Karen's place

Watcher. Introvert. Loner. ISFJ/INFJ🤷🏽‍♀️Melancholic. Mostly rubbish blog. As you were.

[merinnan]

[maryschild]

In 1984 I left my little village in central NY. When I say I left, I fucking left. I did cry all the way to Florida for boot camp but that’s neither here nor there.

All of my siblings have kept friendships from their childhood.

Not me.

My sister (62) text me that she’s heard from one of the boys she used to babysit whose mom is a woman I worked with and was friends with. He is going to be in Texas and wanted to get a visit in and his mom would like to give me a call as well.

A visual journey through my brain

My sister is full speed until she hits all stop. All the time. Could easily talk the hind legs off a donkey. She stays in touch with everyone. But, she can’t quite wrap her head around depression so I sent

[pmamtraveller]

by Enoki Toshiyuki

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

today I found out my mother doesn’t know what dandelions are and now I’m wondering what other strange secrets she’s been quietly harboring

[krystal-prisms]

Where do you live that you don’t have dandelions?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we have dandelions EVERYWHERE, they are basically our State Weed, it is absolutely impossible that my mom has never interacted with a dandelion before, this requires further investigation

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

So after extensive interrogation I have an update:

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she’s aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

she answered, with complete confidence: Daffodils.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gosh I enjoy this website

[authoratmidnight]

For comparison, this is a daffodil

[quietlygrousing]

See, folks in the southern US will tell you up and down those are buttercups, actually.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i don’t think so? i’m southern and buttercups are what we call these things (much tinier)

[maejacrezz007]

Wait I thought those bigger cup ones were Easter Lillies???

[fractiousrvt]

This is an Easter Lily. It is an actual lily and therefore deadly to cats.

[blood-trip-god2]

They’re marigolds and I know a bitch when I see one!

[delphinidin4]

This is a marigold:

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

….we need to start taking the phrase “go touch grass” more literally. go outside and examine a flower i beg u

[maryschild]

[themysteriousmurasamecastle]

[aiweirdness]

finally i have learned how to type laser sounds//

[ebookporn]

[iambad]

ok i’m done being crazy lol

[iambad]

no i’m not

[autistobrat]

this too shall pass but the fuck was that for

[evidently-endless]

being offered ai at every turn

[maryschild]

[maryschild]

Musings

Man there is just no way to make the backside of an adult look good while being carried piggyback style. Everybody’s caboose looks, well, like a caboose.

[isitsafe]

And Trump just had another “annual physical” at Walter Reed. Bitch, stop tip toeing around the gates of Hell and just go on in.

[coldboreshooter]

[johnnyrico]

[perestroika-hilton]

Hot girl summer

[maryschild]

I hate that since the catching print video crossed my feed, it’s all I do.

[sashayed]

has anyone figured out how to turn off the thing where you love your pet so much it slides inexorably into grief-borrowing

[boomstab-papa]

[your-cosmic-creature]

“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably, sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to it. But when I put this glass on the shelf and the wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off the table and it falls to the ground and shatters, I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.”