[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

Hannah Waddingham is one of the most beautiful women alive.

But my god, I’d love to see her in clothing that doesn’t include whatever tight-ass shit she’s always in to emphasize her silhouette. Idk if it’s a corset or spanx or whatever they’re doing these days. Like she clearly has a kickass body and doesn’t need to be cinched in to be sexy.

I hope she spends all her free time in sweats, because between her costumes on Ride or Die and Ted Lasso, she looks like she never gets to take a deep breath.

Idk, maybe that’s just how she looks normally and there aren’t any waist cinching/smoothing undergarments in use. But that would be surprising.

[charitydingle]

Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 2012, dir. Bill Condon

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

The implications of him saying that from the beginning it was the baby who wanted him…the EGG in the OVARY that would become the baby…was yearning for Jacob, when Bella had a slight attraction to him from when they first met.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

When you have to say to someone, “as I said in my previous email,” not to be a dick, but because you DID give them that information in the email they are replying to, and it’s ridiculous that they are asking a question that didn’t need to be asked if they’d only read the email fully.

Idk, maybe it is a dick move to say that at all instead of just reiterating the info, without pointing out the info was already provided.

But it was in my last fucking email and now I have to repeat myself!

Fucking read the email when you are unfamiliar with the thing you are doing!

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

I find it really frustrating when a show with a unique premise eventually morphs into just another “power struggle between opposing factions” mess.

And it happens to everything, it seems!

I feel like The Walking Dead is the epitome of it. Not that a zombie apocalypse is terribly unique, but after the first couple of seasons it was just one survivor group versus another and it got boring to me.

The show Silo hasn’t quite fully morphed into just a boring power struggle story, but it feels like that’s on the horizon. The saving grace for me is the storyline set in the past that is still bringing some intrigue about the overall situation.

But having a new person in the role of Bad Guy of the Silo doing the same shit as the previous Bad Guy of the Silo is very boring to me right now!

I’ve not read the book (books?), so maybe the current storyline of the heroine is part of the OG story, but it kind of feels like a TV tactic to draw out the storytelling. And it’s not satisfying! I don’t want a full season of this!

[sevserez]

Soup incident

[cowboyhatesithere]

Daily gratitude

I don’t have kids

I don’t spend money on nicotine

I don’t gamble my money away on sports

I’m not reliant on a chat bot for all my life functions

My books/CDs/DVDs collection is plentiful

[helenvaughans]

[kaijufluffs]

She's being so big and brave.

[kaijufluffs]

The long awaited sequel.

[goth-queen]

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

I called the IRS again today about the discrepancy between the $150 we were charged in June and the $128 that showed in the online portal, and actually got through to be placed on hold!

The wait for quoted as 30-60 minutes so I was just prepared to sit and wait.

But then! One of the prerecorded messages that plays during hold proved helpful!

It talked about the fee for setting up a payment plan on the phone ($175!!!!!) versus doing it online for a fee of only $22.

And our payment discrepancy was $22. So I realized that the $128 was what was credited towards the actual tax bill out of the $150 we were charged on the first payment towards the plan.

But it is not documented anywhere that $22 of our payment went to the fee!

But for such a small amount I am prepared to accept that as the reason because it seems unlikely to be anything else, even without official confirmation.

$22 is not worth 60 minutes of sitting on hold when it seems pretty obvious that it was the fee payment. And the July payment was properly charged and documented as the full amount.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

On Sunday we drove up one of the canyons to go to the disc golf course that is open at one of the ski resorts during the summer.

This canyon is very popular with runners and cyclists, so there are always people running down the canyon on the side of the road of cars going up.

Well, we saw a woman who was running with a plastic bottle in her hand just fucking DROP THE EMPTY BOTTLE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.

In the fucking beautiful canyon that is a watershed area.

I was so enraged by it. We happened to be passing by her right after she did it, and the windows in the truck were down so I shouted at her, “I fucking saw that!” And it’s a small two-lane road, so I was basically right next to her when I shouted.

What a fucking asshole! Too bad there wasn’t a cop around, because it’s a $1500 fine for littering in the canyon.

But like for fuck’s sake, presumably she chooses to run in the canyon because it’s a beautiful part of nature, and that’s how she treats it?!!!

People fucking suck.

I want to live in the woods alone.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

I forgot to post this yesterday, the first harvest from our garden!

Behold the great bounty!!

There are tons of tomatoes growing, but these were the first ones ready for picking.

We are also going to have SO MANY butternut squashes. It’s the only variety that survived from the seedlings.

Although Dude concedes now that some of the other squash seedlings he gave up on during the indoor growing time probably would have made it, but he got frustrated at them lagging and yellowing and thought he’d killed them, and so stopped watering them.

Our pepper plants have had some flowers but we aren’t seeing any actual peppers yet.

[aj521z]

The accuracy and precision is unparalleled 

[thegoldengals]

Opposite vibe

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

I just started watching The Last Ship, a series on Netflix about a global pandemic and a navy destroyer ship that is on a mission to find a cure while the rest of the world order/governments have collapsed.

There is a dog on the ship and I had to look up if the dog dies before I keep watching. The internet says that the dog survives the whole series.

Also, the show stars Eric Dane who passed away from ALS last year 😞

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

Holy shit I just had to call the IRS because we have a payment plan for taxes owed, but I noticed in the online IRS records it shows that our June payment was $128 but our bank account was charged the $150 that is our actual payment amount.

I went through the whole automated thing to establish why I was calling and verifying identity and then it told me that the call volume was too high to take my call and to try again later and then disconnected me!!!

Not even a fucking call back option like most places offer!

It said to try on another day!

What the actual fuck?? It’s August! How is there such a high call volume today that I can’t even be placed on hold or a call back list???

This is some serious bullshit.

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[unamccormack]

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.

[regionalpancake]

!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨

Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!

(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)

[regionalpancake]

I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.