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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Tragedy today as local woman figures out that the reason her toad pumpkin doesn’t look quite right is that she put his eyes facing forward instead of the side of his head. 🤦‍♀️

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

September was a month of (mostly) short reads for me. Shout out to middle grade fiction, which in addition to often having the best cover art also have the best Halloween stories. My favorite of the month though was probably The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte.

A stack of books in front of a September calendar, with a list of glasses on top and a little crochet cat next to the stack. The stack from top to bottom is:
-The Bellwoods Game by Celia Krampien
-Goodnight Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida
-What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
-Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
-The Amberglow Candy Store by Hiyoko Kurisu
-The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

At my local convention waiting for a live reading of an adaptation of Call of Cthulhu to begin, and one of the performers passed out “comfort fidget octopi because it’s a scary story.” Which I’m sure is actually to keep us off our phones, and given how much I’m playing with it its very effective.

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Stage one of the Angler Fish-o-lantern complete, now working on stage two.

A white foam craft pumpkin that has had a bunch of teeth and two eyes craved into it.

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

August books! Favorite of the month month was The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson.

A stack of books. From top to bottom they are:
-The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
-Witch Hat Atelier Vol. 4 by Kamome Shirahama
-When The Sky Fell On Splendor by Emily Henry
-A Fatal Crossing by Tom Hindle
-A Murder Most Camp by Nicolas Didomizio
-Midsummer Mysteries by Agatha Christie
-Never Whistle At Night edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Congrats to future Dr. Chen!

Instagram photo from the harvardmed account of former skater Nathan Chen and former skater Tenley Albright

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

July books. Favorite was either Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury but as usual I liked everything.

A stack of books. From top to bottom the stack reads:
-Sinister Spring by Agatha Christie
-Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
-The Convenience Store by the Sea by Sonoko Machida
-In A Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
-Dial A for Aunties by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

June was a good month for my reading (bad for everything else). I really liked everything but my favorite of the month was What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama, which may have made me tear up a little when I found chapters 1 and 5 were both about me.

A stack of books. Top to bottom the books are:
-Witch Hat Atelier Vol. 3 by Kamome Shirahama
-The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
-What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama
-How to Survive Camping: The Lady in Chains
-Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
-The Paleontologist by Luke Dumas
-Redshirts by John Scalzi

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The face of a girl who won’t stop eating cicadas.

A black and white Australian shepherd dog sitting on grass, looking up at the camera. Her expression makes it seem like she’s embarrassed, but she has every intention of doing it again.

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

May’s books. Favorite of the month was Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames. Fun variety this time around.

A stack of books with a pair of glasses sitting on top, in front of a calendar for the month of May, which is out of focus. The books from top to bottom are:
-Bluecrowne by Kate Milford
-The Radio Hour by Victoria Purman
-The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden
-Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil by Oliver Darkshire
-Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
-Lumberjanes Vol. 4: Out of Time by Stevenson, Watters, and Allen
-Astro City Vol. 1: Life in the Big City by Busiek, Anderson, and Ross

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I know I’m old because I’ve heard of exactly one of these people.

Today’s top songs on iTunes, featuring a list of artists and songs that I mostly do not recognize.

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

April book stack. It was a small month in terms of book and page count because I got sucked back into Stardew Valley. Favorite was The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi, but as usual I liked everything. Shoutout to the artwork in Witch Hat Atelier, I love the moment to the clothes and hair.

A stack of books with a calendar behind it and a pair of glasses on top. The stack from top to bottoms is:
-Witch Hat Atelier Vol. 2 by Kamome Shirahama
-A Wizard of Earthsea by Usula Le Guin
-Lumberjanes Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan by Stevenson, Watters, and Nowak
-The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
-Witch Hat Atelier Vil. 1 by Kamome Shirahama

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

March books. No theme this month. I think my favorites were The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings and the Monk and Robot duology (collected together in one book) by Becky Chambers, but I liked everything. I’ve been slow to start April because I’ve fallen back into Stardew Valley. 😅

A stack of books. From top to bottom they are:

-The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris by Evie Woods
-Murder at the Spring Ball by Benedict Brown
-Paper Girls Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
-Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers
-The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis
-The Crack at the Heart of Everything by Fiona Fenn
-The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

YES, BLUESKY. I only ever write in English. I only know English. STOP ASKING ME IF I’M WRITING IN ENGLISH.

Screenshot of one of the Bluesky prompts I keep getting asking me if I’m writing in English, the only language I have ever written in.

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Well fuck. It would really really suck to have to pass up the event in my city, but I don’t know that I can swing that. Yikes. No seat in the Maverik Center is worth $1500.

Screenshot from US Figure Skating regarding nationals ticket pricing.

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Its not super big. I have been in this arena for a number of gymnastics (like today) events and a couple Stars On Ice shows, and every time it’s been a million degrees in here, just fyi. ⛸️

Photo of the stands from inside the Maverik center.

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

For those planning on US Figure Skating Nationals, here’s proximity of 2 hotels to the Maverick Center, and just beyond those are 3 more. The arena is also a stop on the city’s train system. These are the convenient things about the Maverick Center, but the list unfortunately stops there lol. ⛸️

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Twenty years in this house without raccoons, and now I’m at war with them over my bird feeders.

A raccoon looks back at my through the window, difficult to see because it’s dark out.

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I DON’T KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS

Screenshot from my attempt to log in and change password from the ISU app and a window popping up that say “token required”

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

February book stack had a bit of a romance theme, and once again it’s hard to pick a favorite. I find I more or less like everything finish, (if I don’t, I don’t finish). I think I’m going with Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer, with honorable mentions to pretty much everything else.

A stack of books, from top to bottom:
-Violet Thistlewaite is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz
-Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett
-Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
-Frosthaven Bakery by Jenny Sandiford
-Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
-Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die by Greer Stothers
-The Shabti by Megaera C. Lorenz

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Spring has sprung in Utah, with nary a winter to be had. (As a winter person this is a bummer. As a person who has to live here in the summer this is terrifying.)

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My day included an almost perfectly round onion ring and I want the world to know.

A satisfyingly perfect onion ring being held up

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

By the way, this was on Threads earlier. The Liu-fluence has begun.

A screenshot from Threads where someone makes a joke about parents having to talk their children out of dying their hair like Alysa Liu, but the reply shows another user saying “too late” and the cropped portion of their child at a salon with stripes in her hair

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This was on Threads this morning. It is beginning. 😂

A screenshot of threads where someone shows that their child has gone and gotten Alysa Liu hair

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The world if the ISU has a backbone

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

“So did you hear about ice dance?”

Press stands at the Milano Olympics, with skating analyst Jackie Wong and skater Nathan Chen sitting next to each other

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The locals over on threads are learning! Keep spreading the news, maybe we won’t ever have to see them again after this season.

Screenshot from threads, people are discussing the problems with the top French ice dance team

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Here’s how an all Team Japan podium can still happen—

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This is how I’m trying to tweet. I’m just a head rest for her.

Fluffy gray cat is resting her head on my hand

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Admittedly I’m super nit-picky about the quality of my books, but if you’re going to sell something as “Good” condition there should be FAR less water damage and cover warping. 😤 (packaging was pristine, so did not happen in transit)

My hand holding a paperback book (“The Moor: A Journey into the English Wilderness” by William Atkins), which is imo pretty beat up, with water damage and warping on the cover and pages.

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

January books read (plus one digital not pictured). Starting the year with a heavy trend toward mystery. I think my favorite was All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles, and maybe Midwinter Murder by Agatha Christie, but I enjoyed everything. One book into February so far.

A stack of books on a brown wood surface (top of a piano) in front of a green wall. The books from top to bottom are:
-Midwinter Murder by Agatha Christie
-Mirror Lake by Juneau Black
-Mystery Royale by Kaitlyn Cavalancia
-Grace Expectations by Alice Bell
-All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles
-Cold Clay by Juneau Black

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Describe your Bluesky account in one image.

U.S. figure skater Nathan Chen is laying on the ground on his back, almost like he’s dissociating

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I’T HAPPENING! IT’S HAPPENING! IT’S (not going to last because it will be back up to 50F by Saturday) HAPPENING!

Snow covers a dirt riding arena, with some coveted stalls in the background

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

This has 20 minutes from now written down.

Time zone conversion table for European nationals

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Can I follow Canadian Nationals, watch US Nationals, and be at the Sprouts Collegiate Quad gymnastics meet all at the same time? Probably not but we’ll see how this all goes.

Looking into an arena with gymnastics equipment on the floor

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

After being a voracious reader up to that point, I pretty much stopped reading after college. I don’t really know why. But this year I picked it back up again (video games got so expensive, streaming services were full of ads. I needed another escape) and had a pretty decent year!

A long graphic of the covers of the books I read this year.

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

New Years Eve fondue night, as per tradition.

A tablespoon spread out with various food to dip into chocolate and caramel fondue. The fondue pots are not yet on the table.

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

December book stack (minus one that was digital and not pictured, and I only read A Christmas Carol in A Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures, not the other treasures). Favorites were Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Juniper’s Christmas by Eoin Colfer.

A stack of books on a white table cloth. The books from top to bottom are:
-Murder Most Haunted by Emma Mason
-Winterfrost Market by Jenny Sandiford
-A Christmas Carol and Other Holiday Treasures by Charles Dickens
-A Holiday by Gaslight by Mimi Matthews
-The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
-Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
-The Toy Makers by Robert Dinsdale
-Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret by Benjamin Stevenson
-Juniper’s Christmas by Eoin Colfer

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

My hands were fully off the controller at this point. Hard to do stealth missions a rescue hostages or dodge attacks when the left trigger button won’t stop firing if its own accord. 😑

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

It’s going to be really embarrassing when the Winter Olympics return to Utah only to find that there is no winter in Utah anymore. It was 62 degrees when I got to work. I’ve been in short sleeves.

Screenshot from a local news weather app showing northern Utah’s forecast for the next ten days, all of which have high temperatures in the 50s.

Screenshot from a local news weather app for northern Utah showing a weather alert for temperatures “way above normal” for the time of year.

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

November books (plus one not pictured because it was digital)! I think my favorite of the month was Greenglass House by Kate Milford, but a number of these I rated pretty similarly. Thanks to my brother for holding the stack up for the picture.

A stack of books in front of a Christmas tree being held up by hands from a person offscreen. The stack from top to bottom reads:

-Ghosts of Greenglass House by Kate Milford
-Shady Hollow by Juneau Black
-Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan
-Greenglass House by Kate Milford
-Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
-Hither, Page by Cat Sebastian
-Autumn Chills by Agatha Christie
-Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia
(Not pictured but also read: Paladin’s Hope by T. Kingfisher)

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

FINALLY It took until the last day of November, but Utah FINALLY got snow.

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

A tisket, a tasket, a kitty in her basket

A gray cat sits in a tiny wool woven basket in front of a fireplace

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Now (re)playing: Or at least for as long as my PS4 holds out. It’s making some very tired noises.

Photo of my tv screen showing the title menu for the video game Batman: Arkham Asylum

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

This is the number of singles skaters on the GP who used these choreographers, not whether or not they choreographed one or both programs. There were also three skaters who listed themselves, and one who used another current skater as a choreographer. Interesting to me that there are so many Benoit-

A list of the most frequently used choreographers among singles skaters on the 2025 Grand Prix.
-Benoit: 12 skaters (8 men, 4 women)
-Shae-Lynne Bourne: 11 (5 men, 6 women)
-Adam Solya: 9 (4 men, 5 women)
-Lori Nichol: 8 (3 men, 5 women)
-David Wilson: 7 (4 men, 3 women)
-Misha Ge: 6 (2 men, 4 women)

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Sarah @wintryday.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Update: Cat bed complete! Kind of a pain to assemble. Excuse the lack of vacuuming, she loves cardboard scratchers and gets bits everywhere and at some point you just give up.

A cardboard cat bed that looks like an old tv

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