Bookity

• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Goodbye, Mary Oliver. 🙁 Some of her poems.
• “Fairy tales for survivors“.
• “…your mother’s sass.“
• What would wizards make of a Thermos?
• “The heterosexual tragedy of Top Gun“.
• Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and Neil Gaiman bingo cards.

Do, Make, Think, Learn

• Check the state of your passwords…
• Best ocean photos from 2018.
• When someone says, “But how come there never used to be autistic people before?!”…
• “Why everything you think you know about Toxic Shock Syndrome is probably wrong“.
• Some interesting OXO products. (I can’t believe the collapsible colander isn’t on here! It’s genius.)
• Portable typewriters in 1919.
• “How typewriters helped me adjust to adjustment disorder“.
• On food sensitivities.
• The migrating North Pole.

Cookity

• Fifteen 5-ingredient recipes.
• Celery potato soup.

Gluten Free

• Gluten free Cake Magic.
• Peanut butter oatmeal cookies.

Artsy Crafty

• “Things that people have said to me since I started working in a yarn shop“.
• Literary crochet patterns.
• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• The genie.
• Yeah. 🙁
• Quotes from Michelle Obama.
• Linkity from kmkat.
• Linkity from Bookwyrm Knits.

Cool or Wha…?

• Now with more than just Snickers “Salad”!
• Transform your kitchen cabinets with… washi tape?!
• Cheer up by reading… stuffed animal reviews?
• Cauliflower tortillas.

Wha…?

• That White House fast food fiasco.
• 27-pound bucket of mac and cheese.

LOL

• January gothic.
• Every. Damn. Time.
• How far down should universal translators go?
• Terrible maps.
• Mythology for millennials.
• The Mars Curiosity Rover is probably not the size you expected.
• Does it spark joy?
• That darn roaming North Pole. (Hover cursor/long-press for caption.)
• Thor tools. (You definitely want to read the caption – hover cursor on long-press to do so.)

Teh Cute

• Pudu and baby!

Reading Update
Scarlet, Cress, and Winter (Lunar Chronicles 2-4) by Marissa Meyer. Scarlet: Young adult futuristic retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. Cress: Rapunzel! Winter: Snow White. Very good series – pretty much stayed up too late reading all week…
Stars Above (Lunar Chronicles 4.5) by Marissa Meyer. Most of the stories predate the series, but one is a bit of an epilogue. If you enjoyed the series, you should definitely read this!
Sandman Slim (Book #1) by Richard Kadrey. Pretty good urban fantasy about a guy whose “friends” sent him to Hell alive. He’s back 11 years later and he’s a little bit pissed…
Heart of Briar and Soul of Fire (The Portals 1-2) by Laura Ann Gilman. Pretty good two-book series about a woman who’s boyfriend is stolen by a fairy and her life unravels as she tries to figure out what’s going on. It more or less felt complete at the end of the second book, but I do wonder if it was originally supposed to be a trilogy.

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*purring while clinging like a limpet* -Chaos

What the heck IS it with old cats getting clingy and needing to be Very Very Close to your face?!