Molly Deschenes
@dchenes.bsky.social
One foot in front of the other. Try not to trip over a cat.
Saturday is usually errand day. Sometime after I get home from the errands, Saturday is Churu day. The cats have figured this out and now start shouting at me from the other side of the door before it’s even open.
February 14, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Saturday is usually errand day. Sometime after I get home from the errands, Saturday is Churu day. The cats have figured this out and now start shouting at me from the other side of the door before it’s even open.
Tax refund showed up yesterday. Tempted to spend some of it on a week’s worth of very thick wool socks.
January 31, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Tax refund showed up yesterday. Tempted to spend some of it on a week’s worth of very thick wool socks.
I bet there are people I know who would be surprised that I got an 8' x 10' rolled-up rug from the front porch to my second-floor living room all by myself, with no elevator involved. I'm not entirely sure I'm not one of those people.
January 20, 2026 at 11:40 PM
I bet there are people I know who would be surprised that I got an 8' x 10' rolled-up rug from the front porch to my second-floor living room all by myself, with no elevator involved. I'm not entirely sure I'm not one of those people.
How do I get myself into…a very dear family friend whose birthday is next month is very fond of veal sweetbreads. Somehow I’m going out to celebrate her birthday with sweetbreads, but without her.
December 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
How do I get myself into…a very dear family friend whose birthday is next month is very fond of veal sweetbreads. Somehow I’m going out to celebrate her birthday with sweetbreads, but without her.
An observation on preserving peas: Just because you canned, doesn't mean you should. (I hate canned peas.)
December 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
An observation on preserving peas: Just because you canned, doesn't mean you should. (I hate canned peas.)
Somewhere between Warwick, RI and Watertown, MA is somebody who's probably disappointed that the package they stole only had a couple of shirts in it. The message I got: "All merchandise is missing and the empty carton was discarded. UPS will notify the sender."
December 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Somewhere between Warwick, RI and Watertown, MA is somebody who's probably disappointed that the package they stole only had a couple of shirts in it. The message I got: "All merchandise is missing and the empty carton was discarded. UPS will notify the sender."
Both cats think my lap is a good place to be, but lap space belongs to Inky before lunch and Quirk after lunch.
December 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Both cats think my lap is a good place to be, but lap space belongs to Inky before lunch and Quirk after lunch.
This is the face of a cat who doesn’t understand that I have to get up so I can go cross “order cat food” off the chores list.
November 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This is the face of a cat who doesn’t understand that I have to get up so I can go cross “order cat food” off the chores list.
I don't consider the hour I spent this morning watching a normally anxious cat sleep in my lap, when I could have been vacuuming or grocery shopping, to be wasted time.
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I don't consider the hour I spent this morning watching a normally anxious cat sleep in my lap, when I could have been vacuuming or grocery shopping, to be wasted time.
Random thought: History is written by the winners. But what happens if the winners don't have written language?
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Random thought: History is written by the winners. But what happens if the winners don't have written language?
PSA: Now that you’ve changed the clocks, change the smoke detector batteries. It will keep them from being chirpy little bastards at 3 AM sometime in January.
November 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
PSA: Now that you’ve changed the clocks, change the smoke detector batteries. It will keep them from being chirpy little bastards at 3 AM sometime in January.
If Apple Maps were sentient, it would probably be frustrated with me. I keep telling it I want to go somewhere and then changing my mind half a mile later and going somewhere else.
October 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
If Apple Maps were sentient, it would probably be frustrated with me. I keep telling it I want to go somewhere and then changing my mind half a mile later and going somewhere else.
The Borough Market may be a tourist trap and a madhouse, but I’m a tourist and I’m on vacation, so I enjoyed it. And I got lunch and dinner and beer.
October 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The Borough Market may be a tourist trap and a madhouse, but I’m a tourist and I’m on vacation, so I enjoyed it. And I got lunch and dinner and beer.
I’ve spent more money on hotels this month than I ever have in my life. But at least I can get reimbursed for the last one snd the next two are for fun.
October 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I’ve spent more money on hotels this month than I ever have in my life. But at least I can get reimbursed for the last one snd the next two are for fun.
Given a nor'easter and a site visit bearing down on me simultaneously, I'm making vegetable soup with garlic and herb sausage meatballs. I won't be home between Monday night and Thursday afternoon, and soup waiting for me when I get home will be a good thing.
October 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Given a nor'easter and a site visit bearing down on me simultaneously, I'm making vegetable soup with garlic and herb sausage meatballs. I won't be home between Monday night and Thursday afternoon, and soup waiting for me when I get home will be a good thing.
When the price for a week and a half of cat sitting is “Vacuum three stories of carpeted stairs,” you go and get the vacuum cleaner, and an extension cord, and subsequently a workout.
October 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
When the price for a week and a half of cat sitting is “Vacuum three stories of carpeted stairs,” you go and get the vacuum cleaner, and an extension cord, and subsequently a workout.
I decided to go fiind out if wak-in Covid shots at CVS are really a thing. They are, so I did. Now I can probably not get Covid on transatlantic flights next month.
September 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I decided to go fiind out if wak-in Covid shots at CVS are really a thing. They are, so I did. Now I can probably not get Covid on transatlantic flights next month.
For some reason, the UPS tracking site has decided I'm in Spain, and is tracking my cat food between Pennsylvania and Boston in Spanish. For some reason, CBS has decided that my mother will only get NFL football games in Spanish. Weirdness.
September 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
For some reason, the UPS tracking site has decided I'm in Spain, and is tracking my cat food between Pennsylvania and Boston in Spanish. For some reason, CBS has decided that my mother will only get NFL football games in Spanish. Weirdness.
It’s after 9:00 AM on Sept 1 in Brighton and i’ve only heard three moving trucks on the street.
September 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It’s after 9:00 AM on Sept 1 in Brighton and i’ve only heard three moving trucks on the street.
Found in the dictionary undrer “skeptical.”
August 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Found in the dictionary undrer “skeptical.”
Inky has figured out how to be helpful.
August 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Inky has figured out how to be helpful.
In 2017, for our last accreditation, we submitted something like 5400 pages of documents. Today, for our 2025 accreditation, we submitted 6500 pages. I don't know whether this is getting ridiculous or whether it already got there.
August 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
In 2017, for our last accreditation, we submitted something like 5400 pages of documents. Today, for our 2025 accreditation, we submitted 6500 pages. I don't know whether this is getting ridiculous or whether it already got there.
I seem to have traded being unable to spell in Russian for being unable to spell in Welsh.
July 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I seem to have traded being unable to spell in Russian for being unable to spell in Welsh.
