Notices by Karen C🥨👵🏻🌲🏖️ (gamehawk@mastodon.social)

@gemlog Honestly, he'd probably say yes. 😆

(SpooFlo's wallpaper *is* theoretically removable. And it really isn't worse than the EXTREMELY SHELL PINK downstairs bath, or the EXTREMELY AVOCADO upstairs bath, or the faux-marbling-that-looks-like-it's-hiding-bloodstains family room.)

Gonna ask the landlord if he'll let us put up wallpaper: https://www.spoonflower.com/wallpaper/7918170-kraken-roll-violet-large-scale-collection-kraken-roll-steampunk-octopus-print-by-borderlines

Ironically, turns out the kid's cousin (once removed, but they're weeks apart in age) is also trans, the other direction, which if they'd known earlier they could have traded names (their names are not same-but-for-gender, but they *are* the logical closest match). Grandma did not know or did not mention cousin's new name.

I may have to revise my opinion of my husband's redneck family: they're coping surprisingly well with "none of the kids are cis/straight." 😆

I mean, she was carrying a purse and growing her hair out last time we visited, so it *probably* isn't a shock? But Carl carries a crossbody bag we all call his "purse" (originally ironically but now it's just habit) so that might have confused the issue.

*her grandmother (yeah, it's been very awkward remembering which pronouns to use around who)

Apparently the kid is celebrating Pride Month by coming out as trans to his grandmother. Kiiiinda wish I coulda been a fly on the wall at the other end of that conversation. 😁

@jalcine MailChimp has basically killed the mailing-list software category. 😔

:thisisfine: https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/news/20190621/willingboro-reveals-details-of-new-township-wide-surveillance-system

@lauraritchie It's pretty wild! Our house is at the top of a hill so we aren't in any danger (even if dams break) but it's a good thing it was a work-from-home day for my husband because the train tracks were washed out and the main highway from us to Philly was under a couple feet of water at one point. Today was trash day so the whole street's trash and recycling carts ended down at the corner, so now we all have each other's (municipal) carts.

Not planning to eat any; got a bunch of nice safe storebought portobellos I need to put in marinade 😋.

But for the long term I might need to ask my neighbor for a lesson in mushroom edibility since: https://www.inquirer.com/business/trump-immigration-chester-county-mushrooms-farms-mexicans-20190620.html

@batterpunts I'mma pass on that bagel. (Tempted to ask my neighbors for a lesson on mushroom edibility though, but I'm not sure they'd be willing to spill their secrets since at the moment they have permission to forage in our yard. 😆)

It has been just crazy rainy here (even before the 4" last night) so there are tiny mushrooms every few inches here, and the moss is thriving.

A classic.

Bagel status: foomph.

Read-to-littles day: failed. Arrived at the center and there wasn't a car in the parking lot.

In hindsight, maybe should have checked first, given that we got FOUR INCHES of rain last night/this morning and the center is in the basement of a church on a creek bank. 😬

(Coulda knocked, the truck parked behind the church is probably the Head Start maintenance guy's, but I figured he had enough on his plate this morning.)

@GoatsLive I mean, Amazon has the kid's age because she got [limited] access to the Audible and Prime account that way (ironically you lose Prime access at 18, the point at which she got her own debit card and could, you know, *buy* stuff other than with the odd gift card). We're kinda thoroughly hooked into that ecosystem, uncomfortable as it is.

My sister sent me a screenshot of what Amazon thinks she should get me for my birthday: half wine/beer stuff, half baby stuff.

I'm not sure if the algorithm has just given up on understanding me, or if it believes I should be a grandmother.

(Kid's turning 19 and Amazon knows that perfectly well. Stop pressuring me to pressure the kid, Jeff.)

Me, the other day: "Why did someone toss a bagel in our yard?"

*looks closer*

"Oh, 🍄."