Dear My Parents,

Sometimes when I am making a meal that is more complicated than a sandwich, I want to make it for just me. Especially when I have only bought ingredients with a meal for a single person in mind. Like, I'm usually happy to make something else instead! Just. I'd like to know before I start making a meal for Just Me that it's instead going to be for three people. Possibly so I can start making something else instead.

(I would be willing to accept "Not feeling guilty when saying that I'm only making enough for one" as a compromise.)

Yours,
Someone who really wanted to eat what was initially planned as one hungry person's worth of gyudon last night.

Today is the final day to vote in the 2025 Summer of the 69 Theme Poll!

There are currently eleven "front runners", with two tied for first place; I'm honestly not planning to vote myself this year, since everything is so close, but I guess we'll see if the poll gets any more votes before tomorrow morning.

If all the ratios stay the same through the end of the poll, more votes or not more votes, I'm going to go ahead and do double themes for the last of the "middle ten". IIRC, the bottom rung of themes last year had a lot more in it than this year currently does, though I'd have to double check.

So yeah! That's how things are over there right now.