c/o Something Somewhere Better

44, she/her/hers, pan, polyam, ASD/ADHD Australian, mother of three, Hufflepuff. Here to reblog dumb shit and hug internet strangers

[blackdogsilver]

50 Things I probably won't get done before 50 (halfway there edition)

Life changes, and as it does, goals do too, especially when you're an old shit like me. Trimming this list of a little more rubbish and adding some things that are more important to me in this new stage in life. Also, I have a wonderful, supportive and indulgent husband now, so adding in those things I thought I could never do... just in case. Also, technically everything after #24 on my Done list has been after I turned 40, so I really only have to do 40 of these? 🤪

THINGS I'VE DONE

1. hide 43 treasures 

2. milk a cow

3. Tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue

4. Get a tattoo

5. finish crocheting my tetris blanket

6. Send in a postsecret

7. try sushi

8. Have glamour photos taken of me

9. crochet a hat

10. Go to a strip club

11. dye my hair purple

12. go on a pub crawl

13. have brunch with friends

14. Give blood (well, I tried, but they wouldn't take it!)

15. take part in gishwes

16. try a foreign cuisine I’ve never had before

17. take a chocolate factory tour

18. fly first class

19. do the Colour Run

20. do a nude photoshoot

21. find a signature scent/perfume

22. get a helix piercing

23. go to a RHPS Audience Participation screening

24. go to Midsumma/Pride March/Mardi Gras parade

25. grab a handful of cake and just eat it

26. invent a silly holiday and get other people to join in

27. get a septum piercing

28. visit Japan

29. eat snails

30. take a moonlit walk on a beach

31. get a professional massage

32. see the Southern Lights

33. go on a road trip

34. see the Eiffel Tower

THINGS I'VE YET TO DO

1. Send a message in a bottle

2. Record/produce a song

3. visit a planetarium (and see a laser light show)

4. Swim with dolphins (attempted, but failed and still want to try)

5. Throw a dart into a map and travel to where it lands

6. see a total solar eclipse in person

7. bake a Croquembouche (or something crazy complicated)

8. Take a pole dancing class

9. spend a day taking photos of Melbourne

10. visit all the Australian states and territories - 5/7

11. eat at a teppanyaki style restaurant

12. visit the Great Barrier Reef

13. finish a ‘Wreck This Journal’

14. get a matching tattoo with someone

15. complete the c25k program

16. take part in a drum circle

17. write an Android app

18. Design my own Tarot deck

19. go strawberry picking

20. take a silversmithing course

21. eat fondue

22. learn to contact juggle

23. ride in a limo

24. join the mile high club

25. see the Northern Lights

26. wear a bikini to the beach (without a cover up)

27. Be able to do a pull up unassisted

28. host a fancy dinner party in a strange place (ie, traffic island)

29. eat alone in a (fancy) restaurant

30. build a Rube Goldberg machine

31. watch a meteor shower

32. recreate a childhood photo

33. paint with oil paints

34. take a salsa dance class

35. learn ASL

36. learn to drive left hand drive

37. go to a Ren Faire

38. write and film a short movie

39. fire a gun (at a shooting range)

40. see bioluminescence

41. learn how to pick locks

42. do a advent calendar

43. go to the City Museum in St Louis

44. visit New York

45. tour the Dresden Files sites in Chicago

46. visit Petra, Jordan

47. eat at the Pizza Hut in Egypt across from the Pyramids

48. visit the Eternal Lightning Fields, Venezuela

49. visit Wat Samphran (Dragon Temple), Thailand

50. visit Chichen Itza, Mexico

[everythingfox]

Discussing baby’s future

[melodiusfaux]

They are both doing the "I want" chitter. They very much want to get up, but they have a sleeping baby cuddling with them. They must endure, but they will not be silent about it

[pb-dot]

Well well well, kitties. Looks like you want to get up but there's a little cat on you so you can't. Very frustrating situation there, can't imagine the burden of being held down by a little adorable kittycat. Couldn't, as the kids say, be me.

[chasing-caws]

I believe this whole heartedly with my full chest

[chasing-caws]

Thanks for the info prev!! Still a little funny to think about tbh lol

[july-19th-club]

[kuvaton]

[saint-batrick]

environmental storytelling.

[phallicthimble]

[alicedemettrie]

whatever (renders to 240p because i don’t feel like being 1080p today)

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[dreamingdormouse]

Me trying to accomplish my to-do list this week

[kaity--did]

Leaving for the beach today, Penny Rose fell asleep about 5 minutes into our trip. We got caught in about an hour of bumper to bumper traffic and she woke up right after we cleared it absolutely LIVID that we were not at the beach yet. Sorry I can't bend space time girlie I do be trying

[kaity--did]

She was refusing to speak to us unless it was about the beach

"What do you want for dinner"

"I wanna go to the beach"

"How are you feeling??"

"I wanna go to the beach"

"Did you have a good nap?"

"Beach"

[kaity--did]

Did we go to a fucking Cracker Barrel for dinner because all penny is willing to say other then "beach" is "pancakes"

Yes yes we did

[kaity--did]

Had to stop for the night because we're so so tired, stayed about 2 hours from where we're going-

Jump cut to it being 5:30AM and two tiny eyes at the side of the bed are whispering

"I wanna go to da beach"

[kaity--did]

We made it to the beach and within 15 minutes she

-sprinted into the ocean

-came in a centimeter of catching a seagull

-joined a fully adult soccer game

-convinced a group of children to attack her father with squirt guns

We're here for a weeks folks

[kaity--did]

After a solid three hours of just chaos (and my husband and I tag teaming in and out to idk just survive) she stopped, whispered "I need to eat" and then started sprinting towards the hotel rooftop restaurant, I assume, being led by smell and instinct alone

[kaity--did]

We did manage to get her back to the hotel to lay down for an hour but she did in fact yell EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A CAT (just that sentence) for that whole hour

[kaity--did]

Jesus Christ she's joined a bachelorette party

[kaity--did]

I think we successfully tired her out because she didn't come to the side of the beach and demon whisper BEEEEEEAACH until 7:45 this morning

She's currently shotgunning frootloops and waving at anyone who walks into the lobby

I need a coffee IV

Being a mom to the most extrovert extrovert to ever extrovert is so fun and also so tiring lol

[kaity--did]

My husband is taking her for a beach walk while he drinks his ghost energy drink and I'm going to get around and then we're going to take her into the city for the day and hope there's enough there to keep her occupied pray for us

[kaity--did]

Got a voice note of Penny just screaming

I HAFFA GO TO THE OCEAN

hoping my child returns and doesn't give in to the call of Posiedon

[kaity--did]

SHES FOUND A SECOND COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BACHELORETTE PARTY!? HOW!?

[kaity--did]

As my husband just pointed out after seeing this post

"She did find them and they were NOT happy that she had to leave, we were harshing their vibe, Penny was not"

[kaity--did]

Took her on a nighttime beach walk, during low tide when there is a lot of sea foam

Smash cut to penny galloping down the coast screaming DADA THE OCEAN HAS BUBBLES

[kaity--did]

She's eating a corn dog at 8:45 pm because we straight up couldn't catch her / convince her to leave until now

[kaity--did]

10:45 pm and I think I'm safe I think she's asleep and I just heard the tiniest

"Ooooooh yeaaaaaaaaaaah" from her bed as she finally ends her day long rendition of everybody wants to be a cat

Can't wait for day 3

[kaity--did]

I guess she technically slept in cause she's still asleep

She woke me up at 2 am telling me it was time to go to the beach

Kicked her father out of the bed at 5 am

Woke me back up at 6am to ask me if I was done with my sandcastle

And is now still snoring

[kaity--did]

Went to a cafe that had something called "The Large Fruit Platter"

It was carnage

[kaity--did]

Broke out on to the balcony buck ass naked

[kaity--did]

Penny is about to have a full fledged little kid meltdown, she is warm, she is tired, she has skipped her nap and we've had to tell her she unfortunately can't go fishing today (we have no fishing poles- she's never been fishing in her life).

I can see the waterworks coming and sometimes you gotta feel the feelings so I just brace myself

As she takes in that first breath to scream, she stops and instead demon whispers "ITS THE MOON!!"

And now she's just, doing a weird little moon dance around the parking lot.

Kids are so amazing and strange.

[kaity--did]

Tried to fully crash a beach date twice husband finally had to haul her off still yapping to the poor couple who were fully dumbstruck that she has literally no apprehension about anything or anyone

[kaity--did]

Okay imagine my 34 pound tiny terror standing over this thing yelling DAS A GOOD BOY! Cause that's what was happening.

[kaity--did]

Waking up to our last day of vacation to Penny Yelling HEY DADA I FELL INTO DA TOILET was both jarring and hilarious

[kaity--did]

Took her to the Aquarium, she tried to become one with the manta rays. We sprinted the entire thing twice in an hour. She "wants to be a fish"

[kaity--did]

Tried to lick someone's dog back, caused a table of elderly folks to lose their minds

[kaity--did]

This is happening, the lore of this spirit is developing as we speak.

[kaity--did]

Girlfriend just passed right out no warning or nothing she's finally succumbed to the call of the sandman. What a vacation

Just the 5 hour trek home tomorrow people, we survived

[kaity--did]

Penny woke up at 5:45 am by jumping into our bed and chanting ONE MORE BEACH WALK ONE MORE BEACH WALK and who are we to deny her?

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

This has gotten even better.

[kaity--did]

Currently planning this years beach trip

We ARE taking grandparents this time as back up 😂

[weird-goodbyes]

never give up on your dreams. Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are dating. that's not a dream come true for either of them or any of us, but it does prove that things you cannot even fathom of happen every single day. So, why not your hopes and dreams?

[chongoblog]

*gathers all of the people in the world who write the number 7 with a little dash in the center of it so I can study them like little critters and find out what makes them do that*

[audpaints]

There’s actually a lot of history regarding the development writing systems and why there are different visual representations of numerals, but the short answer is: it’s regional, and you probably picked up how to make your numbers look based on your parents or your primary school teachers

[ruusverd]

I do it out of spite because in grade school a kids detective story identified the culprit by saying NO American wrote their sevens with a line and I thought that was super flimsy evidence and it made me so mad I started putting a line through my sevens so the fictional detective would be wrong and then kept doing it for several decades since.

[mikkeneko]

I do feel one can’t underestimate the “elementary school child taught themselves how to do this Out Of Spite” crowd

[netherworldpost]

agreed, there are at least 7 of us

[blackdogsilver]

My 7th grade German teacher did it because it's a German thing and I copied it because it looked cool

[dungeonskeleton]

we could be going down the bigfoot titty slide rn but you won't text back

[vrawliney]

can't stop drawing them

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

"My pronouns are has/been"

mood

Askbox is closed for new requests, I'm recording these old ones on the to-write document

[coldbrewpup]

"and remember guys, don't send rape or death threats! despite me clearly acknowledging your propensity to do so, i'm just compiling this list of blogs for normal harassment reasons, don't spoil the fun, only be cruel and hateful and obsessive in plausibly deniable ways!"

[coldbrewpup]

"hey guys i found a bunch of blogs run by trans women that i've decided i hate. and i'm right about everything so that means you all hate them too! they must be pedophiles! here's a handy list, anonymous hate mob you know what to do! definitely don't send hate though wink wink"

[azaleatheanteater]

[blackdogsilver]

Something something America...

[argumate]

Albanese Condemns AI-Generated Sexualized Images on X Amid Bushfires

what

[adjoint-law]

X's image generation is enabling arsonist data centres to endanger Aussie lives, I'm not seeing the dissonance?

[argumate]

that explains this image, grok putting everyone in Australia in a bikini by heating the continent to unendurable temperatures

[argumate]

Albanese Calls Grok Bikini Images of Him Abhorrent Amid Bushfires

okay that answers one question and raises several more

[adjoint-law]

It's about dignity! A man's bikini images should be between him, his family, and the senior party officials orchestrating a leadership spill, just as God intended.

[argumate]

if this was Tony Abbott we wouldn't need grok to see him in a bikini 😤

[blackdogsilver]

I'd pay grok to remove the images of Tony Abbott's budgie smugglers from my brain.

[jewfrogs]

kids were roleplaying with minecraft figurines and one of them had their figure go up to the other and say “i’m in love with you” and the other one replied “sword slash to the chest. and you’re on fire”

[randomfae]

[myothertardisisonthemun]

[theconcealedweapon]

[sundermunder]

And now for a different kind of robot! 

[inthefallofasparrow]

We have evolved beyond the need for illusionists. Stage magic is only performed by cardboard robots from now on.