being pretty far from everyone & not much on Discord, I do what we do best here: watch the stats, keep track of the trackybois and swear all the curses I can find in French, repeatedly!
Ooh love this one
My first thought would be "bordel de merde " (bordel means brothel in french..or " mess" as in "what a mess") or
"c'est quoi ce bordel??" (softer version)
i know there are others let me think fr a couple of minutes -
This is true, my favorite thing about waking up is someone has summarized the updates from overnight, so I went to bed last night knowing Pepe was a happy girl and Deshka was likely being dropped, woke up to Weegee also dropped plus uh, video of the *action* 😆
I do it with dogs by my side.
But now I’m imagining you showing your two kids photos and videos of their daddy/papa/whatever the chosen name running the race with some of their fur-family and I’m thinking that would be adorable…and probably make it easier for you to armchair mush too.
Not going to throw the first dog bone at you, not me waiting for Quince to be in Manley and give his interview with Jody Bailey and then hanging on some more to make sure Calvin Dougherty came in to.
... now the mom in me can go to sleep. All in or past Manley.
Going to need to pace myself.
You need some distraction, you can’t watch the tracker, cams, and Bluesky all the time. I’m sure the mini mushers are your distractions! Someone here always is going to provide clips or summaries of anything you miss. We are all over the world so nothing gets completely missed.❤️
I love that if I wake up in the middle of the night in California, there’s an UD post with an update, or a joke, or a song, or a meme, or spreadsheet, or something!!!!
Straw is incredibly cozy. When I lived on a farm, we would nap in the straw while my dad milked cows and the dachshunds napping with me wouldn't let the cows come close enough to step on us
It's kind of awesome that there's still a suspenseful sport where we can't see the competitors every second, complete with different angles and replays, so there's a bit of mystery in between checkpoints. Unless, maybe, they are your own partner and furry friends!
Lol, it took a minute to realize you meant discord. I was envisioning a disco somewhere where all the arm chair trackers were hanging out,under a mirror ball, chilling and talking about the race 😊
Thanks for the dog disco
🕺🏽🪩 🕺🏽🪩 🕺🏽🪩
🎶 1, 2, 3, 4, Never let go 🎵
🎵 You can tell by the way I use my walk, 🎶
I'm an # uglydogs, 🎵
no time to talk 🎶
Ah, ah, ah 🎶
Never let go, Never let go 🎵
Never let gooo ooo oo ooo 🎶
Thank you. I can’t decide whether participating in the Discord will make me more or less Bleral. Or I suppose this year it’s Queral. Maybe I’ll just start out by lurking demurely & mindfully. 😉
Also, because I'm a teacher I force... um... encourage the children to listen to my tales of Iditarods past and also how Q. is doing. You should both know that the kids (middle school age) have taken to yelling out "PEPE!!!!" from time to time. Gets me through the day :-)
I kept forgetting to mute the cams as they were so quiet and then it would suddenly get very loud! I can’t use headphones with my work computer, where I keep the Dashboard on one of my 3 screens. My coworkers would not get it at all, not a sled dog fan demographic.
Rocking back and forth hugging myself, for pretty much the entire time. One time - ONE TIME BLER YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT BUT!!! A musher's tracker died and it seemed they didn't move for like three days! You should have seen... oh... wait a minute... ;-)
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and baguettes of course.
any words you would like translated?
A couple months ago and email subscription had a post on one. I'll have to try to find it.
But really, any of your faves, or popular French ones would be great!
My first thought would be "bordel de merde " (bordel means brothel in french..or " mess" as in "what a mess") or
"c'est quoi ce bordel??" (softer version)
i know there are others let me think fr a couple of minutes -
https://youtu.be/JA7EInpvCYM?si=J9wiwhzfYin5wtxe
Song lyrics are made.
Spreadsheets and maps are given SUCH attention.
#IGiveArod happens.
We ping each other... HAVE YOU SEEN?... and we take care of each other across the world.
This is the best community. We #SpreadLove. ❤️
bler, this spawned a crazed 300+ tweet reply thread branch while you were in a race
But now I’m imagining you showing your two kids photos and videos of their daddy/papa/whatever the chosen name running the race with some of their fur-family and I’m thinking that would be adorable…and probably make it easier for you to armchair mush too.
... now the mom in me can go to sleep. All in or past Manley.
Going to need to pace myself.
We look at the tracker.
We panic.
We discuss.
We donate.
We look at the tracker.
We panic-donate.
We discuss some more.
Then someone posts pics the one below.
And we get calm.
And we understand that these mushers?
They know what they are doing.
And then we donate some more.
🕺🏽🪩 🕺🏽🪩 🕺🏽🪩
🎶 1, 2, 3, 4, Never let go 🎵
🎵 You can tell by the way I use my walk, 🎶
I'm an # uglydogs, 🎵
no time to talk 🎶
Ah, ah, ah 🎶
Never let go, Never let go 🎵
Never let gooo ooo oo ooo 🎶
When you ran, I was rewatching Game of Thrones and I had Iditarod/Direwolf stress dreams.
Normally, that would be cool, but it did not keep me from going bleral.
*relax*
- iced mocha
- lemon herbal tea + tsp of monk fruit + tsp of Coffemate Italian sweet cream creamer (lemon biscotti tea)
Two playlists:
- get up & go music
- stop looking at your screen & relax music
Lots of cuddling the house husky
🎼🎶🎵🎵. (For Mac) - With apologies to fiddler on the roof…
Mapmaker , mapmaker make us some maps,
Make them be true
Make them come fast
Mapmaker , mapmaker make us more maps so we can watch Q go past