Stef

I wonder who might be profiting from the increase in oil prices 🤔

Ugh, I’m sorry you have to take on this burden! Fucking cancer. I hope treatment is as successful & fast as possible!

I’m so sorry 💜 Thank you for sharing her sweet face with us over the years

Someone’s car has been parked in the neighbour’s drive for the past 20 minutes with the stereo blaring and I’m about ready to go all Carrie Underwood on it

Eating chips about it

“Really ought to turn this laptop on more often” she thinks on minute 47 of updates

Teenage nephew takes over the music in my car because of course his is better than mine. Today he played me Mötley f’in Crüe Kickstart My Heart.

Kid, I owned the album when *I* was a teen. Ancient auntie rocked 😎

Kiss - Prince
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Tenderly - Billie Holiday
Lovin’ Every Minute Of It - Loverboy

There are people in this world who if I saw them drowning I would grab a lawn chair and popcorn and settle in to watch.

There are people in this world who do not deserve my compassion.

And your car burns half of it just sitting in the driveway warming up and defrosting 💸

Black is my vote, to my admittedly not-great eyesight the lighter colours pop more with the black border

Screenshot of a weather forecast with a highlighted section for tonight that reads “Low minus 31. Wind chill minus 34 this evening and minus 43 overnight.” Temperatures are in celsius, the Fahrenheit equivalents are minus 24, minus 29, and minus 45.

It’s ‘race to connect the car’s block heater to the outlet before the extension cord freezes stiff’ weather 🥶

On the upside, getting rid of stuff is SO SATISFYING

A hand holding a small rectangular spice container, showing the expiry date on the bottom. It expired in June 2016. Oops. In the background is an assortment of spices, extracts, and containers on a stovetop.

Cleaning out the spice/seasoning/baking cupboard (you know the one) and finding evidence that this was long overdue

DVD case of Mad Max Fury Road

Think I’ll close out 2025 with a cozy comfort watch to suit my mood

Also love the little ballerina in red whose face is so Over It in a couple shots.

“It took fifteen thousand men to take my place” never gets old 😂 Emma for president, queen, leader of all & everything.

Her Carousel Club dress almost makes up for her sulking, though. I am not a dress-wearer in general but there’s just something about this one 😍

Betty desperately needs someone to tell her to Use Her Words.

Yesterday was Obligatory Family Togetherness Day so today is treat myself to Stef’s Christmas dinner favourites. Turkey meatballs in bbq-cranberry sauce, cornbread & sausage dressing, & buttery creamy mashed potatoes 🤤, and White Christmas on the tv 🎄

Finding out on Dec.24 that the plan for one family meal on Dec.25 has now become an open-ended all day thing 🙄

(no, I will not be staying all day, have they met me)

A rack full of cooling molasses cookies and a rectangular glass dish of cranberry sauce.

Made molasses cookies and cranberry-orange sauce, does my house ever smell good 🤤

If it comes with a default chronological feed and no ads ever, I might be tempted 🤔

✅ First major snow fall of the year
❌ First snow day of the year

(Not a terrible storm but a lot of businesses were closed so I’m salty that I had to shovel & go to work)

An email promotion from Bell that reads in part: Happy Holidays! Enjoy 1 year of Perplexity Pro, on us. It’s your AI-powered research tool for smarter and faster answers.

Bell keeps trying to sell me on their new AI assistant but why would I want to use a research tool whose name means ‘a state of confusion’ 🧐

Yes it’s only 8:30 but what if bed

Bought myself a couple of fancy bakery desserts as a treat. Getting into my car I lost my grip on the box, it flipped upside down & landed with such force that cream & icing sugar puffed out from the edges, all over the seat ☹️

So now I have tasty messy dessert instead of tasty fancy, oh well

Because so many people who believe they are shoo-ins for eternal rewards are going to be in for a shock, and the looks on their faces at this news will not get old for several millennia.

I’d be a greeter. First point of contact for the newly deceased, the person who gives out welcome packages and directs them to their destination.

If there is an afterlife then I hope there are occupations you can choose to do if you want to.