marbenais.bsky.social
“every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied”
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Well, good to know as I’m packing for my upcoming London trip!
When we were in France in 2019 for the World Cup, we not only slept separately but also with wet/damp towels draped over us. I knew there’s no AC, and no ice, but I did not remember NO FANS ANYWHERE.
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I cannot think of another job in this country which allows and accepts total, complete, and tragic failures on a daily basis than “police officer.”
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I don’t have sound on for many of the games I watch, so this is very much a YMMV observation, but I’ve noticed that Portland and LA get more consistently complimentary commentary.
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Every single time there’s been a car crash near our house, the police take at least 20 minutes to show up and then yell at us for having been directing traffic around the multiple vehicles blocking the intersection. What the hell else are we supposed to do? Watch more crashes happen? They’re late!
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Not necessarily - it used to be more frequent, when the commentators were more likely to be local because there weren’t many nationally-staffed broadcasts
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Right, this is just months after several mushers were pulled when they weren’t actually that far behind compared to gaps further up the race (IIRC, I can’t pull up the exact numbers right now).
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Much windier today, no dogs on the sandbar, but I have seen the same young fluffy blonde Golden multiple times and they’re trying SO HARD not to run and strain their leash. Adorable!
Also, humans attempting golf directly into the wind ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I was thinking that, since she didn’t travel, it was probably the longest time she’d spent in one place since last September or October.
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The townhouse next to us - meaning, sharing walls - had an ACTUAL INFANT at that time who never sounded that upset. Just regular crying sometimes. The cats were far more alarming.
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I lived with roommates with cats in my mid-twenties and did not know that 1) they don’t clean up food for you and 2) they sound like an infant being tortured when you close the bathroom door in their face. I did not know those sounds could exist with a smug little whiskered face and swishing tail.
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Yeah, I’ve had to keep telling my mom - born before 1957 but a nurse! - that immunities can wane and she really needs to get titers done to make sure she doesn’t need the MMR. (My partner has found that her mumps immunity disappeared and she immediately got that MMR again.)
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It’s not recommended (so, covered by insurance) over age 45, but, considering that my doctor keeps telling me I’ll never get the shingles vaccine because I’m too young to have had chickenpox (I made them note that I had it in 1989!), I’m sure some just don’t look up new guidelines.
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Already had to politely kick a family out of our chairs, today’s a big day.
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I would like to note that I am being Very Responsible by not going out to the sandbar without @ash12.bsky.social because I can’t see shit without my glasses and don’t know where I’d end up trying to swim back alone.
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How many lower leg injures from trying to perfect the Newsies jump, yes, absolutely.
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That chocolate peanut butter is delicious and I will eat it directly with a spoon.
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Yeah, we’ve never “blended in” with most groups, peers or not.
I was already at least twice the age of most of my classmates when finishing the end of my bachelor’s degree in 2022, being the only one wearing a mask couldn’t make me stand out MORE.
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Diabetes and epilepsy alert dogs are very very very good!
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"I have a flashlight on my phone."
That's for when it's 1:30AM and you're 9 episodes in with 2% battery and you realize you unplugged your charger so you're leaning over the bed looking for the power strip trying not to fall to your doom.
Please buy a real flashlight.
Please.
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“What do you mean 70/40 isn’t a regular blood pressure?”
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We were up last week, decided to try a new bagel place, only to find out that they don’t slice and toast their bagels, they sell them to “rip & dip” with cheeses.
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There’s a dessert restaurant/basement place in Portland which, when we went a few years ago, had one table of slightly uncomfortable straight people and the rest was delightfully queer.
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It was a short little snippet, similar to the “Kiki, do you love me?” they flashed real quick after one of Iriafen’s layups.
We did go to more college games this winter than we have in a while, so I think the music selections at the pro games are more noticeable this early in the season.
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You know what, you’re right and I want to see that chaos.
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I don’t know if the funniest moment made the broadcast, but they played “Bad Blood” while Bonner was preparing for her free throws after her collision with Edwards which resulted in the latter having to go off for blood in her mouth.
(I didn’t think Aaliyah fouled her but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
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I do not like that plan.
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Y’all have a big media section here!
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I don’t even know how I got up here to the 200s . . . I can come down to the 100s at halftime, don’t want you to get stuck up here.
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I knew there’d be many of them here but . . . so many.
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That’s about the same amount of time our fourteen-year-old dog takes for pre-walk stretching, not very long for him to be patient.
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Our dog understands “halftime walk” but refuses to accept “last two basketball minutes are actually fifteen” and “okay so it’s ten . . . twenty . . . minutes of stoppage time tonight for soccer.”
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“designed for those with a sense of fun and a great talking point to liven up any dinner party!” . . . because that’s exactly the kind of unexpected item for tipsy adults to use after desserts. Sure. How close is the nearest hospital?
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I will say that, if we’re doing a curve for heaven and hell, I feel much more confident as an adult that I’ll be on the higher end because I’ve SEEN THINGS now.
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Are the shirts 100% cotton or a blend?