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@Ghost said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

What. The. Fuck.

Court will NOT throw out criminal charges against woman seen topless in her own home...next to her topless husband who has not been charged.

Unfuckingbelievable.

There's been a few of these cases lately and it's been really disappointing.

The worst part of this one is the fact that it sounds like it's being done purposefully by the mother (the woman being charged is the stepmom of the kids) to try to win full custody. I hate hearing shit like that. Women who are trying to cut fathers / stepmothers out of childrens' lives, because its the kids who get hurt in the long run by that stuff (and not because they saw a pair of tits out of context).

@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Peeve:

Stop using the Track Changes function in Word.

Just stop it, people.

That motherfucking tool fucks with formatting.

Stop using it.

Especially you lawyers. If you can't be bothered to read the document carefully to find the changes then turn in your license. It's your job to read things thoroughly.

Just stop using it.

I was required to use it by a couple professors in school.

@eye8urcake said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

So, today it was confirmed. The baby (Isla) has 2 bad genes, so cystic fibrosis. They told my daughter and her husband, at their very first newborn 'well-baby' appointment that their child wouldn't live past 40 so that was fun.

The flip side is their hospital is part of the Children's Miracle Network and has an actual CF center as part of it, and she's already got three pediatricians, a dietician, a pulmonologist, a respiratory therapist and a social worker so at least everything will be being done the best it can be done for her from the beginning.

Still. Fuck.

I'm sorry to hear this. BUT. I'm glad to hear they have a good hospital there. That's super awesome.

This weekend I will probably be making lemon rolls. I have smoked salmon in the freezer already.

I need to share this blackwork pattern I found today because daaaaaaaayum.

I am terrible about working out.

I mean, who isn't?

I hate it. I'm lazy. It's worsened by the fact that I'm limited in what I can do by my health and my ADHD (seriously, tell someone with ADHD to do something that they find insanely boring and won't see any benefit from soon if ever). I'd swim if I could because I love swimming except I can't afford a membership to a pool I can swim laps.

So, recently, Just Dance 2020 was on sale. I picked it up for my Switch.

It's fun.

Yes, I will even play the Baby Shark song. What do I care. I live alone. Who's gonna make fun of my fat ass? My cats?

And if I do the world tournament mode, who is gonna see me? NO ONE. In fact, I can look at the fact that I place 110th out of over 300 people in that round and think 'I bet some 200 of you are kids in better shape than me. SUCKAS.'

But I love music, so I'm inspired to do it and each song that come sup I'm like 'pff, it's just like, 3 minutes. Easy.' next thing I know it's been half an hour and I've worked up a sweat.

@Aria Uggggggh. I understand.

All three companies I've worked for (the one that fired me in Feb, the gap job, and my current company) haven't provided my tax info yet. I'm so fucking annoyed. I usually have my taxes DONE by now.

@Derp said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Every company should send a rejection notice if they aren't gonna proceed after they interview you. Even if it's a form letter they just hit a button and have auto-emailed.

But if you take a test (coding test, writing test, whatever) for them? Then they abso-fucking-lutely should do this. It should not be a week after I interviewed and then spent a weekend on what was probably about ten hours of work on a writing assignment without hearing word.

This is bullshit.
You can spend two minutes to either acknowledge receipt, let me know you won't proceed, or scheduling the next interview.

Some companies take weeks to make a decision on who is going to move forward, especially if they have something intensive like that. You might not be out of luck yet!

During the phone interview I was told I'd hear back 'a couple days' after I sent in the test.

It just always reminds me of this time when I was being walked out after this interview and the guy went on, at length, about how I would absolutely, definitely, hear from them and gosh, he hates it too when companies never let you know and he would personally make sure I heard back one way or another and...

I mean this fucker went on for a good two, three minutes about how he would absolutely follow up, whether it was good news or bad.

I never heard anything.

@Vixanic said in The Crafting Thread:

I've just recently started making bead jewellery as a hobby, simple stuff like flat spiral and hugs 'n kisses patterns.

Anyone on here have suggestions of decent places to find pretty patterns for free/not much moneyz?

Craftster sometimes has patterns.
You can adapt patterns from other stuff (like if it's flat-beaded things on a bead loom, check out friendship bracelet patterns and adapt those).
Just straight google and you might be surprised what you find!

@surreality

I have a bunch of 'nfc what this is' floss and I use it for embroidery since all my embroidery is just by feel/color. Whereas my cross-stitch is (so far because I have not yet ventured into making my own) by charts and other peoples' designs and I need set sizes for aida and... yeah, need DMC.

(That said if you ever want to get rid of some non-DMC... cough.)

DMC I'm set. I think, in the group I'm in, I have the 2nd largest collection. I inherited my grandmother's cross-stitching supplies, so I have DMC older than I am! (There is a girl in our group who just last month proudly announced that she now has at least one skein of EVERY DMC COLOR THERE IS. It's kind of stunning, really.)

But yeah, non-DMC isn't a bad thing if you do non-cross-stitch.
If you do just cross-stitch it's maddening because some of it just does not play nice with aida.

I just send out dozens of resumes a day and assume every single one will never get a reply and go to bed insanely depressed.
That's MY coping method.

@tek Looks like Noro? I'm guessing... Kagayaki or Silk Garden? Maybe Kureyon but it doesn't look thick enough.

lololol I was posting as you updated.
I know Noro too well.

I have ... 2? skeins of Noro I bought just because it's Noro.

I know people who hate Noro because 'it has sticks and stuff in it'

Oh you mean because it's obviously handmade

fuck you I'll keep my noro over here.
and I love the fact that holy shit I saw a picture of something Noro and was like 'hmm it's clearly Noro and one of these three particular types' AND I WAS RIGHT.

this is a strange thing to be proud of, right?

as I post this I realize I forgot a wee bit on the yellow. AH WELL EASY FIX.

So after Steotch, the girl that led our Lady Geeks of Austin team (we placed 3rd worldwide btw!) decided to start 'Austitch' because she kept meeting people who lived in Austin, were doing Steotch, but weren't part of LGA. Either because they weren't nerdy, had been kicked out of LGA (I vaguely referenced this one and it wasn't because the girl herself was the issue), or because they were guys!

So she decided to specifically make a needlearts club. And already, a month in, there's something like 50 members and we've had one meetup with around 20 people show. Ages range from 18-70-something and we've even got... 3? guys who are members. And it's the latter that really pleases me. I do get safe-spaces (which is what LGA is for women who are nerdy), BUT... these hobbies that are female-centric can be very awkward for guys to enjoy because on top of men mocking them for it, sometimes women make them feel weird, too. I've seen it over the years with knitting. When I was active in the nail polish subreddits, it definitely happened there and a number of us fought hard to make it a welcome space for the men (esp. teenage boys!) who were into nail polish. I mean, c'mon, if we wanna break gender norms we can't go 'no this hobby isn't for you.'

So, it tickles me to see these guys who are totally OK sitting around with a group of women, stitching away.

And in that month? It's become a really close-knit (ha) sort of group, too. We've had a member lose her dog (some of us who knew her before the group formed knew it was coming; the pup was v. old and had some major health issues), someone get in a car wreck, etc., and the Discord is in turns supportive, full of memes, etc.

It's my happy crafting place and as I've been struggling with being just days away from contract end and unemployment, it is my sanity. Srsly, if any of you Austin folks here on MSB do needleart stuff (embroidery, cross-stitch, sashiko... she hasn't embraced knitting/crochet as a part of it yet but by god I'll wear her down) and wanna join, feel free to PM me.

@surreality I probably shouldn't tell you then that they do 40% off your entire order online every so often then.

They don't like those for the in-store, but they do allow it for in-store pickup.

This is how I fleshed out my DMC so well over the past month.

Huge order of floss.
$12.
etx

I think a lot of people ignore the online since they won't ship stuff like floss, beads, etc. But since you can do the in store pickup for those........

The 40% off your order is my friend.

ETA: wow I jacked up..that first sentence. This is why I should wake up more before posting.

@Aria said in Good TV:

I want to be Hilda Spellman when I grow up.

That is all.

We should all want to be Hilda.

@surreality said in The Crafting Thread:

@Auspice Cloaks are pretty straightforward. Is there someone in the crafting group where you are you could maybe work out a trade with? If you pick up the fabric, and they make the cloak, maybe you make something for them with their materials? Some things would be a huge ask, but a basic cloak is definitely something within the realm of 'reasonable request to put out feelers for a trade' about, unless you have something super fancy or elaborate in mind. (Even some of the things that look super fancy and elaborate aren't a huge complicated investment of effort, fwiw.)

I asked! There's someone that might be able to, but I am also about to be 'past the point of broke' unless I find a new job. I'm only going to WitchFest because it's only $5 a ticket and I got my ticket a month ago.

@Testament said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Extremely petty gripe of the day: waking up to hear that Billie Ellish won a bunch of Grammys. It's cool that the award is being given out to people who don't sing, but do spoken word on their albums. Feel like Henry Rollins should've won a boatload in that case.

She's 18 years old and does most of her own songwriting, has directed at least one music video.....

Go listen to 'everything I wanted'.