The Big Ol' Dork Show

Wanna make me cry?

2019-01-15T21:42:28Z

It never fails. My dear friend gave me a computer today.
It's her old and busted laptop, but having this is going to improve my life drastically.

I cried when she presented it to me.
I knew she was giving it to me in advance, but I cried anyway.

I am going to have my S.O. walk me through some maintenance on it, but it's a nice little touch screen asus. I can digitize on it!

This is great because I have a HUGE digitizing project to work on and now I can do so more easily.

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Snowflake challenge day 3

2019-01-03T15:24:09Z

I just want to start by letting all of you know that I'm old enough to remember when Fandom was singular.
We were all fans, or rather Fen. The star trek fans, the Star Wars fans, the Gamers, the literary fans, the battlestar Galactica fans, the comic book fans; we were all one big melting pot of Fandom.

These days I'm a big MCU fan, but I used to be a hardcore DC girl.
But here's one of my favorite moments of beauty from an old animated film, The Last Unicorn. Keep in mind that a group of the animators from the studio Rankin Bass was using went on to form "Studio Ghibli".

https://youtu.be/NUGZoG9KPnY

I was about 8 years old when I saw this in the theater with my best friend. It was formative. I knew two things in that moment: That magic is real, but so rare that (like Molly True) I would never find it.

So I was determined to bring magic into the world. That's why I created a performance troupe and toured the ten faires and othere events performing as the queen of the Fairies for 15 years.

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I love these stories!

2019-01-03T15:09:01Z

Snowflake Challenge day 2
Fic recs

I don't usually post fix recommendations, but here goes.

I just have to say that I'm a huge fan of this series of stories:
Tales of the Bots by scifigrl47:
https://archiveofourown.org/series/18990
Avengers, Stony, and one of Tony's helper bots becomes a real boy. Lots of stories here but none of them are overlong.

I don't normally recommend unfinished works, but ravager_zero is spinning one of my favorite first contact stories. Its tagged Consentacles, and is rated M.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/10099433/chapters/22497764

Looking for something sweet and adorable? Chris Crush is a Steve/Natasha story where Natasha has a little celebrity crush on the guy who played Captain America in the movie. Steve and Natasha work their way through all of that actor's movies.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/910382/chapters/1763341

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Snowflake challenge day 1 JOY

2019-01-02T05:14:24Z

Joy comes to me in many forms:
Visiting Lake Michigan in any weather.
Sitting in the dappled shade and eating cold fruit on a warm day.
Stepping onstage.
Reading a great story.
Telling a great story.
Singing in a place with good acoustics.
Back scritches.
Tasting something indulgent.

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Tis the Season

2018-12-17T23:14:42Z

Ugh.
As usual, I'm giving up all processed sugars on January 1st.

As usual, I'm surrounded by cookies and pies and cakes and things, due to the Holidaze.

As usual, friends and family are giving me SUGAR as a gift for Christmas.

Sigh.

SO here's my annual plea:
Please don't give me sugar and expect that I'll be pleased. Don't give me sugar and expect that I'm going to enjoy your cookies. Don't think that I'm going to get right into that bag of chocolate.

Best case scenario? I'm putting it in the freezer.

But I really need to explain to all my True Believers:
I'm an Addict.

I'm about to kick a sucky addiction, and I don't want temptations in the house!

I love to receive hand crafted gifts. Cut me a snowflake. String beads. Paint something. Carve something.

I love to get gift cards. Even a $5 steak n shake card means I can get lunch sometime when I'm otherwise broke. Same for Target, Lush, QT, Movie theaters, etc.

I could really use some simple cash; fold a dollar into a weird shape and put it in or on a card.

Take me out to a movie or a meal. I love those things and have no disposable income to do them very often anymore.

Make me dinner; have me over and make a meal.

But if you give me:
Cocoa
Cookies
Cake
Candy
Mixes for cookies or cake
Brownies
Chocolate

I'm donating it to charity. It's going right to the food pantry, or to a homeless person on my street. If you give me sugar, it's not going to my house.

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Tumbledown

2018-12-17T06:10:37Z

Hey there! I'm boycotting Tumblr for today, so I thought I'd return to this platform.

I still don't have regular keyboard access, so expect brevity in the future.

I'm a busy bee making embroidery projects for clients and gifts.

More soon!

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Momma misses the keyboard

2017-05-23T17:00:20Z

I miss writing.

I can't really write very well from my phone or my tablet, and digging out the tower to use a keyboard is difficult and obnoxious.

I need a keyboard.

I also kind of need that keyboard ready for me when I feel an urge to write. I'm not a very self-disciplined person. I'm not someone who schedules her art. I am someone who will be driven out of a sound sleep with an idea, someone who used to live surrounded by notebooks and pieces of paper. I'm trying to be paperless, and I got most of the way there.

Then The Powers That Be took my internet and my computer away from me.

My hand doesn't write fast enough to keep up with my brain. And once I got used to being able to edit on screen, lost my best physical editing skills.

Sigh.

And oh, there are stories. I'm still creating stories, I just do it in my head. I'd sure like to write them down.

I suppose I'll have to schedule some writing time. Maybe I can give up bathing? Or eating? Nothing will make me give up sleeping.

The good news is that my S.O. did some real work in the last couple of weeks, so hopefully he can throw some bucks my way. Unfortunately, the Real Work is random.

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Moving forward

2017-04-24T15:58:36Z

So it happens that if I wanted to actually sew for a living, there are jobs available. I'm planning to see if any of those opportunities would be open to my S.O., since he has actually done factory assembly for clothing. (Me, I'm a custom-art-project worker.)

However, I am not sure that a sewing job is what I want at this time. It's becoming clear to me that the work I do is valuable to me, I love my customers, and I appreciate the challenges that are thrown in my direction.

My problem is in how I'm treated, and how I'm managed.

And that one worker who can only do the sales portion of our job. The latest weirdness? She recently whined to anyone who would listen about how *TIRED* her arm was after dusting the whole department. She came up with a "Dusting Chore List" divvying up all the items in our newly-expanded area amongst the various members of our department. As she is NOT my manager, I politely declined. What's weird is that I was the only one to politely decline.

The other thorn in my side is my S.O.'s P.O.
I think I've complained before about her, but it's just frustrating. She's a short, slender blonde woman who adds extra "s" to all of her siblants and often uptalks... while being nasty and exhibiting bully tactics when dealing with my S.O.
And my immediate knee-jerk reaction to bullies, and particularly Mean Girls is to pull out the STOP THAT cannon and open fire.

We've butted heads.

Which is a shame. I should be her ally, but she worked really hard to alienate me immediately. She's even gone so far as to say things to my S.O. like, "Well, if I were her that would be a deal-breaker".

Because people in his position clearly don't *deserve* a partner.

And since he can't use any of his marketable skills due to the restrictions placed on him by the system, he's working minimum wage physical labor jobs and taking home peanuts. She wouldn't let him take a promotion at the factory because he'd have to push the "Enter" button on a computer to confirm weights on the line. BECAUSE ITS A COMPUTER AND OMG YOU ARE A SMART PERSON AND I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HOW COMPUTERS WORK AND YOU'LL USE THE ENTER BUTTON TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD AND EAT A BABY.

And that's the other thing that completely chaps my ss. She's clearly threatened and intimidated by intelligence.
And assertiveness.

You can imagine how she sees me.

She has threatened him with re-incarceraton more than once. She has used the threat of federal searches to tell us that our home is unsafe and unsatisfactory. (Gee, the FBI didn't seem to have any trouble searching our property when they blew down our door at 6am with a warrant.)

The other day, I was at work and my S.O. was watching Anime with a mutual friend. She had been kind enough to bring her copy of Black Butler so that he could see it. The P.O. shows up, and gives him the third degree about "What are you watching?" and also, "Why is SHE here? Where is (Kukla)?"

I sent her a letter, last year. In it, I let her know what my general schedule is, particularly that I'm at work in the evening on Mondays and Thursdays. I've repeated this to her in person several times.

She couldn't be bothered to keep track of this stuff. I'm willing to bet that she doesn't even really know what my S.O. was convicted of, what the circumstances were, or anything about his life. She's just in charge of bullying him so that he won't EAT A BABY.

*sigh*.

We have discussed complaining about her to a supervisor, but I'm not sure how to go about it. I found a friend of a friend who is a P.O. and her opinion is that we're being mistreated. I intend to talk to that person about how I can register a complaint.

My S.O. says that he's worried that we'd be getting rid of "King Log."
I pointed to the beak marks on our life and said, "Oh, no, honey. We've got King Stork now. I'm personally ready for a more different stork, or a new log."

Thing is, I just threw a reading with my cards and got really positive outcomes. But we're being crossed with The Empress.

Thoughts?

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