#viewfromthebluecastle

Share? I have also purchased a home and must sublet rental home and I don't care that I'm 51 I don't know what the fuck to do next.

It’s not very fancy right now -- it’s literally three columns. Date in the left hand side, Action Taken Or To Take in the middle, and Notes on the right. Right now it’s mostly a to-do list, other than the registration number for the moving estimate I got from Movetastic. 

viewfromthebluecastle replied to your post “This morning I started a new spreadsheet for the process of closing on...”

pack a baseball, and some wire cutters... just in case. :)

Wirecutters covered, gotta pick me up a baseball :D 

dullbittylife replied to your post “Many years ago, I drove around 300 miles one-way to Chicago for a...”

I grew up in Chicago, it wasn't that weird cause my brain hadn't quite processed the animals in the dioramas were taxidermied. I thought they were just really expensive stuffed animals. Like Bun Bun at home.

blueboxtravelagency replied to your post “Many years ago, I drove around 300 miles one-way to Chicago for a...”

I agree, as a kid it's not that strange to have lunch with the animals. It didn't really bother me until my older brother delighted in telling my every gory detail about the Tsavo lions.

I think that’s probably the general sentiment -- I may have had an encounter with a docent at an early age that gave me a greater consciousness for these things :D One of my first memories of any natural history museum is our guide saying that the birds in a display case were real birds and me asking how they got them to hold so still, and her saying “Well, they died” and then launching into a WEIRDLY DETAILED description of how one freeze-dries and then prepares a dead bird for exhibition. I don’t remember the details but I do remember the moment I realized they were DEAD BIRDS and also remember wanting to find a dead bird and put it in the freezer to see if I, too, could freeze-dry a bird. 

Mum nixed that idea, sadly. 

dreamwaffles replied to your post “superqueerpasta replied to your photoset “I call this photoset “Baby...”

I ran a cookie club in college. After graduating, both me and the other president discovered that we have the mildly eldritch cookie ability that no matter how many the recipe says it makes? We get at minimum 2 dozen more out of the batch. 2 DOZEN. It's so many, Sam. So many.

I’m lucky if I get edible cookies at all :D I do often halve recipes though, because I don’t want to use more than one cookie sheet....

standingmoonlit replied to your post “librarykris replied to your photo “Okay, last Field Museum picspam...”

I live in New Zealand! Come visit! You'll love it.