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✓ - read previously // ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶u̶ - read in 2025

fiction

• the golden compass, philip pullman ✓
• the subtle knife, philip pullman ✓
• the amber spyglass, philip pullman ✓
• the passage, justin cronin ✓
• the twelve, justin cronin
• the city of mirrors, justin cronin
• the whisperer in darkness, h.p. lovecraft
• the horror in the museum, h.p. lovecraft
• the haunter of the dark, h.p. lovecraft
• the lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring, j.r.r. tolkien✓
• the lord of the rings: the two towers, j.r.r. tolkien ✓
• the lord of the rings: the return of the king, j.r.r. tolkien ✓
• the hobbit, j.r.r. tolkien ✓
• the children of húrin, j.r.r. tolkien
• unfinished tales, j.r.r. tolkien
• the book of lost tales 1, j.r.r. tolkien
• the book of lost tales 2, j.r.r. tolkien

• 23: pests: how humans create animal villains: 18%
• 22: the twelve: 100%
• 21: the twelve: 54%
• 17: the twelve: 48%
• 15: the twelve: 16%
• 13: the twelve: 2%
• 12: the passage: 100%
• 10: the passage: 67%
• 09: the passage: 55%
• 08: nightmare obscura: 8%
• 07: the passage: 29%
• 06: the passage: 28%
• 05: the passage: 22%
• 04: the passage: 10%
• 02: spooky lakes: 100%
• 01: nightmare obscura: a dream engineer's guide through the sleeping mind: 7%; spooky lakes: 25 strange and mysterious lakes that dot our planet 78%

owned

• my first car: 1990 blue subaru legacy station wagon - “the blue musket”
• 2004 green subaru legacy station wagon
• 1998 green honda civic sedan
• current (parent’s): 2017 red subaru crosstrek
• current (mine): 2010 black honda civic coupé

rental

• red ford focus (new york)
• white hyundai veloster (las vegas/los angeles)
• black jeep compass (new york)

• ✔ 02/14: united rentals 300 - austin hill
• ✔ 02/21: bennett transportation & logistics 250 - sheldon creed
• ✔ 02/28: focused health 250 - shane van gisbergen
• ✔ 03/07: govx 200 - justin allgaier
• ✔ 03/14: the liuna! - kyle larson
• ✔ 03/21: sports clips vfw help a hero 200 - justin allgaier
• ✔ 03/28: nfpa 250 - justin allgaier
• ✔ 04/04: north carolina education lottery 250 presented by black's tire - william sawalich
• ✔ 04/11: suburban propane 300 - connor zilisch
• ✔ 04/18: kansas lottery 300 - taylor gray
• ✔ 04/25: ag-pro 300 - corey day
• ✔ 05/02: andy's frozen custard 340 - kyle larson
• ✔ 05/09: mission 200 at the glen - connor zilisch
• ✔ 05/16: betrivers 200 - corey day
• ✔ 05/23: charbroil 300 - ross chastain
• ✔ 05/30: sports illustrated resorts 250 - justin allgaier
• ✔ 06/13: millertech battery 250 presented by koa - justin allgaier

• York Cat Trail - York, United Kingdom
• Cat Island - Aoshima, Japan
• Hemingway Home and Museum - Key West, Florida - polydactyl cats
• Cyprus
• Istanbul - Türkiye
• Great Sphinx of Giza - Giza, Egypt

✴ - 2026 release

• wolf parade - i'll believe in anything
• tv on the radio - young liars
• death cab for cutie - riptides ✴
• geese - trinidad
• angine de poitrine - sherpa
• angine de poitrine - fabienk ✴
• vulfmon, jacob jeffries - bye bye nashville ✴
• bad bunny - pitorro de coco
• spencer krug - i'll believe in anything - 2026 solo piano version ✴
• neil sedaka - calendar girl - r.i.p.
• bad bunny - tití me preguntó
• gorillaz f/ bizarrap, kara jackson, anoushka shankar - orange county ✴
• bad bunny - dtmf
• bad bunny, nfl - super bowl lx halftime show ✴
• pink floyd - time
• father of peace - bluish ✴

• abrogate v. repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement); evade (a responsibility or duty)
• bactrachian adj. pertaining to or resembling a frog or toad.
• chandler n. a dealer in supplies and equipment for ships and boats; a dealer in household items such as oil, soap, paint, and groceries (historical)
• execrable adj. extremely bad or unpleasant
• fulminate v. express vehement protest; explode violently or flash like lightning (literary)
• lugubrious adj. looking or sounding sad or dismal
• mammon n. wealth regarded as an evil influence of false object of worship and devotion; taken by medieval writers as the name of the devil of covetousness
• martinet n. a strict disciplinarian
• milk run n. a routine, uneventful journey, especially by plane
• peccadillo n. a small, relatively unimportant offense ...

sweet melinda, the peasants call her the goddess of gloom. she speaks good english, and she invites you up into her room. and you’re so kind and careful not to go to her too soon. and she takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.

• just like tom thumb’s blues, highway 61 revisited (1965)

he woke up, the room was bare. he didn't see her anywhere. he told himself he didn't care, pushed the window open wide. felt an emptiness inside, to which he just could not relate. brought on by a simple twist of fate.

• simple twist of fate, blood on the tracks (1975)

• 100 of the world's worst invasive alien ...
• american civil religion
• animals in space: félicette; soviet space dogs
• ant mill
• cat gap
• chronology of the universe
• clear channel memorandum
• hedgehog's dilemma
• inflorescence
• lists
  • of animals awarded human credentials
  • of chemical compounds with unusual names...
  • of cognitive biases
  • of colors
  • of common misconceptions
  • of conspiracy theories
  • of crayola crayon colors
  • of deadliest animals to humans
  • of epidemics & pandemics
  • of eponymous laws

• a haiku for every girl i've ever slept w..., by benedict smith
• an almost made up poem, by charles bukowski
• for women who are 'difficult' to love, by warsan shire
• howl, by allen ginsberg
• love in a time of climate change, by craig santos perez
• old possum's book of practical cats, by t. s. eliot
• ozymandias, by percy bysshe shelley
• sonnet xlv, by pablo neruda
• the love song of j. alfred prufrock, by t. s. eliot
• the owl and the pussy-cat, by edward lear
• the walrus and the carpenter, by lewis carroll
• the woman who could not live with her fa..., by margaret atwood

ALABAMA (AL) - the yellowhammer state; the heart of dixie; the cotton state

• ❝audemus jura nostra defendere❞ - (we dare defend our rights)
• capital: montgomery
• bird: yellowhammer, colaptes auratus
• flower: camellia, camellia japonica l.
• 22nd to join the union

ALASKA (AK) - the last frontier

• ❝north to the future❞
• capital: juneau
• bird: willow ptarmigan, lagopus lagopus
• flower: forget-me-not, myosotis
• 49th to join the union

ARIZONA (AZ) - the grand canyon state; the copper state; the valentine state

• ❝ditat deus❞ - (god enriches)
• capital: phoenix
• bird: cactus wren, camphylorhynchus brunneicapillus

• animal collective, fireworks ▹ strawberry jam (2007)
• billie holiday, i'll be seeing you ▹ single (1944)
• bob dylan, don't think twice, it's alright ▹ the freewheelin' bob dylan (1963)
• bob dylan, if you see her, say hello ▹ blood on the tracks (1975)
• bob dylan, it ain't me babe ▹ another side of bob dylan (1964)
• bob dylan, it's all over now, baby blue ▹ bringing it all back home (1965)
• damien rice, the blower's daughter ▹ o (2002)
• david bowie, space oddity ▹ david bowie (1969)
• don mclean, american pie ▹ american pie (1971)
• eagles of death metal, i love you all the time ▹ zipper down (2015)
• elton john, your song ▹ elton john (1970)
• ewan mcgregor, alessandro safina, your song ▹ moulin rouge! music from baz luhrmann's film (2001)
• foo fighters, everlong ▹ the colour and the shape (1997)
• goo goo dolls, iris ▹ city of angels: music from the motion picture (1998)
• hozier, from eden ▹ hozier (2014)
• jeff buckley, hallelujah ▹ grace (1994)
• joy division, ceremony - live at birmingham university on 2 may 1980 ▹ still (1981)
• k-ci & jojo, all my life ▹ love always (1997)

sunday, july 26

• k-pop shark heroes
• air jaws: red, white & breach
• invasion of the mega sharks

monday, july 27

• bull shark dinner bell
• house of sharks
• biggest mako on earth

tuesday, july 28

• jurassic sharks
• jaws vs. orca
• chum island: catching a killer

wednesday, july 29

• expedition x: atomic sharks
• expedition unknown: shark secrets
• alien sharks: untamed america

thursday, july 30

• 20: copper
• 19: carnation
• 18: poppy
• 17: poppy
• 16: peony
• 15: peony
• 14: carnation
• 13: copper
• 12: copper
• 11: carnation
• 10: carnation
• 09: carnation
• 08: copper
• 07: copper
• 06: carnation
• 05: poppy
• 04: burgundy
• 03: burgundy
• 02: burgundy
• 01: peony

final

july 19

• spain v argentina | 1-0

third place play-off

july 18

• france v england | 4-6

semi-finals

july 15

• england v argentina | 1-2

july 14

• france v spain | 0-2

★・・・・・・★・・・・・・★・・・・・・★

quarter-finals

july 11

• argentina v switzerland | 3-1
• norway v england | 1-2

✓ - indicates reread

• 1984, george orwell
• a confederacy of dunces, john kennedy toole
• a game of thrones, george r.r. martin
• a prayer for owen meany, john irving
• a separate peace, john knowles
• a tree grows in brooklyn, betty smith
• alice's adventures in wonderland, lewis carroll ✓
• americanah, chimamanda ngozi adichie
• and then there were none, agatha christie
• anne of green gables, lucy maud montgomery ✓
• another country, james baldwin
• atlas shrugged, ayn rand
• beloved, toni morrison
• bless me, ultima, rudolfo anaya
• catch-22, joseph heller ✓
• charlotte's web, e.b. white ✓
• clan of the cave bear, jean m. auel
• coldest winter ever, sister souljah
• crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyevksy
• don quixote, miguel de cervantes

june

• read daily: 60%
• postcard a day: 50%

may

• read daily: 68%
• postcard a day: 22%

april

• read daily: 65%
• postcard a day: 40%

march

• read daily: 16%

february

• read daily: 24%

january

• read daily: 81%

• b.j. thomas - raindrops keep fallin’ on my head
• blind alfred reed - why do you bob your hair, girls
• bob miller, emma dermer - eleven cent cotton and forty cent meat
• cy coleman - hey, look me over
• franz xaver gruber - silent night
• from mary poppins (1964) - a spoonful of sugar
• from mary poppins (1964) - feed the birds (tuppence a bag)
• from the sound of music (1965) - my favorite things
• from willy wonka and the chocolate factory (1971) - the candy man
• neil diamond - holly holy
• norman greenbaum - spirit in the sky
• oasis - wonderwall
• paul mauriat - love is blue
• r.e.m. - it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)
• randy newman - you've got a friend in me
• the beatles - hey jude

june

• x - pierre gasly regains monaco grand prix podium after alpine’s right of review successful
• x - ferrari renews charles leclerc on new multi-year contract
• x - formula 1 to race in las vegas for another 10 years

may

• x - gucci announced as alpine title partner from 2027 season
• x - honda receives $19 million bailout
• x - v8 engines will return to the sport as early as 2030

april

• x - formula 1 is returning to istanbul park in turkey from 2027 through 2031
• x - allan mcnish new racing director at audi

• ✔ 03/01: firestone grand prix of st. petersburg - álex palou
• ✔ 03/07: good ranchers 250 - josef newgarden
• ✔ 03/15: java house grand prix of arlington - kyle kirkwood
• ✔ 03/29: children's of alabama indy grand prix - álex palou
• ✔ 04/19: acura grand prix of long beach - alex palou
• ✔ 05/09: sonsio grand prix - christian lundgaard
• ✔ 05/24: 110th running of the indianapolis 500 - felix rosenqvist
• ✔ 05/31: chevrolet detroit grand prix - álex palou
• ✔ 06/07: bommarito automotive group 500 - josef newgarden
• ✔ 06/21: xpel grand prix at road america - christian lundgaard
• ✔ 07/05: honda indy 200 at mid-ohio - pato o'ward
• 07/19: borchetta bourbon music city grand prix - rain
• ✔ 07/20: borchetta bourdon music city grand prix - álex palou
• 08/09: onlybulls grand prix of portland - portland international raceway (portla...

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july

• the secret history of the world, mark booth (jonathan black)
• pests: how humans create animal villains, bethany brookshire
• ✔ the twelve, justin cronin | ★★★★☆
• nightmare obscura: a dream engineer's guide through the sleeping mind, michelle carr ♪
• ✔ spooky lakes: 25 strange and mysterious lakes that dot our planet, geo rutherford ♪ | ★★★★⯪

june

• ✔ the passage, justin cronin | ★★★★☆
• the grapes of wrath, john steinbeck
• the mighty red, louise erdrich

may

• ✔ jurassic park, michael crichton ♪ | ★★★⯪☆
• ✔ the lottery, shirley jackson | ★★★★☆
• ✔ the yellow wallpaper, charlotte perkins gilman | ★★★★☆...

ko-fi

chart of the month

• 02/2023: rosy maple moth
• 04: lunar lad
• 05: window views (gaggle)
• 05: window views (stray cats)
• 05: window views (sunset)
• 06: daffodil - 50x50, 75x75, 100x100
• 07: it’s eggs! - 50x50, 75x75, 100x100
• 08: lunar flight a
• 08: lunar flight b
• 08: lunar flight c
• 08: lunar flight d
• 09: luna - 50x50, 75x75, 100x100
• 10: big horn in the sky - 50x50, 75x75, 100x100
• 11: poppy nouveau i (50x50)
• 11: poppy nouveau ii (60x80)
• 11: poppy nouveau iii (100x100)
• 13: flock a - crows
• 13: flock b

🔁 - rewatch // 🖤 - love // 🔬 - documentary

march

• anaconda (2025)

february

• meg 2: the trench (2023)
• rampage (2018) 🔁
• the matrix revolutions (2003) 🔁
• the matrix (1999) 🔁

january

• godzilla (1998) 🔁
• godzilla (1954) 🔁
  • godzilla was baptized in the fire of the h-bomb and survived. what could kill it now?
• titan: the oceangate submersible disaster (2025) 🔬
• evil influencer: the jodi hildebrandt sto... (2025) 🔬

mammals

• hippopotamus, Hippopotamus amphibius , (common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus, river hippopotamus) ♡♡♡
• blue whale, Balaenoptera musculus
• orca, Orcinus orca (killer whale)
• cat, Felis catus (house cat, domestic cat)
• raccoon, Procyon lotor (racoon, common raccoon)
• Baikal seal, Pusa sibirica (Lake Baikal seal; nerpa)
• beluga whale, Delphinapterus leucas (white whale; sea canary)
• North American beaver, Castor canadensis

birds

• northern cardinal (common cardinal; red cardinal), Cardinalis cardinalis
• pink robin, Petroica rodinogaster
• Luzon bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba luzonica (bleeding-heart dove, bleeding-heart pigeon, punay)
• mourning dove, Zenaida macroura (American mourning dove, rain dove, turtle dove, Carolina pigeon, Carolina turtledove)

reptiles

• hrcyed 3.0
• shark week
• 1952 & 1953 temperature blankets
• formula 1 blanket
• "world cup" blanket
• move all the yarn
• call the plumber
  • bidet?
• fucking go a walk

• ✔ january
• ✔ february
• march
• ✔ april
• may
• ✔ june
• july

new rule: postcrossing only once a week

• 15: around the states in 365 congrats bingo
• 12: postcard united: hong kong
• 10: postcard united: canada
• 08: postfun: kazakhstan
• 07: postcrossing: canada
• 04: geopostcards: south korea
• 01: postcard united: russia

• a game of thrones, george r. r. martin
• alice's adventures in wonderland, lewis carroll
• atlas shrugged, ayn rand
• bleak house, charles dickens
• charlie and the chocolate factory, roald dahl
• cher ami and major whittlesey, kathleen rooney
• darwin's finches, david lack
• death in venice, thomas mann
• dr. miles' almanac: dr. miles new weather almanac and hand book of valuable information, dr. miles medical company
• love in the time of cholera, gabriel garcía márquez
• mary poppins, p.l. travers
• mastro-don gesualdo, giovanni verga
• of mice and men, john steinbeck
• on the origin of species, charles darwin
• pests in the city: flies, bedbugs, cockroaches, and rats, dawn day biehler
• rats: observations on the history and habitat of the city's most unwanted inhabitants, robert sullivan

• starcat valley blanket
• 2023 temperature blanket
• the vintage jean tube scarf → for daddy
• 70s pink sampler afghan (vintage pattern on etsy) → need hlilty in turquoise (ocean?)
• sally skulls cardigan → do we have enough yarn? back piece made originally for pullover
• daphne afghan → white & skinny cakes
• mustard happypotamus → impeccable (?) in mustard; hook size?
• hexagon cardigan → skinny cakes
• rainbow jellyfish → stuffing & sewing
• rainbow stegosaurus → just legs? where’s the pattern?
• rainbows of love → uncle k
• small blanket → pip
• jack of hearts tapestry → white?; caron one pound in claret; hlilty in royal blue; impeccable mustard(?)
• moo deng tapestry

based on stardew valley blanket by @fruitydaycrochet/ig and cat pattern by @marynacrochetdesign/ig

started: january 20, 2025 // re-started: march 2026

information & photos here

• red: 2/3 cat; 1/3 solid
• orange: 1/3 cat; 1/3 solid
• yellow: 1/3 cat; 2/3 solid
• ✓ green: 3/3 cat; 0/3 solid
• turquoise: 1/3 cat; 1/3 solid
• blue: 1/3 cat; 0/3 solid
• purple: 1/3 cat; 0/3 solid
• pink: 1/3 cat; 1/3 solid
• black: 1/3 cat; 0/3 solid
• grey: 1/3 cat; 1/3 solid

✥ - sprint race

• ✔ 03/08: qatar airways australian grand prix - george russell (mercedes)
• ✔ 03/15: heineken chinese grand prix - kimi antonelli (mercedes) ✥
• ✔ 03/29: aramco japanese grand prix - kimi antonelli (mercedes)
• 04/12: gulf air bahrain grand prix - cancelled
• 04/19: stc saudi arabian grand prix - cancelled
• ✔ 05/03: crypto.com miami grand prix - kimi antonelli (mercedes) ✥
• ✔ 05/24: lenovo grand prix du canada - kimi antonelli (mercedes) ✥
• ✔ 06/07: louis vuitton grand prix de monaco - kimi antonelli (mercedes)
• ✔ 06/14: msc cruises gran premio de barcelona-catalunya - lewis hamilton (ferrari)
• ✔ 06/28: lenovo austrian grand prix - george russell (mercedes)
• ✔ 07/05: pirelli british grand prix - _charles leclerc (ferrari) ✥
• ✔ 07/19: moët and chandon belgian grand prix - kimi antonelli (mercedes)
• 07/26: aws hungarian grand prix - hungaroring
• 08/23: heineken dutch grand prix - circuit zandvoort ✥
• 09/06: pirelli gran premio d'italia - autodromo nazionale monza

july

• 09: a week in the life

june

• 19: american monsters

may

• 23: two more letters

april

• 04: 2026 vvcal

march

• 29: two more letters
• 28: starcat valley blanket
• 20: continuing the alphabet

february

• 15: world hippo day
• 09: that's amore

january

• 02/01: cook out clash at bowman gray stadium - bowman gray stadium (nc) - postponed due to winter weather
• 02/02: cook out clash at bowman gray stadium - bowman gray stadium (nc) - postponed due to winter weather
• ✔ 02/04: cook out clash at bowman gray stadium - ryan preece
• ✔ 02/15: dayona 500 - tyler reddick
• ✔ 02/22: autotrader 400 - tyler reddick
• ✔ 03/01: duramax grand prix powered by reladyne - tyler reddick
• 03/08: straight talk wireless 50 - ryan blaney
• ✔ 03/15: pennzoil 400 presented by jiffy lube - denny hamlin
• ✔ 03/22: goodyear 400 - tyler reddick
• ✔ 03/29: cook out 400- chase elliot
• ✔ 04/12: food city 500 - ty gibbs
• ✔ 04/19: advent health 400 - tyler reddick
• ✔ 04/26: jack link's 500 - carson hocevar
• ✔ 05/03: würth 400 presented by liqui moly - chase elliot
• ✔ 05/10: go bowling at the glen - shane van gisbergen

• reality check: inside america’s next top model s01e01: on top
• reality check: inside america’s next top model s01e02: still in the running
• the secret lives of mormon wives s01e01: the first book of taylor
• the secret lives of mormon wives s01e02: the book of belonging
• the secret lives of mormon wives s01e03: the book of saints & sinners
• the secret lives of mormon wives s01e04: the book of truth
• the secret lives of mormon wives s01e05: the book of broken vows

film

• cat, from breakfast at tiffany's (1961)
• fat louie, from the princess diaries (2001)
• felix the cat, from feline follies (1919)
• figaro, from pinocchio (1940)
• fuzz aldrin, from moonfall (2022)
• jiji, from kiki's delivery service (1989)
• jones, from alien (1979) & aliens (1986)
• lucifer, from cinderella (1950)
• orion, from men in black (1997)
• rhubarb, from rhubarb (1951)
• sassy, from homeward bound (1993)
• thackery binx, from hocus pocus (1993)
• the cast of the aristocats (1970)
• ulysses, from inside llewyn davis (2013)

television

• fat cat, from chip 'n dales rescue rangers (1989 - 1990)
• scratchy, from the simpsons (1987 - )
• snowball, from the simpsons (1987 - )
• sylvester j. pussycat, sr., from looney tunes, first appearing may 20, 1939

• below 20° | white
• 20° - 23° | cream
• 24° - 27° | silver
• 28° - 31° | grey
• 32° - 35° | proper purple
• 36° - 39° | viola
• 40° - 43° | lavender
• 44° - 47° | cloud blue
• 48° - 51° | denim
• 52° - 55° | cornish blue
• 56° - 59° | royal
• 60° - 63° | green
• 64° - 67° | tea green
• 68° - 71° | lemon
• 72° - 75° | citron
• 76° - 79° | mustard
• 80° - 83° | gold
• 84° - 87° | copper
• 88° - 91° | carnation
• 92° - 95° | poppy
• 96° - 99° | peony

arthropoda

• black carpenter ant, camponotus pennsylvanicus
• black swallowtail butterfly, papilio polyxenes
• brown marmorated stink bug, halyomorpha halys
• cloudless sulphur butterfly, phoebis sennae
• common eastern bumble bee, bombus impatiens
• common walkingstick, diapheromera femorata
• confused eusarca butterfly, eusarca confusaria
• dog-day cicada, neotibicen canicularis
• eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly, papilio glaucus
• fall webworm, hyphantria cunea
• german wasp, vespula germanica
• harlequin, asian, or multicolored asian lady beetle, harmonia axyridis
• house centipede, scutigera coleoptrata
• house cricket, acheta domesticus
• leaf-footed bug, leptoglossus oppositus
• oriental beetle, anomala orientalis
• small cabbage white butterfly, pieris rapae
• southern yellowjacket, vespula squamosa

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