#concernedcatlady

I haven’t, though I’ve heard a great deal about it (my parents watched it). I have a hard time with documentaries about the Gardner these days because I know enough about it to have strong opinions, and also to catch when someone is eliding a fact or getting it wrong. While the heist is fascinating, and its allure for people who tend to become obsessed with it is equally as fascinating, there’s often a lot of context surrounding it that either isn’t paid attention to or is brushed off in the course of telling the best possible story. It’s one of those issues where being so passionate about something is a downside because you can’t actually enjoy media about the thing, I’m afraid. 

He had never seen his stepmom quite so out of it. In fact, over the last couple months he had seen her more put together than anyone in his family. But this, this was strange.

“Dad?,” he whispered, coming into the kitchen.

“Yeah, buddy?” Oliver looked up from the cutting board and then over to the living room. 

So I’m not the only one worried. William sighed before he spoke again. “What’s wrong with Felicity?”

“Nothing. Why did she say something?”

“No,” he paused. “That’s kind of the problem. She hasn’t spoken in like six hours. Did something happen?”

“If something happened we’d know it.”

“What’s going on?”

“Fraking, stupid, overclocking piece of crap.”

William whipped his head around. Felicity still sat on the floor in front, her laptop perched on the coffee table. But her head was in her hands.

“Dad?”

“William, maybe you should go hang out in your room for a while. I’ll call you when dinner’s ready.”

“Did you break Felicity?”

“She’s not broken, she’s just,” Oliver groaned. He saw a struggle cross his father’s face. “She’s trying to do some work for the team, trying to find someone who’s been after them. But she’s hitting a wall.”

“And she’s been zoned out practically all day?”

“Yeah she gets like that when she’s working hard.”

“What do we do to help her?”

“Normally I suggest a shoulder rub and a nap. Possibly a shower as well.”

“And that doesn’t get you slap?”

“It most certainly does actually,” his father mused. “But it’s all I can offer in the way of help. She’s the computer genius, I’m just the guy who stands off to the side and watches her work.”

“I think you do more than that,” he mutters, and then ducks his head. “Maybe we should forgo the whole dinner thing and give her ice cream?”

“That’s not healthy.”

“Neither is staring at a computer screen in almost complete silence while you get more and more frustrated. But at least ice cream would make her happy.”

He paused, looking down at the cutting board, and then over to William. “Fine, ice cream for dinner. But you have to eat granola for breakfast for the rest of the week.”

“What would those parenting books you used to pretend you weren’t reading say about bargaining with your kid?”

“They’d say if your kid doesn’t want kale and fish instead of ice cream, he should probably head to his room and finish his homework.”

“Fine,” he stood from his stool, glancing at Felicity once more. “Is she going to be alright?”

“Yeah, buddy,” his dad reached out and fluffed his hair. “She’ll figure this out. She always does.”

“And you’ll be with her?”

“Every step of the way.”

“Good.”

Oh man, Pennsylvania I'd have said a primenti brothers sandwich, but maybe that's too Pittsburgh based (though they seemed to be laser focused on Philly so like, whatever lol)

Oh those are SO GOOD. Whenever I’m in PGH we usually go out for one. (This year my visit is very short, so we may not get to it this time around, but I will be eating Primanti’s in my heart.)

concernedcatlady replied to your photo “�� Sometimes I feel like...somebody is waaaatching...”

�� !!!!! I really want that cat tree!!!! It's so wonderful!!!

Thank you! It was built for me by @figtreeandvine, who sells them on their etsy shop! Polkadot likes to be Up High so she loves the top hammock. 

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The fried onions in the Oklahoma version are heavily caramelized and then cooked into the burger. I once had to wash a sweater three times to get the onion smell out after eating at one restaurant. It also impregnates y our hair with a lovely onion cloud til you can shampoo it. Now I get em to go. Super tasty!

Hello I need to know where you acquired this.

janedrewfinally replied to your post:

Oh, noooo... where is it from?

Target! You can get it online or find out online where it’s for sale in stores. I wasn’t even planning to buy one but I was literally passing through a Target store to warm up on the way home and I knew it stocked them, and then when I looked at it I couldn’t resist. 

concernedcatlady replied to your post:

TARGET HAS THE BEST CAT HOUSES!!! (also i may or may not have hurried to buy the Ski Chalet version as soon as it was available because i was angry i missed out on the halloween house)