@cloudiah Thanks, I do love gift baskets!
Internet hugs and imaginary cookies for all who need them even if you totally shouldn’t take cookies from strangers, even imaginary ones.
Me and office guy and the two coworkers/friends I invited all went to that lunch today. It was very pleasant, very friendly, I felt much better about it all.
Until we left.
And work friend says “Um, so… I didn’t want to tell you this earlier, because I knew this was already going to be an awkward lunch for you, but… he’s married. With a young child.”
WTF guy. WTF all over the place. I’ve now lost any and all concern that I may have accidentally flirted with you. What a giant fucking douche.
Viscaria
10 years ago
Maybe I misinterpreted and he wasn’t hitting on me in the first place? Maybe he mentioned he was married when I called him and I didn’t catch it because shit cell reception? But then why wouldn’t he be glad of a chance to have some coworkers we both know better come with us? JFC.
Robert
10 years ago
Viscaria, that is so Not Done. Douche is such an appropriate term – not needed and potentially harmful.
Emmy Rae
10 years ago
Hugs for all who want them!
Regarding phones and their dictionaries… I got a UTI and tried to text my partner about it, but the text kept failing to send, and I kept rewriting it. So my phone learned the phrase “I have a UTI”. I also wrote “I have a wedding” a lot at that time because I was busy going to weddings and therefore declining invitations to do other stuff via text. So now if I write “I have a” my phone prompts me with “wedding” and “UTI”.
@cloudiah I did need a laugh! And I had one 😀
NonServiam
10 years ago
Hugs/cups of tea to anyone in need.
K, that sounds like a really high stress situation and I’m really sorry you have to deal with so much. Viscaria: I’m not sure what the full context here but sounds like you have a case of Douches Being Douches on your hands, and that sucks. WTF indeed.
For my part, I moved back to Ireland from Turkey last week after a few high stress weeks. Just the usual stuff: companies not wanting to pay teachers, bureaucracy making my life hell RE visa extensions etc, excessively hot weather, ex-lover getting violent resulting in me losing loads of friends because logic… I’m tired. So happy to be home and free!
I mean, I’m feeling a bit discombobulated. 3 years living abroad makes you feel a tad out of sync with everything. I’m dealing with this by knitting.
And I miss my cat! Really, he’s my flatmate’s cat but but but
Viscaria, if he apparently was so subtly about his being married you couldn’t tell, he doesn’t get to complain about you trying to subtly show your lack of interest.
What a dick.
Arete
10 years ago
Today is my weekly volunteer shift walking dogs at the shelter. Usually, I am very excited about it, but today it is supposed to be extremely hot, and about half of the more experienced members of our shift (read: the people who can handle the big, rambunctious, untrained dogs) will be out. Plus, my ability to handle the especially strong and wild ones is decreasing weekly (due to the increasing awkwardness conferred by pregnancy). Should be an…interesting…shift.
Just dropped in for some shameless self-promotion. I’ve been working on a horror novel for a couple of years now, and just last week, I finally finished the process of self-publication. Hometown has gone live. Twenty years ago, something terrible happened in the small town of Belford, New York. Now the story can be told.
Available at Amazon (Kindle and print versions – yes, that was the minimum I was allowed to charge for the print version of this Stephen King-esque beast of a book), Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords. Hope y’all will stop by and check it out.
Belated hugs for you, Ally. I hope you’re doing a bit better now.
Pallygirl, fuck cancer. I’m sorry the serious side-effects of the radiation have already started appearing.
K, I’m sorry you are being undervalued as a parent, and as a member of the household. Please don’t feel ashamed of leaning on your support system — your mom, anyone else you’re turning to. That’s something you have every right to do.
Robert, NonServiam, LBT: Thanks! I’m almost relieved that he turned out to be an unrepentant dick, because now I feel no lingering worries or guilt.
Arete, best of luck tonight :-/ let us know how it goes!
Seraph, I look forward to checking out your book!
Policy of Madness, I know how incredibly slow a huge, complicated pattern like that can be. 2017 seems like a great goal to set for yourself. Looks beautiful!
Nequam
10 years ago
Policy: nice. I started a much smaller cross-stitch (this one) but kind of stalled as I got interested in bookbinding instead.
It’s my birthday, for what it’s worth. I just hope my husband’s workday (he’s a mail carrier) doesn’t suck to much.
Also, hearing about Robin Williams’ death was not the birthday present I hoped for. Couldn’t someone more deserving like Rush or Scalia have cacked it instead?
Man, I literally just saw about Robin Williams. How sad. He was a figure from my childhood, and it sounds like he’s been having a rough go with mental illness of late. 🙁 Aw man. Poor guy.
Policy of Madness
10 years ago
@Nequam
Happy birthday! That pattern is hilarious and awesome. It’s easy to get stalled in the boring sections, but fortunately cross-stitch will wait for you. There’s no expiry date.
@Viscaria
Thanks! Yes, it’s slow-going (I started it in January and I would estimate I am 25% done) but I take a picture literally every day I work in it at all, and at the end I plan to make a little video montage of how it came together.
I don’t really have anything constructive for everyone else who is having such hard times, because I never know what to say, except that you have all my sympathies.
I just heard that! Just horrible. He was so talented.
Nequam
10 years ago
PoM: yeah, I figured if I was ever going to have a sampler in my house, it would have to be either useful or humorously subversive, as I already have many odd things to hang on the walls (6 full-sheet movie posters’ll pretty much take up a living room, and I have smaller posters, pages from calendars that are worth keeping for the art, etc…)
redpoppy
10 years ago
*hugs all around* I just learned about his death, too. I’m sad about this. I was also sad when Bob Hoskins passed away a few months ago. I really enjoyed both of their work.
[CN: Death] This has been a tough year for me. My father passed away in January and Bob Hoskins always reminded me of my dad. I’m so sad to see all 3 of them go.
Policy of Madness
10 years ago
I have complicated feelings about suicide, but death by asphyxiation isn’t the most common method. I can’t stop myself wondering if it was actually suicide, and not an accidental death.
Nequam
10 years ago
Well, I don’t think it was asphyxiation the way it was for Michael Hutchinson, if that’s what you meant.
I had initially thought he had another heart attack, more severe than the one that had sidelined him hard in 2009.
Policy of Madness
10 years ago
Neither do I, but there are other ways to accidentally suffocate yourself. Getting too drunk and a little careless, for instance, especially if one is taking psychoactive meds. Not saying this is the case, but it’s what jumps into my mind when people mention the words “suffocation” “mental illness” and “death” together. Someone who has mental issues who dies is not automatically a suicide.
We Hunted The Mammoth
In case anyone needs a laugh, this exchange between 2 cats made me laugh really hard.
@cloudiah Thanks, I do love gift baskets!
Internet hugs and imaginary cookies for all who need them
even if you totally shouldn’t take cookies from strangers, even imaginary ones.The always delightful Fidelbogen is #2 commenter in the Aug 8th “Bust” article about how the MRM completely misunderstands feminism…great.
http://www.bust.com/mens-rights-movement-misunderstands-feminism.html
Me and office guy and the two coworkers/friends I invited all went to that lunch today. It was very pleasant, very friendly, I felt much better about it all.
Until we left.
And work friend says “Um, so… I didn’t want to tell you this earlier, because I knew this was already going to be an awkward lunch for you, but… he’s married. With a young child.”
WTF guy. WTF all over the place. I’ve now lost any and all concern that I may have accidentally flirted with you. What a giant fucking douche.
Maybe I misinterpreted and he wasn’t hitting on me in the first place? Maybe he mentioned he was married when I called him and I didn’t catch it because shit cell reception? But then why wouldn’t he be glad of a chance to have some coworkers we both know better come with us? JFC.
Viscaria, that is so Not Done. Douche is such an appropriate term – not needed and potentially harmful.
Hugs for all who want them!
Regarding phones and their dictionaries… I got a UTI and tried to text my partner about it, but the text kept failing to send, and I kept rewriting it. So my phone learned the phrase “I have a UTI”. I also wrote “I have a wedding” a lot at that time because I was busy going to weddings and therefore declining invitations to do other stuff via text. So now if I write “I have a” my phone prompts me with “wedding” and “UTI”.
@cloudiah I did need a laugh! And I had one 😀
Hugs/cups of tea to anyone in need.
K, that sounds like a really high stress situation and I’m really sorry you have to deal with so much. Viscaria: I’m not sure what the full context here but sounds like you have a case of Douches Being Douches on your hands, and that sucks. WTF indeed.
For my part, I moved back to Ireland from Turkey last week after a few high stress weeks. Just the usual stuff: companies not wanting to pay teachers, bureaucracy making my life hell RE visa extensions etc, excessively hot weather, ex-lover getting violent resulting in me losing loads of friends because logic… I’m tired. So happy to be home and free!
I mean, I’m feeling a bit discombobulated. 3 years living abroad makes you feel a tad out of sync with everything. I’m dealing with this by knitting.
And I miss my cat! Really, he’s my flatmate’s cat but but but
Kitty!
Viscaria, if he apparently was so subtly about his being married you couldn’t tell, he doesn’t get to complain about you trying to subtly show your lack of interest.
What a dick.
Today is my weekly volunteer shift walking dogs at the shelter. Usually, I am very excited about it, but today it is supposed to be extremely hot, and about half of the more experienced members of our shift (read: the people who can handle the big, rambunctious, untrained dogs) will be out. Plus, my ability to handle the especially strong and wild ones is decreasing weekly (due to the increasing awkwardness conferred by pregnancy). Should be an…interesting…shift.
Hello, all!
Just dropped in for some shameless self-promotion. I’ve been working on a horror novel for a couple of years now, and just last week, I finally finished the process of self-publication. Hometown has gone live. Twenty years ago, something terrible happened in the small town of Belford, New York. Now the story can be told.
Available at Amazon (Kindle and print versions – yes, that was the minimum I was allowed to charge for the print version of this Stephen King-esque beast of a book), Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords. Hope y’all will stop by and check it out.
Way to go, Seraph! It looks great!
I got a lot done on my epic cross-stitch last week. I may actually get it done by 2017! (that is my for-real goal, 2017)
This is the pic I took when I finished a strip
http://imgur.com/nzDKcqW
And here’s one I took when I rolled it to start the next strip
http://imgur.com/ak1cItG
2017 y’all!
Yay Seraph! Wooo!
Long post, hope that’s okay!
Belated hugs for you, Ally. I hope you’re doing a bit better now.
Pallygirl, fuck cancer. I’m sorry the serious side-effects of the radiation have already started appearing.
K, I’m sorry you are being undervalued as a parent, and as a member of the household. Please don’t feel ashamed of leaning on your support system — your mom, anyone else you’re turning to. That’s something you have every right to do.
Robert, NonServiam, LBT: Thanks! I’m almost relieved that he turned out to be an unrepentant dick, because now I feel no lingering worries or guilt.
Arete, best of luck tonight :-/ let us know how it goes!
Seraph, I look forward to checking out your book!
Policy of Madness, I know how incredibly slow a huge, complicated pattern like that can be. 2017 seems like a great goal to set for yourself. Looks beautiful!
Policy: nice. I started a much smaller cross-stitch (this one) but kind of stalled as I got interested in bookbinding instead.
It’s my birthday, for what it’s worth. I just hope my husband’s workday (he’s a mail carrier) doesn’t suck to much.
Also, hearing about Robin Williams’ death was not the birthday present I hoped for. Couldn’t someone more deserving like Rush or Scalia have cacked it instead?
Man, I literally just saw about Robin Williams. How sad. He was a figure from my childhood, and it sounds like he’s been having a rough go with mental illness of late. 🙁 Aw man. Poor guy.
@Nequam
Happy birthday! That pattern is hilarious and awesome. It’s easy to get stalled in the boring sections, but fortunately cross-stitch will wait for you. There’s no expiry date.
@Viscaria
Thanks! Yes, it’s slow-going (I started it in January and I would estimate I am 25% done) but I take a picture literally every day I work in it at all, and at the end I plan to make a little video montage of how it came together.
I don’t really have anything constructive for everyone else who is having such hard times, because I never know what to say, except that you have all my sympathies.
Robin Williams just died? Holy shit.
I just heard that! Just horrible. He was so talented.
PoM: yeah, I figured if I was ever going to have a sampler in my house, it would have to be either useful or humorously subversive, as I already have many odd things to hang on the walls (6 full-sheet movie posters’ll pretty much take up a living room, and I have smaller posters, pages from calendars that are worth keeping for the art, etc…)
*hugs all around* I just learned about his death, too. I’m sad about this. I was also sad when Bob Hoskins passed away a few months ago. I really enjoyed both of their work.
[CN: Death] This has been a tough year for me. My father passed away in January and Bob Hoskins always reminded me of my dad. I’m so sad to see all 3 of them go.
I have complicated feelings about suicide, but death by asphyxiation isn’t the most common method. I can’t stop myself wondering if it was actually suicide, and not an accidental death.
Well, I don’t think it was asphyxiation the way it was for Michael Hutchinson, if that’s what you meant.
I had initially thought he had another heart attack, more severe than the one that had sidelined him hard in 2009.
Neither do I, but there are other ways to accidentally suffocate yourself. Getting too drunk and a little careless, for instance, especially if one is taking psychoactive meds. Not saying this is the case, but it’s what jumps into my mind when people mention the words “suffocation” “mental illness” and “death” together. Someone who has mental issues who dies is not automatically a suicide.