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Love when you actually feel engaged in a story right off the bat after making a new character. Not having to warm up to the newness, and just going for it.

Also love the legit friends you can make, after wading through all the crazy.

Morning sickness. I hear it only lasts a little while, usually, but ugh. Tired of saltines and water.

Also, I've only told a small handful of people RL that I'm pregnant. One of them says to me "Isn't it magical?", all sincere and starry eyed. That's totally grounds to punch someone in the face, right? Especially considering I had to wander off to puke, while at work, shortly after? Magical, my ass... More like an episode of "Monsters Inside Me".

Also, pisses me off a little that I'm actually excited about a baby, which is turning me into "that person". I'm so sorry, world.

Ahem...

#moody

Preemptive TL:DR -
The people I work with are so great sometimes.

I'm officially a crazy pregnant lady:

Not everyone at work knows that I'm pregnant, yet (at least, didn't until now). Just management, so in case something crazy happens, someone knows what's up.

We have a new manufacturer who provides our chocolate icing for icing cakes, now. Icing would not stick on the goddamn cake I was trying to get ready for an order. Ended up breaking down and sobbing over it, right there on the floor in front of my station. Coworker understandably kind of freaks out, goes to get management. I explain through ugly-tears that new frosting is the WORST. There's a pause, and we both bust out laughing. Well, cry-laughing in my case. Store manager brought me a cup of water, meanwhile, as an excuse to see wtf is wrong. Everyone else just kind of...backed away slowly.

Needless to say, I explained myself to my coworkers, and we all got a good laugh out of it. Manager (who just had a baby), spent the rest of the day "protecting me" from the evil fudge icing.

Point is... Even though I hate my job most days, I kind of love my new management and coworkers.

/storytime

ETA Lilo @ BITN

So much for abstaining from RP indefinitely. The withdrawals were so very real. Only around for weekday, daytime RP most likely, though!

@Arkandel said:

"Hey, anyone want to do something?"
"Sure! You wanna meet at $place?"
<silence>
...

"I'm so bored, someone run something for me."
"Alright, what would you like ran?"
"I dunno."
"How about $thing?"
"No, it doesn't fit me exactly right."
...

"Hey, I noticed you guys were playing, want one more?"
"Sure, come over!"
<comes over and starts chatting OOC about their day, poses once every half hour>
...

And so on.

If I had a nickle for every time I've run into this over the years...

Reminds me of multiple conversations I have about how time is precious, and I have a limited amount of it to spend actively doing things on a game...so for the love of god, be courteous, people.

Kind of ties into the issues of selfishness. I don't know if it's a general lack of empathy on the part of some folks, or what, but ... < Some point I was going to make, but work just ate me and I don't remember...damnit. >

Hate feeling like emotional shit for no damn reason ._.
Fuck you, brain. Go to hell.

About to finish my last project left over from the holiday season, so I can /finally/ relax at home. Didn't have to get up at 3am for work for the first time in well over a week. As a result I was not late for work, for a change. Managed to call my parents just to chitchat, finally. Gave a little girl a free cookie at work (edit: i work at a bakery), because she dropped her sucker on the ground and her mom wouldn't have it again so she was absolutely beside herself with grief (kids, man). Started as a "stfu" gesture, but she gave me a bearhug and it was incidentally one of the sweetest things ever.
Good things are good!

Being stupid enough to fall into old habits for a legitimately short period of time.

RL getting royally fucked up from that short lapse in judgement.

Insta-karma is a bitch.

Angry at myself, and angry that I'm angry. Grr.

Bright side: actually made an appointment with a therapist for the first time?

Additional anger/peeve - that it took me this fucking long to actually make that appointment.

Eta: ...why do I not listen to my friends? =/

Sleep.

I love sleep so very much.

So. Much.

@ Game of Thrones ...

slow-clap

@Seraphim73 said in Does size matter? What about duration?:

@SkinnyThicket said in Does size matter? What about duration?:

What happens if they bump into each other? What about global communication?

You talk it out OOCly, asking "So, when/what time is this scene set?" And then one person will say, "Oh, we just did a scene that lasted until like midnight," and the other person will say, "Huh, we just finished up 3 PM. How about going for a 3AM snack at Taco Bell, or meeting up for last call?

^ Another example of how wordy I am, versus other people <.< Summed that up nicely, @Seraphim73 =D

@Thisnameistaken
That is so many levels of bullshit, I don't think there's a shovel big enough to handle that

(Omg yay new job!)

I work at a bakery in a fairly high end grocery store in town. There are so many horror stories. Many of which end with comments like, "Well I'll just go to WalMart", from the flustered customer. Like Walmart is going to have good cake... ...anyway.

One of my favorite horror stories was about two years ago around this time. Graduation season is nuts for our store cake decorators, since we're located just outside two of the largest subdivisions in town. This was one of our busiest yet. About 60 cake orders a day all weekend. One of our three decorators broke her foot, and a bunch of other stuff and was in the hospital (still joke she was the lucky one), so the remaining decorator and I were pretty flustered come Saturday.

Lady comes in to order her cake for Sunday. I explain that that's fine, but earliest we can do is about 2pm, just because we have so many orders. Lady gets all angry, citing how we have to take her order for whatever time she chooses, because that's the policy of our store. It's not. I explain that it's not, and that the policy is that we can't turn down an order, which I didn't, and that normally it wouldn't be an issue at all, bt we just have so many orders and I didn't want to promise anything we might not be able to do.

Lady calms a little, starts to tell me this order for her daughter's graduation - a complicated as hell three tiered fiasco made entirely of chocolate. Now, I'm dreading this already, she's taking up my time (about thirty mins by now) when I could have been finishing cake orders, so I'm getting a smidge short, but still polite.

And then this crazy woman pulls out this print out picture of what she wants....white frosted, brightly colored roses with some kind of Eiffel tower design on one side. I ask if she really wants everything chocolate, because then it would look brown and not white. To which she replies:

"Well you need to dye the chocolate. I want it these colors, but chocolate."

"White chocolate? We can't do white chocolate" I reply.

"No! Regular damn chocolate. Jesus." Is how this lady chooses to respond. Me, the calm and collected person I am (not) in these situations blurts out,

"I'm not a wizard. Neither am I Jesus."

Long story short, she asked for my manager, who was snickering at my response while packing out the bread for the day, and Lady eventually ended up leaving without a cake order being placed...
....while proclaiming that Wal-Mart would do her cake for her.

facepalms

I really think that a lot of drama and "feelings of not being wanted" on MU*s can be mitigated simply by not assuming things, and adulting enough to speak to each other. Instead of sitting around and taking gossip at face value, or assuming something typed was meant offensively, someone is ignoring you for some epic reason when really they were just afk, etc.

I tend to read in to things too much, and one of my best friends gets grumpy and such, and we agreed early on to just talk, rather than sitting and moping/getting mad about whatever.

Point is, communication is key - online, real life, everything. Easier said than done sometimes, but still...

(I got through a whole post without forgetting my point! Yay! =D )

I've pretty exclusively played WoD, but there were a few places I tried out that weren't...only one of which I remember the name of. The ones I remember are basically in the last four or five years, and only the ones that stuck around for any length of time.

Anahi @ TR and SHH (and briefly NObN)
Hera @ Reno
Lilo @ BITN
Lydia @ NObN
Penny @ NObN
Red @ Fallcoast
Vesper @ Fallcoast
Xia @ Star Wars: AoS

The names I know I used, but places I've forgotten:

Echo @ some fantasy thing
Omiya @ an old, small oWoD MU*
Phaedra @ the same place ^
Blair @ ^
Maeve @ ^

...I think that's it. I apparently have a short memory for places, but I've been in and out of the hobby for about fifteen years now. Mostly on smaller places. (Crowds make me nervous on the computer too, apparently!)

Anyhoo! Give me a shout if I know ya, or whatever! =D

Emotional ruts you can't get out of.
Now I'm just angry for no reason.
Balls.

Just because I don't feel like people do this enough in life in general:

Communication is key.

The best/most ooc-ly sane TS scenes I've ever had were largely with one of my now-best-friends, because there was excellent OOC communication.

I think most TS scenes I've been in throughout the years were memorable because of good communication from an OOC standpoint.

That or the scenes were just that awful/mildly traumatiZing. >>

But I think mostly good, because communication.

Communication.

Did I mention communication?

Eta: Should mention that when I say communication, I don't mean planning out every detail. Mystery is good. But not totally blindsiding someone is good, too. If things come up that make a scene uncomfortable, say so. Or whatever the issue may be.

@Silver
The real kicker was... I was smilling. And they didn't believe the smile was real enough. Stuff like that. Which did, in turn, propel me into massive amounts of insta-anger. Wouldn't have even been so bad if it hadn't happened about five times, with five different people, in five totally different instances/scenarios.
Buh.
Annoyed.

My first real 6am shift in over a month.
On new meds - stupidly drank caffeine after taking them, so I was up until 2am.
Dreamed about not getting enough sleep for three hours (there were at least puppies involved).
I'm angry at my brain
(and anyone perky at 6am. Fuck you people)

So, a little background, first:

I'm married. My husband and I are in our late 20s. Dragon Ball Z was a thing we both grew up on because uber nerds even then.
He works nights (so sleeps during the day), and frequently talks in his sleep.

The thing I love (other than that silly, infuriating man)

Just got home from work, and when I went to hug him and say hi, I scared him awake. Or so I thought.

I say sorry, and he procedes to say:

"It's ok! The other guy at the NOC (where he works) scares me too. He's alive again too. Keeps dying, and coming back. Alive and dead. I'm glad you're alive too."

To which I ask: "What? Who's dead and now alive?"

"You know who I'm talking about (exasperated huff). You KNOW! Freeza!"

TL:DR - Apparently Freeza is back, and works with my husband.

Dying laughing.