low rider thumbo

every month we have what we have termed a 'birthday bash'. we have it on the last friday of the month and it's to celebrate all the birthdays of the month. each of the units take turns making the cake and the other tasks involved. this month it's our unit's turn to make the cake. mary always finds a no bake recipe, because, as we say in our unit, "mary don't bake". it became a whole thing, involving an ai picture of mary as a rapper which then evolved into an ai music video of ai mary doing an ai rap. "yo they call me the queen, but mary don't bake..." some of us have since then learned the rap and are planning on performing it on the day of the birthday bash. like i said, it's become a whole thing.

anyways today i joined the gang to prepare the no-bake-mary-cake. i told them "my goal here is to make everyone feel stupid." they all laughed. shrug. just saying truths. i'm not sure how it will turn out. we'll see who's the stupid one, and it might be me.

i'm doing faculty training and this morning was our preliminary meet and greet before the actual training begins. this is all on eastern standard time so for us on the west coast it started at 7:30 am. we introduced ourselves and went over some things about schedule and technical blah blah blahs. i have to say that i wasn't really feeling nervous about the training except for maybe the actual mock accreditation visit, but after hearing multiple people give us reassurances about how ya it's intense but you can do it, and we are all survivors, and do self care etc... i don't know. me thinks you reassure to earnestly.

mei-mei likes to lay on her back beside my thigh and use her pokey-pokes, her sharpy-sharps to do staccato tappity taps down my leg, or frantically dig for gold under my leg. my method of defense is to grab a pillow and put it down beside my leg. she leaps over my prostrate body and starts her sharps ritual down the other leg. i grab another pillow. it's what we do.

mom and i each got our best scores at boggle tonight. "i want to keep improving but i don't want you to." said mom.  i always take my blood pressure 3 times in a row. my first time it was 129/87. the seccond time it soared to 147/87. it happened to be that i was thinking about how to get rid of my bed. maybe too stressful. so i closed my eyes and breathed deeply for the third attempt. 119/87. mom tried to think of stressful thoughts to see if her blood pressure would go up but it kept going down like the over-achiever that she is.

bethany has her cast off and a sleek black molded thumb holster in its place. it's the harley of thumb holsters.

just had brief moments with my lover today. i miss him.