She/her I write funny, sexy, heartfelt romance. Won a few awards. Live in Upstate New York. This boomer proudly voted for Kamala.šµ Breast cancer survivor. š NO auto-follows. I block quickly and without warning. RESISTā
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I know I wonāt make a carry-on, but itās okay since weāre not flying. Weāre on a tour bus for 6 days (casual) & a cruise ship (slightly elevated attire?) for 8. Iāll pare it down to a few solid tops w/sweaters for layering. I hope! š¤ And jeans are too heavy for me to pack more than the few that fit!
Iām at that most dreaded sorting phase of early packing for a 2-week trip (still 3 weeks away): which pants fit comfortably š and how many tops do I really need to pack for 14 daysš«£???
I almost fell for one, until I spotted two complete and coherent (if ridiculous) sentences in it. Not him.
Oh itās so much fun to see the classics on a big screen!!!
LOL. I met my BFF when we worked for the same company. She was a spreadsheet magician, while I managed customer service and wrote marketing copy. We helped each other constantly!
I finally gave up and just went with the books that were clearly registered and clearly stolen. Still more than half of my titles. The whole process took me back to my corporate days, where spreadsheets were great tools, but also the bane of my existence!!!
PHEVs are amazing & there should be more of them! My 2-year-old Escape only gets 35 miles on a charge, but 90% of my trips are below that. I go for MONTHS w/o buying gas. If I do go over 35 miles (or itās cold), it just switches to gas. I plug it into the household 120 and it charges overnight.
Same. So tedious!!! š£
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
I asked my pharmacist today (Kinney Drugs in NY), and he said it will be 2-3 weeks, but it changes daily. He didnāt mention prescriptions, but I didnāt know to ask, and weāre both over 65. What a shit show. Weāre hoping to get the booster before we leave on a trip in 3 weeks.
Basically, Kelly wanted a big dance number and Debbie Reynolds wasnāt really a dancer, so they put a movie in a movie that was already in a movie. Story schmoryāwe need a dance number!
That made it sound like the Marie Antoinette section was actually supposed to be the dream part!
Seriously! How long was that movie? š And what did Broadway have to do with it? But who cares because itās hot hot HOT.
This whole dream sequence is bonkers, but it works. And Cyd Charisseā¦.absolute perfection. Dance scenes like this were how they got sex in the movies back then. š„š„š„ #singinintherain #TCMParty
Everyone is cast to perfection in this movie, but Donald OāConnor is the star. Period. #singinintherain #TCMparty
Boy did I need to see my all-time favorite musical tonight. š Iām always using Linaās lines from this movie and no one gets it. āI caināt stan āim!ā āNo no no.ā āYes yes yes.ā IYKYK #SinginInTheRain #tcmwatchparty
There used to be a PT place near me called Kuss Therapy. I was at a friendās cookout and someone asked who would go to a business called ācuss.ā My hand went up in the air so fast!! š¤£
If you think about it, it's actually surprising that it took six whole months before putting a vaccine-denying, roadkill-eating, ex-junkie carnivorous dead brainworm host and loonytunes conspiracy nut in charge of the CDC destroyed the CDC.
Short answerāyes, the family will be billed for whatever insurance doesnāt cover. And I donāt know if insurance even covers acts of violence. But hey, thereās always Go Fund Me accounts so they can beg. š
Yeah, I think Iām putting the phone down for a few days to take a breather. And today is my day to work the food pantry, and it does help to do something meaningful.
I honestly donāt know how much very very bad I can take. Itās an endless newsreel of destruction.
North Carolina Republicans are the WORST. Absolute bottom feeders beneath their fake charm.
ALL THE WAY TO THE SUN. š¤¬
Our VA usually distributes the COVID vax a few weeks after local pharmacies. My disabled veteran husband just waits. But NOT this yearāI told him the minute it shows up at the pharmacy, weāre both going. If theyāre thinking of banning it, I fear theyāll start with the military and veterans.
Gosh that would be just awful to not see those channels we scroll on by anywayā¦..
The reason I declined them āstopping by laterā is that this is a multi-hour job, both interior and exterior, and involves covering a large opening in the exterior wall as well as doing drywall patching. They arenāt exposing that opening without having time to seal it back up!
Gotta love contractors. š They offered to be here TODAY and would call when on their way. At 2pm I finally called them becauseā¦.hello? Oh, there was a doctors appointment, they might stop later, blah blah blah. Uh, no. I donāt mind being flexible, but effing COMMUNICATE! š¤ Rescheduled for Wednesday.
A childhood friendās mom threw a burning pan of oil into the sink and turned the faucet on. The fire gutted their kitchen. Then my babysitter caught a pan of popcorn oil on fire & rushed it outside, only to spill it on her legs as she threw it. Sixty years later, I refuse to deep fry anything! š«£
This is why I canāt quit the internetš¤£š¤£š¤£
āItās a double rainbow all the way across the sky!!!ā šš
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Moms can really hone their passive-aggressive skills as they age. *hugs*
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICEās time.
This last paragraph in @jimacosta.bsky.social tonightās newsletter: š„ In short, Newsom is saying āfuck it.ā And for now, so should the rest of the Democratic party, until there are no fucks to give, while there is still a democracy to give a fuck about. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
Three Republican presidents were male cheerleaders in college: George W. Bush at Yale, Ronald Reagan at Eureka, and Dwight D. Eisenhower at West Point. I'll wait for the GOP to comment on that, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
Is there any way to donate to candidates without using ActBlue? There are candidates I want to help, but every link seems to take me to ActBlue. Iām sick of the daily flood of hyperventilating spam texts from them.
Itās RAINING!!! š„³š„³š„³ Looks like we had quite a bit overnight. I canāt wait to see the grass start growing again.
Dear Smithsonian.......send your historical records to Canada before they're destroyed.
Iām not sayinā we need rain or anything, but the lawn is crunchy. We might see measurable rain overnight, and I am doing my rain dance, for sure!! š
Hooray!! I havenāt done that in a couple years, but that adhesive drove my skin crazy.
Timeline cleanse. š©·
I know that shrieking and wringing one's hands every hour on the hour isn't going to accomplish anything, but every now and then it kicks in for me that the president of the United States is a maniac, and, to be honest, it's bothersome.
We moved back home to the north after ten years in NC, and I thought I left those steamy days behind!
Come on over!! I ran around this morning flinging windows open like a Disney princess! š Weāve had w-a-y too much heat and humidity this summer.
The heat wave finally broke. š The temps were in the low 60s this morning. Going to stay in the 70s today and 50s š tonight. All the windows are open. I AM IN HEAVEN!!!! š¤ All we need now is rain, but one step at a timeā¦..
Democratic Governors, you have to play hardball. Red states can't function without your economies. They clearly want to F around. It's find out time.
Just because we want people to READ our books doesnāt mean we want people to STEAL them. š¤¦āāļø
Ugh!! I hate that damn āgoalpostā line theyāre using these days to gaslight when they donāt have a valid argument. Not an original thought in their heads.š
Ummmā¦.
Iām just so sorry. Youāve done what you could (and then some!). Heās gonna do what heās gonna do. Time for you to put that energy into self-care. š«
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Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.
Kind of a bummer to have to turn our sunroom (and entire house!) into a shade cave all summer. š«¤ The consistently hot temperatures have forced us into closing all blinds, shades and curtains to try to keep the house cooler. I donāt know about you, but fall canāt get here soon enough!! š„µ
Koh: If he were serious about cutting crime he wouldn't be proposing cutting $400 million from the ATF or cutting $500 million from the FBI, 700 agents or the DEA with with drug enforcement or the office of violence against women, 100 million from there
And to call a combined income of $200,000 "very rich" in NYC (especially when Cuomo is a multi-millionaire several times over) is just...weird. All he's doing is proving how ignorant he is about the place he wants to be mayor of.
Is Andrew Cuomo having a nervous breakdown?
Too. Damn. Hot. š„µ
My disabled veteran husband has had to be outsourced from the VA for dermatology care and neurology care this year, because those departments (in a large regional hospital) are no longer staffed. Itās criminal.
Congrats!! I bought some wide leg jeans last fall, it felt like an instant flashback to my youth! Also, they are OMG comfortable.
I meanā¦what a difference! āØ Why are clean walls (and sparkling windows!) making me so happy? I donāt know. Maybe the summer heat is making me loopy. Maybe itās one small thing I can control in a world of nonstop chaos. Maybe the 55-year-old house just deserved some love. All of the above, I guess. š
Have a wonderful time!!
We had the siding and exterior of the windows power-washed today, and holy cats were they dirty!! š± š Theyāre crank-outs, so impossible to wash the outside from indoors & Iām not a fan of ladders.šŖ This will now, of course, force me to wash the INSIDE of all the windows, but thatās at least doable.
mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. Thatās what theyāre taking away.
My theory is that if we taxed most of these people without telling them and the people they pay to manage their money didn't tell them, they'd never notice. And if you'd never notice you should be taxed even more.
Specifically the two NY Democratic senators! @schum.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social have been MASSIVE disappointments and need to go.
BILL BURR: āThereās nothing wrong with being a billionaire, but if someoneās working 40 hours/week and canāt make rent youāre not paying them enoughā¦ maybe you should just be worth $900 Million. How do you take an 8 figure bonus and none of your employees have dental insurance?ā
Sounds about right for the first time with it. My throat also felt like Iād swallowed hot lava. Treat the symptoms (Tylenol, Mucinex and fluids) and get LOTS of rest. So much rest. All the naps. Donāt fight it, just sleep.
Happiness is a gold-star annual report from my cardiologist. š Over two years, statins (and watching my carb/fat intake) have brought my cholesterol down from 224 to 190. BP is great. Bad LDLs down, good HDLs up. It's good motivation to stay the course! šŖ
Youāre so welcome! My daughter and granddaughter are teachers, so I love to help.
Heās REALLY good at this.
Damn. š„ This is what Dems need to sound like every single day. Yes, I know heās not āperfectā but Iām getting tired of the purity tests and āYes, butā¦ā replies. No one will check every box for every Dem out there. But the ones who stand up and FIGHT are the ones who should be leading.
This makes me happy. The looks theyāre giving each other here are justā¦
New Yorkersāas you watch the horrific images of kids starving to death in Gaza, remember 3 things: 1. Netanyahu is enabling this starvation, can stop it, & wonāt 2. Cuomo has voluntarily joined Netanyahuās legal team to defend his war crimes 3. Mamdani say heāll to arrest Netanyahu if he visits NYC
Oohā¦ Happy Birthday!!! š
I lived in NC while Roy Cooper was governor. He fought the vile state GOP every single day. He often bested them at their own game. And yes, he prays. So do I & Iām as blue as they come. Heāll be facing the nastiest political attacks imaginable, but heās won there before. Heās a great candidate.
Possibly. I hadnāt had my coffee yet, so my sarcasm filter wasnāt fully in place. Your comment was so obvious that I interpreted it as intentionally condescending. Maybe Monday-morning-itis all around. š¤·āāļø Enjoy your week!
If only that worked. If only intelligent people hadnāt tried that deep dark secret way to stop texts. š All it does is stop them from that particular number (and Iām beginning to doubt that). I get another within an hour from a new number. And another. And anotherā¦.
Yāall. What are we doing? www.cnn.com/2025/07/26/s...
This post has been living in my head for days. I knew I had a scrolling problem, but the āsilencing the silence with ācontentāā line hit me like a sledgehammer. I need to make some changes.
SHEāS A CABOT! Omg. Thatās some Boston Brahmin sh*t happening. And he is new money. This is literally a Henry James novel.
This is a reminder that AccuWeather has been lobbying to privatize weather data and it looks like they might succeed. If you have the app, DELETE IT.
Hunter was ALL they could talk about for four years, and now they want him to go away? How convenient.
āWe are here to ruin ourselvesā¦to love the wrong peopleā¦.ā š©·š©·š©· #TCMwatchparty #moonstruck
Getting my biannual Prolia injection today, thanks to osteopenia and cancer meds. Iām chugging water this AM to avoid Januaryās debacle where they couldnāt draw blood for labs. Also working on how not to brace myself for the shot now that I know how much it burns going in. š£ Deep breathsā¦
Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."
Hakeem Jeffries should sit the fuck down and support someone in the party weāre actually enthusiastic about. #VoteMamdani #STFUJeffries
Colbert comes out swinging. Gonna be a fun 10 months...
Pretty sure I just heard my psychiatrist niece's head explode, too. WTF?
People exploding this false messaging that I voted for a bill + funding that I quite literally voted NO on. The threat environment this morning is scary. Doesnāt help anyone. Drag me for the position if you disagree but donāt lie. Itās out of control. Saying I voted for this funding is false.
Me staring at the washer/dryer: Is the solid circle on or off? How is the outlined triangle different from the solid triangle? Will the red square incinerate my clothes?
Iām looking to pick up some conversational French. I know Duolingo was getting flamed recently for AI, but it looks like Babel uses it too? Any recommendations one way or the other? #languages
True ā itās horrible no matter what. Iām familiar with the area, and as soon as they said she was found in Ticonderoga (north) when the van was supposedly heading south, I knew somebody lied. But her own fatherā¦what a gut punch.
The police reported serious inconsistencies in the fatherās story. And her body was discovered in the opposite direction of the rumored white van. Tragically, I donāt think this will end up being a stranger abduction. š
My husband would foster-fail every critter that enters our house! š Heās named all the squirrels that raid our bird feederā¦
We have a couple of big trips planned in the next ten months, so we agreed to wait until after that, but I think Iām getting the itchā¦
My husband and I both hear her sigh sometimes, or the click of her nails. I used to think she was in bed with us, but itās been a while since anything that felt this intense. People keep saying āget another!ā but I still donāt think weāre ready.
I had the hardest time trying to figure out controls for the washers and dryers in Ireland! š I had no idea what the symbols meant. Iām sure theyāre more efficient than in the US, but I was stumped.
I was watering plants & accidentally disturbed a bumblebee on my rose of sharon. I quickly apologized & redirected the water. He went right back to work. I think Iāve invested so much energy in flowers this year to remind myself things can still be beautiful despiteā¦
