Someone at Susan Collins' campaign office realized Jackson rhymes with taxin' and boy howdy have they latched on to that bit for every ad that doesn't have Susan sitting on a pile of potatoes being a Real Maine Girl

Sometimes the universe (or a neighborhood kid walking home from the little free library up the street) drops your next read right on your front lawn 😍

4 y/o keeps saying she's saving certain shirts for Halloween, I finally convinced her it's Halloween season and she any wear all the ones she's saved in a day, but now I think she's expecting to get candy when we leave for school 😬

Go to sleep in what you want to wake up in

Not my husband earnestly answering our 4 y/o daughters "why is the sky blue" with a full scientific explanation 😍

Getting a haircut so close to my 40th birthday was risky business, and I'm so grateful for my hairdresser for steering my bangs impulse to a fun-but-reasonable curtain bangs variation of my generally basic & low maintenance range of styles 🙌🏼

Perusing haircut ideas with 8 y/o who's about 4 months overdue for a cut and doesn't want to lose the length (he has beautiful hair, I don't blame him. Just need less mullet) and he picks this from our google images scrolling

Kiddocwas Not Pleased about his soccer game being cancelled for a few rain showers so we softened the blow with an afternoon of poker lessons by Grandpa and Super Mario Bros movie 💁🏼‍♀️

Most of the messages in this calendar have lived up to the cover's promise (boost morale) but the last 2 pages have been...not helpful for fragile ego and current work-in-progress state of affairs of new home office (and other room makeovers) project 🫠

DoodooDiligence@doodoodiligence.bsky.social · last yr.

Got this today at goodwill bc I need some positivity in any form even if it's from a stranger's discarded Christmas 2022 gift

How could we possibly forget when every other email and app notification is another reminder that we remember 🙃

Casual hang with small group of family Sunday afternoon, my uncle (liberal boomer, retiring from long career in depths of tech) casually asked if we thought trans women should be allowed in WNBA. Pleased to say it was unanimously an unwavering yes, topped with reproach at the strawman argument

This new schedule has a super unexpected side effect - I remove my bra when I get home for my afternoon WFH, and keep forgetting/"forgetting" to re-bra for after work outings. E.g. currently at a school extracurricular info session, freeboobing in leggings+sweatshirt in the elementary school gym 😬

DoodooDiligence@doodoodiligence.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This final stretch before school is a doozy! Then my regularly scheduled programming is getting a major facelift bc preK doesn't provide transportation or aftercare so I have to dropoff around 8, work at my office til 1:30, pickup at 2:15, drive a mile to aftercare, then WFH the rest of the day. 😵‍💫

Did we all know the Hamster Dance song is just sped up intro credits from original Robin Hood and I only just realized it or have I had a major revelation?

Dropped off my baby at her first day of preK this morning, and on the one hand, yay for cutting daycare costs, but OTOH, my baby 😭😭😭😭

Sometimes a client sends a message that's just so fucking dumb I can't craft a truthful reply that comes across as anything but snarky and condescending, so instead I simply leave them on Read and hope they look back at what they said and realize the error of their ways on their own

Introduced the kids to Newsies the other day, 8 y/o had 💯 takeaways. He wants to be a newsie bc they're always doing cool dances. He's sure he's nailed a Brooklyn accent & has been borderline offensively quoting Spot Collins. Close-up shot of Jack Kelly (Christian Bale): "that looks like future me"

Came home from work later than planned today, to this carefully placed on my side of the bed 🥰

See it, share it

"Hollywood" Ben Hogan@craftylefty2126.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Also an excuse to post this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

Maine 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 2mo ago

US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.

Coming home from vaca on Saturday and having a pool party to attend the next day instead of returning Sunday with work the next day is feeling pretty boss level

BATTLE AWAITS. TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

Trying out a new commute this morning, biking 2 miles to bus that'll get me 7 miles from my office, which I'll also bike and then hit the gym showers. This was the dream when I signed up for the gym next to work! I don't love being awake so much earlier than normal but I'm still excited!

I 100% believe ACAB but at 12:30 this morning I did call our small-town 911 bc a small SUV was looping our little circle street while 4 teens (presumably, hard telling under 1 streetlight) car surfed on the outside of each door while hooting and hollering over loud music, waking up my 8 y/o and me 💁🏼‍♀️

Client: my son has public benefits & can't have extra cash, how can I give him a big gift of money? Me: depends on what benefits, but [options 1, 2, 3] could protect his eligibility bc of [common benefits rules a, b, c] Client: what is this, Russia? This is communism! I'll just slip him cash! Me: 😒

Our schools continue to feed all schoolchildren all summer, with free weekly meal pickups of breakfasts and lunches for each kid. For example, 2 kids this week get this:

Was off the grid for the past week, getting next to zero news besides the music or work schedule of the day, and coming off site to see half-mast flags today gave me such a flutter of hope that It had happened (but I know my husband who was home wouldn't have let me not know that)

Just finished removing the last of the carpet that existed in this house and I am fucking exhausted and exhilarated at that being a thing of our past. Now to cover this even older 70s linoleum and painted concrete eyesore

Parents, what are we doing for healthy refreshing/refueling drinks for kiddos? Water is safely king of bevvies in our house, milk is once daily (and not refreshing), Big Soda is a hard no, Little Soda in glass bottles are risky, Gatorade and juices feel like a pile of sugar/junk, leaving _________??

We just rank choice voted a handful of solid governor candidates, and obviously us senate is different from governor, but can't we just put the governor primary runner-up in platner's spot? How many voters actually would parse someone's qualifications for either office? This isn't a Kamala decree!

We camped with a big group up in the north Maine woods from Thursday to Sunday and being off grid with lifetime and new friends including a gaggle of children was wonderful and exhausting. Coming home at bedtime yesterday was a doozy but I get to WFH at my parents' empty lake house today so 🤷🏼‍♀️