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Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.
I got a message that said the covid vaccine might not be covered by insurance.
Ok the damn thing made the ticketmaster sound when my spot opened up and I lost a spot twice and it felt very much like trying to get TXT tickets
I'm still in line
I'm in a virtual line for a flu/covid drive through clinic for our kids and I'm like 2000 in line and it will take an hour. While I'm annoyed, I'm sort of glad that vaccines have kpop levels of popularity in our area.
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
If i could please transfer about half the people pleasing from our older kid to the younger kid.
I have a retainer which I assume I'm going to bite through in this next year
I wake up with my teeth clenched so tight that my back hurts. This is fine.
Yes I know men can be infected with hpv as well and it can cause cancers for them too. But he's not the only one who might want senior home fun
I was annoyed when my husband's pcp recommended and gave him an hpv shot last year like it was routine but mine said I didn't need it. I AM THE ONE WITH A DANG CERVIX. I went to Safeway and got it done anyway.
Restraint collapse is a hell of a thing.
I'm about to go back to Rick Steves
I iiiiii just went and found a bunch of videos of this and aaaaaahhhhhhjj
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
We did, in fact, get rolled.
"The ice we skate is gettin' pretty thin The water's gettin' warm, so you might as well swim My world's on fire, how 'bout yours?" Is not a set of lines I was expecting to go back to twenty years later and go "ohhhh" to
Like if what he's saying is at all true then DAMN can I get some mroe vaccines in my kids because they're wearing me out with their extroversion and energy
Ok I hadn't quite appreciated the cultural takeover of kpop demon hunters until I heard a cabin of 7 year olds scream singing Golden
Lol nevermind this cabin has wifi.
I love how your work spans from thoughtful and detailed to whimsical and unhinged. I just bark giggled over the dissected fruit bat.
A friend's cat just passed away and I am looking at old pictures of our pets hanging out together. Crying about a dog that's been gone for five years. But he was the best dog.
The voice acting is so stacked
Those wee corn garnishes!
I'm just saying that I'm about to go into a camping situation where there's probably not a lot of cell phone coverage nor really time to be online so it's everyone's job to make sure when I get back within connection range on Sunday afternoon that it's Extremely Funny okay?
Funko is making one and it's the only time I've ever wanted one of these things funko.com/pop-derpy-wi...
Death wish?
We are going on our first girl scout overnight tomorrow. Oh god I have to small talk with other people for 18-20 hours?
It took me a while to get used to finding my car with washington plates on it.
These next few weeks are a flurry of back to school activities and schedule changes , picking up the duties for a school group administrative board seat and a cross country work trip and my as-is condition executive function is struggling to keep up
Also in the comedy that I sometimes live in, the firefighters swung by and I awkwardly wave while putting out the embers with our little garden hose. He offered to get me a kid's helmet
Probably. If mom doesn't find them
Kids put a firework in our mailbox. It went boom.
This seems about right for 2025.
All the ingredients are totally there and I'm a terrible role model for that as well. Belle is great 💛🌹
Don't give them ideas
And substantially more career longevity.
Sounds like it instantly went rancid!
No. Nono. Did they put like mushroom junk in there
Okay and that is the raddest kid. I love snake kids. I wish all y'all got extra gold stars or something for going from first time parents to kindergarten over these last five years. Like sincerely.
Oh momma. I have a rising fifth grader too and thinking about her kindergarten experience vs her younger sister has always had me feeling a lot about it. I'm raising a glass to you!
Somewhat reassuring information from a Seattle based pediatric group. Gonna ask our pediatrician this week if they're still planning on doing their fall drive through vaccine clinic. Also this group always gets the song stuck in my head
Kid lit is SO FUN. It's so easy to wander the stacks of the library and find just wild story premises. A world where everyone gets wings. A girl raising chickens with super powers (the chickens not the girl). And this one which is a school of composing magic?
Our big kid is a Belle nose in a book kind of reader and has been complimented for it by TSA and a restaurant owner and I can see it becoming something she's proud of.
Just gonna say that the only other place I've seen it in such consistent usage is from Karens using it to write to our HOA
Older kid asks younger kid "what's that bird called that turns things into stone by looking at them?" Younger kid answers "cockatrice" I asked why she knew that. Apparently it's a My Little Pony thing?
I think our kid has only done Artemis so we will go find the other ones! Thank you!
www.nasa.gov/learning-res...
Yes! It's short but it's sweet and educational and made with care.
Have they played the NASA dlc?
I am being very smug that the older kid is humming Yakko's World under her breath ALSO we just found the brief reboot from 2020-2023 and they updated the song!
Today in Context Matters This was in the bathroom of a Korean fried chicken place.
Thanks Past Me!
Who knew that a childhood of acting as a parental go-between for parents with mismatched communication styles would give me the skill set to do the same thing on a departmental level between managers. Also someone please shoot me with the darts that make rhinos go to sleep for dental work
I love that he understood the pattern
Having to wait for a Target employee to unlock multiple cabinets to do basic hygiene item shopping and then carrying my liberated toothpaste and ibuprofen and cough drops to a self check out counter was the last straw.
"mom. When you said the microwave wasn't working. Did you mean it didn't turn on or it didn't heat food" "it stayed off." Lug the damn thing back into the house and put it on the very clean counter and plug it in It works just fine The end.
I drag the damn thing out to the car. Put it in the trunk. Text brother the situation. Go make coffee. Half an hour later mom looks and me and says "the outlet isn't working. The water heater is off." I reset the gfci. No go. Go out. Breaker is tripped.
7:15 am. I just took the trash out. No caffeine yet. Probably fighting off early stage covid. Mom says the microwave is broken and she's going to swap it out with my brother because he told her six months ago he had one she could have and can i move the microwave to the car so she can clean
Who wants to hear another mom story.
Booh again!
Terrible
I asked for an explanation and she shrugged and said she liked seaweed milk
Saw a mug of milk the younger kid stuck back in the fridge with some little dark chips in them, which I assumed were the oreos she was playing with earlier. Asked her if she was planning on drinking it and she said no. So I drank it The dark chips were seaweed.
Three time zones in three weeks has me pretty addled. I haven't driven this much in ages. As emotionally draining as this month has been, it has felt like coming out from a fog and finding ways to be with people we care for and planning on spending more time with them.
In the past two weeks we have Had a week long playdate with a forum family and watched our kids play like old friends Visited Texas family and friends while working on site Gone to a forum funeral Gone to a backyard forum wedding celebration and the kids played with their dog for hours
Man we had just been reminiscing about a zombie movie we made in our 20s. And I remember this shit was sticky and uncomfortable as hell, especially in the heat
this is so wonderfully weird, give her all the golds 🥇
Using the Donkey Kong/Mario relationship to explain protagonists vs antagonists in storytelling to the kids
Paul and Sarah, he was the plant contact and Dino guy. Sarah had the alien tattoo.
The one bright spot to going to a funeral of someone as So Damn Interesting as Danielle is that you meet the people she loved and they're also so fun. We talked to her Carnivorous Plants Guy. We met the artist who did her hair. We got to cry but also talk about tattoos and radioactive horse skulls
I love this kind of nerd activation
I cant wait to get home and ask why our 7 year old has installed Gin Rummy Classic on her tablet
Also please get your cancer screenings as soon as you qualify and self-check and monitor. @jonus.bsky.social made a moment to emphasize this today and I wanted to amplify for you lovelies
But i also want to have a ghost Danielle character haunting the heck out of us and she gets to roll to cause chaos
A beautiful service with @ravenette.bsky.social's sister and husband giving beautiful eulogies. We all got to pick dice from her collection. I got a few extra for friends who couldn't make the service
I refuse to stay outside the beltway and go to work ever again.
I love these pictures of y'all. Her smile is so bright and you are so much in love.
Sept 17th! I'm going to be nyc for a work trip so I thought I'd take the opportunity
I'm going!
I know people do this every day for years but this week I have been making a typical Houston commute and I would like my three hours a day back please.
As one of the three weddings. Five stars.
Oh my god I had forgotten about the radio shows She showed us all Ginger Snaps.
We've known people now from this forum for 25 years and counting. There have been courtships, marriages, divorces, children, and funerals. The cost of these enduring connections is the pain in their loss. But it's worth every tear.
We lost one of our old forum crew a few days ago to cancer. @ravenette.bsky.social was a champion of snakes, had a love for terrible movies and the spooky. She was too cool for any of us dorks but she gave us all of her kindness until her body gave way. She burned too brightly for us to keep her.
My memoir is going to be titled Crying in HEB
I have been trying to figure out when to watch season 2. Maybe this is the when
Yup. I also think about what we were told about every up-and-coming starlet and how fat they were and people asking about their virginity status and this was normal and on the regular network talk shows.
This is how I know that I would 100% get caught in a Wile E Coyote trap. I got excited and started looking for pastries in the friggen Staples.
Looking back at the 90s (holy crap thirty years ago) and realizing what our tween brains were marinating in has been a whole journey.
A reminder to myself and other parents that parenting with intentionality is EXHAUSTING. You're doing your best against the currents of how you were raised. And if you're in the U.S., with very few support systems.
And it was a supposedly "girl power" movie!?
Same. And while it's warmer on those days, it's not significantly so
Due to budget cuts at NASA I’ve been asked to stop taking Mars core samples and instead will be searching for signs of life by singing the lyrics of “Soda Pop” by Saja Boys and anything that doesn’t immediately do that little shoulder bop will be viewed as the lifeless husk that it most certainly is
Oh damn you.
Thank you for drafting and selling these! I can't wait to horrify/delight a bunch of elementary school kids!
I just purchased patterns for bunch of knit animal and alien dissections. You might want some too!
Japanese bathrooms are top tier. The entire room is a shower? The bathtub is sink-in-able? Bench seating and and hand wand option? Toilets in their own room and the fancy ones open when you walk in the room, auto shut and flush with warmed seats and adjustable bidets? Total excellence