I am on a post on /r/nanny where a parent is saying she’d forbid her nanny to take their kid to Target or any big box store because “anything could happen”. She specifies it’s trafficking that she is worried about. I feel like a superhumanly chill parent just because I don’t use Instagram or TikTok.

Finished reading: Circle of Days by Ken Follett 📚 This was fun! You can get through it in a day or two and it feels like watching a movie.

It feels like the honeymoon period is over on my ICL surgery. Now I’m kind of annoyed by the minor lingering eye discomfort, and (this might be a personality issue) wracked by paranoia that every twinge is indication that I’m going to have to take them out, like a Flowers for Algernon situation

🧶 I’m so close to closing up this monster of a #musselburgh hat. I’ve been knitting it since last August with no idea if it’ll fit! But all my hats have been too small for my brother and I’m not taking chances. (He lives in AZ so we can’t check until June. I might be able to felt and shrink it.)

Last weekend I touched grass so hard it made the news (I briefly appeared in the introduction to a local segment).

Staying off social media might become a kind of self-reinforcing habit because the kind of random aggression you encounter routinely on the Internet is extremely not normal when you’re more calibrated for offline interactions

One thing I am grateful for is I was extra sure not to be smug when I was the parent of only one single baby, because those parents can be as bad or even worse as the “when I have kids” crowd. Oh “it’s not that hard”? Yeah, I bet it isn’t!

Hot off the needles, these baby socks took me an absurd amount of time, like six months. They still fit him though! 🧶

I will never understand Gavin Newsom’s (lack of?) political instincts.

Watching: Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 🍿 Going through these movies with our oldest kid is really forcing us to confront how bad they were