...I think the stitching is going on pause for a few days (hopefully I can finish that one up before mom's b-day next month, probably shouldn't be an issue). Having someone sew my gums together for a full 20 minutes kinda needs to purge from my brain first. 
Going to what I think is going to be a quick checkup and going through 2.5 hours of 'nobody expected this' bone grafts.
First section almost done, should be done by morning if I can get up the oomph to work on it more.
Irk: having an otherwise good day diminished by a harassment campaign.
@Macha That carriage house looks like it fell out of a storybook. (And it's probably bigger than my current house.) I think that's one of the coolest things about it, really! I am a sucker for Arts&Crafts/Craftsman/Prairie/Mission era architecture, and it hits a lot of those notes, which is funny since the house is so different, but it somehow still blends.
@Macha My folks' house is super trippy, and I've had weirdness wherever I live. It just doesn't tend to bother me for much the same reasons.
I have known people more seriously messed with, so I have some caution, and there are places I've been I would not go back to... I just kinda have the same 'take zero shit from dead folk' attitude. I'll respect them -- I observe a not-any-specific-tradition 'respect the grancestors day' every year as well -- but I expect them to respect me, too.
The folks' house has messed with some of my friends, though. 
That I have little patience for. Partly it's them being not accustomed to it, but I grew up in that house for most of my life, so it's just normal to me.
@Macha With the way my luck has gone with places I've lived, I'd do that anywhere I end up.
Admittedly, the place I lived that had the most business being haunted... totally wasn't. I did get cheap rent because of its history, though! And it was a gorgeous apartment.
The person before me was the first to rent it after an incident, and it had sat vacant for a year in a college town with awful places 1/3 its size going for a lot more than it did even when it got to me.
@Macha I have to go to the next dental surgery appointment tomorrow, which seriously sucks... but that place is right on the way there, so I think I'm gonna make my husband drive past it so I can swoon at it anyway. Because that would make dental hell suck way less.
@Alamias The new baby is adorable! Our kitties are still not allowed to mingle, so I feel you on the aggro problems. (Old flouf is scaredy cat, new flouf is playful pouncy brat. This does not mix well, despite the floufs loving US just fine.)
I also love that you have a drawer of drow, of dwarves... my rational brain knows these are miniatures, but part of me wants it to be 'we open this drawer and a swarm of pixies fly out'.
@Quinn Sadly, no. Embroidery machine is on the dream wish list, but way outside the budget.
Most of the bigger machine companies have something like this for their brand, I think. While that's definitely not going to be the budget choice, it's likely the best bet for compatibility being assured.
FWIW, that's the advice I got when I was initially pricing them while considering it about a year ago, from the folks who run the local shop (and have since before I was born; they know their stuff). They tend to not recommend the most expensive options, and always look for 'the least expensive way to accomplish the thing', even when/if they know there's a considerable budget available.
@Aria You bet that's #1 on the lottery wishlist. 
Like, it is nothing like what I want. We have an actual omg our dream house is for sale again right now. (OK, it's mine AGAIN, but the husband is 1000% on board because it has all but VERY few of his fringiest wishlist dream bits, and same for me.) But that one's just off enough that with fuck-you wads of cash? Yeah, we'd build something similar with the differences we want and a good studio space.
It is also $2M (ETA: AND 2ksqft smaller... ), though, so, y'know, honey, the haunted mansion is much nicer as a 'while we take time building something else' place, and we could keep it to just send any wayward ghosts there, right?
Actual conversation, the next day:
Me: "You know how you said we could have a haunted dollhouse as a lottery project, yeah?"
Brian: "You want to turn the murderhouse into-"
Me: "It counts as a dollhouse if I keep the doll collection there, right?"
Brian:
(He did actually go right to that quote, I was proud of him.)
@Aria I loved my husband's reaction to it when I showed it to him.
...that was even before I pointed out the murder-haunted pricetag.
@Aria I think my official irk of the day is that it isn't already my house, so yes.
Also, yes it does and I weirdly love it. I even love/hate the decor. (Some I love, some I hate.) The gargoyles everywhere? Original to the house. I MEAN...
I stumbled across it a few days ago and was just dyin' because... yeah you always hear about 'that gorgeous huge old house that's selling for way less than it should' and you think 'sure, I hear about that, but I've never actually seen it happen... ' and, welp... seen it now!
I mean if I absolutely have to get haunt-murdered... I'd like to do it there, plz.
ETA: WAIT, NO. Clearly that's a house that somehow migrated into reality from The Reach. Nobody break out a blacklight...
@Aria ALL the empathy hugs forever. I would... not have been able to handle that. Good on you for lecturing the prof. I would not have had the spine, and I am very glad you did, for exactly the reasons you describe.
...admittedly, the first time I heard my name in something is when I popped in an unlabeled tape in the VCR and, uh, it was porn. (I dunno if I keep forgetting that one, or if I have just consistently blocked it out.) You still win.
(Since you're localish, you are probably the only person who will really 'get' this. If I'm destined to be haunted I demand to win the lottery so I can warehouse my ghosts here. Sure, most people will look at that place and go, 'yup, looks like a good haunted house candidate!', but you know general property prices in this region... yep, that fucker must be 'no one survives the night' levels of haunted. For everyone else, uh, you usually can't touch anything a fraction of that size or quality for less than four times that price in this general region. It's just gonna be funnier to localish folks regardless!)
...and another one. Two in one day? Really?
I welcome my new otherworldly overlords from beyond the veil. Please don't steal my scissors like y'all do to my mother, I really do need them. I will share my coffee, and we usually have cookies?
I have a moderately obscure first name.
I have seen it used in television twice for aliens/non-human fictional characters.
I have also now seen it occur four times in various paranormal shows as the victim of a haunting, which is really a peculiarly high incidence. (Including that one time the preview at the start of the episode re-enactment kicked off with a creepy voice whispering MY OBSCURE NAME. Beads and cats suddenly flying everywhere as I yikesed, having been caught totally off-guard... )
Dear Mom + Dad: Thanks for the weird name pick, guess you wanted me to get haunted.
I don't know how to even break this down but this is, uh, second scale of the texture, first step.
...partway through second step, which will take a while.
Wes Wilson, psychedelic artist.
You may not know the name, but... you've probably seen his work.
@Auspice I love projects like that. I think I like that piece of plastic more than I like the fabric, and I do like how the fabric turned out for ten minutes of experimentation.