Love when you actually feel engaged in a story right off the bat after making a new character. Not having to warm up to the newness, and just going for it.

Also love the legit friends you can make, after wading through all the crazy.

Morning sickness. I hear it only lasts a little while, usually, but ugh. Tired of saltines and water.

Also, I've only told a small handful of people RL that I'm pregnant. One of them says to me "Isn't it magical?", all sincere and starry eyed. That's totally grounds to punch someone in the face, right? Especially considering I had to wander off to puke, while at work, shortly after? Magical, my ass... More like an episode of "Monsters Inside Me".

Also, pisses me off a little that I'm actually excited about a baby, which is turning me into "that person". I'm so sorry, world.

Ahem...

#moody

Preemptive TL:DR -
The people I work with are so great sometimes.

I'm officially a crazy pregnant lady:

Not everyone at work knows that I'm pregnant, yet (at least, didn't until now). Just management, so in case something crazy happens, someone knows what's up.

We have a new manufacturer who provides our chocolate icing for icing cakes, now. Icing would not stick on the goddamn cake I was trying to get ready for an order. Ended up breaking down and sobbing over it, right there on the floor in front of my station. Coworker understandably kind of freaks out, goes to get management. I explain through ugly-tears that new frosting is the WORST. There's a pause, and we both bust out laughing. Well, cry-laughing in my case. Store manager brought me a cup of water, meanwhile, as an excuse to see wtf is wrong. Everyone else just kind of...backed away slowly.

Needless to say, I explained myself to my coworkers, and we all got a good laugh out of it. Manager (who just had a baby), spent the rest of the day "protecting me" from the evil fudge icing.

Point is... Even though I hate my job most days, I kind of love my new management and coworkers.

/storytime

ETA Lilo @ BITN

So much for abstaining from RP indefinitely. The withdrawals were so very real. Only around for weekday, daytime RP most likely, though!

@Arkandel said:

"Hey, anyone want to do something?"
"Sure! You wanna meet at $place?"
<silence>
...

"I'm so bored, someone run something for me."
"Alright, what would you like ran?"
"I dunno."
"How about $thing?"
"No, it doesn't fit me exactly right."
...

"Hey, I noticed you guys were playing, want one more?"
"Sure, come over!"
<comes over and starts chatting OOC about their day, poses once every half hour>
...

And so on.

If I had a nickle for every time I've run into this over the years...

Reminds me of multiple conversations I have about how time is precious, and I have a limited amount of it to spend actively doing things on a game...so for the love of god, be courteous, people.

Kind of ties into the issues of selfishness. I don't know if it's a general lack of empathy on the part of some folks, or what, but ... < Some point I was going to make, but work just ate me and I don't remember...damnit. >

Hate feeling like emotional shit for no damn reason ._.
Fuck you, brain. Go to hell.

About to finish my last project left over from the holiday season, so I can /finally/ relax at home. Didn't have to get up at 3am for work for the first time in well over a week. As a result I was not late for work, for a change. Managed to call my parents just to chitchat, finally. Gave a little girl a free cookie at work (edit: i work at a bakery), because she dropped her sucker on the ground and her mom wouldn't have it again so she was absolutely beside herself with grief (kids, man). Started as a "stfu" gesture, but she gave me a bearhug and it was incidentally one of the sweetest things ever.
Good things are good!

Being stupid enough to fall into old habits for a legitimately short period of time.

RL getting royally fucked up from that short lapse in judgement.

Insta-karma is a bitch.

Angry at myself, and angry that I'm angry. Grr.

Bright side: actually made an appointment with a therapist for the first time?

Additional anger/peeve - that it took me this fucking long to actually make that appointment.

Eta: ...why do I not listen to my friends? =/

Sleep.

I love sleep so very much.

So. Much.

@ Game of Thrones ...

slow-clap

Anyone do cosplay? Setting up a group cosplay for DragonCon next year that involves armor, and wondering where to get those sorts of supplies, or if anyone has suggestions on cheap but good looking ways to do costumes..?

@Ghost
Damnit...I can't unhear, or unsee that now... Volbeat as Cher

Double post...

What gets me is that, according to comments on various forms, there was a push from Geek Chic to get money from folks to ship their items, and then they announced going out of business and never shipped anything. What kind of bullshit is that? Not cool.
Just glad we could get our money back. There's a place in Greece that makes tables like that... ...maybe someday.

@Misadventure
Spelled Chic like "sheek", but said Chick, like a tiny baby chicken. Don't know why but it was like insult to injury but totally not the guys fault, haha.

@Sparks
We had even ordered the chairs with the pattented butt hugging technology

Our old kitchen table and chairs are so broken ...

We we're going to go to rooms to go, but we ended up putting the returned money to a new AC and furnace, since both of ours completely crapped out yesterday. Damnit.

Geek Chic went bankrupt. Which means that we won't be getting the custom game table we paid about $8K for. We will be getting our money back from PayPal and Capital One. But damnit. We saved for years to finally get one and we were supposed to get it in October.
Kind of silly to be angry about, but...there it is.

Additionally, when I spoke with the dude from Capital one, he didn't know what I was talking about, "Geek Chic...oh I see here ma'am, you mean Geek Chick"

No. That's not what I meant. Stop making my board-game-nerd-outrage worse.

Can I request lurker status..?

~disappears back into the shadows with appropriate "creepy-wooOOoo" noises~

@Arkandel
Re: Entertainment dude...
Sounds kind of like my mother in law. She doesn't hardly find anything funny, either. How her children turned out to be any kind of "normal" it's beyond me.
I love comedies. I don't understand how someone can't at least smile while watching something like Who's Line Is It Anyway. Or something like that.
Also, hey folks =D
Totally love baby Motrin. Which is the only reason this house will get any sleep in an hour or so. Teething babies are lame and pitiful.

My Agamemnon.

He's a goofball and a scaredy cat.

We just had a baby and my husband is convinced the dog and our little girl are going to be best buds, so he keeps propping her up on him when he's sleeping. Then he'll wake up like "wtf is this thing".

Although, whenever she cries, he's taken to standing near her and whining. We can't tell if it's because he's concerned, wants her to shut up, or is sympathising. Either way it's kind of cute.

For the sake of compiling resources, I've had good luck with Pinterest and Deviant art... But I also don't like using actors for PBs. So if you're looking for some more not well known faces, you can search for characteristics you're looking for at those places.

@Cupcake

I've been debating watching OA... It looks interesting I guess..?

But you have my attention with Mage the Awakening. Totally watching now, for the sake of curiosity.