LongRedCoat

I listen to audiobooks or podcasts while playing so it doesn’t feel like I “wasted” all that time cleaning pixels.

I work from home and it’s also great for helping me focus during meetings.

Thank you kindly! Off to do some shopping!

Yeah, @Freesiana, I have to know where you got that Mass Effect pillowcase. I want one.

Also, adorable sus kitty!

I just discovered a cookbook called Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden while looking up cookbooks to get me to eat more veggies. It’s in the mail, so I can’t vouch for the recipes yet. Apparently it’s very highly rated though and I’m excited for some tasty veggies.

Yep, my parents are also sadly in the school of “just take a pill for it,” which then turns into taking more pills for the side effects of the pills they’re taking, and on and on.

While I’m in the “make healthy lifestyle changes” camp and have, so far in my early 40s, never been on long term medication and hopefully never will. It’s so frustrating watching my parents deteriorate while still paying for so many meds.

The little fuckers have given me PTSD. The toll they take on your mental health is real.

It’s almost pornographic. I can’t stop staring at it.

Did your cat write that?

Hmmm, the same might be possible in the book too:

Pippin felt curiously attracted by the well. While the others were unrolling blankets and making beds against the walls of the chamber, as far as possible from the hole in the floor, he crept to the edge and peered over. A chill air seems to strike his face, rising from the invisible depths. Moved by a sudden impulse he groped for a loose stone, and let it drop. He felt his heart beat many times before there was any signs. Then far below, as if the stone had fallen into deep water in some cavernous place, the came a plunk, very distant, but magnified and repeated in the hollow shaft.

‘What’s that?’ cried Gandalf. He was relieved when Pippin confessed what he had done; but he was angry, and Pippin could see his eye glinting. ‘Fool of a Took!’ he growled. ‘This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance. Now be quiet!’

Nothing more was heard for several minutes; but then there came out of the depths faint knocks: tap-tom, tap-tom. …

It’s our first (that I’m aware of) fediverse meta! Awww, look at how we’ve grown.