Posts made by Auspice

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.

@Ganymede said in RL things I love:

@silverfox

It is all right. I am lawyercattrashpandahockeyfanbot.

ftfy

@Ganymede said in Depression Meals:

@Arkandel

Me.

we already knew you were a monster

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

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

@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.

@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.

@Aria said in The Hockey Thread:

Given how much y'all love to crap on my team, I'm stunned it took you a full day to find this.

No excuses for slacking off.

Hey, I @'d you last night on Discord.

@surreality said in Depression Meals:

This is gonna sound potentially dumb, but: look for some spice blends and find a few you like.

I actually keep meaning to do this and forgetting.
My roommate my last year in Seattle was the wine manager at the Trader Joe's nearby and so we had a lot of their spice blends.

Hell, literally last night I was like 'I wish I had............'

I have 3/4ths a loaf of Italian bread left I need to do something with.

AUGH.
Might dip into the Whole Foods downstairs and pick up something.

@nyctophiliac said in RL things I love:

For all my life I have used regular shampoo. Had problems with dry ass scalp giving me flakes as a teen, the worst dryest split ends... and now for a couple weeks I have been using low shampoo, or cleansing cream (ok, aka afro shampoo) and I am absolutely in love.

So after a major health incident, my hair began going curly (I talked to a stylist once and apparently this is rare but does happen sometimes; it's a similar 'shock to the system' that gives some people white streaks). Like, we're talking I went from a 1B to where there are days my hair is going into a 2C (with hella high frizz factor). I've spent the last few years just trying to figure out how the fuck to handle curls because for 30 years I've never had them. And I'm a white girl. The white girl method of curls is 'straighten your hair and then curl it.'

Anyway. The product I found that is doing me wonders (if only I could get out of depression funk long enough to stick to the OTHER routines for the curly girl method) is As I Am: https://www.target.com/p/as-i-am-coconut-cleansing-conditioner-16oz/-/A-14441399?ref=tgt_adv_XS000000

The Cleansing Conditioner and Leave In Conditioner are AWESOME.
Also, I got the Aveda daily damage remedy treatment in one of my FabFitFun boxes and it's amazing: https://www.aveda.com/product/5303/16901/hair-care/leave-in-treatment/damage-remedy-daily-hair-repair#/shade/3.4_fl_oz%2F100_ml it's left my hair really soft and manageable and I will probably end up buying more once it's run out.

In Texas, 'indecent exposure' is defined as genitals or anus. So breasts are A-OK!

Texas is insanely backwards in some ways, but progressive in others. It's a very strange place sometimes.

My GUESS is that they lean so pro-life they'd lean being pro-breastfeeding in public enough to want it to be OK. That's just a theory. I grew up in the kind of evangelical circles where women were expected to be able to breastfeed wherever. But I know some fundie circles were opposed to that.

IT IS A VERY WEIRD KIND OF SOCIETY.

@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).

@Ghost said in Good TV:

@Auspice Picard takes priority

Fair.
It's on my list, too.

I've got an afternoon of board gaming on Saturday, but outside that I plan to just watch TV and cross stitch.

Who else gonna be binging season 3 of Sabrina this weekend?!

@WildBaboons said in RL things I love:

@Auspice Looks like https://goatdice.com/ but has none currently in stock

you are the best.
time to sign up for their email list.

someone find me where I can buy this for the love of god

@Groth said in Depression Meals:

@Auspice said in Depression Meals:

It's how I learned to make alfredo sauce, from scratch, on the fly. Sans recipe.

Isn't Alfredo sauce literally just cheese melted into butter?

Technically yes.
But we murcans like it all thick and creamy and garlicky.

@saosmash said in Depression Meals:

Last night I had ... farfalle with olive oil and salt. It was going to be noodles and cottage cheese but after I made the noodles I discovered the cottage cheese had gone off.
Tfw you fail at your depression meal and your food gets even lamer, lol.

This happens to me so often because the depression and ADHD clash. I have a bad tendency to forget a single item at the grocery store. It's how I learned to make alfredo sauce, from scratch, on the fly. Sans recipe. In that 'uhhhhh I think if I do this and this and th- oh hey it worked.'

But other times (particularly when depressed) it's just been....... I guess I'll just do this instead (womp womp).

@Lotherio said in The Hockey Thread:

Its clear the story is 100 percent true, Gritty is such a wuss that with a running start and a punch to the back of the head, he can't take out a 13-year-old boy even. In fact, even when hit in the head, he can't leave a mark and somehow it magically went to his back.

I mean, considering how wall-eyed he is...