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On one hand, I can't believe it took so long to get T to the point that he is driving on his own. He got his permit at 15 and only yesterday, at the big age of 20, did he drive without a parent in the car.

On the other hand, today my giant baby guy dropped me off at work because he needed the car and it all feels like it's appening so fast 🥹

I am going to be anxious all day today. For the first time ever, T is driving himself somewhere. His car is hard, has a touchy clutch, and he's been nervous to drive alone after work being tired. Instead, he drives, but someone effectively drops him off, switching in the parking lot.

He wanted to drive his car to take friends to airsoft. Suddenly the clutch is bad again so I let him take my truck. He's a pretty attentive driver and the friends (one friend and little brother) are responsible guys so it should be fine, but still... 😬 the place is 40 minutes away on backroads. It's nothing compared to him driving half of the time from AZ to WA, but still!!

One of my young coworkers is a little.... scruffy, in his own words. Nice guy, but when the shop is empty, his filler word of choice is the F word. He is a little bit trashy (affectionate) and small town life suits him just fine. Band shirts, combat boots. You get the picture?

So it's very funny on the rare occasions where he answers the phone and he puts on a customer service voice. I asked him one day "how do you imagine your customer service voice dresses?" He was aghast to realize he had a very real image in his head of a clean cut guy in khakis and a polo shirt. Decidedly NOT him, and yet.... still a part of him.

After dealing with dogs all day, every day- some that are extremely cool and supremely cute... after all that, I get home to my dog and I think about how difficult he his, how much trouble it is to have him hate people so much, but how he's so sweet and smart and fun and how much I really, really like him.

Pretty wild how we went from a society absolutely crazy about Sherlock Holmes (prides himself on knowing everything, noticing details, making connections with data)

To

people who can't be bothered to read search engine results and depend on a robot giving a one sentence summary of every life decision they have to make.

I had a dream that there was a "bio active fiter" on a community pool that kept it so clear that you could see red all the way down.... it was like 40 feet deep. At the bottom, it was row upon row of bivalves. Clams, oysters and mussels affixed to pipes, happily filtering away.

When I explained it to my daughter later, she acted out this meme of me explaining about red light waves and her just enduring it.

I had a dream that there was a "bio active fiter" on a community pool that kept it so clear that you could see red all the way down.... it was like 40 feet deep. At the bottom, it was row upon row of bivalves. Clams, oysters and mussels affixed to pipes, happily filtering away.

When I explained it to my daughter later, she acted out this meme of me explaining about red light waves and her just enduring it.

I honestly thought I might need stitches in my hand.

A laundry basket with a cracked handle pinched me juuuuuust right in the web at my thumb and the more I moved, the more it dug in.

Husb got home a minute later, right as I was getting to a panic stage and I couldn't explain it to him and, in his eagerness to help, just pinched it tighter. I don't scream in agony often so it was a little surprising to learn I get that high pitched.

Finally released, I started crying, looked at my hand and... nothing. Just a white line where it was caught.

I felt sooooooooo dramatic 😒

There's been a lot of "Actualy, can you get Sarah to help calm this dog down?" from the groomers. I'm magic... but it's also very distracting because I'd much rather just stand and pet a dog than anything else.

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as funny as “those are his hooves you bitch” I’m mad that it overshadows that lil wayne really did have socks on in a jacuzzi

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can y'all stop just throwing random words together and expecting us to understand it

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you had to be there

I've been craving another Italian sub since my aunt got me Jersey Mike's a couple weeks ago. The problem is that gluten free bread is terrible + expensive. All GF bread crumbles apart. The regular loaves are tiny. The hoagie rolls restaurants but are kind of hard to find. I found "big" regular sliced bread (as big as normal bread) and it was $8 for 6 slices. I couldn't. Hamburger buns are about the same.

So I made cloud bread. It's all egg + cream cheese or melted butter but the whites get whisked first so the end result is very fluffy but looks like a pancake. Usually, I make them about palm-sized and they make okay bread or hamburger buns. The upside is that they hold together really well. I decided to do some giant ones. One, folded in half, was exactly the size of a slice of deli meat and it doesn't crack!

So today, I was in heaven with what looked like an Italian pita/weird taco complete with pepperoni, turkey, Pepperonccini, and arugula. The mayo didnt even make it soggy sitting in the fridge all day.

Citing sources is always a useful skill. I just had to pull up THREE different sites to convince my children that there was only one demon blade in Supernatural.

You'd think they would know by now that I don't dig in if I dont KNOW I'm right, which should be a citation all on its own.

Work has been pretty chill. Remarkably slow the last few days and all training so I haven't had a chance to get as saturated as I know I will be. Fortunate because none of my shoes would hold up. I have a couple pairs that are pretty comfy for long wearing, but only one is ok for water resistance but turns out to be kind of slippy on the wet floors.

I got a screaming deal on a pair of Clove shoes on poshmark- they're marketed to nurses for being super comfortable, "resistant to fluids," and non slip. They arrived today and they are absolutely pristine, a perfectly fun color.... and fit just a little too small 😭

For whatever reason, for a long time B insisted that her feet were bigger than mine. This was age 13/14 and it was silly because I could tell they obviously were not, but she wasn't done growing so I let her decide what was comfortable and she suffered through too-big shoes for a while. Around age 15 she started to notice that she really likes borrowing mom's shoes so admitted that she wears about the same size. She's full grown and probably 1/4 a size smaller than me now.

She has some running-type shoes that she got in that weird era and she wore them at camp with thick socks, apparently they are finally falling apart. She's really weird about asking for what she needs and I often have to decide if it's worth it to force her into letting me improve her comfort or letting her suffer enough to make a point of how she needs to communicate her needs. Admitting they are falling apart was recent.

So here I am, wearing these potentially too-small shoes around the house to see if breaking in will be the solution and my daughter is all...

#I'd gladly get another pair but that's a next paycheck activity #everything we own is thrifted

Blackberries are racing past their prime everywhere else, but this is the first ripe one I've had around my house!

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i just got the "see where your blood has gone!" email from giving blood but it glitched and just showed me my current location. which. theyre not wrong. that is where most of my blood is

(According to the rules we were going by) I won! It's only the 2nd time we've played and I was absolutely under the radar. The kids had embargoed Husb but everyone was trading with me right until the play where I won (connecting my roads) because I hadn't been aggressive towards anyone.

I must be winning at life because the owner of my favorite book store was excited to see me to the point of neglecting other customers and then gave me a discount for no reason.

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