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If loafing you is bread, I don’t want to be rye. #taylorswift

Iconic poster image for the movie Jaws. An open mouthed shark with lots of sharp teeth is pointed upward in the ocean water toward a swimmer. The word “Jaws” appears in red block letters at the top.

I probably shouldn’t leave my house this year.

This came wrapped with a Square Books sticker. It is definitely from my niece who is an Ole Miss grad and has been going to Oxford for ball games this fall.

Book cover image for The Barn by Wright Thompson. It has a light brown background with black lettering and a grayscale image of a barn surrounded by oak trees.

I finished the first book from my Christmas box this morning and opened the second. It is a signed first printing of Wright Thompson’s The Barn, about the murder of Emmett Till. Looking forward to reading it. Also expecting to be emotionally wrung out by it.

Too many fireworks, but I was asleep by 10:30. 😊

It’s midnight somewhere. Happy New Year! Here’s hoping 2025 sucks less than you fear.

It’s almost 8pm in Mississippi. If I’m lucky, and the neighbor kids don’t keep me awake with their fireworks, I will be asleep by 9pm. 😂

I’m halfway through the 1st book in my Xmas box. Amazing Grace Adams is funny and quirky and sad and a little too on the nose about what perimenopausal women go through.

Fourteen individually wrapped books in a box that is also wrapped. All of the books are wrapped in different patterns of Christmas paper.

Cover image of Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood. It has a green background with a woman’s head and shoulders showing. She has her right hand in front of her face giving the middle finger. The middle finger is covered up with a promotional sticker.

I have a whole gang of grown nieces. They went together and gave me a box of books for Christmas. I’m supposed to wait until I have finished one to open the next. This is pretty amazing. I’ve been a grinch about Xmas. Then this happened.

Screen shot of results from NYT Strands game #285, “One for the Swifties.” The results show a perfect score with the spangram found on the third attempt. There are two blue circles followed by one yellow and then three more blue.

Swifties need to play the NYT Strands game today. It was fun to spot all of the answers right away.

Screen shot of a package tracker that shows Christmas wrapping paper arriving on December 26.

This is fine. No rush.

Me: Christmas is always too stressful. I just need to be low key this year and not beat myself up about decorating, shopping, and cooking.

Also Me: Maybe I will make something by hand for everyone I know between now and 12/25.

You can request to see your Dr, and they have to let you, but you might be treated like a troublemaker. Even my elderly mother only sees her actual Dr when she insists. Mississippi is just coasting through the doctor shortage on an abundance of nurse practitioners.

Overall I love the clinic. The infusion staff, the business office, etc, have all really helped me, especially when insurance was difficult to maneuver. I just one frustrating NP visit, and it reminded me of all of the flaws in the system where I am under the care of a specialist I never see. 6/🧵

I don’t expect everyone to remember me personally, but I do want them to look at my chart enough to understand where I’m coming from. 5/🧵

The NP introduced herself to me as if we’ve never met though I’ve seen her many times this week. She was unfamiliar with my case. She made me feel like my concerns were not heard. My Dr always seems to recall specific things about me even if it has been 2 years since last seeing me. 4/🧵

I’m mostly ok with this but would like to automatically be scheduled with the Dr at least once per year. As is, I have to request her when appointments are made four months out. 3/🧵

My insurance company is to blame for me having some visits with no Dr involved. Mississippi has lax regulations about NPs taking the place of MDs, even specialists, and there is a shortage of rheumatologists. My Dr now has more than one clinic and only sees a fraction of her patients. 2/🧵

I love my rheumatologist, but whereas I used to see her every visit, now I only see her on request. Otherwise, I see a nurse practitioner every other visit with bloodwork only in between. 1/🧵

It was my infusion day today which means it was also my day to stop off at Zeus on the Go and buy spinach pies to eat in the car on the way home. Being able to walk may or may not be enough motivation to stay on my biologic, but spinach pie gets the job done.

Me: I’m following too many people to develop any real sense of community.

Also Me: Hits “Follow All” on four more starter packs before breakfast.

Lots of hot takes on Hunter Biden this morning. In normal times I’d agree that the president should not pardon his own son. These are not normal times, though, and MAGA was never going to be satisfied with HB serving a normal sentence for his crimes.

Side-by-side view of two sewing machines, the Brother Strong and Tough and the Babylock Zeal.

First, let me say that I do not know how to sew, and before I buy anything I plan to borrow sis-in-law’s machine to learn a little. That said, what would you pick for beginner wanting to learn quilting? Needs to be light enough to move on and off kitchen table. #sewing #quilting #beginner

Thanks!

Two rows of crochet in a chunky pink yarn sitting on top of a book about how to crochet.

I’m probably not doing it right, but I’ve made a little progress toward doing it wrong. I’d like to learn how to properly crochet because my mother has been talking about her grandmother’s love of crocheting and quilting lately. #stitchandbitchsaturday #crochet #beginner

Shout out to others with chronic illness struggling through this day.

I have chronic fatigue/pain. It is so hard to get myself and some food together to show up for family gatherings, and the weight of other people’s expectations is a lot.

For those who have nowhere to go for Thanksgiving or who are grieving losses in the time, I am truly sorry. I don’t want to minimize that, but I have fantasies of disappearing from mid-November until mid-January in order to miss the holidays.

I’m always glad to find other Mississippians. Happy Thanksgiving!

100% do not recommend going to the grocery store today. Everybody else in town is there.

I’m already exhausted from Thanksgiving, and I haven’t even been to the grocery store yet. 🤪🙄😂