Don't leave me in the dark

[sovay]

For International Women's Day, we celebrated my mother's birthday observed. I cooked a lot and ran errands and accompanied my niece on her scooter around the neighborhood. My father found the flame-test candles for her sponge-and-meringue cake and I sourced the white and dark chocolate sheep which formed a little flock atop it.



WERS has been playing all women, all day, which is how I dropped spatch at work to PJ Harvey's "This Is Love" (2000) and left my parents' house to Throwing Muses' "Summer of Love" (2025). Other songs which particularly struck me include Boygenius' "Not Strong Enough" (2023), Joseph's "Fighter" (2019), and especially King Princess' "1950" (2017) and Japanese Breakfast's "Orlando in Love" (2025). I keep forgetting how invaluable the car radio is to my finding new music. I do not look forward to tonight's spring forward.

Comments

[pameladean]

My belated best wishes to your mother.

The sheep just slays me. I am not sure I could eat one.

I had a much less eventful time, but the springing forward of the clocks has really done me in. And the cats are cranky as anything.

P.

[sovay]

My belated best wishes to your mother.

They are not at all belated. Her actual birthday is today. I'll pass them on.

The sheep just slays me. I am not sure I could eat one.

They were unfairly cute, but their numbers are much reduced.

I had a much less eventful time, but the springing forward of the clocks has really done me in. And the cats are cranky as anything.

Solidarity. I really wanted that hour, too.