Bookity

• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Harry Potter pie charts.
• Pride and Prejudice in 2018.
• Some alternate takes on Beauty and the Beast.
• A word from writing-prompt-s on Tumblr.
• The intersection of Star Wars and Harry Potter.
• Stanley Cup library trash talking.
• Coraline in LEGO. (via neil-gaiman)
• “We are not here for boner-led heroes, Elyse”.

Think, Do, Make, Learn

• “Ways in which having a cat is helping me fix my mental health“.
• All the roads in Minnesota.
• Minnesota’s Northwest Angle (northernmost point in the continental US).
• Meet Pando.
• How misinformation works.
• Gun homicides in other countries.
• NOAA’s new weather satellite takes some pretty pictures.
• Video on climate change.

Cookity

• 27 easy lentil meals.
• Loaded baked potato salad.
• Big-batch Costco budget sangria.
• Overnight strawberry-rhubarb pie.
• Rhubarb-lavender crisp.
• Big crumb rhubarb coffee cake.
• Coke and peanut butter sheet cake.

Gluten Free

• Plain flourless peanut butter cookies.
• Chocolate sheet cake.

Artsy Crafty

• Index-Card-a-Day starts today (June 1).
• Artists.
• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• Antarctica is going to have its first Pride celebration.
• Cat dad! (There’s more at his Twitter.)
• A story “about choice , and agency, and motherhood. Oh, and also murder.”
• Eerie and cool sculpture.
• Black cat or… black cryptid?
• Space backgrounds for phones.
• “Highlights from the medieval scholars that took over my workplace today”.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• Genitalia slang timelines.

LOL

• New Simon’s Cat short.
• Funny but all too true.
• “Twitter absolutely roasted an article about saving twice your salary by age 35”.
• “How clearly and concisely you can articulate your thoughts”.
• On tempo in music.
• Construction season has arrived in Minnesota. (Where they love to close the main route, so you shift to their alternate route… and then they close the alternate route.)
• The truth about Midwesterners.

Teh Cute

• Baby button quail! Kitten! Red wolf and babies!

Reading Update
The Art and Craft of Collage by Simon Larbalestier. Not a book that has aged well (copyright 1990) – the author spent an inordinate amount of time discussing how to get various effects using photocopiers…
Dreaming from the Journal Page: Transforming the Sketchbook to Art by Melanie Testa. Reread. This time I found something I want to try – mixing a little liquid soap with watercolor so it can be used for stamping. But still not a favorite – in fact, I’d forgotten I’d already read it…

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“…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…” -Chaos

Chaos is filling in for May today, although maybe he isn’t aware of that… 😉

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• Jump around.
• Fun.
• Tiny boat. Circle. Lotion.
• Talk. Reading. Yo-yo.
• Ice cream.
• Science. Vinegar. Chronic misunderstanding.
• Sketching leopards.

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*thlurp* -Mayhem

Mayhem and I spent a good chunk of Sunday afternoon at the emergency vet because, while she’d been fine when I went to bed Saturday night, she was not fine when I got up Sunday morning. She was huddled in a corner of the bathroom, had no interest in eating, and seemed to have some pain around one of her back legs.

“Woe is me.” -Mayhem

Turns out, after x-rays, she has osteoarthritis in her lumbar spine area (her back near the base of her tail) and in her hips. D’oh! (She turns 12 on May 31st.) Don’t know if it had been getting progressively worse and she just hit the wall, or if she managed to aggravate it overnight. She got some subcutaneous fluids at the emergency vet and I gave her painkillers twice a day for a couple days. I didn’t need to confine her, because she set herself up in the dining room, under the dining room table and chairs, and mostly hung out there for a few days. I moved a kitty bed, water, and a litter box over there for her. She stayed pretty quiet Monday and Tuesday, but seemed much more herself Wednesday morning. Unfortunately, it seems like she can’t really jump onto stuff very well, so I suspect I’ll be figuring out ways to facilitate her getting to her favorite spots.

So! It’s been quite a week, what with the emergency vet and then the followup with our regular vet. I’m enjoying a couple of days off and decided that would include a little linkity vacation. 🙂

Have a great weekend, everyone! Thanks for visiting us here. 🙂

Welcome back to Art Journaling Monday! 🙂

• Play.
• And more play.
• On creative playing.
• All the colors.
• Is it spring yet??
• Music, clouds, language, tire table.
• The Finder!

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“Mom. It’s called a SECRET hideout for a reason!” -Mayhem

Bookity

• New releases: AAR (romance)
• Linkity from Smart Bitches.
• Linkity from the Pen Addict.
• Linkity from Inkophile.
• Cover snark from Smart Bitches.
• Anne Frank’s diary has two hidden pages. (via Book Riot)
• How to get started reading Ray Bradbury.
• A graphic novel biography of Stephen Hawking will be available in 2019.
• Trailer for a documentary about Ursula K Le Guin.
• “I see my queer self in Murakami’s magical realism“.
• Book-themed journal prompts.
• 25 quotes from Margaret Atwood.
• “Badass gifts for profane book lovers“.

Do, Learn, Make, Think

• Very simple (in cartoon form) look at how statistics can be used to make things sound much better than they actually are.
• “EST and EDT are different time zones“. (Hey, I work in telecom – time zones are a big deal!)
• How to resize picture frames from the thrift store without a lot of tools.
• A solution for warm weather thigh chafing.
• What Nazism actually is.
• You go, #ResistanceGenealogy!
• “Why do we have butts?“
• Be careful with your proximity keys, people! (The title’s kind of over-the-top, but there are some good points to remember in the article, so.)
• “Is hummus good for you?“
• “100,000 video game players helped prove Einstein wrong“.
• How the brand-new expansion team Las Vegas Golden Knights got good enough to still be in the NHL Playoffs (3rd round). (Most successful expansion team of any sport, ever.)

Cookity

• Marinated feta beet salad.
• Broccoli and feta pasta salad.
• 9 recipes for salads for dinner.
• 30 recipes you can make with a can of chickpeas.
• Strawberry quinoa salad.
• Refried hummus.
• Brown butter rhubarb cake with crumb topping.
• Elderflower lemon cake.
• Coffee walnut cake.
• Victoria sponge sandwich cake.
• Lemon drizzle cake.

Gluten Free

• Colombian empanadas.
• Pineapple angel food cake.
• Salted chocolate buckwheat cookies.

Artsy Crafty

• Tips for setting yourself up for success with The 100 Day Project.
• The Index-Card-A-Day Challenge starts June 1!
• Linkity from knittyBlog.
• Knitting linkity from kmkat.

Cool

• If you watch the whole thing, it is indeed eerie at the end.
• “The shapes of ideas“.
• Mother’s Day themed linkity from BookWyrmKnits.
• Linkity from kmkat.

Cool or Wha…?

• A wearable that records everything you miss when you are blinking.
• Star Wars fan film about an artisanal light saber maker.

Wha…?

• “Froot Loops are not all shaped like loops anymore“.
• LaCroix swimwear.
• Braspberries…

LOL

• A novel way to keep squirrels out of a bird feeder.
• Resentful Pluto.
• Sheep blep.
• Glasses exchange…
• Barbie on Cake Wrecks.

Teh Cute

• Swans and cygnet! Black kitten!

Reading Update
Cowboys Are My Weakness by Pam Houston. Rereading is such a funny thing. I haven’t reread this for at least 20 years and remembered loving it – it really resonated with me then. Now? Not so much.
Once Upon a Piece of Paper: A Visual Guide to Collage Making by Andrea D’Aquino. Not much text at all, so it’s a fast read, and I got some great inspiration from it. But I can’t say that it was worth the price of purchase – maybe if I used every scrap of paper in the “paper to collage” pad that came with the book, but my track record on such things isn’t good.
My Monster Notebook by John Harris. Pretty good kids’ book about mythological monsters. (I have this to cut apart for collage and inadvertently read it.)

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*staring into opposite distances* -Chaos & Mayhem

Small cat in the big cat bed, big cat in the small cat bed…