kittehserf: Kami didn’t bother trying to kill us. She just sat down in the middle of the living room and levered one of them off, then ran off. There was much swearing in our house that day. Even more than there had been putting the damn things on, and that required three people (one a professional groomer)! I might still have pictures of that, Kami was fairly tiny and REALLY pissed.
ROFL your Kami sounds like she went to the same samurai school as my Katie. I can never get over how strong tiny cats are!
We just clip Maddie’s and Fribbie’s claws; they’re mostly not bad about getting it done. I wouldn’t fancy supergluing anything to their claws, though. Apart from anything else, I suspect I’d be the one who’d end up with Soft Paws glued to my fingers.
Not just an all-day job interview marathon; it was actually more like a 6-month process from start to finish. This isn’t even a particularly slow timeline in this profession. It’s just how we roll!
I think, after much going back and forth all weekend, I’m going to stay where I am. Does this mean I friendzoned the other employer? I mean, they were really nice to me, and even paid for my meals!
p.s. The kitties are so far tolerating the Soft Paws, and have yet to murder me in my sleep. I showed them the Kitten Mittons video, so maybe they realized it could be much worse.
Or else they’re just waiting until I least suspect it…
leatapp
10 years ago
Looks like Manboobz has caught a case of necrotrollingitis. I’m not a doctor, but I’d prescribe persistent mocking until it clears up or becomes fun.
emilygoddess
10 years ago
Tumblr friending fest (or “friendzy”, as we used to call it on LJ)! Anyone who wants to can post their URLs for other Boobzers to follow.
I also have an infrequently-updated witchcraft/Pagan blog, Lrn2Magick. I don’t mention it much, because I’m a little embarrassed about the fact that I can’t seem to make my skepticism apply to witchcraft (wishful thinking, I guess). But I feel pretty safe here 😀
See I think he HAS done “something” constantly offering you gifts and things after you’ve refused and made it clear you aren’t interested in him isn’t really ok. I would go to a supervisor type person or HR and complain about the treatment you are receiving. It’s not appropriate. You should keep track of these though.. like get a calendar or something and keep a diary of it all. Then you have something you can produce as proof.
Apparently my family (my mom and my older siblings especially) keeps thinking that I’m trying to secretly transition. X_X Why the hell wouldn’t I tell them about doing something that will significantly affect my physiology and psychology? Ugh.
I don’t have a tumblr or a lj or a pinterest. I can’t seem to get into blogging, because I’m not very good at non direct self disclosure. Also everyone else is so much smarter than me, so why take up more space on the internet?
However, I would love to read more stuff from people here, so I second emilygoddess idea about posting links to things!
Gah… MRA troll invasion over at Pandagon. She wrote about The Poll. I have officially Seen Some Shit.
cassandrakitty
10 years ago
This thread is for random stuff, right? I need bra fitting help! With Cleo specifically, and I remember that someone here was a big fan, so if they’re around, want to answer a few fit questions?
My online hangouts! I use LB-Lee as my screename on Livejournal (where my writeathon’s happening), DeviantArt (where I post my commish art), and tumblr, which is just shiny confetti and sticky notes and lots of disability/mental health babble.
RE: Kittehs
My reading on that was years ago and tended to the “your astral lover” type. Yes, I confess, I read some total rubbish.
Aw, Kittehs, it’s okay! I’ve read more multi shit books than you can imagine!
My Tumblr handle is anarcho-womanist.tumblr.com, but I mainly write in my journal, which can be found in the link in my nym.
Anyway, my dad has threatened to cancel my cell phone service if my older siblings and I don’t talk to him over the phone together sometime today. I am so done with these ridiculous threats.
Yeah, I’m with katz. Why the FUCK do you still have that fucking thing? Seriously, I can buy you a new phone myself, just please for the love of god get rid of it!
Well, if I can use a phone without paying for it, I’d rather keep that phone. The situation with him will be resolved very soon, though, so at this moment I don’t need to abandon the phone. If he threatens me one more time with something phone-related, then I’ll just try to use a pay-as-you-go phone.
In other news, my brother has told me that my dad has asked my brother to spy on me and “check on” the online friends I have. He thinks that my internet friends are brainwashing me into being trans or whatever. My brother also had this conversation with him (not verbatim):
Brother: [Ally] doesn’t want to move back into San Jose.
Dad: Why not?
Brother: Because he wants to be free. He wants to have his haircut as he pleases, and not be controlled by everyone. He wants freedom.
Dad: Then tell him that he should be grateful for all I have done for him and that I’m being ungrateful by not going back to San Jose.
Of course, when my brother said that I am merely bad at expressing gratitude and that I actually do have some gratitude, my dad completely ignored that. X_X
Oh, and my dad has (to no one’s surprise) flat-out admitted that he and other family members are going to try as hard as they can to make me “normal” again. This kind of thing just hurts so much for me to hear, but of course only their feelings matter.
contrapangloss
10 years ago
Ally, I’m sorry for what you’re going through. Your dad sounds like a jerk…
Random good news for thread: I just got the official word that (after I graduate and the uni kicks me out of housing) that the fire-department will let me move in to one of the outlying stations. The Chief has given me the green light! It’s a different station than the one I’ve been volunteering with, so I’m going to have to get to know that crowd, but fire-people are pretty uniformly good-people.
I have a place to live in five weeks! I’m not going to be couch surfing! Yay for roofs!
Now I just have to get a real job that will pay me, so I can afford to buy food once I get out of housing. Since, housing and my current paid work stop at the same time… because part of being a student employee is, apparently, being a student.
Ally, all of this is a reminder (as if you needed it) of why I think it’s a really bad idea to go back to CA. I really wouldn’t put it past that turd to try to imprison you in his house, if he knew you were within reach. Could you get an intervention order against him? It’s not like it’s exactly unprecedented in your family.
And yeah, get rid of that fucking phone. Pay as you go isn’t expensive. I’ve never used anything else!
contrapangloss, yay!
LBT – LOL I shudder to think what those shit multi books were like. They’d prolly give the stupid astral love ones a run for their money in Getting It Rong.
We Hunted The Mammoth
kittehserf: Kami didn’t bother trying to kill us. She just sat down in the middle of the living room and levered one of them off, then ran off. There was much swearing in our house that day. Even more than there had been putting the damn things on, and that required three people (one a professional groomer)! I might still have pictures of that, Kami was fairly tiny and REALLY pissed.
ROFL your Kami sounds like she went to the same samurai school as my Katie. I can never get over how strong tiny cats are!
We just clip Maddie’s and Fribbie’s claws; they’re mostly not bad about getting it done. I wouldn’t fancy supergluing anything to their claws, though. Apart from anything else, I suspect I’d be the one who’d end up with Soft Paws glued to my fingers.
I’ve never heard of Soft Paws but how about Kitten Mittons?
That guy is gonna wake up with Kitten Mittons stuffed up his nose, I can see it now …
This is totally out of kilter with reality, wrong in so many ways, and the comments are.. Horrible.. Just wow!
http://kshatriya-anglobitch.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/new-year-game-special-ii-does-rape.html
Ours are navy blue, and I had the same thought! On the plus side, they hide a lot of stains, which are kind of inevitable when you work with animals.
Cloudiah, are you gonna take the new job or stick with the old one?
Not just an all-day job interview marathon; it was actually more like a 6-month process from start to finish. This isn’t even a particularly slow timeline in this profession. It’s just how we roll!
I think, after much going back and forth all weekend, I’m going to stay where I am. Does this mean I friendzoned the other employer? I mean, they were really nice to me, and even paid for my meals!
p.s. The kitties are so far tolerating the Soft Paws, and have yet to murder me in my sleep. I showed them the Kitten Mittons video, so maybe they realized it could be much worse.
Or else they’re just waiting until I least suspect it…
Looks like Manboobz has caught a case of necrotrollingitis. I’m not a doctor, but I’d prescribe persistent mocking until it clears up or becomes fun.
Tumblr friending fest (or “friendzy”, as we used to call it on LJ)! Anyone who wants to can post their URLs for other Boobzers to follow.
My main is emilygoddess, and my” F*ck Yeah…” blog is F*ck Yeah Sacred Places.
I also have an infrequently-updated witchcraft/Pagan blog, Lrn2Magick. I don’t mention it much, because I’m a little embarrassed about the fact that I can’t seem to make my skepticism apply to witchcraft (wishful thinking, I guess). But I feel pretty safe here 😀
Hey Recette,
See I think he HAS done “something” constantly offering you gifts and things after you’ve refused and made it clear you aren’t interested in him isn’t really ok. I would go to a supervisor type person or HR and complain about the treatment you are receiving. It’s not appropriate. You should keep track of these though.. like get a calendar or something and keep a diary of it all. Then you have something you can produce as proof.
Apparently my family (my mom and my older siblings especially) keeps thinking that I’m trying to secretly transition. X_X Why the hell wouldn’t I tell them about doing something that will significantly affect my physiology and psychology? Ugh.
I don’t have a tumblr or a lj or a pinterest. I can’t seem to get into blogging, because I’m not very good at non direct self disclosure. Also everyone else is so much smarter than me, so why take up more space on the internet?
However, I would love to read more stuff from people here, so I second emilygoddess idea about posting links to things!
I do lovingly snarky recaps of ASOIAF chapters while drinking. It’s a WordPress blog so anyone who wants to read it can just click on my name.
Gah… MRA troll invasion over at Pandagon. She wrote about The Poll. I have officially Seen Some Shit.
This thread is for random stuff, right? I need bra fitting help! With Cleo specifically, and I remember that someone here was a big fan, so if they’re around, want to answer a few fit questions?
Have a look at this video my boss forwarded this morning. Jumpy is the Spring-heeled Jack of dogs!
http://youtu.be/5I_QzPLEjM4
My online hangouts! I use LB-Lee as my screename on Livejournal (where my writeathon’s happening), DeviantArt (where I post my commish art), and tumblr, which is just shiny confetti and sticky notes and lots of disability/mental health babble.
RE: Kittehs
My reading on that was years ago and tended to the “your astral lover” type. Yes, I confess, I read some total rubbish.
Aw, Kittehs, it’s okay! I’ve read more multi shit books than you can imagine!
My Tumblr handle is anarcho-womanist.tumblr.com, but I mainly write in my journal, which can be found in the link in my nym.
Anyway, my dad has threatened to cancel my cell phone service if my older siblings and I don’t talk to him over the phone together sometime today. I am so done with these ridiculous threats.
Oh, right, you still have that iphone he bought you. You’ve got to ditch or jailbreak that.
Yeah, I’m with katz. Why the FUCK do you still have that fucking thing? Seriously, I can buy you a new phone myself, just please for the love of god get rid of it!
Well, if I can use a phone without paying for it, I’d rather keep that phone. The situation with him will be resolved very soon, though, so at this moment I don’t need to abandon the phone. If he threatens me one more time with something phone-related, then I’ll just try to use a pay-as-you-go phone.
In other news, my brother has told me that my dad has asked my brother to spy on me and “check on” the online friends I have. He thinks that my internet friends are brainwashing me into being trans or whatever. My brother also had this conversation with him (not verbatim):
Brother: [Ally] doesn’t want to move back into San Jose.
Dad: Why not?
Brother: Because he wants to be free. He wants to have his haircut as he pleases, and not be controlled by everyone. He wants freedom.
Dad: Then tell him that he should be grateful for all I have done for him and that I’m being ungrateful by not going back to San Jose.
Of course, when my brother said that I am merely bad at expressing gratitude and that I actually do have some gratitude, my dad completely ignored that. X_X
Oh, and my dad has (to no one’s surprise) flat-out admitted that he and other family members are going to try as hard as they can to make me “normal” again. This kind of thing just hurts so much for me to hear, but of course only their feelings matter.
Ally, I’m sorry for what you’re going through. Your dad sounds like a jerk…
Random good news for thread: I just got the official word that (after I graduate and the uni kicks me out of housing) that the fire-department will let me move in to one of the outlying stations. The Chief has given me the green light! It’s a different station than the one I’ve been volunteering with, so I’m going to have to get to know that crowd, but fire-people are pretty uniformly good-people.
I have a place to live in five weeks! I’m not going to be couch surfing! Yay for roofs!
Now I just have to get a real job that will pay me, so I can afford to buy food once I get out of housing. Since, housing and my current paid work stop at the same time… because part of being a student employee is, apparently, being a student.
Ally, all of this is a reminder (as if you needed it) of why I think it’s a really bad idea to go back to CA. I really wouldn’t put it past that turd to try to imprison you in his house, if he knew you were within reach. Could you get an intervention order against him? It’s not like it’s exactly unprecedented in your family.
And yeah, get rid of that fucking phone. Pay as you go isn’t expensive. I’ve never used anything else!
contrapangloss, yay!
LBT – LOL I shudder to think what those shit multi books were like. They’d prolly give the stupid astral love ones a run for their money in Getting It Rong.