Posts made by Auspice

I got the flu shot this year for the first time in a handful of years.
Got the worst flu I've ever had this year.

So yeeeeeeeah.

Okay I can't find this luna moth pattern on DMC's site again and it was linked direct to me so it auto-dl'd. ANYWAY. https://www.dmc.com/us/free-patterns-5041/free-patterns-5042/free-cross-stitch-patterns-5044,by-theme-etoile-507.html

they have some cool lunar-themed stuff in their etoile freebies rn and one was a really cool lunar moth one.

the gold gave me a sudden flash of memory. It's barely there but.....

I remember in art school, in SF, a few of us did (for fun, not for class or anything, just for fun because this is what art school nerds do) these ink spill pieces and we used black India ink and gold ink and it looked kind of like that.

I had completely forgotten about those.

sorry @Surasanji this is now Battle of the Bands: the Game.

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

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

I haven't hated a song in a long time as much as I hate that song

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

The new guy I'm training today likes to sing sotto voce. I've been hearing "Yummy, yummy yummy..." all morning >.<

I haven't hated a song in a long time as much as I hate that song

@Ganymede said in The Hockey Thread:

@Ghost

It is an awesome name and will sell itself.

and is a million times better than Greenville's ECHL's team the Swamp Rabbits.

ugh.
Still mad about that name and to this day don't know how it won the vote since I didn't meet anyone who voted for it and I was actually pretty fucking socially active when I lived there,

Truefax:
In school, we had an assignment to take a myth and re-write it set in a different era.
I took the story of Thrym stealing Mjolnir and Thor dressing as Freyja (fun story since it shows the Norse saw a man dressing in women's clothing as nbd) to get it back and set it in the 80s in Miami. It was set in rival clubs and Mjolnir was a keytar.

Would 100% be tempted to write a version of Thor like this on a MU.
People would hate me and I wouldn't care.

@Aria said in Good TV:

Please excuse me while I ugly snot-cry at The Good Place finale.

I haven't watched it yet and I don't wanna watch it cause I don't want it to end but I want to watch it because it's The Good Place but....

I told myself I wasn't gonna cry today because I'm not a crier but omg.

Emails from people I've not even (by my estimation) interacted with much thanking me for my work, praising it.

And then I found out that the guide I developed is now being used as a formula (the layout, design, etc) for the documentation of tools going forward. Totally teared up when I read that.

the pattern I'mma make for my mom.........and then prob immediately after prob have to make for myself.

It is known that I am not the most coherent person before 10am. My speech center, especially, tends to be jumbled. I usually train coworkers into this.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeell.

I left my first 'adult' job for another job. Year and a half later, I got laid off, and went back to the first job. Instead of full training, I got sat with someone for a refresher. One of the first days back, I'm riding the elevator up with some of my old buddies. I'm leaned up against the wall, completely out of it.

"So, <Auspice>, who did they sit you with this week?"

Me, mumbling: "Ryan Seacrest."

The whole of the elevator breaks out in laughter.

Me, eyes still barely open: "What?"

"Do you mean Ryan <guy's actual name>?"

Me: "Isn't that what I said?"

Cue more laughter.

It became a game to talk to me first thing in the morning after that.

Upside: was right and it was just allergies kicking my ass yesterday and I'm not getting sick since I feel marginally better today.

Downside: allergies are kicking my ass hardcore.

@Auspice said in The Crafting Thread:

@Auspice said in The Crafting Thread:

@tek said in The Crafting Thread:

@JinShei all I can see are my mistakes. I made fewer on the first hat. But thank you!

I hate that feeling and know it well. It's something that all makers feel. I have a few stitches on my current piece that are pinching each other and the fabric and I know they will ease out, but I am fighting myself not to rip hours and hours of work out to fix just these 4 stitches.

And I know, when it's done, I will wash and iron it and they will disappear and no one will ever know buuuuuuuuuuut......

I lied.

I'm tearing out about a cumulative 8 hours worth of work rn.

it is done and a handful of stitches done to redo it.
Hopefully I'll get caught back up over the weekend.

Also! One of my new stitchy friends is giving me some extra aida (I was fussing at myself because I SWORE I had some sky blue but I did not have sky blue) that they have no use for so I can begin on a pattern I discovered that I know my mother will love.

@Quinn
So this one reminds me that I lost both my front teeth by hitting myself (or I guess allowing myself to be hit?) in the face. And, btw, one of these was roughly 2nd grade. I was a slow tooth-loser, so don't feel bad, Quinn!

Tooth 1:
I shared a room with my brother. We had a bunk bed. I had one of those clip-on lamps. The tooth had been loose for a while already.
I dropped something between the bed and the wall and after leaning down to grope around for a while to grab it, I finally lean back up, turn, and WHAM hit my face right on the lamp. Minute later, feel something (lot of something) in my mouth, go in the bathroom, and promptly spit out the tooth and some blood into the sink.

Tooth 2:
Some months later, at a park. Running around a playground, during the twilight hour. I go to clamber under a section of the play area. I hit my face on it instead because it was that perfect layer of not-quite-dark that my depth perception was fucked. Just full on WHANG and I've got a face full of wood chips. Except when I go to spit out what I thought was a wood chip, it was my tooth.

No wiggling front teeth out for me, nope. I WHACKED 'em out.

As a 'going away' gift, coworker got me a couple of his favorite foods. One is one he introduced me to during my first week here: Grillo's Pickles.

The other is Treeline Cheese (specifically the herb-garlic french style soft cheese) because I'd asked him recently what his favorite vegan cheeses are (he keeps a dairy-free kosher).

I already Grillo's a lot but don't often indulge because they are pricey and I am excited to try the cheese.

John Andretti, IndyCar & NASCAR driver, at 56 after battle with cancer.

@Arkandel