I'm just saying it feels like this level of sustained anxiety should be burning more calories than this

I’ve been baking the same marble cake recipe from the same Betty Crocker cookbook for decades now (the cookbook was a present for my 10th birthday).

Cat has captured a mouse. Probably a sign to log off and enjoy the weekend.

I’ve had Raffi’s song “Banana Phone” stuck in my head all day and have been telling everyone as a bit of comic relief. The number of adults who’ve said they thought about/sang the song in the last few days is astonishing! 🍌📞

Really speaks to the national mood that 90 minutes of physical labor* in a light snowfall was the most relaxing thing I’ve done all week.

*Building three raised beds to add to our vegetable garden.

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I officially hate having to manage my kid’s science fair project (he’s 8; there will be no project if I don’t do most of it). At least the plants we’re experimenting on have sprouted!

Forgot my phone when we left the house this morning and, honestly, it was nice. The kid and I went to the National Gallery of Art, made some art, looked at some art, had a snack, came back home.

This is horrifying. Children are being denied healthcare that their parents and doctors agree is best for them. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Leaning hard on my garden to distract from The Horrors. I've already planned out the veg gardens for the year, ordered all my seeds and plants, and just hired someone to dig out a bunch of sod (for new raised beds and a wildflower meadow in our parking strip).

BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans.

U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan blocked the action Tuesday afternoon, minutes before it was set to go into effect. The administrative stay pauses the freeze until Monday.

Todays lunch: avocado toast with some Penzey’s Resist 🙌

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943