘Tis the season!

Sugar pumpkins roasted, puréed, and frozen weeks ago. ✅ Pie crust dough made last week and refrigerated. ✅ All ingredients bought last week to avoid Thanksgiving weekend grocery store. ✅ All ready to make pies today!

All pie plates still at mom’s from last year.

LMAO. Best laid plans. 😄

Ah, that moment when you go to block your knitting and the only way to make it match dimensions would be to cut it. I don’t know what I did. I gauge swatched and sized down my needles. The length was all knit to inches, not rows. But the closest I can get it is 5” longer than expected. 🤨

We also have snow! It was 82° two weeks ago but today we’ve got flurries.

If you have a federal job, no one should be allowed to throw a meeting on your calendar for “an announcement.” All surprises are terrifying right now. All of them.

Hats off to anyone who makes their Christmas presents. I have been working on one baby gift for 2 months and I’m still not sure I’ll be done in time. It’s not even that complicated!

Spirit of the law vs. letter of the law: she is not allowed on the counters.

The cold I rudely woke up with Sunday is mainly characterized by an incredibly sore throat that makes speaking difficult/unreliable. Which is probably good because the second most notable symptom is the unrelenting urge to whine about it. Fortunately I’ve found a work around — typing. 😄

Bear joins the fray and says hello.

Obviously a typo. The 90s were just 10 years ago.