Jen in Dallas
@j3nindallas.bsky.social
Paralegal, writer, jewelry maker. Fat and loud. Loves cats, hates hypocrisy and wants everybody to have enough food, education and medical care. I do not read or respond to DMs.
So I got this email today.
I almost called.
I almost called.
December 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
So I got this email today.
I almost called.
I almost called.
So lemme get this straight. Congress is asking people to sign up for health insurance at the new, much higher prices because those prices MIGHT go down AFTER the first of the year IF Congress can agree on a workable plan?
Seriously?
Seriously?
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 PM
So lemme get this straight. Congress is asking people to sign up for health insurance at the new, much higher prices because those prices MIGHT go down AFTER the first of the year IF Congress can agree on a workable plan?
Seriously?
Seriously?
I found a new glasses rest.
December 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I found a new glasses rest.
Well, this is new. The Internet just crashed at my ofc.
I can literally do nothing rn.
I can literally do nothing rn.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Well, this is new. The Internet just crashed at my ofc.
I can literally do nothing rn.
I can literally do nothing rn.
I have scored some chocolate.
It never hurts to be in good with the receptionist.
It never hurts to be in good with the receptionist.
December 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I have scored some chocolate.
It never hurts to be in good with the receptionist.
It never hurts to be in good with the receptionist.
Second day in a row I am without chocolate at work because I forgot to toss the Hershey's Nuggets into my work bag. Oh, woe.
I wonder if there is a vending machine around here someplace.
I wonder if there is a vending machine around here someplace.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Second day in a row I am without chocolate at work because I forgot to toss the Hershey's Nuggets into my work bag. Oh, woe.
I wonder if there is a vending machine around here someplace.
I wonder if there is a vending machine around here someplace.
Flowers o'the week.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Flowers o'the week.
1500 meters today. 🏊♀️🏊♀️🏊♀️ Oh God it was so cold. So freezing cold. Brrr.
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
1500 meters today. 🏊♀️🏊♀️🏊♀️ Oh God it was so cold. So freezing cold. Brrr.
It's Caturday! Here's Cricket.
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It's Caturday! Here's Cricket.
So I stopped at the bank to get some cash because I have to wash a comforter at the Tom Landry Laundry. The ATM gave me a single $50. Yeah, that's helpful.
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
So I stopped at the bank to get some cash because I have to wash a comforter at the Tom Landry Laundry. The ATM gave me a single $50. Yeah, that's helpful.
I realized today that parts of Artemis's face have turned white. I think she is about 10 years old but she might be almost 11.
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I realized today that parts of Artemis's face have turned white. I think she is about 10 years old but she might be almost 11.
Breakfast of champions. Fried trout and raspberry pancakes. No, I've never had fish for breakfast before. It was pretty good tho!
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Breakfast of champions. Fried trout and raspberry pancakes. No, I've never had fish for breakfast before. It was pretty good tho!
So it's Thanksgiving and I see a lot of posts about horrible MAGA relatives or people who say mean shit and holiday travel and I'm like, y'all could just--not go?
You're adults. You can choose how to spend your leisure time and with whom.
Why do it if you hate it so much and you're treated so bad?
You're adults. You can choose how to spend your leisure time and with whom.
Why do it if you hate it so much and you're treated so bad?
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So it's Thanksgiving and I see a lot of posts about horrible MAGA relatives or people who say mean shit and holiday travel and I'm like, y'all could just--not go?
You're adults. You can choose how to spend your leisure time and with whom.
Why do it if you hate it so much and you're treated so bad?
You're adults. You can choose how to spend your leisure time and with whom.
Why do it if you hate it so much and you're treated so bad?
1500 meters on a chilly morning. 🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️ Everybody was talking about cooking.
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
1500 meters on a chilly morning. 🏊♂️🏊♂️🏊♂️ Everybody was talking about cooking.
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Yay it’s arrived 😍 thank you @thelifeofsharks.com 🦈🦈🦈
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Yay it’s arrived 😍 thank you @thelifeofsharks.com 🦈🦈🦈
Flowers o'the week. There wasn't a batch that particularly grabbed me this time, but these are nice.
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Flowers o'the week. There wasn't a batch that particularly grabbed me this time, but these are nice.
So the mom cat I've been trying to catch because I think she is pregnant again is neither a mom nor pregnant. In fact she is a dude. I got a look today at a mighty pair of balls. Which doesn't mean he doesn't need to be fixed, but the emergency has wound down a little.
November 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
So the mom cat I've been trying to catch because I think she is pregnant again is neither a mom nor pregnant. In fact she is a dude. I got a look today at a mighty pair of balls. Which doesn't mean he doesn't need to be fixed, but the emergency has wound down a little.
Just finished "Nuclear War" by Annie Jacobsen.
Wow.
Wow.
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Just finished "Nuclear War" by Annie Jacobsen.
Wow.
Wow.
I hate the expression "If I can do it, anyone can."
Not only is it unkind, it's not true. We all have different strengths and difficulties.
I, for example, am never gonna climb Mt. Everest. It is just not in my wheelhouse.
But I make a hell of a cool beaded necklace.
Not only is it unkind, it's not true. We all have different strengths and difficulties.
I, for example, am never gonna climb Mt. Everest. It is just not in my wheelhouse.
But I make a hell of a cool beaded necklace.
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I hate the expression "If I can do it, anyone can."
Not only is it unkind, it's not true. We all have different strengths and difficulties.
I, for example, am never gonna climb Mt. Everest. It is just not in my wheelhouse.
But I make a hell of a cool beaded necklace.
Not only is it unkind, it's not true. We all have different strengths and difficulties.
I, for example, am never gonna climb Mt. Everest. It is just not in my wheelhouse.
But I make a hell of a cool beaded necklace.
You guys! 1750 meters this morning!! 🏊♀️🏊♀️🏊♀️
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
You guys! 1750 meters this morning!! 🏊♀️🏊♀️🏊♀️
My wife took this pic of Cricket.
November 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
My wife took this pic of Cricket.
Did you guys know the thermonuclear weapons we have today are an estimated 4,000 times more powerful than the bomb that hit Hiroshima? And we have an estimated 5,000 of them. Back in the 1960s we had 30,000 of them and it's not entirely clear where they all went.
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Did you guys know the thermonuclear weapons we have today are an estimated 4,000 times more powerful than the bomb that hit Hiroshima? And we have an estimated 5,000 of them. Back in the 1960s we had 30,000 of them and it's not entirely clear where they all went.
So when I feel bad, I don't do the things that would make me feel better because I feel bad.
It's a vicious cycle.
It's a vicious cycle.
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
So when I feel bad, I don't do the things that would make me feel better because I feel bad.
It's a vicious cycle.
It's a vicious cycle.
So about a year ago, the Dallas Symphony performed a concert version of the ENTIRE Ring Cycle. (Think singers and musicians but no sets or costumes.)
My wife took me. It was my first opera and she took me to the Iron Man Triathlon of operas.
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My wife took me. It was my first opera and she took me to the Iron Man Triathlon of operas.
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Puccini's Madama Butterfly - Dallas Symphony Orchestra
If any opera can break your heart, it surely is Madama Butterfly, the story of an innocent young Japanese girl, who — as her nickname foreshadows — is crushed by one of opera’s most callous cads, nava...
www.dallassymphony.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
So about a year ago, the Dallas Symphony performed a concert version of the ENTIRE Ring Cycle. (Think singers and musicians but no sets or costumes.)
My wife took me. It was my first opera and she took me to the Iron Man Triathlon of operas.
1
My wife took me. It was my first opera and she took me to the Iron Man Triathlon of operas.
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I'm watching Ken Burns' The Revolutionary War, and I think the repression that's happening now is almost a mirror of what started happening in the mid-1750s.
November 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I'm watching Ken Burns' The Revolutionary War, and I think the repression that's happening now is almost a mirror of what started happening in the mid-1750s.