Jessa L'Rynn

Fuck staying hydrated by drinking enough water - eat! more! wet! food! (watermelon, cucumbers, SOUP!)

Feels great to be really high up in your house where you can see the whole place (loft bed loft bed loft bed loft bed!)

Express yourself as clearly as possible when people are touching you and you don't want them to.

Optional, but you can also express yourself clearly when your people are not touching you and you want them to.

Sometimes it's important to just go "hmm. actually, I don't care" and wander off.

You don't have to be the strongest or toughest to defend yourself, it's enough to just be difficult enough to not be worth the trouble.

Link Loadout

I've wanted to paint a Zelda piece for years but I had to wait until I had an idea truly worth doing.

fyi Amtrak has a guest rewards program for taking the train now

Yes it includes you can redeem them for travel, either by themselves or in combination with cash

When did they start? No idea. How does it work? They have a lot of details on their site! I just saw this because they sent me a big flashy email about how to redeem my points (which if they were smart is an email they'd make sure to send Often), so saying "I'm just the messenger" is honestly a big overstatement, more like I am leaving a small stack of fliers about on the counter of a public restroom.

I'll just answer with a link to the home page for their guest rewards program

Text from said Amtrak flyer:

Frequently Asked Questions

Credit Cards

SO MANY WAYS TO EARN SO MANY REWARDS AHEAD

LET THE EARNING BEGIN:

Learn more about all the different point-earning opportunities that help you get to rewards faster.

Amtrak Travel Earn 2 points per $1 spent, and a 25% point bonus for Business class travel and 50% for Acela First class.

Amtrak Guest Rewards® Preferred Mastercard® They're yours after spending $1,500 in the first 3 billing cycles of your account opening. Offers vary.

Retail & Specialty Partners Enjoy earning with flowers, gifts and more.

Rail Travel Partnerships Earn up to 10,000 points with a Rail Passengers Association membership depending on the membership level. With an RPA membership, members get discounts on Amtrak, regional trains, hotels and more.

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Please excuse the exhausting definition density of soulless marketing language

But yeah. Turns out, in the United States, Amtrak gives you loyalty points now. And like, an actually, genuinely, extremely reasonable point to money ratio, too, which I wasn't sure was still possible in 2026.

unfortunately they are not. that's what the post was about

these are the OG Balmorals:

cotton sateen! period sole construction! lovely supportive little Louis heels!

these. are the new "Balmorals"

clunky modern sole construction. wool flannel (not inaccurate but not what the originals had). NO HEEL.

these, AD, are just taller Larkspurs with scalloped foxing.

(Larkspur)