La @ladedida.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Today in fiction tropes I've lost patience with: women/girls being kidnapped, hurt or killed so their husband/boyfriend/father (the MC) can suffer dramatically. 040
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Relatives came to visit for 3.5 days and because the weather sucked, we spent much of that time sitting around talking, and it was very nice and I now wish to not speak to a human for at least 24 hours. 020
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I made a pretty challah and an ugly but delicious experimental challah roll with halva and dark chocolate chips. 130
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Me: Let me make a quick phone call to the pharmacy to sort this problem out & then I'll finish my laundry & make dinner! Me, 65 minutes on the phone later: 🫠🫠🫠 020
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm so confused by the "Heated Rivalary was wildly successful, which tells us that there's a huge audience for [straight] sports romance!" trend. 3121
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today I am "massive adrenaline spike because my charger cable fell off the couch and I thought it was a large spider or bug for a second" degrees of tired. 😭 020
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm surprised how many of these I haven't even heard of, but I guess my American/English language TV watching peaked in the early 2000s, before I got distracted by jdramas and later cdramas. 220
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's always kind of vindicating when I tell my pilates teacher/unofficial PT something like "My right shoulder hurts" and it takes her only a couple seconds of poking around to find the super tight spots responsible. (Now if only it was that easy to fix them.) 020
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yesterday I googled "how to destroy floppy disks" and today it's "how to destroy CDs." The joys of cleaning up after someone who's hoarded stuff since the 80s. 030
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Why is it so hard to stop making poor sleep decisions sometimes? 120
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Overheard in the hot tub at my pool: "I'm not saying you took magic mushrooms, but..." 010
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 16/09/2026People (collectively) are wonderful and also terrible and it is so hard to reconcile those two things sometimes. 070
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I've had chronic fatigue and insomnia for 20+ years but I feel like I've had people tell me (sympathetically) that I look tired more in the past 6 months or so than ever before... 🫠 030
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Okay, that's better. (Testing out a doctored version of the above dough plus a new batch before I attempt to bake some with my niblings tomorrow.) 030
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Looking through my dad's papers and I feel like this is very relatable to anyone who's ever done much grading and/or editing. (The line leads to an underlined phrase in the paper.) 030
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I went swimming today for the first time in over 2 weeks and it was nice and I am so exhausted now. 🫠 040
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 03/09/2026It's extremely rude when I go to sleep early because I'm tired and my body then wakes me up super early instead of letting me catch up on sleep debt. 150
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 02/09/2026My dad saved this from an April 1987 engineering magazine and it's sadly extremely relevant today: 040
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Found an even more ancient relic in my dad's closet (though it belongs to my mom): 150
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 31/08/2026State of the me: I thought "I will make good... I will make marginally less terrible life decisions [about food]." 130
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I love and appreciate the friends in my phone but there's something to be said for in-person hugs. 040
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 24/08/2026My dad's been on hospice for a month and we thought it was going to be a slow decline, but it suddenly became fast and he died this morning. I was prepared but also really not prepared at all. 18110
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Please appreciate this relic of the ancient times that my dad saved: a 32 MB (yes, MB) hard drive: 270
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Cryptozoologist and/or professional ballroom dancer. I would be much better at one of these jobs than the other. 030
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I think my first CD was a movie soundtrack but I'm not sure which one. I believe I got Pocahontas on cassette tape so maybe Anastasia? Or else Phantom of the Opera (not the movie) but I think that was later. 120
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 18/08/2026My online dance class (that's been going on for 6+ years) met for the first time in ages and it was fun! And now everything hurts and I'm dying! 030
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 11/08/2026According to my fancy tracking spreadsheet (that I made myself just because), I've swum 50(.06) miles since I got back into regular lap swimming! Took me a while but I feel awesome anyway. 080
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 10/08/2026My 4-year-old nephew demanded to see me and tell me "I love you" 3 or 4 times while video chatting with my brother (who is visiting for the weekend) and that was very healing. Small children are the cutest. 060
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I spent over 1.5 hours on hold (on 3 separate calls) and didn't even manage to speak to a human. Today is cursed and I give up. 😭 111
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Help me not die of boredom while on hold forever (for the second time today)? (Just like unless you want to ask a specific Q.) 390
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I've always been pretty oblivious when people complain about bad CGI in TV shows/movies (e.g. CQL) but I idly started watching a super low budget Chinese BL & was immediately like "Why does this look so weird???" The answer, of course, is AI. 🙄 040
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 03/08/2026no cheating post your lockscreen I haven't changed my lockscreen in over a decade but that's okay. 030
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I need more advertising mailing lists to have a "Don't unsubscribe but stop emailing me once or twice every single day because this is ridiculous" option. 160
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I thought about making challah today (for the first time in ages) but didn't have the energy, but it worked out because a family friend dropped by unannounced with one. People are nice sometimes. 030
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The thing I most hate about US tipping culture is the stressful lack of clear rules. Like, do I need to tip the guy delivering free (to me) medical equipment from hospice??? (And if so, how much? When? How?) 120
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Current mood: Said to the empty kitchen "What if I eat more brownies? That will fix me." (I made experimental sesame oil brownies and they're pretty good but unfortunately haven't fixed me yet.) 020
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 22/07/2026I need dramas to stop hitting me with sick and/or dying parents right now, please. 230
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Me, texting someone I met at a social gathering about possibly meeting up one-on-one: Look at me! I'm adulting! (Why yes, I am terrible at this stuff. How did you guess?) 040
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 19/07/2026This game is getting messy. Someone score so we don't have to end the whole World Cup with penalty kicks. 120
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 19/07/2026My mom texted me to ask if the first group in the halftime show was "BtK" 😂 120
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 16/07/2026George Zucchini 😂 (That's not my grandpa's real first name, but the anglicized one he used for decades works much better for this meme.) 140
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Today, I am "picked up a hot piece of toast and said 'Cold!'" degrees of tired. 020
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I need the people responsible for filming a wide range of sports to know that just because you can get weird angles thanks to drones or whatever doesn't mean you should use them. Just let me see the sports properly. 040
La @ladedida.bsky.social · 11/07/2026For extra bonus symbolism, I got another new poppy on what looks like a totally dried-out, dead plant. 030
