precariously perched

I'm bringing spinster back

[stuft]

I didn't get much of anything accomplished today, I couldn't even concentrate on reading, but I did bring a load of books over to the half-price book shop and got a whopping $18 in credit. should I have taken the $9? probably but we all know I'm not going to not want some more books. I didn't feel like looking around more than the time it took to wait for them to finish up with the previous customer and sort my books. I'd say they took about half, and some of them were from my sister's yard sard. He said I could bring one stack back next month to see if they need them but no, they are going to the LFL.

Then I went to the little market in the shopping center to buy a few things and then stopped at the farmers market and now I am home. I have a little bit of a headache and I don't know how much (little) I'll be able to accomplish but I have 3 hours before the Phillies game so I should make some little effort toward cleanliness/godliness. I've made a little progress, not like anyone would know but me.

Tomorrow I don't have a dog walk to do either, so maybe tonight I should put together some stuff to drop off at the thrift shop in the morning. That would further clear out my living room a little because I think there are 2 boxes here from the fall I never dropped off but I have to look. Plus shit from the yard sard.

anyway, blah blah blah

[stuft]

Random thought for food (not the other way around)

I don't use a lot of tomato sauce because I don't eat a lot of pasta, and when I do eat my gluten-free pasta I just do whatever. oil, garlic and spices and some cheese if I have it.

But when I did used to eat pasta regularly I had a hard time finding a pasta sauce in a jar that I liked, so one time I bought one of those cans of tomato sauce, it may have been for a recipe for something else but TL DR that shit was tastier and like a third of the cost of even fuckin Ragu. Because it's got herbs and spices added already! (geez my sticky e is not showing up on the worst word and making me type a slur, twice!)

Just a tip for the frugal and less accomplished/ambitious/picky cooks, if you don't already know. I had forgotten this until I wanted some tomato sauce recently.

[stuft]

Some good gut guessing here!! (also some second guessing at the beginning which hurt me a little, I could have easily gotten a few points higher) whew!

www.maptap.gg June 3 95🏅 99🎯 96🔥 96🔥 96🔥 Final score: 962

[stuft]

TWICE TODAY

Twice!

Today!

I have heard 2 different people, first Neko Case, and just now a bookstagrammer, pronounce the word "vehement" vuh-HEMM-ent, and it made me think that my 57 plus years on this earth have been an utter lie.

VEE-eh-ment.

Like the way many of us in the North half of the US say "vehicle"

[stuft]

I had a nice time with my friend yesterday in Delaware. I hadn't seen her since last fall! We were supposed to get together in April or early May but she got sick and had to cancel, and then we were both busy and couldn't arrange anything till yesterday. We had a succulent Mexican meal (haha) and sat there leisurely and shot the shit for a while and then headed over to Lums Pond State Park and had a little walk and a sit and shot the shit some more. There were very few people there on a Monday afternoon on the first of June and the weather was about perfect. We didn't part until about 4, and since I was parked right next to a gas station where gas was a little over $4, I topped off my tank (which I'd filled late last week anyway). Traffic was pretty light until I exited 476 to get onto Route 3 at around 5:20 and then Sat there in the clusterfuck for 20 minutes. Oh and on the way down there? My GPS wasn't up to date with all the construction and new exits and I probably paid the toll 2 to 4 times. Oh what's another 10 to 20 bucks in this economy?! I swear I really need to map shit out ahead, stick my road atlas in my car again, and start relying less on GPS. My car is a 2018 and I probably need the GPS updated, and yeah I know I could hook up my phone for Goo Goo maps or some other one but I don't like how reliant I've gotten on GPS.

Anyway, it restored my soul a little bit. I really need to get out of the house more and do stuff and talk to people. And maybe today I will try to stay offline for most of the day. MAYbe.

[stuft]

arrrgghhhh I was doing so well until that last one, but when I second guessed myself I actually improved my location a little, anyway.

www.maptap.gg June 2 100🎯 95🏅 99🎯 95🏅 83✨ Final score: 927

[shutyourmoustache]

When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*

[party-gilmore]

HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

The time for Los Jibbities has arrived!

[stuft]

really need to keep studying the big countries.....

www.maptap.gg June 1 99🎯 95🏆 99🎯 95👑 60😐 Final score: 857

[stuft]

once again I dozed off in bed reading, turned off the light and slept for a little while and woke up and couldn't go back to sleep and of course picked up my phone instead of doing something smart, like attempting to sleep, or even reading (which I did a little later). For some reason I am itchy,, especially on my neck, but sometimes when I get itchy in one spot I get paranoid and I get itchy in other spots. Doesn't help that I'd meant to shower yesterday evening and forgot until about 11pm. I should have just jumped in the shower then anyway. I showered this morning so I feel much better but my neck is still itchy and has some bumps on it. idk if I got bug bites or what but it feels more rashy RASHY!! not trashy than bug bitey.

So of course I am driving an hour to meet my friend for lunch and a walk after last month's get together was cancelled (or maybe it was April) bc she was sick. And I have hardly slept! Fantastic! I will try to take a nap but idk how that will work out. I got maybe a couple hours of sleep? ugh.

It was a gorgeous weekend, if a bit windy on Saturday, and I got some yard work done, took a couple short walks around the hood (I didn't pick up any books from the LFLs!! But I looked! There was a nice copy of The Glass Castle I was tempted by but I'll leave it for someone else, my old copy is fine since I already read it), read a lot, got a small amount of housework done, too small, as always, and I put out a bunch of free stuff on my front lawn and about half of it is gone. Not bad! I didn't make much of an effort to gather stuff, just put out a few leftovers from the yard sard a couple weeks ago.

I just can't get anything done. I feel paralyzed, apathetic, and mentally exhausted about it. I can see that I'm kind of shutting down and it's super not good but I also don't know what to do about it other than start planning some afternoon outings alone bc I don't have many friend options.

I'm also starting to really get annoyed with my job because the few things I do agree to keep getting cancelled, shortened, and now, shifted to another sitter (which tbh that one is a relief but it's annoying it was in my schedule for over 4th of July time bc I agreed to it, not knowing there was a possibility the sitter who had done it last year still wanted to do it?!) I just need something that is not constantly shifting like the sands of time. Or something.

I gotta figure something out. I should probably get off my ass and start listing stuff on eBay again.

anyway! Rantypants, out!

[bannertanks]

[ghosthierophant]

[stuft]

The Phillies Cristopher Sanchez just broke the club record for scoreless innings pitched, held for 115 years by Grover Cleveland Alexander. In 1917 he and a teammate were traded to the Cubs for catcher Pickles Dillhoefer, among others.

[stuft]

June TBR pick-mes, or something:

For Pride month, I may read a book called Pride, which I do not think has anything to do with Pride month.

But a few of the others are queer authors/stories! I will definitely read as many of those as I can and Alice B. Toklas was one of the books I'd pulled in April to read by the end of the year because I've had it for decades! I know I started it at least once but wasn't in the mood for it at the time.

Anyway I look forward to a fresh reading month.

And as always, I may read a bunch of different books than this pile. Seems like every month I pull books and then read like 2 of 8 of the pile. Who cares! I read what I want when I want. Last month's pull pile:

I did start reading Falling Angels and wasn't feeling it. Idk if it's a permanent DNF or if I'll try again another time.

Here's the "before the end of the year" TBR pile:

One down, 8 to go. Trying to read 1 a month but I'm already 1 behind.

Good night mofos!

[stuft]

I feel so free! Today I finished reading 2 books (Madame Bovary and the bottom one, Der Goldene Handschuh), and I finished 2 books this month that I'd been reading for a long time! The first was My Name Is Red, which took me about 6 weeks, and the other was the graphic novel Der Goldene Handschuh, which is just part one so like...it's not much of an actual story. Had I realized (or just thought for a second) I probably would not have bought it, but whatever. It was a good experience to make myself translate it (meaning, I used an online translation app to translate words, phrases and whole sentences so I could more fully understand it). Anyway, I'd started that sometime in March.

5 of them were short/quick reads, 1 was a 17 hour audiobook, and the other was Madame Bovary.

I have about 75 minutes or so left on the Neko Case audiobook, which I'll probably finish tomorrow or Tuesday, but otherwise, my slate is clear!

[certified-cervid]

Collecting kitty orbs increases your meow score

[stuft]

terrifying Spitting Image puppets

but if you should watch this, insert the Britney part in the appropriate place.

sorry but this won't leave my head until I infect others

[stuft]

Trump to headline 'Great American State Fair' for nation's 250th anniversary after artists drop out

An upcoming celebration of America's 250th anniversary, called "The Great American State Fair," has faced challenges as several musical gues

“I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance,” Trump posted to his social media platform Truth Social Saturday, adding that he was thinking of bringing “the man who some say is the Greatest President in History (THE GOAT!), DONALD J. TRUMP, to take the place of these highly paid, Third Rate ‘Artists.’”

The group organizing the June fair on Washington’s National Mall, Freedom 250, confirmed the billing in a statement, writing, “we are excited to announce that President Trump will personally kick off this historic celebration on Wednesday, June 24.”

[stuft]

Dammit! I keep saying, first instinct, and then I second guess it. Stop thinking Ruth, it clearly hasn't worked much in your favor lo these many years. Total whiff on that last one and lesser whiffs on a couple others.

www.maptap.gg May 31 96🔥 93🎉 90🌟 90🌟 75🌞 Final score: 864

[stuft]

I'm starting to think that a lot of stuff on the internet is actually fake.