Also true! But personally, I definitely spend more time than is needed just to find reasonable quality lol

I'm mostly good! This year has been A Lot and I am hoping 2026 is a lot more normal lol. Hope things are okay with you too!

The Midwest Immigration Bond Fund has been doing good work helping people caught up by all the ICE/CBP BS in Chicago & could still use help!

I thought it was yuck AFTER trying it 😂

My cousin tried to make divinity, the Southern candy, for Christmas. She had a problem, so she called my aunt. "It said to cook to the soft ball stage and I did but--" *thunk* goes the pan on the counter "--now I can't get it out?"

She'd cooked the entire thing until it made one soft ball.

That's almost exactly what we do for Christmas eve too, except we usually have deli meat & rolls to make little sandwiches for an entree!

Turkey dinner for Christmas though...

I think most people can taste aspartame but a lot of the other ones, apparently not? Or so I'm told.

They must have mistyped their emails bc Google deliberately ignores the periods & wouldn't have let them make that account!

You can also do yourusername+Bluesky & Google will ignore everything after the plus & send it to you anyway. Can be a fun way to figure out who's selling their contact list...

I can taste all the sweeteners--stevia, monkfruit, Splenda, etc--and apparently that's just a supertaster thing? But I can also see particular sensitivities to one or another

SO AWFUL

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

😱

(Will you have any ability to buy a set of needles where you're going?)

You say that, but I bought some narrow stripe twin sheets where somehow the stripe goes ACROSS the bed....