💸 We’re in debt up to our eyeballs. Feels like it happened overnight, but with thousands we paid to save Lucy plus our champagne taste…we’re going to look seriously at it all this weekend. Sigh.

📮 I took a chance yesterday and texted the number I had for my high school friend, Krista, and said happy birthday. She texted back and confirmed it was her! I’ll need to ask for her address and send her a postcard or something.

🎂 The one and only thing I miss about Facebook is not being able to check in and say happy birthday to an ol’ friend like Krista from high school. I saw today’s her birthday on my calendar. Wait a tic. Do I have her phone number? It’s probably not current if I do. But maybe I’ll send a happy birthday message anyway.

🎵 Now Playing: 2000 Year Old Man by Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner from the album 2000 Years With Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks on Music

🎵 Now Playing: Juicy Gotcha Crazy by Oaktown’s 357 from the album Wild & Loose on Music

🎵 Now Playing: Nicety by Michel’le from the album Michel’le on Music

🎵 Now Playing: Return of the Mack (C&J Remix) by Mark Morrison from the album Return of the Mack - EP on Music

Today is the day we celebrate Pete & Lily’s birthday. I went a little shutter crazy on Lily this morning. But isn’t she the cutest?

🍔 Having lunch with husband and two coworkers (now friends) from my old job today. I said we should walk into the restaurant like the Hot Lunch Jam scene in the 1980 movie Fame. For some reason, nobody is taking me up on that.

🎵 Now Playing: I Don’t Wanna Be a Loser (Single) by Lesley Gore & Claus Ogerman from the album 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Lesley Gore on Music

A few recent garden pics.

I have a bit of a twisted sense of humor. Arrested Development. 30 Rock. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Difficult People. All favorites, and none too quirky or dark for me. So when I got this text, it took me a sec to process. Then I laughed. I laughed really hard.

Some photos of Lily and Pete. I love how Pete kinda just hangs there on the top of the couch. And how her whiskers are like completely parallel to the ground. 🐈‍⬛

✂️ There’s just nothing as refreshing to me as a haircut. Well, I mean maybe unsweetened iced tea. But that’d be about all.

💇‍♂️ I swear I’m walking out if my person isn’t in today. I’m all for taking healthy risks (and sometimes unhealthy ones 😔), but not with my hair.

👀 Well my eyebrows certainly got tamed. “We’re just cleaning them up, right?” She asked. “No, let’s basically shave the hairy little fuckers all the way off so I have to draw them back on again just to look halfway human,” I did not reply. Yet somehow, this is what I’m left with.

🎵 Now Playing: Wasted Early Sunday Morning by Sneaker Pimps from the album Becoming X on Music

🥯 Bagel time!

🫢 Off to tame the ol’ bushy eyebrows. Ouch!

🎥 POLL: Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead OR Adventures in Babysitting?

This is the view from our porch. I am so grateful to Michael for making this house a home.

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car (Official Video) youtube.com/watch Also YouTube has become so infested with obtrusive advertising it’s barely usable. I can’t stand using the app.

YOU GOT A FAST CAR 🎵

A white contemporary country singer appropriating er… I mean covering Tracy Chapman? I’m skeptical. Though I must say I respect his decision, according to Wikipedia, to keep the gendered lyrics in tact (“… work in the market as a checkout girl…”). One of my biggest pet peeves is when a singer re-genders song lyrics or titles (eg “The Boy from Ipanema” etc.). Also a pet peeve? Club remixes that shouldn’t exist.

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 I finally had the guts to push back on some of my dad’s FOX News-fueled ignorance. He just sent me 10 pages of misinformed opinion. But I’m the one who needs to open his mind. Sure, Jan.

Happy 4th! My dad and I are in the middle of an email war. He keeps saying I should have an open mind while he spouts off that Trump is a great businessman and president, Biden is terrible for leaving the troops wherever, and that Black Lives Matter is worse than the insurrection. …sure, Jan. 🇺🇸