So our Internet decided to go out for reasons that I don’t know, although that happens to be a random thing with our ISP. The only reason that we even have this Internet service provider is because they have a monopoly in our area and because they are the only one that truly offers unlimited bandwidth… and this is extremely useful when you have two autistic children using it who love to spend time watching YouTube videos on their iPads. We would have considered switching to another service provider awhile ago were it not for the monopoly that they clearly hold in this area and the whole unlimited bandwidth thing, because there have actually been points when we have been fed up enough with their service to begin to explore other options. Fortunately, I have an Internet hotspot on my phone for when things like this happen… but it would be great if our Internet did not randomly do this and would be more reliable as a whole, you know?

Who knows, though. Maybe this Internet service provider will be so crappy that we actually do switch, heh.

You can’t see it because it’s in my purse and I didn’t think to take it out before I took the picture, but I also have a Doctor Who wallet. It has various forms of ID for us, insurance cards and what have you… and it has my membership card for The Satanic Temple as well as my organ donation cards, which are actually so old and have been carried for so long by me that I’m going to have to tape them up at some point to continue to hold them together. As the younger generation likes to say, I’m that committed. My library card’s in there too.

Outside of my purse, there is my necklace from The Satanic Temple, which Bub likes to fixate on for some reason. I’ve taken to keeping it in my purse because that is the one place that he will not try to steal it from if he sees it somewhere in my room… why he does that, I’m still not sure. I keep an inhaler in my purse separate from the inhaler that I keep around the house so that I am never without an inhaler should I need one when I am not home, and to the right of my inhaler is my Subtl Beauty cosmetics stack. Below that is the N95 bivalve face mask that I’ve had for awhile… one of them, at least. I take the face mask out of my purse before I leave the house to remind myself to wear it, and I put the face mask back into my purse when I am back home so that I am never in a position where I need to wear a mask and do not have one. Not pictured in this picture is my Subtl Beauty brush. I’m falling in love with makeup that you can (re-)apply when out traveling.

On the outside of my purse is my Black Lives Matter enamel pin and a she/her pronoun badge, which my non-binary and trans friends actually encouraged me to get and put on my purse as an ally when I wondered whether it would be “too much of a reach” to show allyship in this manner. When I asked some of my friends if it would be appropriate to show allyship in this manner, the answer was overwhelmingly yes.