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Alyssa
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Interior Designer. Professional amateur. Purveyor of beauty. Aspiring renaissance woman. Has never had an original thought. Occasionally blogging at alyssahakanson.com
That’s incredible, actually
October 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
keep seeing “who is this for??” and I’m pretty sure the answer is “my husband”

I’d go hang out, tbh. I like quite a few of these! I’m not fancy!
September 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
“So, have you heard of the Merlin bird app??”
September 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
I mean… not no!

We briefly considered the Netherlands but it turns out you have to be an EU citizen to work at ESA… we’ve since found out that maaaany of our NASA friends have done the same Google search 🙃
September 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This surprises me bc you love old movies!
September 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
They like shooting very special big guns out in the middle of nowhere and are all A+ gun owners, and I still wouldn’t care if they couldn’t do that ever again
September 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The last time I tried to have that conversation publicly, I posted on Facebook and my aunt replied “you would take away the favorite hobby of your dad, uncles, and cousins??”

And I was like ”well, yes…” and it went about as well as you would expect
September 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
[adds to meal plan]
September 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Yeah it does feel less culturally referenced than a lot of other classics!

When you finish, you should read James by Percival Everett. Really great/interesting retelling, would be fun to read back to back
September 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
feels like my whole project list is a budget cut right now...

floor power in a renovation involves trenching the concrete slab. it's pretty expensive, and unfortunately the workaround is kinda hideous:
September 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
very common budget cut, especially in a renovation!
September 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I‘m not sure I’ve ever wanted to slap someone on my tv screen before (presidential appearances excluded)
September 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM