Rube Snakehole: Crochet ACTIVIST 🗡️🦀

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🎵 I'm just a ghost trying to catch a Ms. Pac-Man🎵

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2026-05-06 00:41:01 UTC

Working on my octoskirt wew
Supposed to be cleaning boo
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2026-03-25 13:10:51 UTC

Phooey someone spoiled the afroman trial outcome for me. I was really enjoying watching it. Also I think I have a uti and just found out they have home test strips! I live under a very nice rock, thank you

2026-03-21 13:01:59 UTC

The city was working on the mosquito pond they're building next to my house and knocked out my fiber line to my house. Thank goodness I could hotspot off my work phone and finish my work day!
I'm surprised it took them this long.

2026-02-27 21:31:20 UTC

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Yes I've gotten much better at crosswords in the last few years

2026-02-27 20:47:39 UTC

20 years late I'm getting sucked into sudoku, which I swore I'd never fuck with. I am so terrible at it y'all, it's nice

2026-02-14 06:50:40 UTC

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I am trying not to be offended that they put it in a trash bag, it was raining

2026-02-14 06:49:33 UTC

I bought Rube Jr 's painting at the art walk!!
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2026-02-13 02:27:36 UTC

Furthermore Wil Wheaton is internet herpes

2026-02-09 00:24:05 UTC

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Oh no! I guess there's no weight class like boxing and the Rams could only afford lil discount shrimpy guys that year 😆 That's when football was more dangerous I hear

2026-02-08 23:49:26 UTC

Rube Jr had a minor emergency so I had to cancel on the superb owl party I was invited to. My record for never seeing an entire football game remains undefeated 🏆

2026-02-06 23:34:19 UTC

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Yeah I don't fault anyone for attempting to contain sneezes and whatnot. I did find it sus that the whole store was masked!
Is a split between Amazon and UPS coming? I didn't hear.

2026-02-06 21:38:44 UTC

They closed local Amazon drop off locations when I am and the site shunted me off to UPS. I went to the store I got kicked out of after masking was lifted in my state for daring not to wear one, GASP. This was in 2021. I bounced out of the store and saw a man physically fighting with a little person (woman) in a weird bondage get up, no joke.
In the year of our Lord 2026 they are ALL still wearing masks in there!! I can't with Seattle

2026-02-04 01:05:27 UTC

Ok I was thinking about the high profile kidnapping case involving the mother of a morning show host and my second thought was to think that if I was kidnapping an elderly woman I'd make sure she had all her meds and some snacks.
I would be the best and the worst at kidnapping someone

2026-01-31 04:57:01 UTC

My older daughter, who left home abruptly about ten years ago to live with her dad, called Rube Jr for my number tonight. She called twice while I was at dinner and sent a text. She came by my house out of nowhere a couple of summers ago to ask for some of her abandoned property (long gone). I told her to let me know if she wanted to go out and talk sometime. She told me I ruined her life.
I'm going to sleep on this sudden reappearance and decide how to approach tomorrow.
Sometimes people disappear so for so long you mourn them as if they died. I haven't known her as an adult and it makes me sad that she sets off my alarms. I will go cautiously.

2026-01-28 15:08:32 UTC

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Kind of in that my creations keep normies away?

2026-01-28 14:42:14 UTC

Keeping busy
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2026-01-22 22:28:04 UTC

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Ok not just me!

2026-01-22 20:25:36 UTC

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I'm occasionally curious not but I think today will be my last attempt. Lots of other commentators in the sea.

2026-01-22 18:49:34 UTC

I try to listen to conversations/interviews with Cenk Uygur but he has dark theatre kid energy and I can't do it

2026-01-11 05:22:19 UTC

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I totally get that! If I want the hole to vanish I do it, but I always have to look it up. Finally I can do foundation crochet without looking it up though!!

2026-01-09 19:55:49 UTC

I don't understand the point of starting with a magic circle if you're going to see the hole anyway
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2026-01-06 22:16:42 UTC

So I treated myself to some new plates after most of mine got chipped out broken and they were packed so poorly about a third arrived broken! Bummer
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2026-01-04 18:08:50 UTC

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I know! I think it's a little overblown. It reminds me of being in situations as an adult where you see a child who is slightly awkward in a peer group and it just becomes blood in the water. From the outside the pariah child doesn't seem that bad, but the peer group disagrees. I find Madam Markle pretty funny and I hope her kids are well cared for and feel loved. (No shade, I just want that for all kids, especially cuckoo celeb spawn.)

2026-01-04 17:01:23 UTC

People often want to put the blame on simple misogyny or racism, and I can't say there's nothing to that. However, these people are apples and oranges. The women on the list are all perceived to have some moral failing. They continue to thrust themselves into the spotlight and insist we love and consume them in spite of being unlikeable.
Meghan is perceived as a tone deaf try-hard who is simply not very good at anything she's attempted. In spite of this, she continues to beat against the window like a sad moth for our attention. The media (and Meghan's own social media) keep calling attention to her gaffes and mediocrity, fanning the flames.
Diddy, serial rapist and assaulter, has two major advantages in a ranking like this. He was arrested and convicted and is now out of sight, except for resurfacing occasionally to let us know what a soft little princeling he is behind bars. (No one is surprised about this.) Secondly, I thought the Netflix docudrama released about him made a pretty good case that his PR team reached a lot of influencers to declare his innocence and call his victims crazy money-grubbers during the trial phase, scrambling public opinion. Something similar happened during the Depp-Heard trial.
I think the author of this article makes some interesting points, but ultimately it's a miss. The severity of the crime doesn't matter--it's rating dislike.
https://feminegra.com/why-women-like-meghan-sussex-are-judged-more-harshly-than-violent-men/
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2025-12-29 16:56:38 UTC

https://nypost.com/2025/12/25/lifestyle/retail-stores-now-charge-customers-eye-watering-return-fees/
Sooo first online retail kills Sears, Kmart, and other affordable dept stores where you can try things on, now they want to charge for returns. Back to thrift stores I guess!

2025-12-28 21:45:02 UTC

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Oh because I've seen old SNLs. Before my time but I was trying to think of other presidential portrayals. Overthinking something pointless. 😆

2025-12-28 16:32:55 UTC

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I was thinking of Gerald Ford!

2025-12-28 10:42:49 UTC

I was watching Saturday Night Live from a couple of weeks ago and there was a lot of "lol Trump is senile" happening on there. This seems like weird cope considering our last president. Also, there is so so SO much more to criticize him about that would be funny. Also Bowen Yang's send off was so OTT that they better have a frickin parade when Keenan retires
I know I know, I went to Burger King and tried to order a Big Mac.

2025-12-23 16:28:07 UTC

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Currently I'm working out the pattern with sock but I need to go lace I think. I'm going to make a brick "wall" and turn it at the angle I want, throw a line on it, and figure out how/where I need to reduce. Going for an angle like this to end up being about 10cm at the base
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2025-12-23 15:22:04 UTC

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But at least I finished my last Xmas sweater! Also finished a pomegranate half and I need to rework it. I'm calling it on the pom
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2025-12-23 15:21:04 UTC

Trying to figure out how to crochet a fucking pyramid with vanishing point perspective for the bricks
FUCK
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2025-12-19 15:48:49 UTC

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Thanks! I don't know if I mentioned but I'm entering an ornament contest at my lys

2025-12-19 05:25:42 UTC

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Progress
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2025-12-19 04:07:28 UTC

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No! That sucks! Booooo

2025-12-19 03:40:21 UTC

I'm trying to make a pomegranate and I have no fucking idea what I'm doing with beading
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2025-12-19 03:38:17 UTC

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I do think this is largely a case of "because I can, I will" in terms of the law.

2025-12-19 02:13:57 UTC

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OH SHIT!!! Discrimination!!!
I wonder what he would do if a woman came to him to defend something involving men's rights. I'm sure he would take her money.
This is such a Chestertons Fence sitch. WHY do businesses incentivise women to SHOW UP?? hmmmmm

2025-12-18 20:01:47 UTC

"The case was brought by Alfred Rava, a lawyer who is hailed as the “man of the decade” on Reddit’s MensRights forum. He has filed hundreds of lawsuits challenging gender-based policies and promotions in California, including ladies’ nights at bars, Mother’s Day giveaways at baseball games and women-only networking events. Filed in 2024, his Bumble lawsuit argues that the company “portrays females as perpetual victims needing special emotional and psychological protection”, and that it stereotypes men as “rude, sexually-forward ogres”. Bumble has moved to dismiss the case."
It is a fact that 1. Women need their own events, in the case of career networking and 2. It's established that women may need some kind of incentive to show up to bars, clubs, dating apps. Going all MRA on things could hinder a business's ability to succeed. This is beyond short sighted.
Leave men to their sexbots and sausagefest events I guess 🤷‍♀️
https://observer.co.uk/news/international/article/how-lawsuits-and-layoffs-stopped-bumble-putting-women-first

2025-12-14 01:23:48 UTC

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Thank you! It was fun ☺️

2025-12-13 19:56:39 UTC

Finished the crochet a few weeks ago but then was looking for the right buttons. Done! I hope she likes it.
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2025-12-10 22:09:13 UTC

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Holy cats! I was just wondering about actual women coal miners. I was certain they exist and just get the fuck on with it, much like I did in construction. Most of the time unless you saw part of my face under my hard hat and glasses I just looked like a blob. 😆 Zero on point, 100% keeping insulation from going down my shirt

2025-12-10 21:11:53 UTC

Breaking news man works in coal mine
https://notthebee.com/article/netflix-makes-show-about-transgender-coal-miner-who-fights-the-patriarchy

2025-12-05 04:10:14 UTC

Wikipedia and their begging for money is really sad. Call on me when you're not locking people out of editing their own articles

2025-12-02 00:09:10 UTC

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Maybe new? I've seen similar in team building. I don't see it as a bad thing to get your employees to look at their strengths but my strength is ducking data farming lololol

2025-12-01 23:16:22 UTC

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I'm already hired... It's kind of Meyers Briggs type thing. Even so they don't get to know anything. 🤣

2025-12-01 21:49:42 UTC

I took a personality assessment for my new job but I never give honest answers so eh 🤷‍♀️
Personality type: paranoid
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2025-11-27 05:49:12 UTC

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I hope it will be! There's a miso caramel that I'll make to go with it in the morning. It was really fun assembling it

2025-11-27 05:33:03 UTC

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Ah it's even nicer out of the pan. I love fussy bs
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2025-11-27 04:31:13 UTC

Gateau invisible
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2025-11-24 17:44:20 UTC

No buttons and unblocked but we are close. Plenty of time for Xmas.
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2025-11-23 16:24:58 UTC

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I miss it being cheaper...I feel like it knew it was silly and kitschy about ten years ago. Now I'm drinking top shelf out of a monkey head? An occasional treat now. 😬

2025-11-23 07:01:57 UTC

The yarn store in Tacoma was a bust but there was Tiki nonsense
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2025-11-22 22:52:36 UTC

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I'm making some brioche right now
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2025-11-22 17:46:07 UTC

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Oof sometimes I need to start project IMMEDIATELY. I get weird sometimes on a Monday because most yarn shops are closed here M-Tu.

2025-11-22 17:44:39 UTC

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That's one thing about this area, I feel like I'm not in a yarn desert. So many different kinds of stores!

2025-11-22 17:38:14 UTC

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Oh dear!! Tempting!! I get it. Free shipping gets me.

2025-11-22 17:31:35 UTC

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I don't know why, but Internet yarn doesn't call me! I feel lucky. I do have a power in that I can walk into a shop, enjoy looking, and leave with nothing. What I do need to do is make a call on yarn storage! Looking for a cheap but ok to look at dresser. I might go IKEA.

2025-11-22 17:22:39 UTC

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Headed to a little city here today to check out the yarn scene 🕵️‍♀️

2025-11-22 17:21:43 UTC

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPseUeWDtLJ/
@Fullycaffeinated

2025-11-21 00:21:06 UTC

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I will miss my boss! He's health and safety and got facilities dumped on him so he just kind of trusted us to do our own thing. Which we did! I'll miss my lady coworker who is highly competent and was running things at fancy HQ. We were "good cop/blunt cop" in dealing with contractors. :)
I'm extremely unsurprised you were running circles around people!

2025-11-20 22:59:01 UTC

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YUP I've been telling him since he started to read his damn emails 😬

2025-11-20 21:50:50 UTC

I'm trying to hand off things to my coworker since I'm out of here starting next Wednesday, and now I'm realizing how much I've been carrying (fine, I'm making a lot more than he is and negotiated for a bunch of bennies as well). He's absolutely allergic to email and I'm realizing he has no idea what's going on here day to day. He ran down to let a roofing vendor in without knowing where the leak was. Dude it was all over our documentation and ticketing queue.
I'm telling him he's the new me and is going to have to start paying attention to things... His plan is to find another job. Whatever!
This reminds me of being married except I get to leave without calling a lawyer. 🤣

2025-11-19 18:04:35 UTC

Why does a furniture store need to announce they're alphabet friendly on their site?

2025-11-18 18:10:07 UTC

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There's a couple of LA style coffee shops in Seattle. They really stand out!

2025-11-18 00:28:13 UTC

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I wondered about sbux when they were offering coverage for trans surgeries. "Queerness" used to be so transgressive. Then this major corporation was recruiting women who wanted their teets yeeted. So weird!

2025-11-17 22:50:26 UTC

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I hear you on the mocking women's interests thing. I hate at least 4000 things about the PNW but that is not one of them... I've been amused for years about how men of all stripes here will own up to liking "feminine" things and defend it. I admit I didn't think about Starbucks as being female coded in any way...just lamer coded. Snerk
It's bananas how the creepiest murder shack looking espresso huts in Western Washington can turn out really good coffee. Not sure about the bikini barista ones of course

2025-11-17 20:21:22 UTC

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People COLLECT Starbucks crap? I thought Starbucks was just something we endure as a species

2025-11-17 18:47:43 UTC

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People should be embarrassed of how specious their arguments are. Rhetoric is dead and the internet killed it.

2025-11-17 18:23:03 UTC

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/06/supreme-court-ruling-passports-transgender-trump
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2025-11-17 16:16:32 UTC

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Wow that does it all!!

2025-11-17 14:37:48 UTC

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Made me think of Jerusalem artichokes we have here, but I see they are different types of plants!

2025-11-17 00:41:26 UTC

I haven't seen a football game since high school when I found out they kick you out for throwing mustard packets at the cheerlaeders (booooo).
I saw one recently and am very excited to learn that there's now mages casting from the sidelines
Also there is a player called Jalen Hurts which just seems like preemptive whinging
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2025-11-15 00:06:57 UTC

Me: Maybe I can get into a relationship with a normal person for once
*does it*
later
Also me: Ono I'm the problem
I still don't have a personality disorder though, BRAD

2025-11-15 00:04:55 UTC

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HOW DID YOU GET THAT PICTURE OF ME

2025-11-15 00:02:19 UTC

My eyes are just as crooked as your most famous actresses I'm claiming it
#note176d…8v59

2025-11-15 00:01:03 UTC

I love extremely heartfelt music in a language I don't understand

2025-11-14 12:09:55 UTC

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Oh man I am such a pet smoocher.

2025-11-14 01:26:52 UTC

Football is a massive boner killer after baseball. These babies only play like 18 games?

2025-11-13 19:22:44 UTC

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They're going to see if they can pay me for the holiday. My boss is sad, which was sweet.

2025-11-13 15:45:07 UTC

Argh my offer letter for my new job was apparently hung up waiting for someone to DocuSign. If I can tender my notice at my current gig today I can be out of here by Thanksgiving!!

2025-11-12 16:41:15 UTC

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Reminds me of around 1997 when "grunge" became so mainstream you'd see flannel and thermals on unexpected people. It was funny hearing old people complain about how "casual" things were. They had no idea 24/7 Sponge Bob jimjams were coming

2025-11-12 16:32:43 UTC

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Gem eyes!! That is so cool.

2025-11-12 16:25:39 UTC

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Oh sweet!! I have one with a similar tie that has a classic horse head/horseshoe design

2025-11-12 16:22:19 UTC

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I think this is cute! There's a LOT of snake stuff since it is the year of. I'm stocking up. https://littlerooms.com/products/snake-bolo-tie

2025-11-12 16:20:00 UTC

Hummmmm I think I need a snake bolo tie

2025-11-12 02:00:39 UTC

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Fingering drives me crazy but I cannot see any other way to so brioche effectively. I'm trying to teach myself how to work up a pattern with eyeballs, I think that would kick ass

2025-11-12 01:53:18 UTC

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Let me know if I did bad linking because I pulled this out of my library 😆

2025-11-12 01:52:00 UTC

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Ok I'm going to lay this on you... My new favorite thing. I got some yarn at Bazaar Girls on the peninsula and she put the wound yarn in terrible bootie things. GAME CHANGER.
The green is called "Now or Never" and I know the purple is Madtosh "Flashdance" but I cannot remember what the orange yarn is.
Someone I know who has a lot of sway over my life saw a sweater I'd made (https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/alma-sweater did this in black/bright blue brioche) so now I've been conscripted to make this for Xmas since I know she won't want us to be twins. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/evelin-cardigan
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2025-11-12 01:41:49 UTC

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Thanks! I'm excited to block it and have the stitches really pop

2025-11-12 00:53:40 UTC

Brioche cardigan coming along
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2025-11-07 02:35:11 UTC

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It is hard to find licorice that doesn't have a wheat base! I miss Kookooburra

2025-11-06 21:42:00 UTC

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I think it's great that UK candy is better than here. Seriously the dyes here are terrible.

2025-11-06 21:27:38 UTC

I got some "healthy" allergy friendly candy without corn and with natural colors and it is...not great. I don't think I'm going to sugar crash and my tongue is not blue, booo
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2025-10-31 19:57:55 UTC

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Fluevogs?

2025-10-31 18:23:24 UTC

Waiting for this drywaller to leave so I can cut my toenails in my office. (Absolutely no one else is in the building.) This is my version of prefuncing since I will be wearing silly boots tonight

2025-10-31 15:56:05 UTC

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Correct

2025-10-31 15:32:24 UTC

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Good call! I know people who stayed off for that very reason

2025-10-31 15:03:14 UTC

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Did you ever get into Sims 3? One of my traits is "excitable." Yes it annoys people!!! It kicked into high gear when i got healthy

2025-10-31 14:07:38 UTC

Got this on hold at the library!! Excited https://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Sailors-Fishermens-Sweaters-Historical/dp/1419778714

2025-10-30 19:14:48 UTC

WTAF Whole Foods. Also why do they sell women's clothing
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