Noooooooo!!!!

The House has introduced a bill to give DC statehood. That is an excellent idea.

They want to called the State of Washington Douglass Commonwealth. That is OMG effing NOT an excellent idea.

It's already a PITA to search and end up with results that are confusing because Washington State and that other Washington. Having two states with WA in their name? Just effing no. I'm sure the Carolinas, the Virginias, and the Dakotas have some sympathy, but it's very hard to limit searches to stuff in WA sate when one of the is the freaking nation's capital.

Ideally, we'd ditch Washington and call the state Cascadia, which are a defining feature of the state. Plus we'd get the name of a dude who kept slaves, ya know? There are, of course, plenty of Native American tribes in the area, so I wonder if they'd have any suggestions.

Anyhow. I'd be more than happy to ditch the old white dude.

Menus 15Jun-21Jun

Monday: roasted potatoes, green beans, chicken,


Tuesday: Week 3 of macaroni in cheese..... or mac e chee as Linnea seems to be saying.


Wednesday: roast beef sandwiches with roasted zucchini.


Thursday: couscous with chicken breast and carrots.


Friday: Perry. Risotto? Dunno.


Saturday: Chili with cornbread.


Sunday: baked potatoes with spinach and mushrooms.



Not too inspired. Linnea is gleefully sticking to her mac-and-cheese for the summer plan, we've not been able to get her to budge on that. I'm not too thrilled, but having her cook is important too, and giving her the autonomy to make choices. Still, I loathe the orange powder stuff. I offered to teach her how to make real mac and cheese. I offered to buy the good frozen stuff at TJs. Nope. She wants the the orange powder. I don't know if it's because she truly likes it or if she figures I'll give up and relieve her of cooking duty a few weeks in.