JUST FUCKING LISTEN. 

At my old Hebrew school, we made hamantashen at our Purim carnival, and to make clean up easier than having jam everywhere, we often made them with chocolate chips and i think butterscotch?  

But my points are 1. that any option of baking chip works well and 2. combine different types of hamantachen filling for many possiblities

happy purim katan everyone! (singular party horn)

I disagree with the premise that any child of Athena has only a singular brain cell, but Percy and Grover definitely share one, and I feel that Annabeth takes it away from them when they have overused it so it can recharge. 

the entirety of the lightning thief really is just Percy, Annabeth, and Grover fighting over the use of one (1) singular brain cell isn’t it

People on this website… Have no idea what a baby boomer actually is…

Hot hot hot hot chocolate

HEY WE GOT IT

Oh that’s a good point!  Thanks!!

simple things you can do for your first rosh hashanah:

- eat apples and honey

- eat challah and honey

- bake round challah

- reflect on the previous year, what happened for you, how you’ve changed, how you want to act differently in the coming year

- light candles on rosh hashanah eve

- do kiddush (wine blessing) and hamotzi (bread blessing) on Rosh Hashanah eve

- socially distanced outdoor apples + honey with a friend

- zoom prayer service if you feel up to it

- tashlich - go to a body of water, think of the ways you acted last year that you want to leave in the past or any harm you may have caused others, pick up some small stones or sticks, attach the bad actions to the objects in your head, then toss them away into the water

- listen to a recording of someone blowing a shofar (ram’s horn)

When my grandpa died, we cleaned out the house so my Gram could move into a senior living place.  You know what we found?  A coconut.  In the attic.  At least twenty years old (I forget when mom told me they went on a vacation where they would have obtained a coconut).  We still talk about it. 

Reminder that almost any truly vintage and antique knit or crochet pattern can be found FREE on many sites including:

Antique Pattern Library

Antique Pattern Library Crochet, knitting, tatting, netting, embroidery, needle lace, beading and other needlework patterns.

Free patterns, free craft books, free resources, free makers library, free knitting patterns, free crochet patterns, free embroidery pattern

Vintage Knitting Pattern Archive

Vintage Knitting Pattern Archive

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.

On both internet archive and project gutenburg it helps to know what book or magizine you are looking for but you can still do a regular vague key word search and find something.

Even your local library and ravelry might have antique pattern books on file! On ravelry you will have to exclude all purchasable patterns instead of just looking for free for some reason, then get past the first page or two of patterns people thought "looked antique" but once you get to the black and white photos you are golden!

ravelry.com

Ravelry

So please don't buy an etsy shop's antique pattern when there is really no reason to, and if you are one of those selling these patterns, know I am judging you big time!

PETA

you guys remember when PETA stole people pets off their porches and euthanized them?

you guys remember how it came out that PETA kills about 90% of the animals it takes in, including healthy and adoptable puppies and kittens, stating “ We could become a no-kill shelter immediately. It means we wouldn’t do as much work”?

you guys remember when PETA advocated killing all pit bulls for the crime of being pit bulls?

you guys remember when PETA handed out these comics to children when there were no adults looking?

you guys remember when they made a porn site and then filled it with videos of animal abuse, and (also in that link) claimed cats should be vegetarian?

you guys remember when PETA lied about sheep shearing, got caught, and defended the lie as true even after they admitted the sheep in their picture wasn’t even real?

you guys remember when they tried to excuse their horrifying ways by claiming that the person who exposed them was manipulating the facts by taking them and putting them in the wrong context?

Because I remember. I remember everything. 

And I’m gonna make sure everyone else remembers too. 

me @ AO3

It was during French class, at the end of a standardized testing day.  We were playing a game of chaud et froid, or hot and cold.  A student is looking for a rock.  There are twenty other students chanting décontracté (it means casual) while we are waiting for the first student to get the idea to go through a kid’s hair.