Elena Existing
@elenaexisting.bsky.social
Gen X spinster aunt. Idaho to Louisville. Corporate drone from 8-5; devastatingly quiet from 5-8. Learning Mandarin. Going for a hike.
Let's take better care of each other, okay?
Let's take better care of each other, okay?
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They should invent a type of brown sugar that you don't need to chisel.
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
They should invent a type of brown sugar that you don't need to chisel.
Since I woke up at 5am on Thanksgiving morning and have had nothing to do today other than whatever I want, I've had a couple of ideas:
🔸️Thanksgiving is an autumn harvest festival
🔸️Chrysanthemums and Korean melons are my first year's harvest in this house
🔸️I have melon jam and fresh flower petals
🔸️Thanksgiving is an autumn harvest festival
🔸️Chrysanthemums and Korean melons are my first year's harvest in this house
🔸️I have melon jam and fresh flower petals
November 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Since I woke up at 5am on Thanksgiving morning and have had nothing to do today other than whatever I want, I've had a couple of ideas:
🔸️Thanksgiving is an autumn harvest festival
🔸️Chrysanthemums and Korean melons are my first year's harvest in this house
🔸️I have melon jam and fresh flower petals
🔸️Thanksgiving is an autumn harvest festival
🔸️Chrysanthemums and Korean melons are my first year's harvest in this house
🔸️I have melon jam and fresh flower petals
Cooking one Thanksgiving dish per meal for a four-day weekend might be the way to go or at least I've decided that cooking scalloped potatoes for breakfast at 7am is perfectly acceptable.
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Cooking one Thanksgiving dish per meal for a four-day weekend might be the way to go or at least I've decided that cooking scalloped potatoes for breakfast at 7am is perfectly acceptable.
Hi brain, I don't need to be awake at 5am on Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Hi brain, I don't need to be awake at 5am on Thanksgiving.
Kicked off Thanksgiving vacation watching some, erm, clearly classic holiday movies with a friend. A great way to start the long weekend!
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Kicked off Thanksgiving vacation watching some, erm, clearly classic holiday movies with a friend. A great way to start the long weekend!
47⁰ at 6:30am. The warmest it will be for the next ten days is right now.
November 26, 2025 at 11:38 AM
47⁰ at 6:30am. The warmest it will be for the next ten days is right now.
The neighbor who was hammering at 10pm on a weekend is hammering again at 10pm on a Tuesday. Except maybe it’s chopping? Hard to say.
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The neighbor who was hammering at 10pm on a weekend is hammering again at 10pm on a Tuesday. Except maybe it’s chopping? Hard to say.
Guatemalan grocery store restaurant for the win!
La Chapinlandia. Not pictured: giant mugs of horchata. #EatingPrestonHighway
La Chapinlandia. Not pictured: giant mugs of horchata. #EatingPrestonHighway
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Guatemalan grocery store restaurant for the win!
La Chapinlandia. Not pictured: giant mugs of horchata. #EatingPrestonHighway
La Chapinlandia. Not pictured: giant mugs of horchata. #EatingPrestonHighway
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These federal changes have completely upended groups who work to house the homeless in Louisville and throughout Kentucky, as @byrobertor.lpm.org covered yesterday:
Federal funding shift threatens to increase homelessness in Kentucky
President Donald Trump's administration is capping funding for long-term housing programs, a move that worries homeless service providers.
www.lpm.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
These federal changes have completely upended groups who work to house the homeless in Louisville and throughout Kentucky, as @byrobertor.lpm.org covered yesterday:
Today has an awfully Friday feeling for a Tuesday.
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Today has an awfully Friday feeling for a Tuesday.
This pleases me:
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This pleases me:
Morning was the right decision except for the rain and now me wandering around the house looking in cupboards and random places for the bottle of milk I bought that I didn't actually buy.
Should I go brave Thanksgiving-week Kroger at 6pm today or 7am tomorrow?
Tomorrow, right? I feel like early morning is always the answer.
Tomorrow, right? I feel like early morning is always the answer.
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Morning was the right decision except for the rain and now me wandering around the house looking in cupboards and random places for the bottle of milk I bought that I didn't actually buy.
Paint me like one of your French girls.
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Paint me like one of your French girls.
Holy shit. I might believe in Santa Claus now.
If Bluesky made this happen: Thank you, Bluesky! 🙏
If Bluesky made this happen: Thank you, Bluesky! 🙏
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Holy shit. I might believe in Santa Claus now.
If Bluesky made this happen: Thank you, Bluesky! 🙏
If Bluesky made this happen: Thank you, Bluesky! 🙏
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
There's a website
Where you can get your local kite-flying weather forecast
Because of course there is
If you also impulsively bought a kite in San Francisco
And flew it home in your hand
You too can check the forecast every day
And be disappointed
Where you can get your local kite-flying weather forecast
Because of course there is
If you also impulsively bought a kite in San Francisco
And flew it home in your hand
You too can check the forecast every day
And be disappointed
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
There's a website
Where you can get your local kite-flying weather forecast
Because of course there is
If you also impulsively bought a kite in San Francisco
And flew it home in your hand
You too can check the forecast every day
And be disappointed
Where you can get your local kite-flying weather forecast
Because of course there is
If you also impulsively bought a kite in San Francisco
And flew it home in your hand
You too can check the forecast every day
And be disappointed
Should I go brave Thanksgiving-week Kroger at 6pm today or 7am tomorrow?
Tomorrow, right? I feel like early morning is always the answer.
Tomorrow, right? I feel like early morning is always the answer.
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Should I go brave Thanksgiving-week Kroger at 6pm today or 7am tomorrow?
Tomorrow, right? I feel like early morning is always the answer.
Tomorrow, right? I feel like early morning is always the answer.
Still feeding bees!
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Still feeding bees!
I would like to brag on myself for a minute. Last month, my company asked me to get our employee assistance fund up and running.
In the past three weeks I have:
*Formed Committees
*Obtained a Logo
*Created a Sharepoint
*Launched an Application for Assistance
*Written a FAQ for Payroll Donations
In the past three weeks I have:
*Formed Committees
*Obtained a Logo
*Created a Sharepoint
*Launched an Application for Assistance
*Written a FAQ for Payroll Donations
November 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I would like to brag on myself for a minute. Last month, my company asked me to get our employee assistance fund up and running.
In the past three weeks I have:
*Formed Committees
*Obtained a Logo
*Created a Sharepoint
*Launched an Application for Assistance
*Written a FAQ for Payroll Donations
In the past three weeks I have:
*Formed Committees
*Obtained a Logo
*Created a Sharepoint
*Launched an Application for Assistance
*Written a FAQ for Payroll Donations
With the caveats that:
* I barely remember the novel
* I'm not sure "French action movie" is even a genre in my brain
* It took me an annoyingly long time to track down a French audio version on streaming services (YT)
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan was a fun, fast-paced romp of a movie.
* I barely remember the novel
* I'm not sure "French action movie" is even a genre in my brain
* It took me an annoyingly long time to track down a French audio version on streaming services (YT)
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan was a fun, fast-paced romp of a movie.
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
With the caveats that:
* I barely remember the novel
* I'm not sure "French action movie" is even a genre in my brain
* It took me an annoyingly long time to track down a French audio version on streaming services (YT)
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan was a fun, fast-paced romp of a movie.
* I barely remember the novel
* I'm not sure "French action movie" is even a genre in my brain
* It took me an annoyingly long time to track down a French audio version on streaming services (YT)
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan was a fun, fast-paced romp of a movie.
After five more hours of organizing, editing, adding illustrations, formatting, and chop, chop, chopping, I've managed to whittle this document down to... 28 pages. 🤣
Closing my work laptop for tonight. There's still enough weekend left to watch a movie!
Closing my work laptop for tonight. There's still enough weekend left to watch a movie!
Well now I have 26 pages of content and it is time for organizing and rearranging, formatting, and ruthless pruning. Snip, snip, snip.
In the past two hours I've written 3300 words in response to 14 questions proving yet again that procrastination really is the gift you give to yourself.
I can clearly do the rest of this tomorrow morning.
I can clearly do the rest of this tomorrow morning.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
After five more hours of organizing, editing, adding illustrations, formatting, and chop, chop, chopping, I've managed to whittle this document down to... 28 pages. 🤣
Closing my work laptop for tonight. There's still enough weekend left to watch a movie!
Closing my work laptop for tonight. There's still enough weekend left to watch a movie!
Snacksgiving!
During lockdowns, we started doing Snacksgiving because doing the big meal felt depressing. It’s become my favorite day. Husband and I stay home in our PJs and just graze on delicious small bites all day. We watch Columbo and Hallmark movies and Die Hard…
November 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Snacksgiving!
Well now I have 26 pages of content and it is time for organizing and rearranging, formatting, and ruthless pruning. Snip, snip, snip.
In the past two hours I've written 3300 words in response to 14 questions proving yet again that procrastination really is the gift you give to yourself.
I can clearly do the rest of this tomorrow morning.
I can clearly do the rest of this tomorrow morning.
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Well now I have 26 pages of content and it is time for organizing and rearranging, formatting, and ruthless pruning. Snip, snip, snip.
I got engaged in my dream last night to someone I had known for less than 48 hours. My future mother-in-law was a retired federal investigator. She was a lovely, plump, and jovial woman with a Mad Men-era brunette beehive. Surprisingly, she had no concerns at all about our high-speed romance.
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I got engaged in my dream last night to someone I had known for less than 48 hours. My future mother-in-law was a retired federal investigator. She was a lovely, plump, and jovial woman with a Mad Men-era brunette beehive. Surprisingly, she had no concerns at all about our high-speed romance.