we have a hard time selling him on any tv that isn’t car related but he is into the Great Pumpkin

my cold weather robe is extremely comfy and also makes me feel like a toxic milf so there’s really no downside

impeccable

chalk markers and pb&j

Pippin

lol at callen just covered in marker

cat

we’re having a very artistic day

celebrated getting through a stressful weekend by attempting to fix our washing machine instead of playing video games

I think we did it though???

the thing about potty training is you need your washing machine eight days a week

we didn’t do it

oh no

oh noooo

bad timing

we fixed it!! last night. I replaced a PART in the BACK of it like a HANDYMAN

thanks youtube you saved us like $400

I am trying to get people at work to join me in donating to food pantries and making corporate match the donations because they need to put their money where their mouth is

handycami

I was able to do a corporate match for my choir this year and a light clicked on in my brain like. oh I can make them pay for all kinds of shit

you ARE a handyman

maybe when AI takes my job I can start fixing washing machines for a living

haircut

more bang!!! cute

very cute!

good bangs

I always miss them when they grow out

Mom & Jimmy arrive today

I am not allowed to talk politics this weekend at the risk of my own sanity

Godspeed

they are at least more 'passive terrified boomer floridian voters' than full MAGA but still

the struggle is real

may their verbal filters also be operational in return

real

also I'm about to go into a meeting that I have a feeling is going to make me Upset in a non-catastrophic way

but I'm dreading it and can't wait for it to be over

at least I'm off tomorrow and Friday

meeting: good actually

only scary when The Girls Started Fighting (art director and my manager)

but both were fighting in my favor so that's a good feeling

except now I'm afraid my manager is mad at me for being so chill about Changes tm

I need men to not be upset at me for not being upset. does that make sense

stopping myself from making the fatal mistake of trying to soothe him

why am I like this

I don't think he IS mad at me but I also need to let him handle himself

good luck with your fam

be strong. u already have one job you don't also need to be his psych

I already made that mistake once, even

with the old art director who was terrible

cool mushroom alert

fly agaric (i think) my beloved

“mushrooms of Washington state”

damn that is a cool mushroom

agaric!! fav of favs!!!!

is this at your house?

in our neighborhood!

pip sniffed it and said fuck no and I took a pic

we’re ready

far left is my carved interpretation of bitty boy’s sharpie design

LOVE these

story of the night is I failed to latch the baby gate to Callen’s room and while we were winding down in the downstairs family room I’m like do I hear pip whining? Why is he whining?

and my mom goes there’s a little boy at the top of the stairs

and we’re like what? what does that mean

I’m like is there a boy at the door or something (we had shut down everything after we ran out of candy) and she just says again “there’s a little boy at the top of the stairs”

Chris goes to look and obviously it’s just Callen who came down to see what we were doing and Pip was whining bc he was alerting about it

but I’m like JESUS CHRIST MOM JUST SAY CALLEN’S OUT OF BED

anyway now that phrase lives in our heads and will haunt us the rest of our lives, a Halloween miracle

then we watched Bad Ben which is by the way a cinematic masterpiece

victorian ghost child