Everyone knows how much I love coffee. I’m having my 10pm iced coffee at this very moment. I love everything about coffee. It’s delicious. You can have it hot or iced, flavored, in a frappe, blended, as espresso, cappuccino, sweet, bitter — or any way you want. Occasionally with Kaluha. I’m a hot coffee with butter pecan or French vanilla in the morning and iced coffee with some type of mocha from 4pm on (but only in super cold insulated tumblers with no ice as to not water down my favorite beverage).

Me. For a while now.

People are being so hateful currently. I keep seeing it and I don’t like the way it makes me feel. I explained that a relative’s FB meme was actually promoting what she thought was the opposite. Then I said a few perfectly nice sentences of common sense. I wasn’t mean. Another relative commented to me — the eye roll emoji. Lovely.

Hate (and racism in the guise of humor) is at an all time high in my non-scientific opinion.

And it breaks my heart. 💔

And that’s why we have music.

Today it’s Regina Spektor’s “Fidelity,” which I heard earlier on Veronica Mars — way back in the day when that song was just out.

I still love this song in a million ways. Enjoy.

I don’t usually get political on the blog, although I have very strong political feelings. But I’m disgusted today. Two mass shootings in one weekend in our country. Completely avoidable with a few laws and mental health measures. Our president is making a statement tomorrow at 10. He will say he grieves with our nation and our two parties need to work together. He will say the shooters were mentally ill. He will not say we live in a country that worships guns. He will say his thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families. Here’s the problem: if you knew your child’s school or your grandmother’s church or the building where your father’s AA meetings are held were going to be targeted by an armed shooter tomorrow — would you rely on thoughts and prayers to prevent your family from being hurt? Would that be enough? Or would you want better gun laws and help for people to be diagnosed and treated for mental illness and denied the right to own a firearm? And maybe for our president to stop tweeting racist shit.

But no. It will be thoughts and prayers and we’ll all forget until the next mass shooting.

Thoughts and prayers.

Dammit Lang.

I am pale. Like ghost white. I love only once had an under eye concealer that matched my skin. It was Max Factor and of course they stopped making it, then they either went out of business or started only selling in England. Weird. Anyway, I read some article about the best concealers, so while my daughter was getting a haircut, boomshskalaka! I found it. By Smashbox. This is it.

Here are the results:

You can still see my freckles, but it covers. Ignore the adult acne. And there are more shades than I can count. Crazy, huh?

I’ve posted this before. I wanted to post it again.

I forgot to post the photos of the lovely Pilot Frixion Ball Knock Retractable Gel Ink Pen, 0.5mm. Look at the gemstone-like colors.

How gorgeous are these? They’re pure color, not glitter, not shimmer.

And they’re from Japan. They make good stuff.

I have always loved stationary. That will probably surprise zero people. I’m a pen person. I’m a notebook, clipboard, legal pad girl. Not just any pen. Not any notebook. Not any clipboard. Not any legal pad.

Friends gave me a pen necklace similar to Joan’s on Mad Men and I love it. I need to get the ink refill changed to blue because I hate black in though. I very much enjoy Jet Pens dot com. They have pens you will never ever see in Office Depot. Most of the good pens are made in Japan and have different millimeters. You know how the thickness of pens write? that’s the point — the millimeter.

It’s the Pilot Frixion Ball Knock Retractable Gel Ink Pen, 0.5mm. It’s erasable, but don’t think of the old Papermate icky things. This one is made in Japan. It writes like a dream. Amazon has them, but I highly recommend Jetpens.com. The colors are just glorious, too. If you’re a colored pen fan, I love the Pentel EnerGel Clena Gel 0.4mm in brown. So much nicer than black. Stationary freak.

Am I crazy? Probably. Undoubtedly. Do I care? Not at all.

Lizzo, my favorite newish artist, performed on NPR’s “Tiny Desk,” or Tiny ASS Desk, as she put it. I’ll say it again, if Aretha Franklin we’re starting out in 2018, she would be Lizzo.

Watch the three song show.