Posts made by Auspice

@ganymede said in Miami, Blood in the Water:

@wretched

Fuck.

I'd like to get the place started, really, but I --

-- fuck.

Gany in two weeks:

Tastes Less Gamey is meant to be for wholly off-topic discussions (like the RL stuff, the makeup thread, music threads, random links, etc.)...

So having a board for board games, video games, TT RPGs sort of makes sense.

I mean I guess we could rename Tastes Less Gamey to something else!

Who really wears pink eyeshadow. This isn't 1987.

I mean I guess with UD discontinuing the Naked palette other people wanna be like 'let's make our own!'

but those pinks are hideous.

@PuppyBreath and I have talked about our kitties some (we both have black kitties). I'll donate once I get paid and have some spare bucks.

@arkandel said in Good TV:

https://www.today.com/popculture/kristen-bell-confirms-veronica-mars-revival-coming-hulu-t137932

I saw Bell's announcement of that on Twitter yesterday and my RT was just a lot of exclamation points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YonLeD9Z89k

Shin Lim rocked America's Got Talent.

Having a really hard time not walking out of work today.

They keep pressuring me on this bullshit 'What can we help you with so you work better' front that keeps coming off increasingly more patronizing to the point I'm about to start leaving around EEOC paperwork.

Then today:

Me: 'Hey, these particular cases that take me so long? Part of the issue is I have to reach out to the office contact because the guys aren't doing it on the initial casework like they're supposed to. Can we get a reminder out to the team to do that step?'
Boss: 'Well, how does <coworker> handle those cases? Just work it like he does.'
Me: 'He doesn't do the reach out, but he's supposed to per the original training. Look, this would expedite the process and get these cases done quicker. You asked for ways to help me close cases faster. This is one. <Boss on clientside> has complained that these cases are taking too long and this is why. I have to do this step that's getting missed and it's adding days onto the case time. If they reach out like they should, when I get the case, I'll have everything I need.'
Boss: 'Well, let's look at other solutions. Does this step really need to be done with the initial work or is it just something being misunderstood?'

Cut the shit you goddamn piece of shit motherfucker.

I think I was the only person the faceburster really bothered and that's because of a specific issue I personally have.

However, @Botulism was very kind in giving me an advance warning because she's aware of said issue. So when the scene happened I just glossed over the pose and moved on.

So if you have personal squicky/trigger-y issues, I will say she's fantastic about giving a heads up if it might occur so that you can bow out of a scene or just sort of skim the pose in question.

I wish you'd named it Totally Unnecessary Messenger System.

Cause I need TUMS.

@tiredewok said in Um...What?:

@auspice

I know, right? A Pops collector who doesn't care about the boxes!? I'm shook, too!

I'm more upset they are on your desk in boxes.

I feel Funkos are better out of them. It sort of wigs me out when I see people's rooms with stacks upon stacks of boxes. Like....how...how is that....

I like my handful of Funkos tucked into various spots on my bookshelves.

It'd be weird if it was just a random stack of boxes.

@tiredewok said in Um...What?:

@auspice

They are but only because it makes it easier to stack them right now. Once I can get the space to set up some shelves I might display them out of their box. I haven't fully made up my mind one way or another, just yet.

@tiredewok said in Um...What?:

@thenomain said in Um...What?:

It's like collecting toys instead of playing with them,

looks sheepishly at the Funko Pops that are on her desk and thinks of the others in a closet, clears her throat

I have no idea what you mean when you use this as an example.

Are they on your desk... IN THEIR BOXES?!

@thenomain said in Um...What?:

@shincashay said in Um...What?:

Uh.. sometimes you just HAVE to match your shoes with your purse with your outfit and your headband.

Sure. If you're WEARING them. But if you're buying them just to say you have them?

Otherwise, be as fabulous as you can be.

What about people who collect purses?!

@kanye-qwest said in Um...What?:

@thenomain what world do you live in??

Isn't he in Ohio?
I hear they're about twenty years behind everyone else and Sneaker collecting did begin to rise in the mid-80s...

I didn't really wanna...

I'm just so, so frustrated today.

So I lost my grandmother this past week. We hadn't been close in a long time. She'd had dementia for years. I'm still processing everything because I didn't expect it to affect me as much as it is. Or at all really.

But that's not the frustration.

The frustration is that my father had been the one overseeing her care. She was in a home nearby where he lives (the only one living in that state). The one managing most of the proceedings with her passing. But he agreed she should be interred back in MD: her home (family home going back generations), where her last husband is, where most of his siblings (and their families are), etc. And in deciding this, felt cremation was the best option. She had never given any guidance in how she wanted to be buried. She was not a religious woman.

So my dad and his siblings (all 5) decided cremation. Not just because cost-effective, but because moving her across state lines would be difficult (and even more expensive). They all agreed.

...or so he thought.

My uncle's wife apparently nixed the idea and demanded my uncle change his mind. And SC is a state where ALL next-of-kin must sign off on a cremation or it doesn't happen.

She's also demanded that they have the funeral service at their church, with their pastor, etc etc... They are Mormon and are basically giving her a Mormon service, rites, etc.. Like I know this is my aunt. Because it even went out in the messaging that 'once Mom arrives, Lu will have her dressed in...' and my uncle, though he converted for her when they got married, has never been a strong practitioner. My aunt, however, is very, very devout.

And the crux of my frustration is not just,
a) Allowing your wife to dictate how you and your siblings, the direct children of someone handle and mourn your mother
but also b) forcing a religious ceremony on someone's passing who wasn't a part of that religion

@wretched

Black kitties are the best.

I've never been tested for Lyme or really... considered going out for it. Well, I had a friend push me to years ago and then I forgot about it until y'all brought it up again recently.

Because when I had the tick spend its days in my arm as a kid, I basically just spent a few days at home sick and then went on my way. My dad wasn't big on taking us kids to the doctor. When we found it, my mom just called her brother (a surgeon) for advice on removing it and since it came out based on that advice, my dad pulled his 'Your brother just wants us to take her to a doctor because he is one!' and since I was only 7, I didn't know better.

So I never got any initial rounds of antibiotics, etc.

@Lisse24 I do know that ANA can do that positive/negative flip, but it's never flagged positive for a rheumatologist. It mocks me that way. PCP's bloodwork? Sure. Go to the rheumatologist and they run theirs? Oh look it's gone negative again. It's like my body is the car being taken in to the shop. 'Oh well I don't know why it isn't making the noise anymore!'

But yeah I found a Lyme-rated or whatever doc nearby. Plan to go once I can find the time / set aside the money.

Tests for me seem to flag back and forth like that, too.

I'll flag yes on ANA, get sent to a rheumatologist, they'll run it again... it'll come back negative. So they'll go nah, you don't have an auto-immune (despite me having all the symptoms thereof).

I still need to see a doctor re: Lyme. Just haven't had the spare time/money to do so yet.

I'd def. say newest at the bottom because people viewing on phone clients, web clients, etc. don't have the luxury of easier scrolling methods. Newer messages being at the top would get lost.