sommbre lebronze

a baby in supported seat operating a brightly colored wooden apparatus with knobs, gears, springs, and tracks

bf said he's "at his battle station"

my baby thinks it's sooo funny when you turn away for a few seconds then look back at him real quick and he's been staring at you the whole time with this vacant smile. he's right

This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.

simulacrum of a simulacrum. I know this doesn't matter exactly, but it is the kind of thing that threatens to tip me into an actual dissociative episode

who is spearheading the acting or voice coaching thing where ads are super stilted and Casual Def Not Acting to an uncanny degree... do u know what I'm talking about? they go like "i, tried. all the the product, super. expensive product... even the, other product, but this. product it changed me"

rolling off the play mat where his things are, onto the rug where he can play with cat toy and chew on a diaper (clean). he wants to crawl SO bad but so far he's only doing it backwards.

kick and screm!

nah he is just some little dude from like 2017

acquaintance posted incendiary pro-life lies plus a photo of his son, a whole live person aged 3 months, captioned like "DMs closed! Take it up with him because THIS is who you are killing!!"

imagining this argument but with a grown man, mid-40s, who reached viability no thanks to the libs

every example they give of this guy being a psycho is, on its own, reasonably "nbd" or a misunderstanding. but man, in totality? these women end up dead or at least dead inside.

not that I ever doubted it once it was done (my first utterance about that breakup to a distant friend was "IM FREE" i really didnt quite know i wasnt free until it was done), but. it's so validating to hear stories about women in relationships with men who are vaguely, covertly controlling

baby laughed at his dad's fart and I was like smh "a bad influence... a bad effluence"
first time I've even thought the word "effluence" in my whole life. great first usage. totally lost on my bf & 7mo though, so now I'm posting ty

an ad for the new series “welcome to derry” with the tagline “go back to where IT all began“, except somehow, they highlighted the word “to“ instead of “it“

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"

"no problem boss. i'm on it"

this makes obvious sense from the perspective of population health & a functional system designed to serve everyone involved. if thats your thing. however, being that it's at the expense of unfettered profit for a handful of parties, it's unfortunately not feasible here

baby just lifted his knee across his belly, tooted dramatically, and laughed at it. gods creation so full of wonders

what type of slime mold is that? I love.

sorry

can you imagine how much worse (inefficient) emergency depts would be if they had to also verify ability to pay before they administered treatment? please.

when people say: He's such a good baby!
am I not supposed to say, I know :)
i didn't do anything to make him Good & I appreciate he is relatively easy to care for

similarly: You don't look like you had a baby!
i know. & when I was at wits' end postpartum it made me feel more invisible to hear it

someone gifted us that fissure prise playmat. baby doesn't know it plays songs other than the ones he writes himself by randomly kicking single keys. John legend should cover one of those imo

going to get destroyed for this take, I know. but, to me, the purple monkey in a bubblegum tree song isn't good

he showed me his boxes of plastic army men, organized by color and era. got very serious when I asked if baby would get to play with them one day. "no. maybe. I'm not ready to think about that," he said.

wandered into my bf's lair and was held captive for what seemed like a lifetime

new favorite thing my baby does, now that he can kind of hold his bottle & likes to try, is he clasps his fingers in front of his face & sort of wails at these empty claws until I place the bottle within grasp

what i mean to say is, my baby is like Kurt Cobain; I will always love him & think everything about him is interesting. But one day, I won't have a compulsive need to broadcast it. Maybe.

i used to think, Wow being a mom is your whole identity now? boring.
And now that it looks like that for me, I'm guessing it's like when you go through puberty & discover a band or sport or hobby & your biology is primed for it (obsessive caretaking or differentiation) so you're temporarily annoying

suped up baby bouncer stability-reinforced with nursing pillow & augmented with preferred toy bar.

adding inventor, systems analyst, & resource manager to my CV

seems like the 90s was some golden era for psychological thrillers about an evil elite. what happened to these films? is it like the Twilight Zone depicting an MK Ultra style human experiment? too easy to see the twist coming & no longer passable as clever imagination; just life as we know it 😔

bf mom says I should take up swimming to prevent perineal tear. not finding evidence to support this as a preventive measure, aside from her frequently self-cited n=1 observational study from 1983. should I just tell her I'm getting taint massages from her son instead