reluctant anchorite
@vaneharriet
ex-homeschool kid • ex-fundamentalist • ex-Saskatooner • ex-academic • mom to a non-speaking autistic teen • unlearning it as I go
oh hey I actually have a photo of a relevant page from the hockey card binder that still lives in my mom’s basement 😂
aaand fondant top #2. (about 3.5 hours, before + after work and over lunch)
inspo | fondant attempt (it is cake top 1 of 2, no idea when cake top 2 will happen because this one took FOUR FULL HOURS 😭)
came up in my fb memories today and I’m not really active there anymore but it felt maybe worth sharing somewhere. (text from the screenshots threaded below) about the irrelevance of bargaining and “later”
also! never forget (1st baseman for the Saskatoon 55s in 1951)
another day, another WW2 bomb inconveniently showing up, another comically blasé statement from local police 😂
yep! to be a true freezie it should be Mr Freeze-branded and mercilessly papercut the corners of your mouth but yes
because I am thoughtful and also a word nerd i have made you a list of the words I have actually noticed are both a) different from American or British English and b) in common use (at least for my demographic (millennial prairie kid))
name a performer you’re always happy to see in a film or series
had a video call in the Good Lighting room at work so: obligatory Well-Lit Me 😂
me to E, when I put the race on the calendar: “mum will be gone for a race on 14th” (trying to add Narrative Interest): “if I FINISH (he loves remarking on things being finished) I will get a medal” (rashly, far out over my skis): “it will say ‘good job’” (today, improvising in a cold sweat):
ran a 10k! slowest of the bunch by a lot but I don’t even care, just happy to have finished (esp since I’ve only been running again for a couple of months). Leaning into my “chill middle-aged mum plodding along at the back” era, lol.
speaking of is this not the most Michael/Peter coded post you have ever seen
genuinely impossible for me to convey how exactly bang-on this is