I’ll eat up all your crackers and your licorice.

To be fair, they are two of my four major food groups. The other two are likely  bacon and pho. Or maybe spicy chicken strips? Or the tortilla chips from El Patio?

I’m definitely a very hungry caterpillar style snacker. And yes, I adore black licorice.

Thank you, besties, of your support of the Etsy store Rowan has been running for me. And since he is an amazing young man, all orders are shipping out like a boss, even when I take to my bed with the vapors (read: irritating long covid flare).

This is the selfie (or usie if we include Iggy), I posted when my ICUcatNurse decided I was well enough that she could be behind me instead of on me. And a Diet Dr Pepper. Is that also a food group? Or a drinks group? A drinks group of diet Dr Pepper, Americanos, turmeric-ginger lemon-orange-ade from The Lemon Girls, and Good Earth Sweet and Spicy tea?)

Etsy store is of course still running and can be found here.

If you wanna wait for the next time the store goes on sale (which, don’t blame you, cuz omg the price of everything rn), I think he’s planning on a back to school sale week, so you can safe the shop as a favorite and keep an eye out for the next sale.

Speaking of weeks, this has been an aggravating one. World stage aside (because trying to be coherent about that just turns me into a screeching “I’m melting, I’m melting…what a world, what a world!” mess)?

Just on the home front of blown out compressors in the fridge (bye-bye all my Tajin sorbet and coconut milk ice cream sandwiches…wait…maybe those are also my major food groups???).

Trying to get a replacement delivered and the old one hauled off has this far been too much to ask for. Plumbing leaks, the office a/c begging to be put out of its misery, and other first world problems that I recognize for what they are but still would appreciate if they could be less problem-y.

But I still got my next manuscript turned in on my own (!!!) determined deadline. I mean, prolly cuz so many of my clients were sick this week but I’ll take it!

And this little man, it turns out, causes 20k worth of damage to the company whose property his cat colony lived on. By chewing through wires on a very expensive engine. It wasn’t discovered after he and his sister were rescued by my son. Aforementioned Unnamed Company wanted them all put down. So Scrappy Doo chose violence and I love that for us.

Need a new listen? Check out M’Lynn, an indigenous r&b baddie that you know you want to listen to while baking muffins and it’s drizzling outside.

Or something like that. I think I’m gonna bake muffins this weekend now.

Whether you bake muffins, go out for pho, or send me oodles of black licorice (not the salted kind tho, thx), have a good weekend bestie. Don’t let the world get you down. We will keep rescuing kittens and fighting for what we believe in. We’re not packing it in just yet. Promise.

— Faith