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Arting (Or Not!) With Jenny Lawson

Posting especially because of the final photo, with which many of us can identify … 🤭

Unfinished business

Jenny Lawson (thebloggess) Feb 16, 2026

Hello, friend!

Okay, confession time.

Last week I recorded the audiobook for How To Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay and then I collapsed in a limp pile of exhaustion, which is embarrassing because why is “just talking” for two days so hard? Regardless, I spent several nights that I would have normally been drawing while watching 90-Day-Fiance (don’t judge me) instead just hiding under the covers and recovering from being human in public for too long. And that’s why this week’s doodle is unfinished:

But the good news is that because it’s unfinished you can print it out and color it or draw on it and then you can share your version in the comments if you want. EVERYONE WINS.

Here’s a fun tip: I sometimes use the recolor app to upload my drawings and color them:

(PS. I’m not getting paid to plug them. It’s just a free app I stumbled on.)

So anyway…this is just to remind you that it’s okay to not hit every deadline (or any deadline) because you are so much more than your output. And so am I.

Thank goodness.

Hugs,

me

PS. As tax for not having a finished drawing, please accept this picture of a very sleepy Dorothy Barker intentionally laying on my art so that I will pet her instead of drawing.

Everyone’s a critic.

German referee assaulted after viral proposal to boyfriend

A man does something beautiful making so many happy.  But haters have to try to ruin something that doesn’t affect them at all.  None of the attackers are being asked to have same sex with the men, the attackers are not being asked to go to the wedding.  So seriously why be so angry that they attack a man for claiming his love for another man?  This shit is starting to get far too normal where straight cis people assault, injure, and make LGBTQ+ people afraid to be themselves openly in public.   For some reason it seems to infuriate these hateful bigots just to know someone not cis or straight exists.  Anyway.  At least in Germany he has free healthcare and even though the right wing fascists are rising as a political force driven by wealthy haters, Christian nationalists, and Russia their government is still left leaning.  I really wish the US government was still leaning left.  Hugs

https://www.advocate.com/news/german-referee-bisexual-assaulted-proposal

Pascal Kaiser was attacked by three men outside his house just days after his public proposal.

German referee Pascal Kaiser proposing to his partner

A video still of Pascal Kaiser proposing to his partner.  @fckoeln/Instagram

Moises Mendez IiFeb 09, 2026
Moises Mendez Ii

A German soccer referee, who recently went viral for proposing to his boyfriend, was attacked outside his home.

Pascal Kaiser stole the hearts of millions last week after he proposed to his fiancé in Cologne’s RheinEnergieStadion during a match in front of 50,000 people. According to the French publication L’Equipe, Kaiser was assaulted in his home by three men late Saturday night into Sunday morning.

The publication wrote that the bisexual referee, prior to the incident, had reported that he was receiving threatening messages, including ones that included his address. Police told him there was no immediate threat. But Attitude reports that 20 minutes after he got off the phone with authorities, Kaiser was attacked while smoking a cigarette in his garden, which resulted in an injury to his right eye.

Carla Antonelli, a Spanish politician and LGBTQ+ advocate, uploaded a post to Instagram in support of Kaiser and shared a photo of his bruised face. “Terrible message, if you make yourself visible, we’ll put you in the closet: Referee Pascal Kaiser, who proposed to his partner before the Cologne-Wolfsburg match, was assaulted at his home. It is known that prior to the assault, the address of Pascal Kaiser’s house had leaked on social media and received direct threats,” her caption reads. “Police intervened after the attack, and Pascal Kaiser is now in a safe place under police protection.”

Kaiser’s Instagram account, and the couple’s account he shares with his partner, are now both locked and private.

Last week, Kaiser got down on one knee and professed his love for his fiancé while delivering a prepared speech, declaring, “I want everyone to see that I love this person. A man. As a man. In football.” After the proposal, FC Köln, a professional soccer team that plays at the field where they got engaged, uploaded a video of the couple’s special moment and wrote in the caption, “Pascal Kaiser is a referee and a huge FC fan. Pascal is queer and came out three years ago. Today, he had a special plan, which FC Cologne supported. Pascal proposed to his long-term partner at the RheinEnergieStadion, but see for yourselves!” The team continued, writing, “Congratulations, you two!”

Kaiser has long been an advocate for LGBTQ+ visibility in sports. As he previously told Schwulissimo, a major German news outlet, “I see this as my mission: to create visibility. To be a voice. And to encourage people who aren’t yet brave enough to speak up,” he said. “I know how lonely it can be to think you’re the only one. I want no one to have to feel that way again.”

MS Now clips about ICE

ICE nearly kills another child by mistreatment and ignoring their worsening health and healthcare needs.  This is so familiar if you remember history.  Lack of food, no healthcare, no humanity.  Hugs

 

Children cry, thinking their parents will be taken if ICE follows them home.  All because they are brown skinned.  Is this the USA?  Hugs

 

 

 

 

 

Irish ICE Detainee Describes Concentration Camp Conditions

This man had a valid work permit and was married to a US citizen.  Listen to the horrific conditions he describes being kept in. Hugs

In keeping with my promise to the blog community and to Ron I started supper early

I decided I wanted grilled cheese sandwiches.  So at four PM I started supper.  And yes I made far too many as I can only eat one or one and half.  But here are the steps I go through to make good cheesy thick grilled cheese and ham sandwiches.  

I start with getting all the ingrediance out and ready. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you notice I have already buttered the bread.  I is important to use real butter and not a substitute as the substitutes burn before the bread is toasted, the cheese melted, and the ham hot.   Now to build the sandwiches.   

First the cheese on the bread.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I used two different cheeses on on each side of the bread.  Swiss and the other side colby Jack.  Then two slices of ham.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then the rest of the cheese. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then grill to perfection.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But again I made too many.  I ate 1 and a half sandwiches.   I wish Ron was here he would eat the rest.  Hugs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ohio Bill Would Overturn Local Ex-Gay Torture Bans

Again it is a fundamentalist / evangelical Christian who wants to force everyone to follow their church doctrines by enshrining them in the civil laws.  Their hate seems to drive them far more than Jesus’s love.   All studies ahve show that not only does conversion therapy not work it is very harmful to those that experience it.  These people don’t care because they want the LGBTQ+ gone, erased from society.  When will they learn it is inherent and can’t be changed by outside forces or because a person wants it to?  I like to ask people who believe in it if they could be converted to gay or trans and the response is always no that would be crazy.  Then why try to convert LGBTQ+ kids / people.  Because they see it as a choice and a sin, and nothing on can say will change their minds.  Horrible people doing horrible things.  Hugs

Ohio Bill Would Overturn Local Ex-Gay Torture Bans

February 13, 2026

The Ohio Capital Journal reports:

Ohio Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation that would punish state agencies and local governments for being too supportive of LGBTQ+ youth. Among a slew of provisions, conversion therapy would be reinstated where it has been banned, teachers may be prevented from using a student’s preferred pronouns, and parents wouldn’t be able to lose custody due to refusing to support their child’s gender identity.

“State institutions, government institutions cannot promote that woke ideology,” state Rep. Gary Click, R-Vickery, said in an interview Tuesday. Click believes government agencies have been overly affirming of LGBTQ+ children, which he claims has hurt parents. “It is not conversion therapy to help children discover their identity and who they are biologically,” Click said. Click has focused significant time in the legislature targeting LGBTQ+ people.

Read the full article.

Click, a former pastor, last appeared here in December 2025 when he introduced the “Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act,” which would mandate teaching public school students about “the positive influence of Christianity on American culture.”

He first appeared here in 2018 when he led the invocation at Trump rally by asking Jesus to protect Trump from “wicked jungle journalism.”

In 2023, Click appeared here when he convened a hearing against transgender rights during which his invited guest testified that non-Christian lawmakers are “possessed by demons.”

Click is a regular on Tony Perkins’ podcast.

 

Games Village runs out of condoms with a week still to go

Despite what the Chritian Nationlist demand to be true young people in the prime of their lives will have sex.  So yes they do.  More power to them.  Hugs

ICE Detention Is About To Get So Much Worse

ICE ‘assaulted me, dumped me in a cell, denied me medical care’: Disabled U.S. citizen

This woman’s experiences at the hands of ICE is horrific and not one person will be prosecuted for the inhuman abusive treatment.  Plus she will have hospital bills and car repairs due to the actions of ICE gang Gestapo thugs working for the government.  Hugs